Austarion

I know you have the regular version. I think you call them sigmas or something. The galant 4 door basically fromt he early 80s.

Anyhow, It's the turbo version of the galant?

Australia got them in abundance as the Sigma. They came with 1600 (4G32) 1850, 2000, 2600 (4G5*) from about 1978-1986. There were other variants like 4G63t with IRS (essentially a 4 door starion) which were never sold from factory in Australia, but possibly in NZ.

The most interesting version of the Sigma in Aus was the GH turbo. Essentially a TO3, external gate with suck trough SU. There were 500odd produced though not many remain today. The exhaust manifolds are a gem of an item (shits all over the 'factory' 2.6 manifolds).

interesting. DId the gh have any kind of bodly styling like that turbo one in the picture?

Bonnet vents (cast aluminium) unique grille and silver over black or red over black paint. No body kits or spoilers though.

We did get a sigma GSR GJ/GH model that had an air dam lip extension and a spoiler on boot lid.

However back in the day there were a few aftermarket kits similar to the one in your photo, but finding one today could prove a challenge.

airbats801 wrote:interesting. DId the gh have any kind of bodly styling like that turbo one in the picture?

The GSRs have a similar rear lip - the front spoilers are a bit different - finding a good one is a challenge.

The turbo Galant sedan that you posted (with the 4G63 turbo) was only sold in the Japanese and European markets as the Galant Σ or Eterna Σ (Σ being the Sigma symbol) in Japan and just as the 'Galant' in Europe. The styling of that one you posted is unique to the European spec models, the Jap models had different styling.

They were called just the Sigma in Australia and New Zealand (while earlier 77-80 shape was called a Galant-Sigma), but the Australian spec models didn't have the 4G63 turbo or IRS rear ends, while the NZ-spec ones had 4G63s (but not turbo) and no IRS. The automatic jap spec turbo sedans had live axle as well for some strange reason.

My Eterna Λ (Λ being symbol for Lambda) is just the coupe version of that 4th generation Galant shape. It's the platform the Starion was built apon.

had one as my first car......
Shouldnt have sold it. :(


GH Sigma in blue over black Turbo scheme, 4G64 with twin cam head, decent sized turbo, Manualised auto, Hilux diff........ One day :drool:

How rare is that particular uk model wnad what year where they around? What kind of price do they fetch.

Wheels are turning in my head :D I may have most of the year planned out for work on some steamers. Long hours and lots o money :)

dirtygalant wrote:live axle

that term makes it sound so high tech to someone who doesn't know what it is...... :x

k I'll rephrase that - barbaric old tech axle which is not of the IRS setup :P

The Galant turbo sedan was available from 1982 until 1985 in the European market, and from 1980 until 1985 in the Japanese market.

dirtygalant wrote:k I'll rephrase that - barbaric old tech axle which is not of the IRS setup :P

lol

i was speaking to a friend of mine recently about how the new mustang still has a live rear axle.. and he went "wow, really? that's pretty cool".. nd i was like

he owns an R33 skyline and is a self-confessed car nut, so i thought he'd know what it was..

I'm starting to put ym import list together for cars I want to get that i can legally get. So far, lancer ex1800 or 2k turbo, and that galant turbo :). Oh, cant forget the la lancer and old fto which is probably a pipe dream.

Work is starting to look real nice. Looks like I may have teh rest of the year booked on steam turbines.

Haha... going to steal my galant from me eh...

-Robert