i found a bunch of stuff on here about lowering the newer outlander... but no love for the first gens... i did research and found out air trek struts,mounts and springs are 100 percent idenitical.. does anyone know how much lower airtrek coilovers would go ? is there anything from evos or lancers that works too suspension wise like strut bars or other suspension/get low goodies ?

 

2011 was the first year for the Outlander Sport model. I assume you have a full size Outlander? Is it a GT model or did Mitsu call it a "sport" trim back then?

And welcome to the site! Maybe post a few pics and some specs on your car so we can take a look at how similar it is to the current platform.

 

ill snag some pics and post back

its old but its really minty lol my grandpop was the original owner and its only got 76k.. he just got a 2013 sport.. my other car is a slammed 88 mr2 so i jumped at the chance to buy the outlander now i can finially stretch out and enjoy long drives lol

 

Better still get the ralliart airtrek suspension kit as it lowers it another inch. You can get it from rhdjapan.com

I will measure the height later and post it up but the Airtrek Turbo is much lower than the jacked up Outlander.
My profile pic gives you an idea.

 

I also have a set of airtrek turbo suspension but it may cost a fair bit to ship....

 

Airtrek Turbo is 1575mm to top of roof bars (according to brochure)
Airtrek 2.4l AWD (same as Outlander) is 1680mm (over 4 inches taller)
Ralliart Suspension lowers it 25mm from Airtrek Turbo to 1550mm approximately.

 

Replying to an OLD OLD thread.. but.. Does the airtrek ralliart suspension kit still exist anywhere? Been looking for it but never found anything.

Is it factory parts?

 

Airtrek is basically a 2003-2006 outlander with 2003-2006 lancer struts and springs. Evo 8-9 front struts also fit but not the rears.

BTW a rear strut from a 1996 Honda civic can be used on the rear of the outlander if you replace the oem top hats with pillow ball top hats from a coilover.

in this set up I have a Koni Orange 1996 civic rear strut, pillow ball top hat from a 2003 lancer coilover. Swift spring and cheap coilover sleeves

 

But the problem is the suspension geometry that changes if you just change the strut&spring. So the knuckle etc also has to be different, or an outlander would risk horrible camber without the appropriate knuckle etc combined with lower struts&springs.

Hence my question about the airtrek parts specifically, and the airtrek ralliart stuff (as it is a further inch lower without having geometry messed up).

 

Front knuckles are the same for 2003-2006 lancer and 2003-2006 outlander and 2003-2006 airtrek. How do I know? I own both cars and I compared the front knuckles and lancer knuckles are the same as outlander knuckles with a 4 lug hub. I bought outlander 5 lug front knuckles to convert my lancer to 5 lug and I realized the knuckles are the same. Mitsubishi took a lancer front knuckle and put a 5 lug hub on it and used it for the outlander. I also have lancer front control arms on my outlander. I put both control arms over each other and they were exactly the same. Why did I use lancer control arms on my outlander? Because lancer control arms are so much cheaper. Exactly the same suspension parts. Except to use lancer front control arms on the outlander you need to use a lancer sway bar end link. I didn’t even have to correct the camber for the front when I lowered the outlander to lancer height.
For the rear, the lower control arms are the same between lancer and outlander except the lancer control arm moved the mounting hole of the rear strut 1/2” higher compared to the outlander mounting point. The outlander rear does have excessive negative camber when lowered to lancer ride height but it can be corrected with the oem camber adjustment. The front and rear toe angles are also both out of whack so an entire wheel alignment is needed. I also compared front subframes and the fwd lancer and fwd outlander has the same exact front subframe. I haven’t compared the rear trailing arms but I will bet the fwd lancer and fwd outlander share the same rear trailing arms as well. Basically both cars have the same exact suspension except for the struts and springs


here is my outlander when I first lowered it with lancer struts and springs (I used lancer aftermarket lowering springs)



here its lowered with front lancer coilovers and rear civic koni strut



another thing I also noticed is an awd gas tank from an outlander can be mounted into a fwd lancer. Yes it fits, I am currently converting my 2004 lancer to awd. The gas tank in my outlander rotted out and developed a hole so when I got a new gas tank I took the old one and tried to mount it in the lancer and it fit. So many things are interchangeable between both cars, they are basically the same chassis

 

This is what has me worried, differences between FWD models and AWD model. My Outlander Turbo might not have the same stuff as the FWD models do. I noticed yesterday when looking at some parts catalogues, even the Airtrek Turbo-R and Turbo-R Limited Edition have different parts in the rear subframe etc, so it's slightly research heavy to find what goes where and what is the same, but oh man do I appreciate any and all help and pointers on it.. because it's not exactly easy to find answers on. I know rhdjapan.com supposedly sold a kit before that was the "airtrek ralliart suspension kit", but they don't have it anymore if they did years ago (which would have been perfect, as it supposedly had everything to just drop the height).

And trying to use nengun's catalogues sure do not make things clearer either when they're all over the place with mismatching thumbnails and catalogue pages 😅

 

Hi and greetings from Sweden! Love your airtrek tog bad we never got Them here. But we have outlander turbo!. Could you spec THE shocks some more since modell and year seem to differ. Also if you would be so kind to spec length of sleeve and hardment of springs and length..best regards alfred

 

Ey! A fellow scandinavian with a CU2W Outie Turbo! What color is yours?
Mine is all black, and also looking for the specs of course as well 😋

 

Silver metallic . /A

 

I am working on trying to get a way to have Airtrek-fronts on our euro-Outies, since we can't retrofit projectors etc because of ECE regulations and needing stuff TÜV approved to even be able to mount headlights with projectors on a car that does not come stock with it and thus no "E4" e-markings.

I just need to get ahold of some Airtrek headlights first and then I can start prototyping my relatively "simple" solution for it. The optimal solution obviously would be to get completely mirror-casted reflectors etc, but that's hella expensive (pun not intended).