Short video of a tuning laps.

[lethal_vr4]

Hello Mitsubish brothers! Some of you may remember me as part of Rich Merritt's crew from the last few years. Well, without the constant wrenching on Rich's old One Lap of America DSM I had a bit of free time to work a car of my own for a change.

First time I've been on track in two years, several changes to the car as well since last it was on the road the 3/S NG06. New to the car is a manual rack, twin GT28RS turbos, a FIA style cage, R888's, lexan windows, AiM dash.

Took a couple slow laps around MAM (Mid America Motorplex) with Mike W. tuning in the passenger seat as this was the first time running E85. The turbos would cut out at anything over ~50% TPS.

As it is so hard to tune in-car on the road course, I did a two 2nd to 5th pulls down the drag strip to get the map closer in the ballpark for the track.... unfortunately I blew out a gasket I had made for my homemade idle speed control during these pulls, which ended the day for me.

The camera isn't quite mounted solidly yet. There's some modification that needs to be done to the camera mount bracket to secure it on the roll cage. You will see a few gliches in the graphics because of this.

click below for video
YouTube - 3000GT at MAM 08/08/08


J.A.

 

[Lofty]

Your car sounds so sexy
I'd love to see the exterior!

 

[drivemusicnow]

So first of all, I think you need to go into full disclosure on the vehicle. I want pics, mods, pics, and more pics


But seriously, what all does that beast have done to it? and who are you planning on racing with/what class?

and when can I drive it?!?

 

[lethal_vr4]

The basics....

Heads: BFR Ported Heads, 1mm oversized valves, Titanium retainters, upgraded springs, adjustable cam gears

Motor: Forged bottom end, knife edged crank, setrab oil cooler, twin GT28RS turbos, BFR FMIC

Tranny: 6-speed swap with JDM final drive, SCE Billet shift forks, RPS carbon-carbon clutch, RPS Aluminum flywheel

Brakes: Porsche Big Reds (SCE modified), Titanium backing plates, Motul 600, SS lines, speedbleeders, Carbotech XP12s.

Weight Reduction: All-Wheel Steering delete, power steering delete, Carbon Fiber drive shaft, lexan windows, carbon fiber hood, Pure Form rear wing.

Wheels: 275x40x17 Toyo R888's (qualifying) on 17x10 CCW's
275x40x17 Hooser R6 (Time Trial) on 17x10 CCW's

Seats: Sparco Circuit Pros

Suspension: JIC FLT-A2's, SCE tender springs, SCE lock rings, front/rear subframe solid bushings, FIA roll cage.

Electronics: AEM EMS, AiM Pista

 

[tsiboosted]

Sounds like a pretty productive day other than the gasket blowing and no more than 50% on the turbos in the begining. I'd like to see some more footage when you get everything dialed in. Good Luck

 

[lethal_vr4]

I plan on campaigning the car in the NASA Time Trials... probably TTR or TTR depending on the final hp/weight ratio. I would also l am hoping to run a few SORC/Silver State classic style events. Currently trying to put together all the pieces to run One Lap next year.

Picture during one of the hot pit stops shown in the video:

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Driving home w/ SlowOldPoop in background:

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SlowOldPoop on track:

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Scenic Iowa on the trip home:

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[1g dsm d22]

damn that a sweet ass ride man.

 

[lethal_vr4]

Thank you. Modifying this car has been a major part of my life for the last 8 years!

 

[lethal_vr4]

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[olmytsi]

Car looks really good!!!!!

 

[drivemusicnow]

So what do you have that beast down to as far as weight? Any idea on power/torque?

 

[lethal_vr4]

My goals are 2800 lbs with 600 HP. That being said I have yet to weigh the car or get it on a dyno.

Initial dyno run will be at the All Mitsu Cookout in the Rogers, MN in a few weeks.

 

[Elvenhome21]

looks like your suspension is a little to stiff. Either that or MAM must have giant dips in the track.

 

[drivemusicnow]

Any pictures of the inside?

And what are you planning as far as a dash goes. Are you just mouting the AIM dash above the steering wheel, or are you mounting some other gauges and such. Does the AEM work well with the AIM? I was looking into some digital dashes versus the way I went an just wasn't sure I could get them to work directly with the AEM to do everything I wanted.

Should be a beast. and I thought my car would be fast

 

[underradar92]

Nice work, Jon! I'm totally feeling the green cage but if I did that now, it'd seem like I was copying you. You guys coming around here this season?

 

[lethal_vr4]

looks like your suspension is a little to stiff. Either that or MAM must have giant dips in the track.

Yeah, the cars is a little stiff seam welded, bajillion point cage, solid bushings all over.

Any pictures of the inside?

And what are you planning as far as a dash goes. Are you just mouting the AIM dash above the steering wheel, or are you mounting some other gauges and such. Does the AEM work well with the AIM? I

Just a fabricated mount for the AiM dash mounted to the steering column. The Aim works great with the AEM EMS. Everything the AEM EMS see you can send directly to the AiM dash... all over one wire! Super easy.

In the first pic, you can see the AiM dash to PC download cable. Picture was had to take due to the head bolsters on my hans seats. If you look carefully you can see the AEM mounting under the dash bar on the passengers side.

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Second pic is a head on shot of the dash taken from the driver's perspective. The shadows are from the big ass camera flash and the steering wheel.

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Here's the AiM Dash installed in the car in it's custom hood. This time the dash is connected to the AEM and displaying data from it. If you watch in high definition you can read the display....

YouTube - AiM Dash in the 3000GT

I had the shift lights set at 1k, 2k, 3k, 4k, and 5k just for the video.

Nice work, Jon! I'm totally feeling the green cage but if I did that now, it'd seem like I was copying you. You guys coming around here this season?

Jim, No SpeedSeekers at RA this October is like missing Christmas.... Getting married in ummmm... errr... 4 weeks... probably not going to see alot of track time this year, and definitly no Road America this year. Hope all is well with on your end... been a while since I saw Black Car. I assume you are going to RA in the spring? I'll be there 100% sure.

EDIT: Dude if I beg and plead would you make me some tublar LCA's?

 

[Elvenhome21]

Mid american series has a race weekend at RA that they run with the american cancer walk, entry last year was less than $60 if you register more than a week ahead of time. total track time is same as one day of nasa or mfba. Any car with a cage IS welcome for sure, if you dont have a cage I dont think your car would be allowed to run. anybody thats interested in running that day let me know and ill post the registration form when it becomes available.

Saturday, October 25
2nd Annual Fight for the Cure Fall Classic
Road America

 

[lethal_vr4]

Mid american series has a race weekend at RA that they run with the american cancer walk, entry last year was less than $60 if you register more than a week ahead of time. total track time is same as one day of nasa or mfba. Any car with a cage IS welcome for sure, if you dont have a cage I dont think your car would be allowed to run. anybody thats interested in running that day let me know and ill post the registration form when it becomes available.

Saturday, October 25
2nd Annual Fight for the Cure Fall Classic
Road America

I'm definitly interested. Perhaps make a new post here on DSM tuners?

By the way, one thing I forgot to mention with the AiM Dash and the AEM EMS is that if you are doing tuning real time with a lap top the AEM EMS can support either the laptop or the AiM dash, but not both at once. In the track video in my first post in this thread I am actually driving with no gauges as my good friend Mike is in the passenger seat with the laptop tuning on the track.... nothing like going into a corner with a pretty much a new car and not knowing how fast you are really going!

 

[underradar92]

I assume you are going to RA in the spring? I'll be there 100% sure.

EDIT: Dude if I beg and plead would you make me some tublar LCA's?

My plan as it looks right now is, yes I'll have blackcar at R.A. in spring.

I think I can expedite some LCA's, maybe I can acquire one as a pattern from our mutual 3000 friend. I'll ask at the next grill out event.

nothing like going into a corner with a pretty much a new car and not knowing how fast you are really going!

You look at the speedo? That thing just scares me, I mostly ignore it.

 

[Erron S]

Lethal! What's up my bretheren! Car is looking great!

Erron S.

 

[lethal_vr4]

That woudl be awesome Jim.... If you want to make a jig I have about 10 guys that really want these.

 

[underradar92]

PM sent. I don't want to muck up this thread.

 

[tstkl]

so its a built 3.0 with twin gt2876rs turbos? hows the spool up on that set up? I know there were some issuses on 3si as certain members felt those turbos were "improperly matched" for the motor and decided against them. Or possibly that was the gt3076r. More info on how you like the set up (power wise) and what kind of boost you plan on running/were running with that thing. Nice car