Earlier this year I flew out to San Francisco sight unseen to purchase a 73 Colt wagon with my girlfriend and a checked bag full of tools I've learned to be important when working on a car road side.
After buying the wagon, nursing it to a hotel and getting a good nights sleep I spent the next day wrenching on things and checking over the important stuff, then I hit the road. By the time I got home I had put almost 3000 miles on the car and spent a week on the road without a problem. That's good old fashioned Mitsubishi engineering hard at work.
The wagon is a 73 that someone had fitted a 77 4G32 2 liter and KM119 5 speed into.
Now the car is sitting with a 4G63T and the KM119 in it, I'm working on wiring for the ECU right now. The engine will run stock boost levels from a stock 14b all from a DSM, the idea to have a reliable 200 horsepower, turbo, light weight, vintage as hell car to engine the summers in. I also have a 76 Colt Sedan, it's a real beauty and clean as can be inside and out, also came with a 2 liter and auto 904. For the intake manifold I'm running an EVO8 intake on a 1G head using a 3/8 thick adapter plate (transitionally ported) that also blocks off the EGR. the injector bungs on the intake need welded shut then i'll mill off the tips, otherwise it's a prety straightforward and clean set up.
Question: KM119 - will this handle the stock 200HP (technically 190 i guess) of the 4G63T? I don't drive like an asshole and I will likely run 7psi (wastegate pressure) so it may be less than 190hp.
pictures:
within an hour of owning it:
Lake Havasu
That's my sedan and my brothers 78 Arrow
