Mitsubishi Lancer Turbo

Mitsubishi Lancer Turbo

This is a 1.6 Mit. GLX with intercooled turbo setup. Running on emanage blue. Story is that owner has his kit installed in JB from a workshop called sp***-works. And he is searching for people who can help remove his emanage blue and install unichip and retune his car.

Problem is that the car cannot idle smoothly and turbo has difficulty spooling up. Car feels extremely laggy and lack of power.

We initally thought that all we have to do is to retune his ride and go eat turtle soup in geylang. But, we ended up fixing a hell lot of things that was incorrectly setup. We ended up changing injectors, fuel pressure, emanage setting and parameters, wiring and added some sensors.

While fixing the car, there were times when we saw the owner was nervous and scared when he was the car's cel lights lited up and crappy idling. We need to reassure him that its normal that during course of fixing up and identifying faults, there will be instances like this. He also asked if the cel lights liting up is normal. And I made matters worse when i said cel light should remain off.

After all was rectified, we started the car. This time the owner stood in front of the car, looking at the engine, shocked. "Like this one ah?" Yeah. The results of a properly setup car is very smooth idling. You have the feeling that the engine has stalled. But, a peek at the pulley belts will tell you the engine is running. Cel lights remains off.

Owner is very new to car modification and during the hour of fixing the hardware, we gave a crash course on car modification :)

Tuning is straight forward. Faster spoolups, more power and maximizing the mitsubishi engine. Glx engine like the older subaru engine has no major technology like VVTi,vTec,VTT and AVCS. The depend solely on their stock cams profile, and their good mechnical efficiency.

We didnt get to the Turtle soup shop in geylang on time... geez, we reached there and was told to come back again. Closed already. haiz... Owner tested the car and is happy with the results.

This ride is a entry level stage 3. Which will benefit more from a free flow exhaust system like powervalve and a smoother turbo inlet pipe. High quality stainless steel pipings and aluminium pipings are the choiced selection.

Cars with this setup retains stock drivability and response while a heavy foot will give the addition bhp needed. Most of the overtaking was done with 50% throttle. Thats more than enough for sillypore roads. 100% is xiao ding done driving...

The turbo used in this setup is a very old turbo. If he were to be using a newer second hand turbo, I can assure you the results will be much much better.... turbo mah, what you expect.. :)

Subaru WRX STi 2.5L

Subaru WRX STi 2.5L

This is one of the nicest ride I have seen so far... Wide body kit, matt black, huge rims, original varis bonnet, greddy fmic.... many many more...

Looks wise, no doubt, this is a real head turner. We were tuning the car and decided to stop-by farm-mart for makan and noticed everyone in the kopitiam turn and looked at our ride. Its can only be damn ugly or damn nice. From those people we know and saw this ride, it looks fabulous!

When we first heard about the colour, we almost fainted hahaha... the real thing looks totally fabulous.

This ride comes with forged internals and a huge huge turbo. The turbo used is a 700 cfm region turbo, and boost quite high la... We basically make this ride idle smoothly at 600 rpm and pack it with more low end torque for drivability.

heres the results after reflashing the ecu. On gear 1, nothing. Gear 2, not bad...
Gear 3, is like wow. As long as you floor the accelerator, the car will continue to pull to the redline. Its crazy. The 'g' force felt was strong and car keeps pulling like a crazy horse all the way till redline. Gear 4 needless to say... Owner was with us during tuning and during some of the runs, he was like "wow" !! Damn eye-opener.

Overall, I felt this kit is seriously meant for tracks like Sepang. One which you target to finish the Gear 6 in the shortest time. Hitting top speeds and high peak horse power. We estimate 450 whp. Most car after reaching 220 kph will have problem increasing the speed, this ride sacrifice the low end performance and trade-off for top end performance.

Here's the results from the Dyno machine. 535 bhp on crank, 411 bhp on wheels. Not bad. Smooth torque curves and high peak horse power.

Verdict :

This setup is excellent for track usage where linear powerband is crucial for attacking corners.

Subaru WRX 2.5L

Subaru WRX 2.5L

Gaining horsepower cannot come easier than this.... simply increase the size of the turbo to a bigger one, add a boost controller for controlling boost and tune the car using ECU Reflash method. And there you have it, 320~350 bhp on crank!

Everything else remains stock except for a legal aftermart exhaust system that produce a low bassy boxer blurping rythem. Trust Pe-Ti I think... not sure...

The owner of this ride is not unfamiliar, he used to drive the Honda civic esi turbo charged running 0.9 bar of boost. Now upgraded to pacific muscle car and done some minor modification. I told him his setup is very boring la... hahaha... he just laughed and told me, more to come, and will definately create a monster in due time... give me heachache like the last ride .... hahahaha...

This setup is for people who really enjoy the stock drivability and want to enhance it further. You basically want a car with a power packed mid-range. You get to rev all the way to 7500 rpm on this euro spec Wrx, while keeping in mind the best power come from the 4000~5500 rpm.

So, idling is perfectly stable, boost wise, is whatever we set and comes on strongly at 3500 rpm on gear 3. Pulls hard till 5500 rpm. At 5500 rpm, the turbo loses breath and continue to push the car till 7500 rpm. Torque wise, I think the 2.5 packs more than 2.0. Largely due to the earlier and faster build-up of boost.

p/s: after tuning this ride, i went home and tune my own car to make it 'feel' faster la... last time i have a policy that i only tune car slower than mine hahaha... nowadays like not very relavant liaoz... now my car feels like tortise hiaz hahaha... need to mod !!

cheers