Saying goodbye to the X
I've got some money saved up, however I'm not looking for something that consists of a monthly payment. I can't find a job thats willing to offer me more than 14 hours a week at $7.75 an hour. Wait second infocesion (telemarketing firm) offered me $8.00 an hour 23-24 hours a week. Needless to say I can't afford a monthly payment... Sure I could buy a DSM, Subaru, Neon SRT-4 or even a Cobalt SS, however everyone has stuck their fingers in the engine bay, most Starions I've come across are bone stock and have 70 to 96k actual miles. I could pay 4 grand for a Starion and dump 1500 in modifications and have a beast of a car. Plus I'm familiar with the 2.6 liter engine. I just can't decide, Starion or GS-X???
After careful considerations, I'm picking up a 1987 Conquest/Starion tomorrow. The car has 70k actual miles and it's the wide body version with the SHP. As far as I can tell the stock HP rating was 197 ponies, I'll be shedding some serious weight from the X to the Conquest and I will be modifying this car in a hurry... Since this car serves as the Evo's forefather I'm sure I won't be let down. I'll post some pictures after I pick her up. I know it won't be an X, however I think I'll still have a fast car and a lot of fun.
After careful considerations, I'm picking up a 1987 Conquest/Starion tomorrow. The car has 70k actual miles and it's the wide body version with the SHP. As far as I can tell the stock HP rating was 197 ponies, I'll be shedding some serious weight from the X to the Conquest and I will be modifying this car in a hurry... Since this car serves as the Evo's forefather I'm sure I won't be let down. I'll post some pictures after I pick her up. I know it won't be an X, however I think I'll still have a fast car and a lot of fun.
After careful considerations, I'm picking up a 1987 Conquest/Starion tomorrow. The car has 70k actual miles and it's the wide body version with the SHP. As far as I can tell the stock HP rating was 197 ponies, I'll be shedding some serious weight from the X to the Conquest and I will be modifying this car in a hurry... Since this car serves as the Evo's forefather I'm sure I won't be let down. I'll post some pictures after I pick her up. I know it won't be an X, however I think I'll still have a fast car and a lot of fun.
Completely different engine. I would call the Galant VR4 the Evo's forfather. I would call the Starquests RWD fun with really iffy fuel systems. Still a good car. Post pics if ya get it.
Many of the performance features of the Starion were integrated into later vehicles and can be found in the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution, in the Mitsubishi Galant VR-4, and the Mitsubishi Eclipse. That was taken from the wiki article, don't quote me lol. But yeah, I get what you're saying, however the Starion did decent in class A WRC . I will post pics and yes I settled for the Chrysler Conquest TSI widebody sport handling package. The Starions I found were in pretty rough shape, same car just the Chrysler branding I'll have to get over (AHHH)... I'll take photos of all my Mitsubishi's tomorrow and one last photo of the EVO. Altought I'll miss the X, I just can't look back yet (it hurts too much)!
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Sorry about your situation, but how could you afford an Evo on 600/week? Is that gross?? Man, minimum wage here is like 600/week and there's no way anyone could afford an Evo on that! Damn we get ripped off here
http://www.carsales.com.au/all-cars/...al&D=evolution
http://www.carsales.com.au/all-cars/...al&D=evolution
Oki dok, I drove 2 hours and 40 minutes from my house and picked up a 1987 Conquest TSi. She's in pristine condition, leather seats and clean interior, very few (small sized dents) less than most 2008 and 2009 vehicles, paint is top notch. Every things functional including the A/C. It was a one owner car and it was stored from 1994 till 2009 (paper work provided). She has 70k miles (bone stock) and the turbo boots strong and pulls hard. The owner had a stage three clutch put in the car a couple weeks ago, I'm getting a jumpy/chattery type feel when taking off, my guess is it has to be due to the stage three clutch and the car only having 188 HP and 243 tq? Hopefully it's not the limited slip diff? For all I know it could be a characteristic of the vehicle? I'll post some pics tomorrow.
P.S. $600 a week in Ohio is and was good money, most of my friends (college educated wasn't making that dollar amount). I was far from being rich but could afford things I wanted like a 41k EVO lol.
P.S. $600 a week in Ohio is and was good money, most of my friends (college educated wasn't making that dollar amount). I was far from being rich but could afford things I wanted like a 41k EVO lol.
Last edited by Xtremist; Jan 31, 2010 at 07:34 PM.
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I owned a 1998 Eclipse GST and loved that car. I sold the car with almost 100K miles on the original engine with no CW to speak of despite running an FP Green in the old days of poor tuning (S-AFC, 660 injectors, pocketlogger, and EBC). I actually barely had any problems with that car considering I beat on the car and went from T25 to T28 to FP Green so the car ran at numerous different boost levels and ghetto tuning lol.
I owned a 1998 Eclipse GST and loved that car. I sold the car with almost 100K miles on the original engine with no CW to speak of despite running an FP Green in the old days of poor tuning (S-AFC, 660 injectors, pocketlogger, and EBC). I actually barely had any problems with that car considering I beat on the car and went from T25 to T28 to FP Green so the car ran at numerous different boost levels and ghetto tuning lol.
The weather's been rather nasty and I wanna clean the Starquest up before I post pics so you guys see the car in it's true nakedness. After digging around on youtube I decided to follow through with my comment, being the Starion is one of the EVO's founding fathers... Nothing beats boobies and bishi's, watch the video and you not only see the car in it's true form, you see boobies on the beach (all jokes aside). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk82j...eature=related
P.S. Some may laugh and ask me if I need a flux compositor, however I feel I'm saving a true legend from the car crusher, not to mention this is when Mitsubishi still made interiors LOL. Enjoy!
P.S. Some may laugh and ask me if I need a flux compositor, however I feel I'm saving a true legend from the car crusher, not to mention this is when Mitsubishi still made interiors LOL. Enjoy!
