Magna in Street Machine.... WTF?

[mcnamg]

Normally i wouldnt look twice at a copy of street machine but I had to come back for another look after I noticed a Mitsubishi Magna on the front cover of the latest issue.

It looks hot. The car has been dumped on some very deep dished chrome rims has been converted into a two door coupe with suicide doors and has a COME 404Ci V* under the bonnet. It has been designed with some consultation with Mitsu Oz who want to get more young drivers into their cars and think that this may hekp.

The audio visual gear is all sony as the car is being used as an xplod demo car for shows like auto salon and street machine shows. There is about 16 speakers and I think 4 or 5 subwoofers in the car as well as the usual array of lcd screens and so forth.

I must say for a magna which i normally find to be very plain and boring (dont like the new nose of the car) it looks damn sexy.

If you see the car at any shows its worth a look

ill proably get flamed for saying a magna looks sexy but oh well let the flaming begin sigh :flamed:

[martydaman]

which model is it, current?

[mcnamg]

they began the build a few years back with a brand new bodyshell from the previous model but when mitsu announced the new model they replaced the front and rear with the new bits and the interior is custom anyway with the dash bearing a very minor resemblance to the normal dash its in a bright red with some small but tasteful orange flames along the top of the rear quarters.

[martydaman]

i gotta see this car, im off to my newsagency tommorow to check it out... i prefer the previos model (2000-2003)... looks much nicer and smoother

[martydaman]

note: my opinion may have been influenced by the black VRX (late 2002) sitting in my driveway

[HIZOKU]

all i got to say is it is the minted magna i have ever seen i did the same thing looking trew the magzine rack and then went back and saw this magna how mint is it

[Guest RedLineGTR]

could it of been the turbo magna???

[mcnamg]

nah this ones a show special using a holden (aww damn i said a swear word ) built by Daryl McBeth whos one of the more famour aussie street rod builders.

This car has more chrome on the underbody than the entire silverware section at david jones the bonnet and boot have been changed to hinge in the opposite directions and the coolest feature i have seen is the tiny little racing mirros that also act as the door handles (press them down to open the suicide doors).

They have slammed the car too this thing is soooo low i dont know how its possible to drive it anywhere which could explain the airbag suspension set up. The twin 3.5 inch exhausts exiting out of the centre of the rear bumper look the part too.

I will try and post the pics when i get home for you guys who are interested but wont be home till about 11:30 WA time sorry (i hate late night trading )

[Angry]

yea i remember selling this at the melbourne motor show few years ago in bare metal .....and it lookd horn then .....aesome that its complete now ....might buy this issue.. havent bought one in like years ..

[mcnamg]

yeah thats the one they showed it with the old style front and rear then mitsu asked them to wait for the new model

just reading through the specs will list them here for everyone to see

Engine: COME all alloy V8 producing 385KW at the fly wheel

Capacity: 400Ci

Valves: ferrea 2.05 inch inlet, 1.6 inch exhaust

Pistons: Come Forged 5.85 inch

Crank: Come 3.75 inch iron stroker

Cam: Come hydraulic roller

Manifold: come twin throttle

ECU: come/delco

exhaust: castle auto electrics, with stainless specialties mufflers features mandrel bent 2.5 inch twin pipes with high flow cats and 3.5 inch tube mufflers and tail pipes

radiator: alloy by race radiators

sump: dry sump

Transmission

Converter: TCE Big Mac

Box: TH400 three speed auto

Tailshaft: Moser

Diff: V8 supercar spec alloy nine inch

Underbody

Chassis: lilow custom

Front End: lilow custom rod style independant front suspension with air bags, cortina rack

Rear End: Lilow four link with air bags

Brakes: Wilwood pro street four spots front and rear over wilwood rotors

Wheels

Front: Bonspeed 17x7

Rear: Bonspeed 20x11

Audio

Four Sony Amplifiers 2 in glass floor panels

8 six inch speakers

8 10 inch subwoofers

High End Head Unit

Thats it for now who could think that you could do this to a magna woot!

[martydaman]

with the boot of a magna im not suprised 8 10 inches got in there... but the 385kw is a surprise

[mcnamg]

i think mitsu needs a V8 or a turbo or both :headspin:

if they want to attract a younger crowd of drivers to magna they need to show some of the rally bred spirity of the magna ie AWD turbo etc

and if they want to compete with the locals a v8 verada might be the go i am sure somewhere in the mitsu world garage there is a v8 hiding somewhere waiting to be boganised

[martydaman]

mitsu are starting the bring in the EVO into the aus market but its just not enough... a turbo magna would have lots of potential...mmmmm... 3.5 litre turbo

[aybee]

The twin 3.5 inch exhausts exiting out of the centre of the rear bumper look the part too.

you had me interested until you said this!

thats probably the worst thing about the riced up lancer and excel body kits. :throwup:

[mcnamg]

ok heres the pic as promised

aybee the exhausts are not ricey at all just two round pipes coming out at the back in the middle have been done this way to improve flow not like those silly square lancer ones they dont come out of the middle of the bumper i guess i worded that a little weird all they have done is trimmed a groove out of the bootm of the lip of the bumper to accomodate the tips which come out then angle down at 90 degrees

bring on the 3.5 turbo :headspin:

[Greggo666]

I thought the new shape looked shite 2, but that doesnt look 2 shabby. Definitely something different anyway.

[mcnamg]

sorry about the quality of the pic couldnt find one on the net and dont have a scanner so i used my digi cam and took a pic of the poster

yeah its not bad at all for a magna anyway

shows you can make even the most boring cars look good tho i suppose

[martydaman]

i saw it today... spent 15 minutes reading article at the newsagency without buying the magazine. The dude behind the counter was giving me an angry look for some reason.

At first i thought it was a verada coz of the verada lights, the exhuast looks good too.

I didnt like the suicide door idea but i guess it had to be done if you rip out the backseats and put in 4 subs... no point with 2 more traditional doors.

The thing i hated about it was the console, just the sony HU stuck in it, i understand that its a showcar but that was a total waste of space.

Sound system looked sweet and the chrome gave it the look.

Overall, very nice

[shonen]

here is another pic for those of you who are interested...everything on the car opens in reverse...

note the diisssh at the back.