I just thought I'd drop a line up here on my previous ride as requested and some details and pics on my current ride

Previous ride

2001 Mitsubishi Lancer Coupe (not awd though)

Exterior
Custom Trial Front Bar
Buddy Club Side Skirts
Custom Buddy Club Rear Bar
Chrome Z2 Mirrors with Led Indicators
Black Angel Eye Projector Head Lights with Eye Lids
Black LED Tail Lights

Wheels, Tyres, Brakes and Suspension
18" Verde Black Ice Rims
215/35/18 Nexen Tyres with 80%+ tread
Super Low King Springs Front and Standard Lowered King Springs Rear
Front Strut Brace
276mm DBA Front Rotors
EVO IV RS Twin Spot Calipers

Interior and I.C.E.
Full Tan Vinyl retrim
"MR" Front Seats
Custom Rear Seat
3 x Guages Mounted off Roof
2 x Directional Downlights above rear seat
Plush Pile Black Carpet Throughout
EVO 5 Dash Cluster
SAAS Steering Wheel
Autotechnica Gear Knob
Shortened Shifter
Pioneer DEH7550 Head Unit with Detachable Face and Remote Control
Bass Controller installed inside glove box
3 x Kicker 15" Competition Subwoofers
Blitz 2400watt Monoblock for Subwoofers
MB Quartz 6.5" Reference Series Components installed in Front Doors
Blitz 2000watt 4 Channel for Components
Custom Boot Install Trimmed in Orange Suede
Deep Cycle Gel Cell Battery Installed in boot

Engine, Transmision and Exhaust
CM5A 4G93T Jap Spec CE GSR Engine Conversion
Engineer Approved and Mod Plated
Subtle Painted Highlights
All Lifters and Roller Rockers have been removed and replaced with Aftermarket Items which where fully cleaned prior to installation.
Genuine "Hybrid" 600 x 300 x 76mm Front Mount Intercooler
3" Heat Wrapped Intercooler Piping
3" Heat Wrapped Intake Pipe to Turbo
All Intercooler Clamps are the "T" Style Geniune "Hybrid" Clamps
G.F.B "Hyrbid" Blow Off Valve
Walbro GSS342 Intank Fuel Pump
5 Speed Manual FWD Gearbox
4 Puk Custom Ceramic Clutch with Heavy Duty Pressure Plate
3" Turbo Back Exhaust
Dual 2.5" Rear Pipes to Quad Stainless Steel Cannons
Dual Matted 3" Stainless Steel Flex
Stainless Steel 3" High Flow Cat

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Current ride

1992 Mitsubishi GTO Twin Turbo AWD

Exterior
Pearl White Respray with extra pearl
All Factory

Wheels, Tyres, Brakes and Suspension
18" Rims
Tein Coil Overs

Interior and I.C.E.
In Dash Pioneer DVD/CD/Tuner
In Dash Motorized Screen
Pioneer TSC160R Front Components in factory locations
Battery Installed in boot

Engine, Transmision and Exhaust
Std 6G72TT
Greddy Type RS Blow Off Valve
Heavy Duty Excedy Clutch
3" Cat Back HKS Exhaust with HKS Super Drager

I intend to build the GTO to the same Specifications as the Lancer.

Long Term Upgrades
Single Turbo Conversion
Built Engine
Lenso Blast Rims
Leather Interior
Wide Body Front and Rear Fenders
Silver Carbon Bonnet and Hatch

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b294/dvscoupe/LOW4SHO%20Random/GTO%20Clay%20Block/100_3172.jpg
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That's pretty much it

Enjoy and leave your comments if you wish.

Cheers
Dion

Very nice Dion. Love the first gen. Looks gorgeous. ;)

Scotty

Thanks Scotty, it's a little rough around the edges but I think it will all be good soon.

When you come up next week I hope to have the new ISC installed and all going well it will be running sweet.

It had damn well better be! :p

I hope so hey, I am yet to drive this car with it actually running right

You've got just on 1 week to get it right. ;)

i love the interior color of lancer. how did you pain it like that?nice 1st gen too.

D - please tell me your NOT going to put neons on the GTO??? :assassin:

Scotty

haha no neons for the GTO

The interior in the Lancer was a full retrim. Only stuff painted was the cluster and steering wheel. Everything else was covered in vinyl.

Nice cars!! Welcome to the site btw!

this post needs to straight go to this ha ha ha http://www.awdforums.com/post-your-mods-t40.html

cool man!

Maybe he's touching up on his whoring. It will make it there soon enough! :D

Scotty

ha ha...thats cool too...i like PW's!!

If any of you Aussie guys wanted to see the Lancer, it's in the current Ignition DVD Issue 19.

As some of you may have been aware I have been trying to sort quite a few issues with my car.

Today after yet another trip to my mechanics we came to the hope that the ECU is causing my troubles.

So tonight I decided to locate my ecu, pull it out and strip it down to see if there was any damage.


What I found was a discrace to say the least.

1/ ECU was held in place with foam
2/ ECU was not earthed in any way but it was held in with cable ties
3/ Got it out to find that it has been repaired before but it was even noted on to that it was never tested
4/ Stripped ecu to find that there are a couple of cap's that have been replaced in a really dodgy way and there is a sub board which is suppose to be soldered to the main board but all the connection points are buggered and corroded.

Honestly I'm not going to chance having it repaired and try to fix some other dodgy shops work.


I just put it all back together, earthed it properly. I'm off to my mechanics tomorrow to get prices on new A/M ECU setup.


Here are a couple of pics

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b294/dvscoupe/GTO/ECU/100_3200.jpg
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I'll be staying away from Brisco Buttler, that's for bloody sure! How dodgy is that! :( Glad you atleast found it now Dion.

Scotty

It is really getting to me the amount of dodgy work I have found so far done to this car.

Simply as nobody here knows these cars so they just wing it. But that work is just unprofessional!

I am going to talk with my EFI and Mechanic guys today to get some feedback from them. If they say fix what i got first then worry about the management side when I get into doing the engine work then that's the way I'll go.

After doing further research into how and why this happens I have found that the ECS (electronic controlled suspension) ecu is the cause. What the problem is that happens is the ECS ECU sends a junk signal through to the TPS which in turn sends that same junk signal to the engine ECU. As I don't have the ECS anymore in my car I'm going to look at removing the ECS ECU. This same issue and rectification has been performed on lots of cars in the US and here in AUS.

One step at a time, it's just getting really frustrating to fix one issue to keep find another one but I'm convident that I can get this sorted.

I'll keep you all posted.

After closer inspection of the ECU today with my EFI guy yes there has been some work done to the ECU, yes it is a really ordinary job of it but the work done has no really issues.

He agreed that the workmanship of the install was complete crap but what i had done to rectify this was all good.

Now with the ECU not the problem I'm going to look for this ECS ECU in the back and remove it.

Hopefully that will sort out this issue.


PS- just to make matters worse when I left work to go see them I found a patch of oil under the rear of my car :? Now that is another issue which I now have to find and fix. :evil:

Tonight I stripped the plastics out to locate the ECS ECU to have a look and remove it.

I found it in the back drivers corner in the boot area in front of the tail light. I remove the ECU and tidied up the wiring.

Once it was out I decided to crack it open...... :shock: :shock: :lol: :lol:

I found 3 burn marks on the main board from leaking Cap's. The where all about the size of a 5 cent piece. :? You will also see a pic below of the underside of the lid which has a burn mark on it :?

After that I throw the whole car back together and replaced about 10 screws which where actually missing.

Below are some pics of the progress tonight and I thought I'd throw a couple of interior pics up as well.


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b294/dvscoupe/GTO/ECU/100_3205.jpg
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Don't mind the dirty interior, needs a good clean and YES I know there is a hole in the drivers seat. it's the only hole in the whole interior.

Ha Ha. You got a nice ride there D. Real happy you found the problem. Now get onto getting some 3rd gen lifters, and you'll be good to go. ;)

Scotty

I think that a few of you won't like these

I found last week during some heavy rain + heavy throttle pulling into traffic = sitting on the limiter in 1st gear going now where :(

I took a look at the tyres on my ride to find that 3 of them where absolutely buggered. One of them was that bad there was steel belt starting to come through.

After doing some chasing around for tyres I decided on the following....

20" Alloys, they are shadow chrome/silver spokes with a full polished lip. The car is also has a set of Tein Coilovers in it.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b294/dvscoupe/GTO/100_3288.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b294/dvscoupe/GTO/100_3286.jpg


Next is to get some adjustable rear swing arms to pull some of the monster camber out of the back.

I spy a FMIC on the car, but it says a FMIC is under future mods. I think there is more done to the car than you think. Post a underhood shot and we'll take a peek.

BTW, those wheels don't actually look that bad, compared to the crap you see on cars here in the states...

haha yeah the front mount, not yet plumbed up just waiting to get the piping all sorted. I had a deal all sorted to get it done through a workshop here in Aus but the price basically doubled so I have since organised something else. Not to long now till it's plumbed up.

very nice,i like

Very nice bro, love the car.

haha yeah the front mount, not yet plumbed up just waiting to get the piping all sorted. I had a deal all sorted to get it done through a workshop here in Aus but the price basically doubled so I have since organised something else. Not to long now till it's plumbed up.

LOL, I understand now. You can make the hot side piping from stock parts, so all you have to do is make the 3 inch cold side and like 2 parts for the hot side (or use an ebay y-pipe) which is pretty easy.

In the states we call that an Interfooler. You see things like that on Honda's to make people think they are fast...

hahaha interfooler

Damn that's a lowrider now D. Personally, I think 20's are way too big. But if you're more into cruising, and not racing, then good for you. I'd have rathered you spent the cash on other upgrades. ;)

Scotty

I needed to get new tyres as it was and my old rims have marks all over them. I managed to get these at a steal.....

it's been a while since I have made any changes to the car.

Basically all i have done in since the wheels went on is rebuilt the 2 centre bearings in the tail shaft, installed a boost gauge and GFB boost controller.

The car has been running very well since finally sorting out the whole ECU issues.

I installed the boost guage and found I was running massive amounts of boost, I found that it was running a grand total of 5psi and it was a cool night when I put it on.

I then installed the BFG boost bleed and wound it up to 13psi. Oh yeah baby it gets along very nicely now.

In my quest for more HP I hope to get a new exhaust in the coming months which will be a twin 2.5 inch mandrel with high flow cats to twin cannons on the rear out one side. I see this will make a huge difference as the front pipe standard is all of about an 38mm diameter which both turbo's are trying to push through.

It's so fkn hard to build a car and pay for a damn house :( :(


Here is a current photo that someone got on a cruise i did a while ago

http://image-cache.boostcruising.com/database/journal/files/post-68393-11905959311262384391.jpg

Lookin good, 5 psi? Yuck, that sucks!
Glad you got the boost up over 10.
What kind of 680cc injectors are you planning on going with?

Dion - Why does the front wheel look much bigger than the rear? I'm totally sober. Is it just my eyes?

Scotty

^^^^^You're right, the front wheel looks like a 20 and the rear 19.

^^^^^You're right, the front wheel looks like a 20 and the rear 19.

Maybe it's the camber on the rear wheel.

Yea, I think its the camber.

yeah definately 20's all round, it runs massive rear camber which I'm hoping to fix very soon

Whats wrong with the rear suspension?
Hit something or is that what it does when you lower a 3000GT that much?

Whats wrong with the rear suspension?
Hit something or is that what it does when you lower a 3000GT that much?

The stock adjustments won't compensate for that much lowering. Same thing happens to any car thats lowered with independant suspension. All thats required to fix is adjustable rear control arms.

Yeah, try that on an audi, once you lower a four link suspension like that there isn't s*** you an do to increase the camber, at least for the front anyway. Our cars have a cam bolt that can compensate for at least 2 degrees negative camber, thats why i asked.

The stock adjustments won't compensate for that much lowering. Same thing happens to any car thats lowered with independant suspension. All thats required to fix is adjustable rear control arms.

Yup I got a set of Rear Control Arms coming for mine at the moment to correct this. I will hopefully get them next week :D

Yup I got a set of Rear Control Arms coming for mine at the moment to correct this. I will hopefully get them next week :D

Where'd you order them from D?

Scotty