Back in 2011 I was in need of a new daily driver, when a car dealer who parked his cars which where up for sale in front of our workshop brought this.
It's a '92 Lancer GLX-i. Allready a facelift model, which means it has the 113hp 4G92 under the hood and the bodykit all around (with special bumper). It looks in fantastic shape on the outside, but it didn't get serviced (first oil and filter change reduced the fuel consumsion by nealry 2l/100km) for a while and the suspension and brakes where rubish. Pritty soon I had a little crash with it, which I needed to repair cheap and fast. So half a year later it looked like this.
While sorting out the mechanical issues, I more and more liked the car and started to mod it. First to come was a Momo steering wheel and a leather shift knob, a K&N replacement filter and than I found these fantastic mesh rims.
Soon I realized that it realy needs a drop, so I installed some used lowering springs. Because it's a daily and because I just love to play with lights I first started to replace the interior light bulbs with LEDs, later added some footwell lights and a second trunk light and put some LEDs in the center console. Back up light, license plate lights and turn signals are LED as well.
I wanted a 3rd brake light and what I found was a rear spoiler from a 4g Lancer with LED brake light. Fits pritty good and looks fantastic.
For daily use sake I installed a map light from a '00 Mistubishi Carisma, some windshield washer jets from a newer Volvo and some Bosch Aerotwin wiper blades.
Early this year the car needs to be inspected to get road legal for the next two years again. For that inspection I replaced all the rubbers at the front axle, replaced all 4 shocks with KYB Excel-G gas shocks and installed some new brake hoses (braided of course).
During the past half year I finally found a GTi front bumper (I think you guys here called them JDM front bumper), installed some LED daytime running lights and some JDM corners.
My next plans are to replace the terribly mounted square fog lights with these combo and build some road legal HID head lights (regulations for that are pritty tuff here).