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I have wanted a csm for a very long time since I first saw some of Lilevo's first videos on youtube a while back. Last year i drove 5 hours to pick up this little rust bucket that I have fallen in love with ever since. Even through winter and rocking the 4g15 for almost a year now I can honestly say I love this little thing.

To start it off, I live in Wisconsin, Salt is incredibly abundant, This car is and always will be very rusty, The roof is absolutely atrocious, all of this build is with my money, I'm 17 years old and work at a sub shop while working on this and saving for culinary school. So to be brief and blunt, this thing will not be gorgeous or mint or even will I really take much effort in cleaning up the rust except in the wheel wells

Any help or criticism, always feel free to speak up, yell at me if something in this is stupid or wrong, please

It's a 91 mirage se, Blue with the blue gt interior. Currently sitting on gvr4 rims painted bronze with the lip deleted on all seasons on front and winter tires on the back. Roof rack trimmed and fitted from a montero. Plastidip laser front bumper.





Stock 90 bottom end
Head hot tanked, resurfaced for mls hg
OEM MLS headgasket
Arp headstuds
BSE with all oem timing components
Fwd Dsm trans, shifter brackets adjusted
Colt gt axles, AWD intermediate shaft and a/c bracket
90 intake manifold and throttle body
2g 450's
Walboro 255
2g fuel rail
2g throttle body elbow
90 non eprom ecu
adapter harness
1g bov, "Custom" as in hacked, hard piping
Act 2100 clutch kit
Fidanza aluminum flywheel
Black powder coated side-mount inter-cooler
Stock 14b, Larger aftermarket j-pipe
2g manifold
2g aftermarket 3 inch downpipe
2g o2 housing



The parts list itself has taken me quite sometime to build up, still being in highschool for all of this last year money was tight along with renting out a storage place for all of this with some friends.

The motor is currently sitting with the head off, just got the head work done. Doing BSE sometime this week, and then its all set to be assembled and timed. Hoping to get the swap done early July, and have the break in done and comfortable with it before the shootout.

Here are some random pictures of parts, motor, trans, ect.







My names Keith, let me know what you think of all of this, any input is welcome.

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1991 Mirage Se hatch, 4g63t. Rust.

very nice.. but dont put the timing belt on untill u are ready to drop it in the car.. that way u can prime the motor while it is out of the car... then put the timing and front cover parts on..make sure oil comes out of all the lifters.. also use a old valve cover so u dont scratch yours up... once motor is in the car crank it over without the plug wires on till lifters squirt oil..then connect wires and fire it up... alot of people dont do these steps and when they first fire it up theres no oill at the top end at all.. and thats not a good thing lol..

looks good otherwise.. gl with it all.


Steve

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Steve 89 colt 2.3 stroker stock top end. evo3@20 psi 13.489@99.30mph 3/10 2012
On drag radials.auto trans.launching @ 5 psi and no traction thru 2nd.

Looks good man! Can you get some more pics of the roof rack and how hard was it to install? Did you have to trim it or anything?

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93 Mitsubishi Expo LRV 1.8/manual
95 Eagle Summit DL Coupe 1.5/manual
01 Mitsubishi Mirage ES Sedan 1.8/manual

I agree, The roof rack looks great. Also a good looking car.

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87 Starion, PROJECT. With the CATAPLT COLT engine, Thanks Craig, (GSX)
92 Eclipse GSX (Dead)
89 Colt GT (AWD Swap) H1C
88 Cummins Suburban
69 Cutlass convertible
78 Arrow G54B Swap, Celeste makeover. (MOD 2016 Veteran)

Thanks alot guys, these pics make the car looks really nice

The roof rack was the slide out cross sections from a 97 montero, I took them off, unscrewed the bolt to separate the bars from the mounting sections and once i had the bar pieces out i cut inch off by inch off with a cutting disk from each side. I then put them all back together and put some gorilla glue on the inside of the mounting brackets to hold the bars back in seeing as the hole for the bolt to go through was gone. Best part of it is that one the sides of the mounts there are mistu symbols, so it makes it looks pretty much "stock" for the car

It was a spur of the moment thing that seemed to turn out pretty decent, thanks for the positive feedback on it guys

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1991 Mirage Se hatch, 4g63t. Rust.

Some Picture updates of the motor

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1991 Mirage Se hatch, 4g63t. Rust.

Nice laser bumper mod, can you be the first guy to color match it with out flat blacking the entire car Oh and it needs more skirt!
Can't wait to see the finished build!!!

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This bumper is already plastidipped so painting over that would be pretty tough, this one is starting to get the famous laser curve in the bottom where it warps up though. So eventually I hope to get another clean laser cover and color match it to the stock color. I love this blue

Just spent the extra money to pick up a craftsman torque wrench so going to get the head torqued down, recommendations anyone? 30 weight oil or assembly lube? I know the torque pattern and everything but there is so much debate and difference on every dsm website for what the final torque should be. I was thinking 85 final torque would be sufficient for me, only being on 15 psi with a multi layer steel gasket should that do the job?

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1991 Mirage Se hatch, 4g63t. Rust.

Stock bolts or arp's?

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93 Mitsubishi Expo LRV 1.8/manual
95 Eagle Summit DL Coupe 1.5/manual
01 Mitsubishi Mirage ES Sedan 1.8/manual

Arp's bought brand new

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1991 Mirage Se hatch, 4g63t. Rust.

Use the ARP moly lube that comes with them and torque to their specs. Instructions in the box

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Who puts an Evo VII motor in a Colt? Oh yeah...

Had a little bit of beat the crap out of the 4g15 fun this week in some gravel, Pics







This kind of thing makes me want awd so badly

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1991 Mirage Se hatch, 4g63t. Rust.

Motor is in, walboro is in, and now sidemount hole is cut and piping is in. Here are some pics from early yesterday

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1991 Mirage Se hatch, 4g63t. Rust.

Well got it all basically put together today, We've got compression and fuel but cant get spark for the life of it, Any theories or suggestions? It a 91 1.5 with a full 90 4g63t setup, using 89miragemans adapter harness

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1991 Mirage Se hatch, 4g63t. Rust.

Silly question but you do have the MPI relay and the injector resistor pack plugged in right?

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93 Mitsubishi Expo LRV 1.8/manual
95 Eagle Summit DL Coupe 1.5/manual
01 Mitsubishi Mirage ES Sedan 1.8/manual