EvoRage
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- Sep 19, 2005
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San Antonio,
Texas
So I've been hanging around here for like three years, using tech articles and what not, but I've never actually posted up pictures of my car. So today I figured I might as well.
The car is a 1994 Mitsubishi Mirage Sedan that me and my friends built in my garage and my relatives welding shop almost 4 years ago. The car has a complete Evo 1 swap in it to include the 4G63, the right hand drive set up and the all wheel drive set up. I was lucky enough to find a great deal on ebay for a front clip with all body panels, suspension, brakes, drivetrain, interior, doors/glass, etc... for 3900shipped.
The swap was pretty straight forward, the Engine and trans from the Evo 1-3 drop straight into the mirage sedan body, seeing as how they share the same chassis. To do the right hand drive swap, we cut the fire walls from the front clip and from my car with an inch over lap and welded the evo 1 fire wall into my car. We also removed the panel bars from under the dash from each and swapped them. From there, the steering column and all under dash parts bolted up. For the clutch pedal i had to custom make some brackets but it was nothing big. After that the dash and all external parts bolted straight in with no problems.
The awd set up is where i want to change things up a bit so ill hold off on discussing that until i actually get around to doing it, for now it's running front wheel drive with a welded center diff and viscous coupler eliminator and no transfer case.
So now some pictures of the car, from the day I got it, to the current day.
The day I got Oct 9 2003
body kit and rims
Getting all the parts (the guy drove from Los Angeles to San antonio Texas to deliver this stuff)
Car waiting to be torn down/ swap pictures
My friend thought it would be funny to paint my transmission red...haha
RHD swap
Ok so the swap took about two weeks of on and off work in March of 05 before we got it running. Here are some pictures of it after we got it all together and running.
Me and my friends 360
Alright so moving forward to December 06, I had just had back surgery after suffering with a herniated disk all year and I got bored and decided to paint my car because i was tired of it being primered in the back and nicely paint in the front. I decided to go with yellow mainly because i didn't know what i was doing and there's alot of dents in the car and i was told that light colors hide imperfections haha So i stripped down the car and painted it yellow.
Stripping it down.
The car is a 1994 Mitsubishi Mirage Sedan that me and my friends built in my garage and my relatives welding shop almost 4 years ago. The car has a complete Evo 1 swap in it to include the 4G63, the right hand drive set up and the all wheel drive set up. I was lucky enough to find a great deal on ebay for a front clip with all body panels, suspension, brakes, drivetrain, interior, doors/glass, etc... for 3900shipped.
The swap was pretty straight forward, the Engine and trans from the Evo 1-3 drop straight into the mirage sedan body, seeing as how they share the same chassis. To do the right hand drive swap, we cut the fire walls from the front clip and from my car with an inch over lap and welded the evo 1 fire wall into my car. We also removed the panel bars from under the dash from each and swapped them. From there, the steering column and all under dash parts bolted up. For the clutch pedal i had to custom make some brackets but it was nothing big. After that the dash and all external parts bolted straight in with no problems.
The awd set up is where i want to change things up a bit so ill hold off on discussing that until i actually get around to doing it, for now it's running front wheel drive with a welded center diff and viscous coupler eliminator and no transfer case.
So now some pictures of the car, from the day I got it, to the current day.
The day I got Oct 9 2003
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body kit and rims
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Getting all the parts (the guy drove from Los Angeles to San antonio Texas to deliver this stuff)
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Car waiting to be torn down/ swap pictures
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My friend thought it would be funny to paint my transmission red...haha
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RHD swap
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Ok so the swap took about two weeks of on and off work in March of 05 before we got it running. Here are some pictures of it after we got it all together and running.
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Me and my friends 360
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Alright so moving forward to December 06, I had just had back surgery after suffering with a herniated disk all year and I got bored and decided to paint my car because i was tired of it being primered in the back and nicely paint in the front. I decided to go with yellow mainly because i didn't know what i was doing and there's alot of dents in the car and i was told that light colors hide imperfections haha So i stripped down the car and painted it yellow.
Stripping it down.
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