Well, I posted enough about it, but I'm finally starting a project log about it.
I bought this 93 voyager in November last year, it was bone stock. The previous owner thought the shift cables were bad, but just the retaining clips had come off. He also took it upon himself to paint the steel wheels silver and green. I haven't got around to spraying them black yet. Only things I've done to it so far is recharge the AC, cut the converter off since it had come apart and was rattling inside the case (no emissions in MD for a 20 year old car), put in a set of booger shifter bushings, and an SRT-4 shifter rod and ball onto a duster base (kept the van one stock). This makes the rod a little shorter, but it's angled so it puts it closer to the seat, I don't have to lean to put it into 5th anymore. I had put SRT-4 wheels on it but ended up selling them shortly after. In February the timing belt broke and I hurt my back so I couldn't work on it. I got it running again about 2 weeks ago. It had a horrible oil leak that I thought was the headgaset, so I changed the headgasket, timing belt, and tensioner. Turns out it was the cam seal that was leaking the whole time, replaced that last weekend. I just recently took it on a 10 hour trip and it gave me no problems after I re-set the cam timing (it was off a tooth, fixed it at a MD rest stop).
Here's a few pictures I have of it and a few of the K-car I bought in December after liking the van so much.
Before SRT shifter:
After SRT shifter:
Comparing the two:
A few pics for fun:
Pics of the van's icky bits:
And a picture of the van after a deer tried to get into the passenger door. The insurance company paid out $700 more than I had paid for the van, so I've basically been paid to own it at this time, including parts and repairs.
I've pretty much decided I need to turbo the van, and possibly lower it a little. I'm adding big brakes, I have the rotors and pads, I just need to the get the caliper brackets and do it. I plan on doing what Vigo did and adding a turbo to the TBI motor, but the electronics aren't going to be too fun since I want everything to work as well as it does now. The Reliant is going to stay stock motor wise, but will get lowered with neon struts up front, and coilover springs in the rear.
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Or, you can make 'lowering plates' where you add a steel plate between the hubs and the axle, and drill a new set of holes for the brakes which is a couple inches up from where it bolts to the axle. That lowers the rear without affecting your suspension travel or stiffness. You can also put a rear axle from an AWD van onto your stock leaf springs. The downsides of this are that it only comes in the bigger 5x114.3 pattern which wont match your front unless you swap wheel bearings and rotors up there too. There are MANY wheels that have both 5x100 and 5x114.3 so you can still have matching wheels if you want to. You also have to put something in the rear wheel bearings where the CV axles would go to hold the bearings together. On mine i had a friend cut down some front outer cv joints and stuck those in there for now. 
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Originally Posted by Vigo
