The Ultimate DSM: The Breakdown Of John Lazorack’s Brutal Chrysler Conquest


The Ultimate DSM: The Breakdown Of John Lazorack’s Brutal Chrysler Conquest

It is, in my eyes, one of the most underrated Japanese cars to ever hit the U.S. market. Captive import or whatever, doesn’t matter…the shape was right, the OEM performance was solid, and nobody really understood what they were looking at. Even in a field of badass street-legal race cars, John Lazorack’s 1988 Chrysler Conquest…Mitsubishi Starion?…whatever the hell it is, you’ll never miss the car in a field. From it’s brilliant red paint to it’s unbelievably sharp bark from it’s engine (sorry, folks, it’s an LS-swap), the Conquest is an attention-grabber in any situation, any time, anywhere. And that’s before Lazorack gets out on the course and starts ripping gears.

If you think that these kinds of builds are just pretty to look at and one massive engine, wait until you get the underside view of the Conquest. Picture a flat floor with air channels that spit rearward to a diffuser that all is hand-built. Like just about everything else that isn’t stock Starion on the car, everything is hand-build or massively worked because it has to be. If you ever think that nobody makes parts for your car, try finding parts for a StarQuest and let us know how long it took to start ripping your hair out. Is that part of the reason that we love this car so much? That Lazorack has endured the hell of putting together a virtually extinct Japanese sports car?  Or that he’s done such a fantastic job of making this car work?


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3 thoughts on “The Ultimate DSM: The Breakdown Of John Lazorack’s Brutal Chrysler Conquest

  1. Gary

    Damned shame about the engine. A guy did a series of articles in Mopar Action, I think it was, years ago about putting a proper Moar engine in one.

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