On all front wheel drive Mitsubishis, the floor pan tunnel looks big enough for a tail shaft, but when you get an AWD car then you see how that tunnel is almost twice as big as the front wheel drive car and will limit the tailshaft diameter. As far as independent rear ends go, thought about Starion?. Starions are independent rear end with a 1400mm track and have a diff that uses a V shape cradle to hold the diff centre in. The Starion wouldn't be much different in width to the cordia, but I haven't checked on this. JA Starions were 3.545 diff gears, JB and JD starions were 3.909 Diff gears.
Edited by turbovr4, 05 February 2014 - 07:58 PM.