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Mitsubishi Evo AYC rear differentials

admin — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:40:42 +0000

Car manufacturers are constantly improving and refining their cars and the parts that make them up. There can be some benefits for owners to fit the later parts to their earlier cars. Or sometimes this happens, when the earlier part fails and the easily available replacement is a later part, which may even be a used one from a car that is broken up for parts.

The AYC rear diffs on Mitsubishi Lancer Evolutions 4~9 are a classic example of this. These parts do fail and often people make the later parts fit their earlier cars. Which is fine, until you decide to modify or repair the newly fitted assembly – as you may not be ordering the correct parts to match the components now fitted to your car.A very popular modification for GSR cars with AYC fitted at the rear, is to improve the AYC with the addition of a Cusco LSD (the Cusco LSD replaces the open diff. controlled by the AYC’s hydraulic clutch. The AYC can be retained or removed/disabled).

Evo 4~6 (CN9A/CP9A) were all very similar, whilst the Evo6TM~9 (CP9A/CT9A) had different sized bearings – the casings being different.

The basic details, so you can easily identify the units are as follows:

CN9A/CP9A

LSD-148 for old version: Side Bearing size ID60mm (OD85mm)

CP9A TM/CT9A

LSD-448 for new version: Side Bearing size ID67mm (OD92mm)

Mitsubishi Colt CZT Turbo Performance Parts

admin — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:16:51 +0000

Had a call from a young chap today, he’s got a Mitsubishi Colt CZT Turbo, which he thinks is a great car. He is keen to modify the car, but it’s one of those vehicles that is hard to find good special parts for. They’re popular in Japan, but only sold in small numbers in UK/EU. Plus there are some differences between JDM and EU versions (such as they don’t have 3 door versions in Japan – it’s a European thing! Also he was a little shocked by some of the prices for parts from Mitsubishi.

Despite our history starting with Mitsubishi performance cars, especially Evo’s, we’ve never done much with the Colt model. So we looked into it and found out that Cusco make parts for the car, also HKS and we can get aftermarket parts which are a direct alternative to the OE parts from dealers.

If you would like more information and prices on the performance parts available for the Mitsubishi Colt CZT Turbo

We are currently preparing a product list for the Cusco parts, which we will make available on the website soon. Other parts for the Colt CZT Turbo can be seen in the lists below: