The Winter Beater Crisis

[s1ngletracker]

1g DSMs are great winter cars! Enjoy driving it. Cars were meant to be driven.

[goodhart]

It's a little different when it's a 20+ year old car that is very rare to find in this condition in this area. It's a shame to kill something this nice with salt.

[awd laser]

I only got to see the car for a few hours before having to come back to Duluth. I know there are dents from hail but other than that I'm sure the car has been repainted before. Is there a DIY way of popping out the dents?

[1g&srt]

My old car!!! I sold this to a member named chengy on here 2 years ago for $3200. A week after I sold it to him he tried to re-sell it on craigslist for $5500. I'm glad it stayed around and hope you have big plans. The car was incredibly clean when I had it. Good luck with it!

[1g&srt]

http://www.mitsustyle.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31784
Here's the original link for when I sold it. It Has a more detailed list of mods. You should start a build thread on it. I had to sell it and my boat to clear room in the garage, and free up some cash for a new baby. If you ever decide to sell it let me know.

[dsmDolney]

I agree with mike. It would be bad to kill something that clean over the winter. If you do daily it wash it everyday really good please

[Kracka]

1g DSMs are great winter cars! Enjoy driving it. Cars were meant to be driven.
This. Keep a good coat of wax on it and wash it frequently and you'll have no trouble keeping it nice. My dad's 2004 GTO has 145k miles on it and has been driven every winter since new and could still pass for nearly showroom condition inside and out (he's selling it this coming spring, if anyone wants a heads-up).

[DSMINMN]

I wanted this thing in the worst way before I went and got my truck! Wanna' trade for a '94 Colt? lol Perfect winter beater! Hahaha

Beautiful car.

[awd laser]

http://www.mitsustyle.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31784
Here's the original link for when I sold it. It Has a more detailed list of mods. You should start a build thread on it. I had to sell it and my boat to clear room in the garage, and free up some cash for a new baby. If you ever decide to sell it let me know.

Thanks for the link! Are the valve springs and retainers stock? But yes I'll start a build thread on it once i'm finished with the 2g. Right now I'm thinking about putting the hx35 on the 2g since it has the race trans and throwing the e316g onto the 1g.

This. Keep a good coat of wax on it and wash it frequently and you'll have no trouble keeping it nice. My dad's 2004 GTO has 145k miles on it and has been driven every winter since new and could still pass for nearly showroom condition inside and out (he's selling it this coming spring, if anyone wants a heads-up).

If I do decide to drive it I will be sure to put a good coat of wax and maybe spray the underbody with a protective coating.

I wanted this thing in the worst way before I went and got my truck! Wanna' trade for a '94 Colt? lol Perfect winter beater! Hahaha

Beautiful car.

Maybe if the colt was awd lol

[awd laser]

http://www.mitsustyle.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31784
Here's the original link for when I sold it. It Has a more detailed list of mods. You should start a build thread on it. I had to sell it and my boat to clear room in the garage, and free up some cash for a new baby. If you ever decide to sell it let me know.

The transmission still grinds, idle surge is still there along with the boost leaks. Good thing we have 2 spare transmissions in the garage. A big problem I'm having right now is the damn alarm. How do you disable this thing or do you have the remote for it? We can't hook the battery up without the alarm going off.