Marsh Posted July 13, 2017 Share Posted July 13, 2017 After looking at this at my mates house for a while now, I finally decided to buy her. 1980 Mitsubishi Express in need of some love. Plan is to fix the little bits of rust, chuck a motor into her and add some wheels. Started digging through to clean out all of the goodies that came with it and found an original tool kit hidden under the seats Better photos are on the way when it gets pushed outside to be washed in between snow and rain shower.Oh and why its called the Awesome Express, 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Marsh Posted July 17, 2017 Author Share Posted July 17, 2017 Updating with better photos. Did the first thing you do with any new car and tried on my sets of wheels to see what they all looked like. Think I've decided on the Enkeis for her. 6s for the front and 7s for the back. Also gave her a wash and started to clean all the random crap out of the car. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marsh Posted September 4, 2017 Author Share Posted September 4, 2017 Progress has been slow over winter. I've been trying to find new front guards for her as the ones on there have speed holes. Have successfully acquired motor to drop in. Its a 4G63, nothing special but should run nicely. Came with a parts ute for my ute wrapped around it. Makes it much easier to remove a motor with no body in the way. Ripped it out and starting stripping the cambelt off to be replaced and to start to paint it up. Will look similar to my utes motor just going to use a metallic orange instead of the red. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marsh Posted November 28, 2017 Author Share Posted November 28, 2017 Being shocking at moving pictures from my phone to laptop and hating making post without photos this update is a month or so old. Got the motor into the Express now and are one step closer to getting her going. Due to working on other vehicles this is about as far as I have gotten but will add a picture to see progress. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marsh Posted March 11, 2018 Author Share Posted March 11, 2018 With my holidays over the start of February I finally got some more done. Semi fitted radiator and headers and sent it off to get the rust fixed. Custom Panels got left with her for a few weeks and came back with a lot less holey metal in the back of the car. Tried on my newest pair of wheels. Like the look but decided I need to fit bigger tyres sometime. Its sitting quite low, found out Im going to need new back shocks to keep the springs captive. Front crossmember is sitting pretty close to the ground. Will have to measure properly when on level ground and get the bigger rear tyres on her. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marsh Posted March 11, 2018 Author Share Posted March 11, 2018 Also splashed out on a new exhaust. Went shiney as well its shiney. Drove it to the shop with open headers and can not recommend doing that... Sounded wicked with open headers under full throttle but popped like a bitch on deceleration. Hearing recovered after a day or so 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Marsh Posted November 6, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 6, 2018 Got this thing a wof now so its one step closer to being useable. Got more rust fixed and put some proper size tyres onto the back. Think it needs the carb looked into as she doesn't run the best when cold. Good old Mitsi auto chokes. Anyways whats an update without pictures. Just after WOF on the way back home and after some more paint and some proper tyres to replace the rubber bands. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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