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!