Now I see Magnas everywhere.
Reminds me.
Lad I worked with had one as first car, scraped on everything , everywhere.
Even flat road....
Spac’s adventures in Magna
I still have a soft spot for the manual astron 2.6 ones if you ever see one pop up
Yup…
$300 3.5 manual. It looked MUCH better in the photos in the ad - could only see the damage to the driver’s side front corner…
Meh, it was only ever going to be a parts car… it’s just that there’s less useful parts than there appeared. The only usable panel is the bootlid.
Still runs beautifully, including the 3-years-since-the-crash battery being able hold a charge (so far).
I think that does me.
I have more decent motors and manual gearboxes than I have decent cars, and I have more cars than I want.
Need to move the Mirage back on the trailer, but this experiment goes live tomorrow morning.
Spac: the N+1 does not apply to every vehicle you have a project for.... ?
I see in person the Mark Iceton odyssey of near 450 cars owned , built , repaired, driven, bought , sold , swapped yet this page always intrigues me.
Stick a 3.5 manual into a Mirage...
carnut1100Stick a 3.5 manual into a Mirage...
This has definitely been considered.
The people who have done it reckon that it actually works well - apparently the extra weight over the front doesn’t hurt them.
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Works pretty well. Definitely drops back gears on hills and works harder than the Falcon, but it did the job just fine.
The Falcon has been managing just under 14l/100km with the loaded car trailer, and around 10.0 unladen (although it has travelled very little distance without a trailer for ages now).
The Magna is around 9.2l/100km unladen (although that’s included a disproportionate amount of running around town). Based on a total of 50km since I reset the average fuel economy meter, it’s saying that it is 12.5l/100km with the Mirage behind it.
9 days later
egads (she/her)I still have a soft spot for the manual astron 2.6 ones if you ever see one pop up
I found the dumb Magna I want but shouldn’t buy
4 days later
Really enjoyed the vids, that Magna is hectic
Fast driven fwd is dang fast, just smooth as butter
18 days later
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Don’t say that I don’t know how to party…
They die because the plastic is killed by the sliver of UV that sneaks in through the edge of the bonnet. So I pulled the bottle out of the blue wreck.
Trouble is that it was a bit mangled by the crash and didn’t want to fit into the unmangled car.
A few minutes with the heat gun and it was a lot happier to fit.
So yeah, it’s all party around here!
Also, some rolling things in glitter.
The paint is just some vaguely close shit I had in an aerosol can. And is a terrible match…
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Did the same on the blue Mirage. (Photos in reverse order)
Both cars were far easier to do than the Bubble was. The original colour coat on the Mitsubishis was MUCH thicker than the colour on the 121.
The poor old Magna has copped a lot of poor paint repairs in the past, so the paint thickness is all over the joint. If I cared, I would just respray it.
SpacDon’t say that I don’t know how to party…
https://cdn.ozvolvo.org/uploads/4JZZJ3A03CV2/cef8acb9-886b-4664-ba36-314df1ddf9f7.jpeg
They die because the plastic is killed by the sliver of UV that sneaks in through the edge of the bonnet. So I pulled the bottle out of the blue wreck.
Trouble is that it was a bit mangled by the crash and didn’t want to fit into the unmangled car.
https://cdn.ozvolvo.org/uploads/ROIGS0XWGPZF/918b1d6f-b78d-4113-9e04-f954798f710c.jpeg
A few minutes with the heat gun and it was a lot happier to fit.
https://cdn.ozvolvo.org/uploads/18XL3Z26O166/d25e55f6-9f5a-42be-968c-699f0eb664ed.jpeg
So yeah, it’s all party around here!
That sounds wicked.
SpacSome Magna love for @AshDVS
This is Tristan Carrigan from Qld at the Alpine rally last weekend. He was on track for a podium placing, and possibly a win until this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShnF1spw-2E&t=1s
https://cdn.ozvolvo.org/uploads/R08TVPUCLIP4/696b1146-83d2-4b5c-8012-958b77edec53.png
You mentioned the Ross Dunkerton one earlier too - I think I remember having a look at that one a long time ago (when it was current/new) - from memory it was an AWD one with the auto shifter flipped/inverted to push up to change down, pull back to shift up. Does that sound right?
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All Mitsubishi tip shifters are like that - FTOs as well.
Just need to pull the console, and switch 2 plugs to reverse it.
AshDVShttps://ozvolvo.org/discussion/comment/212969#Comment_212969
You mentioned the Ross Dunkerton one earlier too - I think I remember having a look at that one a long time ago (when it was current/new) - from memory it was an AWD one with the auto shifter flipped/inverted to push up to change down, pull back to shift up. Does that sound right?
It was definitely automatic, no idea on whether the shifter had been messed with (but I presume it wasn’t, considering how the cars had been built).