vosko

yup and i don't care look at the blazer. body work ain't everything.....especially on vehicles that cost under $1000 [/quote]

true, but a mint one would only fetch like $1500 if your lucky [/quote]

this one looks ok for $850 for a drift beater



http://f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/mfvmx/lst...onquest&.view=t



i think mint ones are hard to find

75 Repu

looks good to me..

Rob x-7

I meant $1500 if the SELLER was lucky.

Not much market for them.



I should point out that the Starion was THE car to mod in the late 80s.

when modding turbo charged japenese cars was uncommon.

vosko

yeah i know........i can't complain about this one. i'll give an update tomorrow night!

Joelsq

I knew there was a reason I was seeing a few hits from this site onto tristarion in the weblogs.



We try to be pretty level headed guys over there. A word in the defense of the Starion... They are fun Depends on how deep you wallets are (which I'm sure you all are familiar with that). I've got much respect for the Rx7 crowd, I've got a couple of buddies here local to me that I help with their cars all the time. Just like the starion's around here, most of the Rx7s aren't running... yet, or they were are aren't now.



Hopefully I'll finish up this job I'm doing on an FD with a T78. I was "hired on" to to the e6k installation and base tune. This car should rip some major ***, but I know I could not afford whats into this car. Pretty things the FDs are, and many cool features (like the bose system in the trunk).



My starion no longer has that TBI fuel system. It does its job, but it wasn't for me. I swapped to another intake manifold and run the E6K on this daily driver.... One day it may be fast, or maybe not? Who knows, but I'm at least having alot of fun (and a few headaches with it).



On a side note, being a piston head by nature, I fail to understand the trailing ignition split completely. None of the rotor heads around here can give me an answer I'm happy with, any insight?



Also, I wouldn't mind knowing more about ignition timing events, and how the effect a rotory, where "tdc?" is, and the like. Is there any rotory-for-idiots kind of references?



Thanks,



Joel

Travis R

The Starion is a very cool car. The jet valve head is wierd. I thought I had read somewhere that you can swap a newer DSM turbo head on and kill two birds with one stone... lose the jet valve (main cause of head cracks) and the TBI. Of course there is a lot more work involved to make everything play together in terms of elctronics... but the bottom ends are pretty stout.

I keep trying to convince my Mitsu buddy to get one.

Joelsq

Nope. DSM head wont even remotely fit



You can get a non-jet valve head (which is a thicker casting) brand new from marnal/AMC (I have one on the shelf in the garage), but I've been using the stock one without cracking it. I've horsebeat it to death, including some incidents where it overheated some. The heads crack about as easy as any other overheated car, but constant high heat cycle will increase your chances.



I've considered swapping in a 4g63 or a g63/64b and just hooking the haltech up to that... but the transmissions from the 2L trucks that will fit may or may not hold up well. Right now I'm not ready to give up on the 2.6, and as of late theres been a couple guys doing real well on pump gas. I'm not one of them... yet.



Joel

Travis R

Bummer. I thought it was pretty unlikely that a 2.0L and a 2.6L had the same bore spacing.

Maybe swaping a Galant stroked DSM motor would work... a little less displacement (just under 2.4L), but probably a lot easier to hop-up reliably. Will the Starion tranny not bolt up to a 4g63?

Joelsq

No, but the truck transmission will. Thats what eric plebani was running 'back in the day'.



Joel

BrandonDrecksage

are you going to englishtown?...i think they mentioned something about drifting on wed.