Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

Ryan still has his corner weights, so that is what I am using.

~John

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

Lookin good man. Daddy like. Gimme a shout if you ever need a hand dude

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

In the process of removing the trunk lid hinges the rear glass broke, no bid deal minus the mess it made. Here a few pics of the progress. This will be a little easier to seal off the trunk area all said and done also.

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...ture_10358.jpg
http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...ture_10354.jpg
http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...ture_10356.jpg
http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...ture_10355.jpg
http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...ture_10357.jpg

~John

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

Lexan rear window!!

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

nice car

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

wow. simply amazing man. great work!!

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

Looks awesome! Keep it up.
Lexan/acrylic/polycarbonate scratches easy, so make that your last item to do if you go that route. I know there is a company somewhere that makes scratch resistant plastic windows for race cars, but they're a bit more expensive than getting your own lexan and doing it yourself.

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

Percy's Speed Glass is the one you are thinking of, http://www.percyshp.com/. If I do just lexan it would be temporary until I could do the hole car in speed glass.

~John

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

Just clear coat the lexan.

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Looking good dude, now on to the engine.

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

Reid mentioned you were using a plasma cutter to remove stuff, so I whipped mine out and got to work.

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...m/P3070493.JPG

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

I was impressed!

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

Gross, I don't think anyone wants to see chromepuff whip anything out.

I heard from a little birdy this thing is getting close and that power to weight is mighty impressive.

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

Rumor mill, uh oh....

I think we are the re assembly stage, we will see what happens over this week.

As for power to weight, we will see on both for the final numbers, but its looking like 2500lbs with me in it, and power, well 1000 crank hp should make this thing move at the track, But to start it will be E85 and around 7xx crank hp.

And yes the plasma cutter has been used a few times to remove weight. I have taken a truck bed size load to the scrap yard all ready. Its getting close to weigh the chassis again, last time I reinstalled vital parts but still lost weight.

~John

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

I hope this turns out the way you want it or even better.

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Hope this thing ends up looking like Rau's AWD before he got rid of it. That thing was light!

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http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._7609897_n.jpg

^That one?

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

Yes^^.

I believe that is Isaac with him.. Blast from the past.


BTW, John, that's some serious shizz you got going on with the gvr4. Can't wait to see it done. :)

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

We need updated hawtness pics.

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Yeah, I loved that car.

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I never saw his AWD. I think the car is coming together nice for a garage build. I will post some more pics tonight.

~John

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

It was very light, tin floors, etc.

Looking forward to some updated pics.

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...ture_11357.jpg
Here is the external pic of the rear deck lid.

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...ture_11362.jpg
Here is the inside shot of the rear deck lid, the interior will be painted all 1 color.

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...ture_11364.jpg
This is the passenger front wheel well.

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...ture_11365.jpg
This is the driver front wheel well, we removed a total of 6 lbs of under body coating, this included both front wheel wells and few feet of the floor pan. I would guess the under body coating is a total of 15lbs and the rest will stay on the car for now.

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...ture_11320.jpg
http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...ture_11321.jpg
http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...ture_11322.jpg
Here is the solid rear bushing I made to replace the rubber on the front lower control arm. This is steel and chrome moly welded and lubed with extreme high pressure grease.

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...ture_11324.jpg
Here is a shot of the welded in solid subframe mounts I made.

More to come later this week. I do have a few more pics in my album, and thanks for looking.

~John

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

Tuners nation sells those rear bushings, don't know if you care or not.

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

These?
http://tunersnation.com/ZenCart/inde...oducts_id=1268

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I figured someone made a solid bushing. I did this with some left over roll cage bits and about 2 hours of my time. I will be making solid mounts for the drive shaft also.

~John

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

You are my hero.

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Sick John, just Sick.

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Thanks for the comments. I will be out there tonight and I hope to finish a few loose ends. I will post some pics if some things come together.

~John

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...ture_12328.jpg

Rolling on all 4 again. A rear bumper cover and a hood away from a complete rolling chassis

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...ture_12337.jpg

I removed the plastic molding and cut the bottom part of the fenders off.

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...ture_12334.jpg
http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...ture_12335.jpg

And solid mounted the plastic molding to the chassis, and a few zuss fasteners will hold the bottom parts of the fenders in.

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...ture_12330.jpg
http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...ture_12338.jpg
http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...ture_12333.jpg

The front clip now has quick release pins, which will be removable even with the hood installed.

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...ture_12331.jpg
http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...ture_12332.jpg

The fuel cell is mounted and the battery box has a home, I just need to buy the thread rod for the battery tie down.

Just a few more items to finish up the chassis then its back onto getting the engine up and running, then finish mount a few items when the motor is back in the car.

~John

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

That tube front end is awesome John. I hope the car turns out like you imagine it will!

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

Thanks, its turning out better then I had planned. I think you can see it, even over the span of this build thread. We just looked at every aspect of this build and talked over different ways to do things and picked the best option we came up with. There have been a few revisions but the planning and taking our time on everything is making the process nice and smooth.

~John

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

Looking good John.

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I now have a mock up motor back in place. This is to finish up the loose ends for the engine and turbo setup before I bring the real deal back home from work. I did put it back up on the scales again with almost everything to make it run. I will just say the 2400lb race weight will be no problem.

~John

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

wowsers. 2,400 pounds. do you know how light a GVR4 has gone by any chance? 2,400 is feather weight for this car.

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

No idea, I just know when it was running last time, for the DB dyno day, it was 2850, and I think that was with me in it. And before that when it was running 25psi with a 60trim and making about 440fwhp (dynaguess) and ran a 11.66@122mph it weight about 3200lbs.

~John

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

Dude you are so going to run faster than 11.65@123mph.

:)

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

Awesome progress!

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

Holy crap, I am jealous of that weight and the whole build. I wanna see this thing break some records.

Re: 91 Galant VR4
 

^Same here you better do some F'n damage with this thing.

SO maybe for starters you can take home the dyno day trophy? lol