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Re: Help me catergorize a Galant VR4
This is kind of interesting reading how people interpute the term "DSM". Obviously the term came from Diamond Star Motors, but I don't think of a DSM as coming from the plant in Illionios during the 90-94 time period.
In my mind, and many others, including Buschur and the original Talon digest, a DSM is a 90-99 Eclipse/Talon/Laser and the 91-92 Galant VR4s. Why these cars? Because they share so many mechanical parts. Outside of the 95-99 Eclipse/Talon non-turbos, they all used the 4g63 powerplant. A Galant VR4 shares at least 90% of its mechanical parts as its 1g Eclipse AWD brothers.
3/Ss, Avengers, Starions... I've heard these cars lumped into the term DSM, but they share way less than 50% of the mechanical parts and should never be considered DSMs.
As far as what category the Galant VR4 is in concerning the Cookout. Its gonna remain in the 1g DSM category, unless the GVR4 owner requests to be in the "other" category. I'm pretty sure the goof ball that e-mailed me was never planning on coming to the Cookout anyway, so don't worry about that head case.
later,
Curt
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