the wifes (Ali's) new car 89 mirage turbo
 

well car #7 89 mirage turbo

Postby tkrperformance » Sat May 16, 2009 9:49 am
I just picked up a 89 oem turbo mirage. I worked on this car a few years ago it was a buddys car that was going to be a awd 4202 drag car but never got done. So I picked it up with out a engine (he sold the 2.3 I built for it) for 300.00 and putting a engine in his beater seabring.

what I did to it before
new front rotors
new front pads
new front wheel bearings
new lower balljoints
new outer tie rod ends
rebuilt 90 fwd 4g63t tranny with lsd

will have pics of it when I get it home in a few hours
and a list of all the parts I get with it.

as for what I will be doing to it. It will be getting a 4g63 na motor and tranny out of the wifes 90 eclipse for now because I have it and her winter car is rustes out. so this will be her new winter car.

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I will rebuild her engine some time and put in 95 pistons and a evo 3 16 on it. then some time later it will get a awd swap

I did a lot of work to the mirage a few years ago for James so 90% of it is all new still.

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her eclipse for the last time before it goes to scrap this week :(
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You don't happen to have a factory front lip on that nt eclipse do ya?

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old red will surely be missed, but new stubby red will be a good lil grocery getter :D

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Yeah, stubby red. Sounds like a little too much T2T action.

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I have always wanted to get into colts.. I talked to slowbubblecar about buying this. It should be a nice little daily for her!

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who knows one day all your cars will run and drive. wont be holding my breath though, knowing you you'll get halfway done with one and buy something else.

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haha Sick burn! :split:

Excited to see it complete Mark.

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thanks craig. it will be done soon. going to put the engine and tranny in tomorrow morring

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thats a clean colt mark. good stuff!

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You Bastard!!!

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That car was last run with a 20g when I blew the HG (on James' car ;) ). Everything came out, mark worked on the suspension, etc. Motor went back in, full T4 turbo was mounted, Sheet metal intake, etc, etc. Just needed to throw in dsmlink and decided to part the car.

Motivation for working on cars is just shot around here. His GST with the BB GT35R has been sitting in need of a tune for over a year now. Maybe we will get on the ball and fix the cars after our investment house closes on Monday.

Should be a fun car when all done.

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at least its in good hands.... lucky bastard!!!!

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some for fun 5 of the 6 mitsu's that I have
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Very niiice.

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Thats going to be one quick grocery getter for wifey!

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why the nt downpipe?

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LOL what happened to the little 16g setup? I guess this will be better, it'll only burn the front tires off when you really step on it, much safer in the winter that way!

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worked on it some more today. I put on the 90 turbo tranny with the p.grip I put in it years ago for James. act 2100 p.p. new disk from Craig. act fly wheel. I moved the radiator mounts on the car so I can run a honda 1/2 size in the car. Put the engine in I got all the mounts for the mirage but the front roll stop mount so I used the one from the 90 eclipse and welded on some flat steel to make it work. I started to hook every thing up on the car. I also cut the engine mount off and the most of the power steering bracket to clean it up a little bit.
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Scheides' pistons?

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the pistons and rods out of nash's evo. just going to press of the pistons and give back the bad rods so chris can hang them up

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Looks like a fun little project.

later,
Curt

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dad and I worked on it most of the day today. we got everything hooked up. picked up a starter from Craig. Came to find out the fly that I got with it was a act awd fly wheel so the tranny came back out. took us all of 20mins to pull it all back out and get the clutch and fly off. I
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the oem n/t down pipe is 2.25. welded on a 2.5 pipe then steped to 3in to meet up with the 3in flex in the down pipe.
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as it sits now all back apart no tranny in it
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keep on truckin! Can't wait for a ride in this thing.

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Awesome that it all works now!

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The car is now on the road for the first time in years.
Picked up a 90 oil cooler set up from greasemonkey thurs night. Worked on it till 1130 at night got it running this time with out any oil or coolant leaks. Also got the oil and volt gauges in still have to get a boost gauge to match. They are classic chrome autometer gauges I had laying around. Also picke up ass-hanson's jenson flip out dvd deck for the car and got that in and working.
Also hit up upullit on thurs after noon looking for a housing nothing there but picked up a 5g miage arm rest for the car it fits nice on the 3g center concel.

Only one problem with it right now is the the front pass brake is still draging. Going to look at it in the morring, but I do have a 5lug swap coming for the car,gsx 2 piston front brakes and a set of 3g eclipse (2g gsx style) rims for it now

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Awesome!! Need to see some pics once it starts coming together.

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got the pics loaded some from today and a few from last week

95 mirage shifter box and cables with 2in cut off the bottom of the shifter and welded back on
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the classic chrome autometer gauges and the jenson dvd deck
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black 5g mirage arm rest
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the batterys new home. still have to make an alum cover for the top and find the splash shields for the car
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as it sits now
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and a few others
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not bad for a 89
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I'm hella jealous, thing looks sweet. Mark think you could make me a aluminum cover for a maft? Don't have a cover on mine (sorry for being off topic)

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thanks

and I can when I find some alum sheet metal I can cut one out for you I will just have to get a little extra

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Cool thanks, you have my number. If not I have yours.

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Good job dude!

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wootski!

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It drives really well also. This is the 2nd day it has been driven to work. The pass front calaper is bad I greesed it all up and it still is hanging up. So I will have to paint the 17's and swap it to 5lug soon as I get tires,rotors and pads for the front 2 piston brakes

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Looks nice.

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got some parts for it at back to the 50's this weekend

Found the best deal ever for horns for the car got a set for the evo,talon,and hatch. They are hella super tone horns the 118db ones that sell for 55.00 a set. I got them all new for 6.00 a set the guy had now clue what they were.
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Polished s.s. coolant over flow tank for 35.00. Got it for the hatch back to get rid of the crappy oem plastic one. Kevin also picked the same one up.
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Ali found a really cool hot rod style shift knob for the hatch new with the adaptor so it would screw right on for 26.00. it is made by gennie shifter
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LOL I LOVE the floormats!