Austarion

I know it's not a Staz but it will run and hide from a standard starion and it is in absolutly MINT condition. 83,000 k's and serviced every 5,000. Drives likes it's made out of tin cans though compared to the quality and weight of a starion.

Very nice and immaculate! I had an '86 GSR Turbo Cordia as well - NZ-spec with crap seats but with TC06 turbo factory. I also had an '85 4WD Turbo Cordia GT with TC05.

Vulpes wrote:Drives likes it's made out of tin cans though compared to the quality and weight of a starion.

haha that would be why it can run and hide from a starion.. the cordias were ever so slightly quicker in stock form due to their light weight weren't they?

Vulpes wrote:I know it's not a Staz but it will run and hide from a standard starion and it is in absolutly MINT condition. 83,000 k's and serviced every 5,000. Drives likes it's made out of tin cans though compared to the quality and weight of a starion.

Geez Roger will have "a gun in his pocket " when he sees your pics LOL
In case you don't understand that is a quote from Mae West to an ardent suitor " is that a gun in your pocket or are you glad to see me ???"

if you don't know what a "gun in his pocket" means you are either underage or severely deprived

oldie.. edit your post to take out the [img] tags at the end of the quote bit.. but don't take out the last [/quote]

this will remove the publicate pictures

dirtygalant wrote:Very nice and immaculate! I had an '86 GSR Turbo Cordia as well - NZ-spec with crap seats but with TC06 turbo factory. I also had an '85 4WD Turbo Cordia GT with TC05.

What??? A cordia 4WD??? Never heard of them...
Got pics?

yeah well you aussies missed out a bit on the grey jap imports :P

I'll have to load up some pics of it when I get home. It was honestly nothing special, just a typical Jap spec Cordia with TC05, big bumpers etc, with primitive 4WD - the rear beam was torsion spring, the front steering crossmember was dropped down to allow the transfer case to go above the rack, and the whole cars suspension was raised up an inch or two. It really looked like a post-production afterthought implementation - the car simply wasn't designed to have a 4WD model like the 87-92 Galant did. The gearbox was a four speed 'super-shift' box with a transfer case hanging off it, there was no centre diff, and the 4WD was electronically engaged with a button on the top of the super-shift lever.

Found these pics on the internet








Mine was white much like this one (this one is in Wellington, NZ somewhere):







Mine was badged as a 'GT' as opposed to a GSR, and it had vinyl door cards, a plastic blanking plate in place of the clock above the glovebox, although it did have recaro-like seats and air conditioning. The chassis prefix was E-A213G. I just recently sold the speedometer cluster which had the 4WD selection indicator on it - one of the last parts I have left of it.

Yeah there was a rusted out 4wd cordia at pick a part in auckland a couple of months back, still had the running gear in it but the body was way beyond saving.

^ Cheers DG, think I just found where the diff from my 4WS car is from.


We also still have a Cordia, 1985 1 owner NZ new, NZ built.
They fucked up building it as I found out when we fitted air con,
they had put the wiring loom thru the wrong holes in the firewall, the holes for the air con pipes :x

Oh real wonder if it's still there - 'tis a pretty rare (but shit) car. That guy in Wellington was having issues with his gearbox, seeing as a 4WD Cordia gearbox isn't the easiest thing to get ahold of, it affectively wrote off his car.

Thats true thrash they are as light as ( light is if you are a kiwi ) In fact it's light weight is what makes it so much fun to drive. Although I prefer the look of the staz in all departments I must admit this thing is way more entertaining to drive. You feel everything.

Vulpes wrote:I know it's not a Staz but it will run and hide from a standard starion and it is in absolutly MINT condition. 83,000 k's and serviced every 5,000. Drives likes it's made out of tin cans though compared to the quality and weight of a starion.

Are those GK Sigma SE rims? Nice car by the way, had a rusty one as a paddock basher and it went like blazes til i rolled it. the engine now resides in my new paddock basher- a CB Lancer

They are the original rims - Mitsubishi shared many parts between models

Ralliart is correct of course, it is as original as ( sorry, its as original is if you are a kiwi )

hah funny guy - seen Trent from Punchy? that's how you aussies sound like to us :P

GK Sigma wouldn't have had those rims - the Cordia has +46mm offset like most other FWD/4WD Mitsis, the Sigma would have been about +25-32mm offset.