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 Post subject: My latest purchase
PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 12:20 pm 
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Some of you may have heard me talking about the 94 Mighty Max that I recently picked up so I figured I'd toss up a pic. I found it on CL for $1450 and talked the guy down to $1350, still a little more than I wated to pay but I know trucks aren't cheap. Also as we all know, any older $1350 dollar Mitsubishi is going to require some maintenance to be reliable. So far I have replaced plugs, wires, cap, rotor, coolant temp sensor, t-stat, hoses, used maf, replaced the caps in the ecu, oil change with a can of engine restore. I just ordered a new aluminum radiator from ebay since the stock one is slightly leaking. I also ordered seals, VC gasket, t-belt and balance shaft belt, tensioners, water pump and an O2 sensor from Rockauto.

The truck is an automatic with 194K on it and believe it or not it runs really well. The CEL is on for the egr valve and the O2 but I'll be addressing those this weekend. The old man tool box will be coming off too :P . Of course it had to be my least favorite color, red! But that might just change, who knows? Also this one has the chrome wheels, a tach, clock and power steering. This is my 4th MM and none of the others had these options. I can't tell you how handy it has been owning another truck already. Kinda makes me wonder how I got by w/o one for so long.

Also please forgive the neighbors yard, they disappeared like 2 years ago and abandoned the place :lol: .

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 Post subject: Re: My latest purchase
PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 12:35 pm 
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Looks clean! 4g64?

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 Post subject: Re: My latest purchase
PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 12:55 pm 
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Very nice! $1,350 isn't bad if the underside is in good condition.


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 Post subject: Re: My latest purchase
PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 1:01 pm 
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Underside it mint, no rust whatsoever. After owning a white GVR4 from Ohio a few years back that's the first thing I check on cars now before I even think about buying them.

Tony, it does have the fuel injected 4G64 in it, 8v I believe but I'm not sure. Been thinking about tossing on a 16v sohc head from a galant and maybe a turbo exhaust mani/14b :P . Not sure why I want mod everything that I own. I'll probably leave it as is though and just enjoy using it as it was intended.

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 Post subject: Re: My latest purchase
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What year is it?


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 Post subject: Re: My latest purchase
PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 1:05 pm 
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What year is it?
Some of you may have heard me talking about the 94 Mighty Max that I recently picked up so I figured I'd toss up a pic :P

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 Post subject: Re: My latest purchase
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It's beautiful :heart:


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 Post subject: Re: My latest purchase
PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 1:49 pm 
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All of the flaws don't show up in the pics.

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 Post subject: Re: My latest purchase
PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 2:34 pm 
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Owned by reading yet again... I even scanned the post to see if you gave the year....


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 Post subject: Re: My latest purchase
PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 4:18 pm 
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I'd drive it. Post it here FS when you decide to get rid of it.

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 Post subject: Re: My latest purchase
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Looks clean! Any plans to swap it?

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 Post subject: Re: My latest purchase
PostPosted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 7:37 am 
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I'd drive it. Post it here FS when you decide to get rid of it.

Well like I said, by the time its reliable I'll have more in it that its worth :P . I'll keep you in mind if I ever decide to let it go though. The last GVR4 that I bought with plans to fix stayed here less than a week.

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 Post subject: Re: My latest purchase
PostPosted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 7:38 am 
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Looks clean! Any plans to swap it?

Who knows man, right now it doesn't look like it though.

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 Post subject: Re: My latest purchase
PostPosted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 12:16 pm 
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awesome purchase, congrats O:
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16v sohc head from a galant and maybe a turbo exhaust mani/14b
you'd run into the same problem with that that you would putting a DOHC head on it, bumps compression way up. like near 13:1 way up. so you wouldn't need a turbo if you did that, though you might want water/alc injection :p


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 Post subject: Re: My latest purchase
PostPosted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 1:51 pm 
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Tub it, and run a compound turbo setup on a 4G63 with a TH350. You could still make parts runs in it and probably increase the value of the vehicle in case you ever decide to sell it.


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