Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

I'll be the slow chase car! haha.

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

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The front end of my car fell off tonight, this is about 80lbs of weight. I will be welding in about 30lbs of chrome moly and steel to replace this. More to come in the next few weeks.

~John

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

Quick, make it RWD!

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

Um, you might need those things.
I think u just slowed down the reassembly process. lol

Keep up the good work. You are crazy.

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The engine will be up here at work for the better part of the winter, so I was thinking of other stuff to do with the chassis. The goal is to have all the vital parts mounted to the frame, then make the fenders, front bumper, grill and head lights removable as 1 piece.

~John

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

that is taking a huge step. now just post up the parts you cut off to make some quick cash

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

sick!!

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I hate it when cars fall apart like that!

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lego! lol. that is crazy. making a one piece front end is going to be insane.

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http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...cture_3037.jpg

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I re did the front down bars on the roll cage and cut out the factory dash bar and put a chrome moly piece in its place. You can also see the upper front frame bars tie into the cage structure.

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...cture_3041.jpg

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...cture_3042.jpg

I still have a lot to do up here, but this is a good start.

~John

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

Looking good, keep it up!

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Looks like you know what you're doing lol. I'm guessing this isn't gonna be very streetable? Haha

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

Thats bad ass dude!

I love coming back to this thread and seeing the progress

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

^me too.

You are gonna get rid of that third pedal too right?

uh oh, 4 guests checking this out!!

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

Reminds me of a soundgarden song.

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street able yes, a street car no. I do plan to make it out and about at the opportune moments. I plan on going manual and awd to start and see where I go from there. All the guests are from the GalantVR4.org forms, or at least most of them.

~John

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

Isn't that always the point for the last 5 years "at the right time". Hell people considered the stealth a street car, but its commute was a block!

Looking good John! Do you plan to triangulate the cross bar (dash replacement) and down bars?

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

Lookin good :) Are you gonna do a tubular K-member too?

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I have a lot of ideas for a lot of different parts of the car. I have also been reminded several times to keep the modification list on the shorter side to make sure it can be done in time for the track next season. So for now the K member will remain stock. I do plan to add some triangulation on most of the major intersection on the front end/roll cage. The stock frame rails are not that strong so where the new section meats the original there will be material added there also, but I could pick up the front of the car with just the box tube tacked on.

~John

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http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...cture_4043.jpg
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A little more done on the front end. I have added gussets to the box tubing, bars from the upper frame rail to the lower cross over, which ties into the rear motor mount/sub frame, and the front lower cross over bar. In the next few days I will do the strut tower mounts and fab up the new driver, passenger and front lower motor mounts.

~John

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

Insane! I like it :)

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http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...cture_5036.jpg
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I made some head way again tonight. Nothing is finish welded yet but that time is coming soon. The suspension height right now would give me about a 2" fender gap up front. I will be adding more material/bracing to the strut mount, that is mostly done to see tire clearance etc. Now that most of the front end is mocked up time for motor mounts then finish weld, clean, and paint.

~John

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

Looks great!!! It's nice to see steady progress.

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That is sick. I am liking the way you are spending this winter.

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So far so good, this is not taking as long as I thought. I will just have to find other things to do over the winter. The motor mounts are done, minus mounting the driver side to the frame rail, this will be a pipe straight up with 2 spots for bolts to go. I did go to the stock power steering bracket holes in the front of the block. This will help distribute the load and I hope not to crack the block from OMG HP's. I also added a 22" gusset bar on each of the upper frame rail bar to roll cage. This made the hole front end a lot stiffer. Now I just need the lower cross member pieces and start the finish welding.

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...icture_037.jpg
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There will be more bracing and gussets as needed but another big step forward this weekend. Thanks for looking.

~John

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

Looking good, keep it up!

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Wow thats really cool! I cant believe you got that big portion of the front end done already. Keep up the great work.

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Wow this is an amazing project you have. Keep it coming!

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Holy balls, I didn't know you had this planned! Keep chugging, spring will be here before you know it!

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Wow this is coming along quick, nice job. Is it pretty tough to get the motor in or out? It seems like the driver side mount would make it impossible to do tbelt work or even get the motor in.

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The pipe will be welded to the frame, and there will be bolts that hold the mount to the top of the pipe. So if I need to pull the motor I will take out 2 bolts. If I need to do timing belt work I will need to pull the 3 bolts on the front of the block and the two bolts into the mount on the block and then the 2 into the frame mount. It should be no harder to work on then with the stock mount in place. Also I made different albums for my pics so if you quoted a pic from before this post and would like it to show up you need to edit the post and in the link for the pic were it says "500" change that to "612".

~John

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

I don't like that ugly snake pipe to the front of the block.
But it looks like its coming together.
Whats the new setup gonna be for OMGz HP?
mid 700s on 35R these days.

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

I do not have a billet series turbo or an Evo head, so the numbers may not be that high. I was thinking on the engine dyno with nitrous some where around 1000 at the crank would be nice, but I will not know until its up and running then tuned.

~John

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So when is the engine dyno? :D

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I am bringing the motor up to work the middle of this week. I have a few things that need to be done before the engine will be ready for tuning. I need to make a bell housing to bolt it onto the engine dyno, motor mounts, coolant hoses, wiring harness to run the engine, exhaust hookup, and a few other things I am sure. They do have a live video feed of the dyno cell so when the time comes I will let you know.

~John

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

I noticed you're running the wastegates on only the #1 and 2 runners. Any reason for this? Seems like it might cause a pressure imbalance to me, especially being so close to the head.

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This is a fully divided exhaust manifold, and the exhaust housing is divided threw the scroll also. So the #1 and #4 exhaust runners go to one side of the scroll and the #2 and #3 exhaust runners go to the other side of the scroll. I do not plan to waist a lot of exhaust gasses so the dual gates is only to keep the manifold divided sense the runner length is equal for the #1 and #4 then #2 and #3 are equal length but they are a little longer then the #1 and #4 runners. I am not to worried they are so close to the head, but if its an issue I will move them.
For drag racing you could not use a exhaust waist gate at all and run a charge pipe by pass valve to control boost, this is what Brent Rau does but he runs 86psi.

~John

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I noticed that it's fully dived, thus the need for 2 wastegates. I just thought it was odd that you would put them on individual runners, and so close to the head rather than at the collectors like the way you did the manifold that Mark has.

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I think it's pretty sweet, plus they'll be right in front for all to see.

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http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...cture_7037.jpg
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The lower cross member pieces are almost done, I just need to finish weld the pipe onto the rear mount for both. We came up with a slick way to mount the lower cross members to the front frame rail/core support. It uses two flat brackets, one on the top and bottom that are welded to the front cross member. Then we fish mouthed the end of the lower cross member bar and drilled a hole threw the brackets and the pipe and used a threw bolt to hold it together. This method should be easy to remove and light weight, plus strong. We also have most of the gussets in place and the front end is 75% finish welded. I also finished up the driver upper motor mount, I will snap a few more pics of this when its off the block and a few pics of the install/removal.

~John