Levvie

What you want are setups from similar shaped CE lancer.
Libero, earlier Evo or Mirage are no good, the CE Mirage is a lighter car so the strut/spring rates will be incorrect.
You should be looking into if the Evo 4 5 or 6 suspension is a direct swap over. If not, something specific for your actual model

Thanks for all the feedback guys. Calling around Mitsi specialist parts places, apparently you can use Evo 1-3 struts, but the springs are different.. it's like the CM5A suspension set up is a combination of a few different things! Nothing from the lancer, mirage, evo or libero line shares the exact same suspension set up as the CM5A. Making it difficult to source parts.. Bit of an oddball.. for suspension anyway.

Speaking of which, when you say a CE Lancer, I presume that is an Australian term? In NZ here there doesn't seem to be such a thing. CE seems to refer to 96-2000 lancers, is that correct? If so, the thing needs some new tail lights, I've found a new listings for CE tail lights, if it's from 96, I presume it would fit the CM5A? It has extra tail/break lights on the boot, but I believe they're wired separately.

What you want are setups from similar shaped CE lancer.
Libero, earlier Evo or Mirage are no good, the CE Mirage is a lighter car so the strut/spring rates will be incorrect.
You should be looking into if the Evo 4 5 or 6 suspension is a direct swap over. If not, something specific for your actual model

That's a good start for me. But here's an image of the front strut. It's attached to the swaybar. Do Evo 4, 5, and 6's have struts that are the same set up?