This is the Build Thread for 1999 GST/ GSX conversion. Reply below.

So long story short-ish. I bought a 1995 gsx from Louisville KY about 2 years ago. Come to find out I had made a terrible financial mistake. Little did I know for the next 2 years all of my time and money would be spent on this car.

After addressing some major rust problems I happened to stumble upon someone selling a gst only 30 minutes from my house. The silver gst is extremely clean with only small surface rust spots.

I decided to use my over priced donor car to turn the Gst into a gsx. I know there are plenty of builds out there but I wanted to do my part to share what I’ve learned. Huge shoutout to Jason Drew’s DSM on YouTube his videos were a huge help in making this happen.

So as far as the build has come. I pulled all of the awd components from the gsx. I am going to note the less obvious differences I’ve learned through the process.

If you have a Quaife or Qualife (don’t know the name) LSD for a FWD trans it will not work in the AWD trans.

The rear knuckles are different. The diameter hole where the axle fits is not large enough. Same with the rear ebrake assembly. The bolt pattern for the wheel bearing is different from fwd to awd

gas tanks completely different and the connector for the pump has more pins on the AWD because of the crossover pump in the tank

Now some info I wish I had during my installation of the volk metal craft AWD conversion subframe bushings.

For starters I could not for the life of me find the little oem rubber spacers that sit between the subframe and chassis. I think I tossed mine because they were shot and didn’t realize I wouldn’t be able to find them anywhere. So don’t do that. Thus why I decided to go this route.

One of the photos is the outer sleeve from the old bushing being air hammered out. (You have to remove this) Mine were so corroded this was the only way. In doing so I f-ed my subframe up hence the fabricated tops for the bushings to bottom out on. I know it’s a chamfered edge on the solid bushings but they are seated perfectly in mine and have no issues.

Ok now for the driveshaft rebuild I did I followed this YouTube video. Absolutely amazing



If you are looking for any sort of parts for your dsm I’ve found looking up the part and finding Mitsubishis oem part number and using that to shop around has saved me a lot of money. For example the joints and caps were insanely expensive for oem ones but I found a manufacturer in Japan with oem parts for way cheaper than anyone here. (Amayama.com) if you need to rebuild a driveshaft get them while you can

This is all I can remember right now and I’m sure most of this is redundant or has been said before, but if I can help one person with any of this information I’ll consider that a win!