Mitsubishi Lancer Turbo Charged

Mitsubishi Lancer Turbo Charged

This guy's my friend la... he tried Lancer stage 2, with tuning and liked the results. Now, stage 3, with a TD-04 Turbo boosting away, you can be sure the car has an additional 50 bhp (minimum) on board.

while tuning, we met a vios with lots of meters, SAFC tuned, open pod filter and modified exhaust. I think still have some more things one la, not sure. Anyway, we wanted to try out the mappings to see how the low boost felt like at 0.55 bars. From launch, the car feels very 'stock' on gear 1, until 3000 rpm when the turbo picks up the momentum, it starts to go into forced induction. All the way, the car pulls smoothly till 6500 rpm and in gear 2, the turbo response is instantaneous. By gear 3, we lost sight of the vios. Not bad liaoz la.

Then we met a wrx. hahaha... we're now trying out the high boost mappings which should allow us to be able to keep up with the mildly modified wrx with fuji exhaust. When the high boost kicks in, the engine suddenly lost power!! Farking hell... hahaha,... Sam immediately asked to check the mappings I have and I was sure the settings was fine, with the owner's existing meters on board, Sam was able to immediately pin point the problem.

A quick check on the engine at a nearby petrol station, Sam checked the vacuum pipe and found that one of the links of the silicon tubing was held together using electrical tapes. Knn, hahaha, what kind of electrical tape so good one, can also hold boost pressure up to 0.55 bar one...hahaha...

anyway, we cut one of our existing silicon tube and patched the broken links. We're in business again.

Tuning turbo charged car is loaded with fun and laughter. At least for me of course. :) To me, tuning is a fun thing. Of course, we have to have the correct hardware installed in the first place which allows the tuner to be able to tune the car to its fullest potential while retaining the engine's longevity. I recently tuned a subaru TS running on Microtech standalone ECU but I wasnt really happy with the results. First off, the subaru was running on sky high boost which in my opinion is unsafe for the engine. How much? 1.4 bars. although its running on low compression pistons, there are still some hardware required to hold that amount of boost safely. We detuned the car to a safe level of 1 bar on 8:1 short block setting. And advise to fix up some hardware before going further.

In comparison to another recently tuned Subaru TS running on Emanage Ultimate, we have a factory idling quality and boosting at 0.8 bars of boost. We are unable to increase the boost as one of the hardware was not functioning as per normal. Once we fix up that hardware (@ around 150 bucks), we're going for 1 bar of boost. This TS boast an FC of 9km/L at 0.8 bar of boost. we have installed on this ride 3" exhuast system, trust PE-ti titanium exhaust, HKS evc boost controller, full Defi meters, TD-04 turbo, wrx injectors, etc etc... truely 2 worlds apart.
This ride has a solid pulling effect when the turbo kicks in. The new turbo inlet with HKS open pod recently put in changed the entire mapping and how the turbo spools. Overall, I felt this ride is very well modified with the right ingredients. I'll posts again once we fix that thing and boost it to 1 bar.

hahaha... back to lancer turbo. At high boost, we estimate a 190 bhp. 0~100 should be in the low 7sec. Clutch has a problem coping with this amount of torque produced at high boost.

Overall, this particular setup has high bhp in mind. With this kind of setup, it is really meant for people who really enjoy car modification in stages. Rather than one shot put everything in and nothing else to do already, this kit show high potential to go further. And you can see for yourself what is the effect of each modofication you do. Nice!

This car is for sale.