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.