1985 Mitsubishi Scorpion GSR from UK and Ireland - Comments

Exhaust needed replacing.

Handbrake cable required freeing.

Slight rust on the rear arch.

New clutch.

This car is not awesomely quick, but has phenomenal braking due to vented discs all round and a massive servo.

Suspension could be better.

Ugly steering wheel.

Very tunable 4G63t up to 400hp, but only 170hp standard.

Its not fair, I want a turbo too!!!

GSR's are rare, eh?

I was offered one in Australia for $1499 (??? pounds in UK - prolly 600) and if their as rare as sites on the Internet about them then I think I'll take it ;)

Just wondering though, I'm a bit of a car newbie, and have no idea what to supe it up with... spoiler, mags, 3" exhaust, extractors, etc...

Thoughts anyone? My friends brother has a new Lancer and I was to drag him off in my new scorpion (if I end up getting it - 85 GSR, 4 cylinders, manual).

I really need to beat him because he boasts about his car so much, and I want to smoke him in a 16 year-old car :)

Suggestions:

mcintosh5@bigpond.com.au.

Thanks all.

Get a set of really big mags (17inch comes to mind), lower it and then bolt on extractors and exhaust. Huge increase in power comes from replacing the stock carby with a weber or holley. Add a stage 3 cam from RPW (www.rpw.com.au) and you have one fast Scorpion. Apart from a nice paint job leave the body stock, it is to nice to cover in spoilers and so on.

Hey buddy.

I don't know much about the Scorpions, but I used to drive Mum's MR Coupe Lancer, it was an auto and quick shift, and that was slow as hell. The manual's a bit quicker, but I reckon that a turbocharged 2.6 Scorpion would keep up with the Lancer and probably even beat it, but I've never driven a Scorpian or a manual Lancer. But I reckon you would still be competition for the Lancer.