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Performance Results from 5-speed swap!


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Wow what a difference the swap has made on my GL-10, I can honestly say it has improved my performance by about 50%!!!

 

Last night me and about 6 other cars went out to a very quiet area near Marine Drive's industrial areas, and set up a drag strip that was a little over a 1/4mile long and went at it.

 

Cars Racing :

 

1. 2000 Civic Hatchback 5-speed w/D16 Engine & D15 Head, Intake, Exhaust, Headers

 

2. 1990 Honda Prelude 2.0si 5-speed with Intake and Exhaust

 

3. 1987 Mitsubishi Codia Turbo 5-speed STOCK

 

4. 1987 Subaru GL-10 4WD Sedan w/5-speed D/R 3.90gears conversion (ME) Stock Turbo@9psi

 

The civic was a close race but I beat him by about 2 cars, the prelude I beat by 4 cars, and the codia which raced me 3 times lost consistantly by 3 cars :)

 

I'm so happy with the car right now its running perfect! I can't wait to get it on the drag strip and dyno to get some numbers, I still have the TD04-13g and WRX TMIC waiting to be installed when I get some funds :(

 

I'll be posting some videos soon of the car in action everyone to see.

 

I also took a guy from work who owns a nice SVX w/Shift Kit for a ride in my suubie since he has been following my rebuild and he was like "ITS NOT A LOYALE ANYMORE!" LOL He was really impressed and wants to run his SVX against me :) Can't wait for that one as the trash talking has allready began.

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Marine Drive rocks. One time I took my old '76 Lincoln coupe out there and wound it up as far as I dared. 90mph at about 3000 RPM in OD and the shimmy scared me so I had to back down.

 

The Mitsubishi is a Cordia. Sort of like an old Colt but wide track, turbo. Hot stuff in its day and quite rare here.

 

http://autospeed.drive.com.au/cms/article.html?&A=0045

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that's what people say about our weird, old, subarus :lol:

 

Yeah everyone makes fun of my subaru until they hear it and see it going down the street then they are like :confused:

 

One day I pulled into Baxter Auto Parts haulin' rump roast and they were like "WHOLY CRAP DID YOU SWAP A WRX ENGINE INTO THAT?"

 

I just smiled and said nope EA82-T and they were like :slobber:

 

I love drivin it around, it's funny when I roll up on a nice sports car and try to get them to run they just look over at me and laugh, then when I take off they just can't beleave it :)

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