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I have had my car since
November 2001 and since then I have done many mods.
I started with a 1986
Mitsubishi Cordia GSL (Carbi 1.8L Non-Turbo) and within 2 months the carbi
dies and I have that replace (That was a hard task due to Ultra Tune who
put on the new carbi did a sh*t job and ended up killing my cat converter
with a screwdriver and leaving the remains in the exhaust).
Then after I finally
got the car back from Ultra Tune (Murdering *******) I had to replace the
exhaust system because of a blocked exhaust (Due to the dead Cat) and that
set me back aprox $800 (The exhaust that I got was a set of extractor 4-2-1,
2 ¼ strait though exhaust hollowed cat and 3 Tip).
I then lost my job so I ended
up just scrapping in enough money for petrol for a few months and then
scored a new full time job with an oil company (Network Admin) and this
started Rollin in the money so the new mods were planed and the fun began.
First big mod was the new
motor:
1.8L SOHC TURBO motor from
a Cordia Turbo (AB Model with unleaded fuel)
I them found myself
talking to a Cordia owner in Bumbry (Eon from Chosen Motor Sport) about
some other parts that he had for sale, when he showed me his turbo motor
up on the bench.
He said that he wanted to
sell the motor and start on a 2.0L motor for his car.
The
motor had these mods:
Custom
MPI
Ported/polished
head
Stainless
valves
Race
cam & scat springs
Bored
.040"
Hypertec
pistons
Hastings
rings
Lightened
and balanced flywheel
Shot
preened crank & rods
New
bearings
Balance
shafts Removed
Darken
brass button clutch
Hiflow
turbo
Braided
turbo lines
Polished
rocker cover
Cable
clutch
RX7
Series 5 Intercooler
Microtech
MT8 computer with 4-line handset
GReady
Type S BOV.
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I fell in love with
the motor and said I would let him know on the following Monday if I could
afford the motor. So after the weekend I went back to work and look at
my money that I have and the money that I could get and came up with yes
I can afford it.
So off to the bank to get
some money and I was well on my way to getting the motor in.
We have set up a time to
put the motor in and allowed ourselves 3days to get everything in the car
and for it to be able to drive away.
Before I could put the motor
in I had to get some parts for the conversion of the car the list being:
1: I needed new brakes so
I got some AB GSR brakes out of the paper.
2: I also needed some new
Drive shafts.
3: And the last thing that
I needed was money to go down from Perth to Bumbry to fit the motor.
Finally the day came that
I was driving sown to Bumbry. I went around to my mates place and picked
him up so that we had a second car encase we could not drive the car back
to Perth before the end of the weekend.
It took us about 2hours
to get to Bumbry and when we got there we meet up with Eon and made our
way to his workshop and started to get things moving.
Because the car was very
hot after a 2-hour drive we started to pull off only the parts that were
not hot. After the car had cooled down we started to pull all the big stuff
off the car and took the motor out.
The same night we were able
to put the new motor in with power steering and a few other extras in.
After the long day working
we went out for a cruise and see a couple of Eons mates for some street
cruising and found ourself with a large group of cars from the V6 Commodore
to the 180sx.
The next day we completed
the last of the conversion and started to make our way back to Perth (Mind
you it was like 12:30am by this time).
After a month I ended
up getting a yellow sticker due to the intercooler hanging out a bit from
the bodywork and a few other minor things I thought that it was time to
put on the body kit.
The Body Kit Part 1:
I have a bit of a chat wit
Raymond from CarQuest and he showed me a few kits and I found the 200sx
Veil Side front bumper that I thought would look mad on the Cordia so I
said I will take one of those. :P
It took 2 weeks to get the
body kit from Japan and after that I took the car to CarQuest and they
started their work on my Cordia.
Here are some pics after
1 week:
Here are some pics after
2 weeks:
Here are some pics after
3 weeks:
And here is the final
product:
So after 4 weeks and
of modifying the kit they said that it was complete and they handed me
a bill of $1600 wow there goes all my pay for this month L.
After getting the car back
I had just enough time to get the car to the Perth [CABIN] Auto Salon on
the Friday night here is a pic at the show:
But now I am waiting to pay
off a few bills (Rego and stuff) then I will be looking into the side skirts
and rear wing.
Till next time
.. Lance
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