Mitsubishi GTO...talk to me!

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I've been looking at getting one of these but I thought I'd ask on here before even going to look at one so I don't make a mistake and buy a dud.

How are they as daily runner? I only do about 4000-5000 miles a year but I do a lot of short trips in my village, would this affect the engine? Also how low do these sit standard, my village has loads of speed bumps and I'm worried I'll rip the bumper off! :o do they have any common faults? I would get the car serviced regularly, say every 6 months.

Any input is appreciated.
 
Didn't someone on here have the 3000GT? maybe they can give some input?

The GTO always confused me as the 3000GT was called the GTO in the US i think but there was also a different car called the GTO here. They were different i believe.

Edit: Just found this which is interesting, it's a comparison between the models: http://www.gtouk.org.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=29338

I've always liked the 3000GT VR-4 Turbo :D
 
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NathWraith said:
lizardking will be posting in notime I'm sure

Gibbo also used to own one
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ahem :)

floatindolphin said:
Big fat chest wig of a car. Weighs a lot so is slow
No doubt this'll be torn to shreds in a bit....
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0-60 in sub 5 seconds is slow? :p A friend runs one in the Nippon challenge and won a few races against what you might consider far better cars as well. There reputation is probably unwarranted in fairness


There appreciating now so finding a looked after one is getting hard to do. look after them and they will look after you. The biggest issue is with the 6speed gear box and the older ecu's have a habit of developing leaking caps, plenty of breakers for cheap 2nd hand bits and the forums are great.

3000gt in the uk variant leather as standard and slightly bigger turbos with all the gizmos, most likely all rotten underneath now unless low mileage,
The gto is import only, the gizmos depend on age and there is a real mix of them. The GTO MR variant is the cut down version, so nothing except abs and climate control, probably about 100kg lighter than its full fat brother.

Theres a really nice Mk4 on the forums currently if you can stretch to 5.5k

Mod wise, they will see 500bhp relatively easy, beyond that and your looking at forged internal.

Mines lowered and i've never had a problem with speed bumps.
 
LizardKing said:
ahem :)



0-60 in sub 5 seconds is slow? :p A friend runs one in the Nippon challenge and won a few races against what you might consider far better cars as well. There reputation is probably unwarranted in fairness


There appreciating now so finding a looked after one is getting hard to do. look after them and they will look after you. The biggest issue is with the 6speed gear box and the older ecu's have a habit of developing leaking caps, plenty of breakers for cheap 2nd hand bits and the forums are great.

3000gt in the uk variant leather as standard and slightly bigger turbos with all the gizmos, most likely all rotten underneath now unless low mileage,
The gto is import only, the gizmos depend on age and there is a real mix of them. The GTO MR variant is the cut down version, so nothing except abs and climate control, probably about 100kg lighter than its full fat brother.

Theres a really nice Mk4 on the forums currently if you can stretch to 5.5k

Mod wise, they will see 500bhp relatively easy, beyond that and your looking at forged internal.

Mines lowered and i've never had a problem with speed bumps.
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Thanks for the reply. Could you link me to the forum please?
 
They are terrible and fantastic cars. I had a 1998 UK TT some years ago, it never let me down in my ownership though they are capable of throwing epic bills. I fitted intake, down pipe and exhaust, so would have being circa 345BHP. By no means was it slow, I remember it pulling to 160mph quite easily, very aerodynamic car and extremely sure footed.

One thing for me it had was you seemed to sit in the car nice and low down, very snug and felt part of it, whereas the R34 GTR I had a few weeks felt more like your were sat on top of it, but the GTR would destroy it on any road, the 3000GT is far more high speed cruiser with huge amounts of safety, 4WD and 4 wheel steering, such a planted car with huge grip level, comically huge so corner speeds could be huge as a road car you could chuck it about, but go beyond grip levels and handling was terrible, two tonne after all with fuel and driver.

A great car, but most look tatty now or are Bodged together, finding a clean one will be hard but if you do they still have serious road presence as they are so low and wide, but they don't have reliability of a Supra or handling of a GTR but if you can get a clean one for 5k then wow.
 
LizardKing said:
Here you go :)
http://www.gtooc.org/forum/index.phphttp://www.gtooc.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=9923
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Thanks :)

Gibbo said:
They are terrible and fantastic cars. I had a 1998 UK TT some years ago, it never let me down in my ownership though they are capable of throwing epic bills. I fitted intake, down pipe and exhaust, so would have being circa 345BHP. By no means was it slow, I remember it pulling to 160mph quite easily, very aerodynamic car and extremely sure footed.

One thing for me it had was you seemed to sit in the car nice and low down, very snug and felt part of it, whereas the R34 GTR I had a few weeks felt more like your were sat on top of it, but the GTR would destroy it on any road, the 3000GT is far more high speed cruiser with huge amounts of safety, 4WD and 4 wheel steering, such a planted car with huge grip level, comically huge so corner speeds could be huge as a road car you could chuck it about, but go beyond grip levels and handling was terrible, two tonne after all with fuel and driver.

A great car, but most look tatty now or are Bodged together, finding a clean one will be hard but if you do they still have serious road presence as they are so low and wide, but they don't have reliability of a Supra or handling of a GTR but if you can get a clean one for 5k then wow.
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Thanks for the informative reply.

The epic bill part is my main worry. Would it be a wiser decision to go for the Supra? I'd love a GTR but they are a bit over my budget.
 
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