So at this point I'm pritty over it ay. It sat around for what felt like years. The phots above are from mid 2009. I think I done about 20,000k.
The car was cursed, I mean like, the ring cursed. Some stupid gremlin made its home inside my car. Here are some things that went wrong, even while Tristan was working on it (disclamer, not Tristan's fault). God where do I start.
-The origonal BOV was so poorly fitted, no wonder they put gaffer around it to stop the leaks. You really just have to laugh huh. I fixed it by replacing it with one that actually fitted.
-I decided that it would be a good idea to trust the car to get some work done by my little brothers workshop, being Wanneroo Mitsubishi. Good old Dodgy Dave (Mitsubishi/Rally art citified Mechanic mind you) as he was so appropriately named work on my car. What a mess. I got my one side of my cv replaced and a general service. When I got it back it ran like, oh man, the worst thing ever. He forgot to pin out the diagnostic port when setting the timming. I mean, how do you even do that. I chewed up like a whole tank and only got 75km out of it. It makes me sit here in disbelief even after all these years. But wait, it gets better.
He didn't replace the bolts on the cv's, guess who's cv's fell apart while driving :)
it was sooooooooo lucky that it happened just 5 meters from my house, mind you the car sat in the middle of the road for 2 or so days because you couldn't move it. they replaced both cv's and payed for the towing.
But wait, theres more!
So, after all of this and sever break downs. I went on a cruise. Guess how far I got? Can you see where I'm going with this? That's right, the blots fell out once again and put a 20c piece hole in the side of my gearbox. F@#k.
-Burnt out an over amped land drover custom alternator due to bad wiring. some **** nuckle thought it would be a good idea to take all 3 wires and twist them all together. No wonder I had so much alternator troubles, the memories of swapping out an alternator in the middle of winter, poring rain wedged under the car is still imprinted heavily in my mind.
-Second hand hi-flowed turbo shat itself after 1000k. sourced another second hand one. I had to drive 100's of kilometers because I needed it right then and there. My car ran out of rego and I had to get it over the pits. Of course it didn't pass the first time and I was on my last few hours of the last day to get it over the pits again for an extension. This lead to me not properly topping up the coolent, which lead to the pipe bursting off half way down the freeway. And because I was in a rush I didn't see the small gasket for the oil feed on the turbo, This lead to smoke, not alot, but enough.... I didn't pass but I got my extension.
-Don't use cheap inter-cooler pipe, just don't. I did and it split, nicely.
-I got my 3rd or was it my 4th turbo upgraded because it was just a stock as a rock one. I got the work done and it was a great turbo, I still have it. I can rave on about the guy who built it. Finally something that worked....
-In the process of trying to resolve the overheating problem I took the radiator out and got it professionally flushed and put it back in. I was tight on money so I just used the tap to fill it up. That's ok, but only for a short time. Not for sitting around months/years....
-Over heating engine. I'm like 0_0. For many, many years this plagued me. I spent 100's trying to resolve the issue. Turns out the head gasket went, It was so tiny I actually think it was a manufacturing defect. oh well.
The car sat around for a while and I wanted to sell it. But in reality who would want it?
These are the start of 2011.
In my infinite 19 year old wisdom, I sold my awesomely color coded front bar. Thanks Tristan for giving me this. (No sarcasm intended, it got me over the pits and driving around). I would also like to point out that at this point I didn't know the head was gone.













post edited by Dan. - Monday, April 28, 2014 2:01 PM