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.. :)