1990AWD
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Figured I should finally put together a little journal of my car so far before I do a complete build this winter.
Car: 1990 Mitsubishi Eclipse GSR-4
Bought my car August of 2010 for $5200. It had 73,874 kms on it, bought from the original owner in Canada (car was imported from Japan in '09). Car was bone stock minus a boost gauge, mbc, and Megan Racing exhaust.
Ran the car at the track shortly after I got the car and managed a 15.3@low 90mph.
The next spring I did some maintenance on the car, removed all emissions junk, turned the boost up to 15psi, and with some more practice managed to get up to a 14.5@97-98mph.
With the boost turned up I began experiencing boost creep, due to the stock O2 and the large 3" exhaust, so I got myself a used ebay O2 dump for cheap just to cure the creep. It was cheap so it never sealed to my downpipe well, but it cured the creep. Oh, and I heavily ported my turbine housing at the same time.
Next was starting to mod the car. My ECU went so I shipped it off to ECMTuning for repair and socketing. (ECMTuning is great btw, fast shipping and great customer service.) They sent me back the ECU along with LinkV3 and the speed density bundle. I also wired in the NLTS feature.
Next I got myself a Walbro 255HP (and rewired it), an Aeromotive A1000 AFPR & install kit, found some used FIC 1000cc injectors, 6an fuel filter and filter to rail kit, a Innovate LC-1 with DB gauge, A-pillar pod, and some more miscellaneous stuff.
With all this I was able to turn the boost up to a consistent 20-22psi and kept learning how to tune and especially learn the speed density. I ran into problems tuning the speed density which I later discovered it probably was my injectors weren't flowing what they should be.
Anyway, took the car to the fastest street car shootout held at an old airport. First couple runs were nothing special, low 14s, but when I was put in the elimination race against fellow DSMer Garrett Silva (greddy_1700), I made sure to add some timing and lean it out a little. Just so happened my laptop died so I couldn't even log the run!
I ran a [email protected] with a 1.895 60'. My new PB, and pretty good IMO for the stock SMIC on a slow track.
Car: 1990 Mitsubishi Eclipse GSR-4
Bought my car August of 2010 for $5200. It had 73,874 kms on it, bought from the original owner in Canada (car was imported from Japan in '09). Car was bone stock minus a boost gauge, mbc, and Megan Racing exhaust.
Ran the car at the track shortly after I got the car and managed a 15.3@low 90mph.
The next spring I did some maintenance on the car, removed all emissions junk, turned the boost up to 15psi, and with some more practice managed to get up to a 14.5@97-98mph.
With the boost turned up I began experiencing boost creep, due to the stock O2 and the large 3" exhaust, so I got myself a used ebay O2 dump for cheap just to cure the creep. It was cheap so it never sealed to my downpipe well, but it cured the creep. Oh, and I heavily ported my turbine housing at the same time.
Next was starting to mod the car. My ECU went so I shipped it off to ECMTuning for repair and socketing. (ECMTuning is great btw, fast shipping and great customer service.) They sent me back the ECU along with LinkV3 and the speed density bundle. I also wired in the NLTS feature.
Next I got myself a Walbro 255HP (and rewired it), an Aeromotive A1000 AFPR & install kit, found some used FIC 1000cc injectors, 6an fuel filter and filter to rail kit, a Innovate LC-1 with DB gauge, A-pillar pod, and some more miscellaneous stuff.
With all this I was able to turn the boost up to a consistent 20-22psi and kept learning how to tune and especially learn the speed density. I ran into problems tuning the speed density which I later discovered it probably was my injectors weren't flowing what they should be.
Anyway, took the car to the fastest street car shootout held at an old airport. First couple runs were nothing special, low 14s, but when I was put in the elimination race against fellow DSMer Garrett Silva (greddy_1700), I made sure to add some timing and lean it out a little. Just so happened my laptop died so I couldn't even log the run!
I ran a [email protected] with a 1.895 60'. My new PB, and pretty good IMO for the stock SMIC on a slow track.
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