How many?

[The Vee]

I guess someone with ASA / Caps could answer this, but it would be interesting to know how many 8g Galant / Legnum VR4 cars were actually built by Mitsu. It's just that as all were originally JDM home market (afaik) they have now migrated far and wide, 200 official imports to UK and then all the greys. You see them in Russia, Australia, Europe, even US to name but a few. Wonder how many are still in Japan? And of course we know quite a few now have been written off or broken for spares. Not really possible, but I'd like to make up an excel sheet or something with all listed and see how many we could trace.......

[Beastlee]

Brad can probably tell you, he's the CAPS/ASA master.

[The Vee]

Brad can probably tell you, he's the CAPS/ASA master.

That's exactly who went through my mind!!

[bradc]

Pierre has been able to pull those figures out, there is a big list somewhere around here or possibly on ozvr4 of every single spec, including jdm non-vr4, usdm models, etc.

[pbaron]

I have produced a csv extract of all 8G VR4 production based on the data available in CAPS, 22614 built in total.

Cheers
Pierre

Edit: I have added an Excel spreadsheet with column headers to make things easier, excel on opening the csv was munging the OptionCode column values.

[bradc]

Just so people know how to read it, column B is the chassis number, ie EC5A-0000011 for the first one

SNGF or whatever is the type, ie coty, super, type v, etc

D is the option code, 0 indicates no options at all. The next is the colour code, then the interior code. Finally the last is the production date code

[Nick Mann]

Row 17334 is mine!

So what are the option codes? What code would manual, moonroof, recaro etc be?

[pbaron]

Too hard to determine at this time, it varies dependant on the ClassificationCode as to what comes with. I did put together another spreadsheet a while back that had the 2 or 3k combinations of Model, ClassificationCode and OptionCode that could be checked to see if they contain any desirable features. I made a start on the manual lookup of each number but lost interest.

Row 17334 is mine!

So what are the option codes? What code would manual, moonroof, recaro etc be?

[The Vee]

Well thanks guys! didn't realise this had been looked at already. Also surprised that there were infact that many built.

[bradc]

It is probably easiest for people to list their chassis and the specs it came with from factory to figure out an option code. my purple car is 441 and has MMCS with tv and cd player, Moonroof, recaros and momo wheel. I saw a car with option 440, it is probably similar to mine but maybe missing one of those things?

We would have to come up with a list of options as some people may not think of everything their car may have, ie factory sub, what headunit it came with from factory (asa tells you this) side air bags, warm/cold spec, very dark UV glass, bbs wheels.......

[Fully]

That is interesting 6037 galants made and mine was the 21st of the line.

[thfelipeth]

what the hell! my car is in none of the spreadsheets.. 16526 gets up to 16524 and goes to 16527! owell..

[Beastlee]

Pierre, did you painstakingly go through CAPS/ASA copying the details into a spreadsheet? That must have taken some dedication!

Mine unfortunately came with nothing extra and hence is 000 for the option code so I'm no help there.

Were there none from 1-10? Also why do some of them start 5 (I assume they were the changeover time) and 4's must be facelift.

[Beastlee]

IN response to my own questions I started digging into the files of the CAPS/ASA discs. In each case the VIN decoding can be done from the VIN.bin file......assuiming you can work out the data structures to separate them out. I'm sure it will be in some standard database format but I'm not sure which to be able to break it down. If we were able to do that then we'd be able to use it as a lookup on the website much like the online parts catalogue in Russia.

[elnevio]

what the hell! my car is in none of the spreadsheets.. 16526 gets up to 16524 and goes to 16527! owell..

You sure that chassis code is right?

It corresponds to an Auto ST-R!

[Beastlee]

Sad as I am I've started a mini project. I'm trying to gather info on RVRs and having seen Pierre's info I am going to create it as a combined database for any CAPS/ASA based vehicle. I'm basically rewriting the data in CAPS/ASA into an Access database with some nice front end items to allow easy browsing of the info. Fruitless and time consuming it may be but I've missed doing database work so it' something to do in my spare time :/
Can anyone confirm for me how Mitusbishi do the exterior codes? I know the first 3 digits are the main paint code but what does the subsequent letter signify? Same goes for interiors, is there a definitve lookup table for them? If we can get the missing info on the various option codes, etc. then I can add it all into the database for easy lookup of anyones data.

Pierre, would you have any issues with me importing the data from your spreadsheet into the database for future use and possible distribution, not for profit?

[Atik]

Interesting, Is there a key to help break down the codes?

What does LYGF for classification mean?
What options are 158?
And what makes up the 14J interior code?

[foxdie]

Hi all, I've taken the liberty of uploading the spreadsheet to Google Docs where you can access it below. I also split it into 2 sheets based on EC5A and EC5W (Galant and Legnum respectively) to make navigation easier.

Mitsubishi 8th Gen Galant & Legnum VR-4 Registry

I wholeheartedly recommend that people use the Google Doc version from this point on, that way we (as a club) can edit / amend it and everyone will see the changes as they happen. An example of this would be to colour-code all "Exterior Code" cells to the actual colour of the car.

Anyone can view the spreadsheet, no sign-up is required, but if you want to edit it you'll need a Gmail account AND you'll need to PM me your gmail address so I can add you

[GalantOnly]

1996-1997

Legnum M/T - LNGF
Legnum A/T - LYGF
Galant M/T - SNGF
Galant A/T - SYGF

1998 -2002

Legnum Type V A/T - LYGF3
Legnum Type S A/T - LYGF
Legnum Type V M/T - LNGF3 (only one ever made?!)
Legnum Type S M/T - LNGF (2000->)
Galant Type V M/T - SNGF3
Galant Type V A/T - SYGF3
Galant Type S A/T - SYGF

[Atik]

Excellent, thanks Alex.

My car needs to read differently now. The only thing thats still original on mine is that its still an estate!