chrysler conquest/mitsu starion
 

considering getting a '87-89 conquest/starion..... needs to be in good condition, but not necessarily running.

Almost had the most steal of a deal on one a year ago. Running fine but seals in turbo let go so it was smokey for 500 bucks.

Pretty neat cars for what they are. Seems like the ones I see pop up on craigslist owner things its some super rare sports car and wants way too much.

Funny side note our back up generator at work uses the 2.4L turbo engine those things came stock with.

http://savannah.craigslist.org/cto/3892605775.html

http://charleston.craigslist.org/cto/3862581459.html

http://winstonsalem.craigslist.org/cto/3833767170.html

http://charlotte.craigslist.org/cto/3886235511.html

2.6 was stock on them. had head problems i think? very small turbo.

Buddy of mine had a brand new one in high school (damn i'm getting old), and it was a fun little car to drive on the back roads of rural Pennsylvania. Good luck w/ the hunt!

Bad bob had a conquest swapped mighty max with a slightly larger turbo and gas. It was fun as fuck!

I use autotempest.com as my retail search engine.

Those cars look like crap without the TSI flaired fenders

While I was in Kissimmee, FL with BlackSnow picking up that Honda he built, we were at the dyno tuning it. The guy that owned the muffler shop that had the dyno is some big crazy Viper guy down there, I forget his name.

He had a Starion behind the shop that he had stuffed a Viper V10 into........wasn't running at the time, but he was hell bent on making it work. Wonder if anything ever came of it.

there is a few ls1/2jz swaps out there. pretty cool. i just dont know if i will find one in good enough shape to get. they are getting old.

Yea I had a mighty max with the conquest 2.6 with a t3-t4 turbo on about 18# or boast and a 75 shot. Was a good time. I built a mpi intake and had a sds standalone ems.

My buddy's get drunk at road runner, Orlando is the viper guy I think

Yep that's it, and that's him. He's a character for sure. That SBC swapped 911 in his shop is pretty crazy too.

We, too, got wasted up there during the tuning session.

He just wrecked his viper at OSW. He's already buying one to swap everything over into though. And yea, he is lol

There was a red one for sale on the Hwy# 52 bypass beside the motorcycle place, a while back. I will see if its still there next time through..

he bought it back? Is he going to race some ppl on here?

What you talkin bout Willis? The Starion?

I saw it one time during the one weekend I was there with blacksnow, and didn't get much story. When i saw it the motor had just been set in the car, not even close to complete.

On a side note, blacksnow's honda is in Honda Tuning mag this month. Some super nice pics and story. I'll share the link to the pics when I get it.

http://chadbeephotography.com/blog/2...l-motor-civic/

^blog post from the photographer.

they've got an 80's japan paper head gasket... baby turbo and are goofy... in japan they came with the 4g63 that the turbo eclipse/evo had. a few guys over here have swapped them into the cars, i've seen turbo 6.0L swaps in them but as you already said, 1jz and 2jz swaps are cheap and fit the cars personality... I also agree on them looking goofy without the wide fenders.

I wonder if hendos parents neighbor still have the one they were going to give away...

Forklift motors, just sayin......for real.

dadgummit!!!! i would pay them for it!