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DR1665.com: "Sell It & Buy A Turbo"

  • Endless Monkeys · 1 year ago
    Ok. Can you REALLY be a part of the "sell it and buy a turbo" club when you're actually going to a different platform? I mean, if you sold Daisy and then picked up a TSI/GSX, then I could see it. But by selling your 420 and going into an entirely different engine class (unless i'm wrong, but I thought the VR4 platform wasn't a 4G63), you really don't qualify for membership.

    :)
  • DR1665 · 1 year ago
    So close, Greg! The Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4 is a twin turbo V6, but the Galant VR4 is 4G63T-powered. Imagine parking the body of a Galant atop the powertrain of a 1G AWD DSM. That's pretty much what the GVR4 is. There are subtle differences, such as the gearing in the transmission of the GVR4 is a bit different to get it's additional weight moving, GVR4s have four wheel steering (4WS), and the wheelbase might be longer, but it's pretty much the same thing, mechanically, as a DSM from the same year.

    While every DSM in the world was made in Normal, Illinois, every GVR4 was made in Japan. Interesting bit of trivia: Mitsubishi only imported 126 cars identical to 464 in 1992. Options were limited (since the cars were loaded to begin with). The Kensington Grey color was only available in 1992, and there were only 126 KG GVR4s with the sunroof and both a tape/CD player. (This one still has the original tape/CD!)

    Appreciate the comment, sir!
  • Endless Monkeys · 1 year ago
    odd. I thought the galant platform was the 4ag-something-or-other.
  • DR1665 · 1 year ago
    No worries! A lot of people here VR4 and think twin turbo something or other. Maybe, some day, I'll get the absolute top of the line model of a car. I get a Talon, but it's the base model. I get the top of the line Galant, but there's another VR4 which is even mo badder. ;)

    http://www.dr1665.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=...