1988 Chrysler Conquest TSi from North America - Comments

I own a 87 Quest and it's true I've had some troubles with it, but I love it. I have never outran a stang; only tried once, only opportunity, he had some mods so he took the cake, but now that I put a bigger turbo, exhaust, I out ran a guy with a turbo Grand Am at the woodward dream cruise a few lights in a row, plus how many are really floatin around; I've only seen 3 ever. Needless to say, it's a pretty unique car.

I just bought 89 TSI Quest for $500 because he thought the rear end went out, but it wasn't and I haven't had a problem with it yet.

It has 95000 on the OD, and trust me they are very fast cars that can smoke the tires off all the way to 4th gear. Stock in a quarter mile I hit 110 miles an hour. They have 188 horse power stock, and I've raced 3 cars so far; one was a Toyota Corolla that stood no chance, then a 2000 Mustang, no GT or nothing, it only had V6; I blew it away by at least 7-8 car lengths. The other car I raced was a Cobra GT, like a 2004, and I still smoked that car pretty bad, so yeah I'm all the way with the Quest; they run great and are very reliable.

I still have the original paper work with it, and the window sticker with all the options. It's had one owner before me, and he bought it for $26,000.

I have a 88 Conquest. Yeah it has issues with the electrical system, but hey it's a rare car and it looks badass.

I have dropped about a grand into her since purchased, and ran a 14.3 at 104 mph and dynoed at 267whp 296 ft lbs.

I won't lie I cuss at the thing at least once a day, but I find myself screaming more because I can overtake the unexpected. 99 Talon Tsi Fwd with 300hp... Mazda MX6 Turbo with 270hp or so.. and a 5.0 Mustang with whatever those piece of crap Fords put out.

My brother has a 87 quest and yeah it definitely has its problems, but the Mustang has around 255 to 265 horse power, and the quest stock has either 155hp (8 valves per cylinder), (190HP 12 valves per cylinder) but with a manual boost controller. Adjust the boost from 15PSI to 25PSI on a stock turbo and you just gained 125HP on top of the 155, 190 hp so the quest is looking at about 280HP 8valve per cylinder, 315HP 12 valve per cylinder.

So the Mustang would get beat by the quest depending on the driver and the mods that the car has on it.

And the Conquest does not have a small 4 cylinder, it is the biggest 4 cylinder that Mitsubishi has ever made, or any other car manufacture because a 2.6L or 2559cc is a big 4 cylinder.

But the main downfall is the throttle body fuel injection setup on the Conquest or Starion.

Yeah, I have seen multiple cases of people changing to MPI (multi-port injection) and with a little tuning have a mid to low 13 second car at the stock boost (7psi on early models, 10psi on later models) and even more with more boost!!! all with the stock turbo...

And either way, who really cares about mustangs here, this is about the StarQuests, so you mustang guys need to stop butting in. I have respect for anything that goes fast, but when someone starts completely disrespecting a car that is perfectly capable, I can't stand to see you guys bragging about how "there's no way a 4 cylinder can EVER beat our V-8 mustangs" because either way we will almost always beat you at the gas stations. especially in my 90 Eclipse GSX I can beat on that car constantly and still get 23-25 MPG in the city!!!

So try THAT with your mustang!!!