Hi there!
My name's Marek and i am an owner of a Mitsubishi Galant 2.5 V6, 1998, Kombi Sports Edition, Universal. I really love the Mitsubishi cars (mainly the steering and hidden power of acceleration) thats why i call my Galant a "Silent Assassin". Nobody expects an universal car to pump out kW . Anyways since owning an universal i'm looking for a sedan VR4. Thats where i found out about this forum. I want to say hi to everyone and hope you could please answer me a couple of questions:
1) Having doing some research i still cant comprehend one fact. Is the VR4 a separate model of the Mitsubishi Galant series or not. Let's say i want to build a VR4 by buying a 2002 year Galant and transferring a Legnum engine on the Galant. Is it a VR4 or not?
2) My second question is related to my 1st one. Is it possible (kind of stupid to ask) to build your own VR4 from a Galant by just doing an engine swap from the Legnum VR4. Ive heard that adding a turbo (in this case a new engine with twin turbos) to a car that wasnt expected to use a turbo, it can wear it down really fast. So my 2nd question would be is it possible to do this swap and not wear down the car real fast.
3) When comparing the VR4 and Galant (lets say 2002 year), are there any mechanical differences? If i would decide to do the engine swap can the Galant withstand the Legnum engine without breaking down? Suspension, steering etc.
People ask quite a bit for VR4 (ive seen 10k and above) for sedans. To be honest i would rather buy a 2002 galant for 1k and then buy a Legnum engine for 1.5k and add about 2k other stuff on it and get it cheaper rather than pay 10k for it. What do you think?
Thanks,
Marek