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A couple of months back I guess I was looking into a brake upgrade for my Blue GK thats been converted over to efi and was reading up on how the starion struts bolt right up etc and back starion discs+ caliper on the scorpion diffs (actually been playing with the idea for a while)
so it all started by keeping an eye out for some one selling starion struts or some one parting out a starion. came accross an add on gumtree saw the price so organized to go look at the night after and left a deposit, my original intention with the starion was to part it out grab what I needed and get rid of the rest. how ever yes
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Keep in mind here I bought this car not running
![Image](http://i541.photobucket.com/albums/gg387/84GKSIG/the%20starion/IMG20110709_001.jpg)
shes got little bits of rust and some damage but nothing that really cant be fixed
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after a quick wash
![Image](http://i541.photobucket.com/albums/gg387/84GKSIG/the%20starion/IMG_4208.jpg)
Car is a 1982 Mitsubishi Starion and comes factory with a SOHC 4g63 single point injected turbo set up
was told from the last owner that a couple of owners before him had used it as a drag car at some point in its life, so came back and did a little research
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found an old forsale ad from 05 some pics and some videos on youtube.
( taken from its forsale ad back in 05 and edited to current circumstances )
car came with:
VR4 twin cam motor ( seized )
Supra 5 speed
VG30 turbo
Custom exhaust manifold
Haltech E6K
K&N pod filter
Twin diaphragm HD ceramic clutch
aluminium surge tank
king springs all round
2 1/2 inch straight thru hi-flow exhaust
Intercooler waterspray
15" Globe style mags
Advanced spoilers front airdam
Tinted windows
Hornet alarm
Blitz FATT-DC turbo timer
White faced gauges
?? a heavy duty tow bar??
and a folder full of papers receipts and info etc
pics from the ad
![Image](http://i541.photobucket.com/albums/gg387/84GKSIG/the%20starion/AX/STARION_DESKTOPsmall.jpg)
![Image](http://i541.photobucket.com/albums/gg387/84GKSIG/the%20starion/AX/AFRdrags2.jpg)
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engine bay pic back then
![Image](http://i541.photobucket.com/albums/gg387/84GKSIG/the%20starion/AX/axelr811.jpg)
at AIR
![Image](http://i541.photobucket.com/albums/gg387/84GKSIG/the%20starion/AX/7027e3e2.jpg)
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I went on the internet and I found this
![Image](http://i541.photobucket.com/albums/gg387/84GKSIG/the%20starion/AX/starion.jpg)
and this
http://forums.austarion.com/viewtopic.p ... r8&start=0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WADLyOr7HTw
other vids of the car can be found on that persons youtube page
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so back to info and stuff.
its been sitting out the front now for a bit and im in no immediate rush to have the starion on the road or anything but at the same time you dont see very many
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last couple of days and what not works slowed down to pretty much a dead halt for me and ive been going bored out of my mind, not so much feeling like doing anything to the other cars but wanting to do some pulling apart of the starion, so had to get cottees to come help me swap the lancer and starion around so I could get an engine crane to the front of the damn thing.
well to start, this is what the engine bay looked like when I picked it up
![Image](http://i541.photobucket.com/albums/gg387/84GKSIG/the%20starion/IMG_4231.jpg)
the rest of it was in the boot
![Image](http://i541.photobucket.com/albums/gg387/84GKSIG/the%20starion/IMG_4224.jpg)
next to this thing
![Image](http://i541.photobucket.com/albums/gg387/84GKSIG/the%20starion/IMG_4223.jpg)
any ways, engine finally came out
![Image](http://i541.photobucket.com/albums/gg387/84GKSIG/the%20starion/enginenbox/86c58434.jpg)
started pulling things to pieces, its all broken any ways so whats it matter
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hmm
![Image](http://i541.photobucket.com/albums/gg387/84GKSIG/the%20starion/enginenbox/73f0f7ad.jpg)
hmm
![Image](http://i541.photobucket.com/albums/gg387/84GKSIG/the%20starion/enginenbox/d877f5db.jpg)
hmm
![Image](http://i541.photobucket.com/albums/gg387/84GKSIG/the%20starion/enginenbox/6ae1b5e5.jpg)
see if you can see it
![Image](http://i541.photobucket.com/albums/gg387/84GKSIG/the%20starion/enginenbox/eb36320f.jpg)
yep thats what I said too
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w58 box with a modded cross member
![Image](http://i541.photobucket.com/albums/gg387/84GKSIG/the%20starion/enginenbox/42690fb4.jpg)
borgwarner narrow block bellhousing
![Image](http://i541.photobucket.com/albums/gg387/84GKSIG/the%20starion/enginenbox/2d5e588e.jpg)
thick as adapter plate
![Image](http://i541.photobucket.com/albums/gg387/84GKSIG/the%20starion/enginenbox/96cca520.jpg)
![Image](http://i541.photobucket.com/albums/gg387/84GKSIG/the%20starion/enginenbox/9ad29463.jpg)
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ah yeah thats about it for now
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M.B
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