View Poll Results: Which would you choose?
88 Mitsubishi Starion 2.6L I4 Turbo RWD
55
93.22%
96 Mazda MX6 2.5L V6 N/A FWD
4
6.78%
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Which would you choose?
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I guess I gets no respect if I build the mazda, huh? This I could look at two ways...
1) I like the starion very much and so do you guys, so it'd be a smart choice
2) I should stick with the Mazda because it will be unique cause nobody else wants to build one.
Hmmmm
1) I like the starion very much and so do you guys, so it'd be a smart choice
2) I should stick with the Mazda because it will be unique cause nobody else wants to build one.
Hmmmm
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^I like the FD's but too pricey... you know the 6 has some of the same styling cues built in as the FD has, the 6 was the 7's "little brother" back then and I am appreciating the way Mazda pulled it off with the car. The lines are very similar. I am leaning toward the 6, I ve' owned and driven both and love the starion, but I own a good runnning 6 right now. I'm thinking turbo and megasqirt to start off, then sourcing another 2.5 and building it, fab a custom tubular intake, I have all kinds of crazy ideas.
I guess in my head, it all works great and the results are good, but getting out of my head and into the car is another story altogether.
I think I would earn some respect if I show up at TRack day running a 12 second 6 though.
I even started sketching out a RWD conversion.
Before you laugh... I've been a fabricator for years, I can pull it off. Just don't know if I want to spend that kind of time on another project.
The second gen RX7 with a pushrod V8? It sounds cool, but I really would just build another Mustang if I wanted that. I want to build a small displacement powerplant.
I was going to do a 240, but everybody is doing that. If I could find an old Datsun B210 I would love to build that with a SR20DET under the hood.
I want to do something different, the 6 and the starion both are becoming rare. The Starion, because they were short lived anyway and the 6 because they are probably scrapped.
I guess in my head, it all works great and the results are good, but getting out of my head and into the car is another story altogether.
I think I would earn some respect if I show up at TRack day running a 12 second 6 though.
I even started sketching out a RWD conversion.
Before you laugh... I've been a fabricator for years, I can pull it off. Just don't know if I want to spend that kind of time on another project.
The second gen RX7 with a pushrod V8? It sounds cool, but I really would just build another Mustang if I wanted that. I want to build a small displacement powerplant.
I was going to do a 240, but everybody is doing that. If I could find an old Datsun B210 I would love to build that with a SR20DET under the hood.
I want to do something different, the 6 and the starion both are becoming rare. The Starion, because they were short lived anyway and the 6 because they are probably scrapped.
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what you need is an 88 200sx (s12)...maybe with a 93 KA24DE in it...it just so happens i know where you can get one for cheap
you can go KA-T, or swap in a sbc if you want
you can go KA-T, or swap in a sbc if you want
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^I like the FD's but too pricey... you know the 6 has some of the same styling cues built in as the FD has, the 6 was the 7's "little brother" back then and I am appreciating the way Mazda pulled it off with the car. The lines are very similar. I am leaning toward the 6, I ve' owned and driven both and love the starion, but I own a good runnning 6 right now. I'm thinking turbo and megasqirt to start off, then sourcing another 2.5 and building it, fab a custom tubular intake, I have all kinds of crazy ideas.
I guess in my head, it all works great and the results are good, but getting out of my head and into the car is another story altogether.
I think I would earn some respect if I show up at TRack day running a 12 second 6 though.
I even started sketching out a RWD conversion.
Before you laugh... I've been a fabricator for years, I can pull it off. Just don't know if I want to spend that kind of time on another project.
The second gen RX7 with a pushrod V8? It sounds cool, but I really would just build another Mustang if I wanted that. I want to build a small displacement powerplant.
I was going to do a 240, but everybody is doing that. If I could find an old Datsun B210 I would love to build that with a SR20DET under the hood.
I want to do something different, the 6 and the starion both are becoming rare. The Starion, because they were short lived anyway and the 6 because they are probably scrapped.
I guess in my head, it all works great and the results are good, but getting out of my head and into the car is another story altogether.
I think I would earn some respect if I show up at TRack day running a 12 second 6 though.
I even started sketching out a RWD conversion.
Before you laugh... I've been a fabricator for years, I can pull it off. Just don't know if I want to spend that kind of time on another project.
The second gen RX7 with a pushrod V8? It sounds cool, but I really would just build another Mustang if I wanted that. I want to build a small displacement powerplant.
I was going to do a 240, but everybody is doing that. If I could find an old Datsun B210 I would love to build that with a SR20DET under the hood.
I want to do something different, the 6 and the starion both are becoming rare. The Starion, because they were short lived anyway and the 6 because they are probably scrapped.
well if your throwing out ideas, i got some
... PM me, I dont want anyone taking an idea I probley wont do
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Wouldn't that be your car Frank?
Show me...
EDIT: nevermind checked the thread. Not my style, sorry
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36-0, wow. Never seen TR this one-sided
No brainer really though...turbo RWD vs. N/A FWD? Plus Starion is practically engrish for "Stallion"
I'd consider the 626/MX-6 turbo long before the V6. Excellent power plant (torque WTF) and decent sleeper. For shits and giggles make it longitudinal and throw it in an FC or Miata
No brainer really though...turbo RWD vs. N/A FWD? Plus Starion is practically engrish for "Stallion"
I'd consider the 626/MX-6 turbo long before the V6. Excellent power plant (torque WTF) and decent sleeper. For shits and giggles make it longitudinal and throw it in an FC or Miata
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What ever your decision is, it sounds like you are going to have alot of fun. Quick question though, if you are a fabricator and have a good amount of time on your hands, why not just go the kit car route and really be original?~James
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It's like this: The toadstool juice fires through the unicorn injector into the fairy dust chamber, where the tiny wizard does his secret work...Then a gang of keebler elves get hopped up on the crystalline byproduct of the wizard's tinkering, (they smoke it) and then the elves push the spinning triangle through a series of dimensional portals to a final realm codenamed the "exhaust port..." At least that's my undersanding of rotary sorcery...
