Help me catergorize a Galant VR4

[Onefast99gsx]

The best part of the cookout isn't the categories. It's the chance to see a bunch of nice cars, hang out with people, and eat some tasty ass food for dirt cheap.


I agree. And most car shows i've ever been to don't categorize cars by makes/models like Chevy's, then the Ford's, Dodge, etc.. They do it by year. 60-'69, 70-'79, 80-'89, etc. Something along that nature. I plan on going this year for the first time and i could really care less if it were all just one big dam class as a whole. 1g owners put just as much time and work into their cars as 2g owners and vise versa. Just because i have a 2g doesn't make my car nicer than a 1g or mean that i do anymore work than they do to their car. It's a car show. We're not running our cars down a strip to see who is fastest. And if they don't feel confident about the work and time they've put in their car, then leave it home.

[Steeltwo]

someone just got an email

but who is it from :)

[1slowdsm]

Uh oh. That "someone" is feeling like an *** right now and probably wont be going to the cookout anymore, haha. Man, he must think his car is too good to be called a DSM, so he wants to be in his own catagory and stand out when he's the only one :D. What a funny guy (not...).

[AJ]

Why am I in the mood to ban all Galant VR4 members now? And all those pussies with 1.8s! It's those "not the norm" people that really fuck shit up for the "norm people".

[DSMKPB]

Technically the DSM venture ended in '93, with 94's being the last true DSM's. All 2g's are technically not DSM's. There is more stuff different on a 2g that there is on a GVR4, as compared to a 1g. So why would a 2g be a DSM and a GVR4 isn't? The damn 2g NA's have a neon motor for god's sake!

2g's may not be a true DSM but my 95 Talon still came with the DSM ID plate under the hood and DSM stickers in door jambs so at least "I" have a true 2g DSM. :p

As for the topic at hand I'd say put them with the Starion's. Last 2 years I was at the cookout there wern't that many Starions either so they would go good together in my opinion. I guess I wouldn't like being lumped into the 1g DSM's if I had a GVR4 because they are just so different and in order to compete with them you'd have to have one hell of a GVR4 and I jsut don't think there are that many of them out there modded to the extent we see the 1g's.

[MustGoFaster]

In all honesty there are two way to look at it.

GVR4= DSM
DSM = GVR4?
That would be to say a DSM is a Galant VR4.

Most people will say no to the second one. I don’t know why, but they do. It’s kind of like the rectangle VS square thing. In all technicality a GVR4 IS NOT A DSM. They started production in 1988. When did DSM’s start? 1990? A full two years later. ALL GVR4’s were built in Japan, not Normal Illinois (or wherever DSM’s were built) The body style happens to be the 6th generation of the Galant.

As for were I will be grouped, I think I will opt for Other Mitsu category. Despite the vast amount of similarities, a GVR4 is NOT a 1G DSM. I don’t think we need our own category, typically only two or three show up, and that isn’t enough to pay for a trophy is it?

[Steeltwo]

In all honesty there are two way to look at it.

GVR4= DSM
DSM = GVR4?
That would be to say a DSM is a Galant VR4.

Most people will say no to the second one. I don’t know why, but they do. It’s kind of like the rectangle VS square thing. In all technicality a GVR4 IS NOT A DSM. They started production in 1988. When did DSM’s start? 1990? A full two years later. ALL GVR4’s were built in Japan, not Normal Illinois (or wherever DSM’s were built) The body style happens to be the 6th generation of the Galant.

As for were I will be grouped, I think I will opt for Other Mitsu category. Despite the vast amount of similarities, a GVR4 is NOT a 1G DSM. I don’t think we need our own category, typically only two or three show up, and that isn’t enough to pay for a trophy is it?
dsm's started production in 89.

[Pushit2.0]

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[MustGoFaster]

I miss spoke. 88 and 90 were the first modle years, 87 (possibly even 86, but I don't recall anyone mentioning an 87 GVR4) and 89 being the production starts.

[Black97civic]

I don't see why it shouldn't be in the "other" category.

Yeah, it has a 4g63, but if my conquest had a 4g63 in it, would it be a DSM, it was kind of a joint venture between mitsu and chrysler (meaning mitsu built it, and chrysler built some badges for it)

I say put them with "Other Mitsu" to make em feel better, plus it will shock me if there were more than a half donzen starions/conquests there this year.