Mitsubishi
EVO VIII ok, here goes. I thought I have given
up on the car race fixer upper mechanical side of
me. Guess Wrong!!! I ended up selling all my other
cars, race cars and toys to get a luxury 4 door
and a SUV, but due to bad gas milage and gas prices
going up to $3.00 per gallon, I was forced to sell
my SUV and buy a 4 cylinder car. Let's see what
should I buy? How about one of those Mitusbishi
Evolution VIII? It is a 4 cylinder and has
AWD and Turbo. All of which I am too familar with.
I think of myself as a Fuel Injection, Turbo specialist
so I can leave it all stock and play around with
some of the freebie mods. Afterall I am all grown
up now and done away with the racing part of my
life right? What do you think? If you look closely
at the image above it reads 500 miles on it exactly.
Why would that matter to anyone? Well I consider
500 miles the breaking point for the motor. I can
now open it up a little. I never realized how hard
it was to not open it up for 500 miles. I figure
500 miles is nothing for the average person to drive
around town, but try getting someone who raced for
over 8 years and then stopped to get into this car
and drive it everyday. Very tough I tell you. Till
this day I still have not opened up the car yet.
I figure I better put my boost gauge installed and
a couple of other safety precautions before I open
up the All Wheel Drive Turbo to it's full potential
of 19lbs of boost and about 276HP.
EFI
Certified. To make things worse, I had
the opportunity to take a EFI Tuning class for aftermarket
Fuel Injection Management systems. You know like
Haltech, Electomotive, Autronic, AEM EMS whatever
your flavor is. It's class was designed for you
to choose what tool (Fuel Management System) you
wanted to use and how to tune and use it properly.
After that class I was hooked and ordered a Plug
and Play Autronic for my car. It costed close to
$2000, but it will be worth it. This Lancer will
be one of the most powerful AWD Turbos in my area.
I am sure there are other EVO's that are quicker
then mines now cause Mine is stock for now. Let
me put some miles on this car and you will see how
it progresses. Keep stopping by and see my progress.
Check out my HOW TO's and check out my plug and
play board from Autronic. That will be the key making
this car move! If you have any question about Turbos,
EFI Fuel Management Systems, Chassis Dyno Tuning,
let me know. If I feel like I am in a good mood
I might even come out to the Chassis Dyno to help you tune
your car.
