Yah, I know, I havent updated the blog for donkey years liaoz... so many cars done up but never update .... hahaha... from no time to lazy haha...
This ride comes with a 1.5L powerplant, can bus protocol for its ecu, automatic transmission, drive-by-wire throttle body and, overall feeling of this ride is nice. Car feels very comfortable and the interior is definately appealing and in tuned with whats new in the market.
Mitsubishi uses most of the latest japanese technology available like twin cams mivec and an arsenal of sensors to control this car.
Whats we felt lacking in this sporty looking ride is horsepower. We already know that modifying NA cars won't get anywhere near what we wanted and we chose a turbo charger to allow positive displacement to push this ride to a new level.
To cook this 170 bhp dish, we put in a TD04 turbo from a wrx, turbo blow-off-valve, HKS open pod filter, silicon pipings, high grade stainless steel pipings, cast extractor, boost controller and control all these with emanage ultimate. Putting the ingredients together is easy since the turbo kits is a direct bolt-on type.
For deserts, we can serve a Apexi turbo timer, high flow exhaust system, ATF cooler and maybe a bottle of alchohol from boost cooler water-methanol injection system to enjoy the most out of this ride.
As usual, deserts will be served later after the main course... kekeke...
We initially wanted to use emanage blue, but, initial investigations tells us that among our list of piggyback ECUs, only the emanage ultimate can control this car which runs on can-bus protocol. This initial investigation is conducted before we start the actual work for obvious reasons.
We have chosen this ecu among other piggybacks like destek unichip, EMS, AEM, SAFC, emanage blue, SMT-6 and haltech intercepter. All of which we have hands-on experience and we chose Ultimate with understanding of what is required to properly tune this ride to expectations.
I tell you, this ride is so farking sensitive, the moment it senses something is not right, it cuts off the control to the throttle body, and you will realise that stepping on the accelerator have no effect at all. You basically limp on gear 1 10~15 km/h to the nearest safe roadside.
There are a few things that will trigger this kind of reaction and putting a turbo into this ride is definately one of them.
So, day 1 tuning ended at 4am and day 2 tuning completed at 10 pm. Well, we took so long because the number of sensors inside this car is amazing lor. Mitsu really maximize the 500k bps stock ecu lor, and luckily, lim pek also quite up-to-date one. I have the latest diagnostic tools in the market to tackle this baby... hahaha, its like dat one, you have anti-virus and stuff but, still got people still can hack and break codes hahaha... what to do, LPPL one lah... just suck it up.
Turbo kicks in early at 2500 rpm and full boost at 3500 rpm. The car basically feels very very light as a result of this early spool up and because of the characteristics of this TD-04 turbo, at 3500 rpm onwards, the powerband is damn shiok. At 4500, you have the mivec effect kicking in and continues to pull the car all the way to redline.
Day-to-day drive is as per normal, you can expect much more horsepower in overtaking conditions and of course, when you floor the acclerator, hell breaks loose!
The main difference between the 1.6L turbo and 1.5L turbo besides the capacity, would be the mivec system. In the 1.6L, you will realise that high end power is some what lacking a little (without high-lift cams), and mitsubishi employs the help of the mivec cams to assist in the powerband of the mid to high. To our delight of course.
Tuning this reminds me of the colt plus turbo which runs on can-bus protocol. Essentially, alot of this lancer ex's technology is coming from its predeccesors like the new subaru TS taking the AVCS from the STi. Challenging of course and if we manage to get this up and running and up to everyone's expectations, hahaha... shiok. Boost wise? definately not 0.5 bars. None of our cars are tuned so low... hahahaha....
The stock 1.5L did remind me alot of stock subaru TS.
Overall, this ride is definately in-tuned with the latest in car fashion.
Verdict:
Cheapest option to move out of the underpowered category. We just sent this ride for dyno and the earlier recipie for 170 bhp is now changed to 200 bhp dish. The Mivec technology should have been in the lancer earlier la... hahaha
side-track :
Lately, we tuned a Honda ESI... knn, that farking ride is so scary, all my leg hair stood up when the car's turbo spooled... the car snaked as the car pulls.... boost? 1.4 bars.
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