New Turbo

After alot of thinking I decided the stock frame turbo route wasnt for me and after a bit of looking around I bought Brian Sextons Garrett GT30 turbo, T3 Full race Manifold, Tial 44mm wastegate.

The main reason for choosing this turbo over the stock frame one is that in order to make the power I want i wont need to run as much boost and the turbo elbow and downpipe are far more free flowing than that of most of the ones I have seen for the stockframe turbo.

In the next 2-3 weeks ill be buying the stuff below from Mellon Tuning in the U.S. as they have given me a brilliant price on everything below.

AMS Wet Sump

Bushur Balance shaft eliminator kit

Kiggly HLA Pressure regulator

Nearly there once these parts are bought, then the build will commence in CW performance Roll on the true 500bhp Monster.

More Goodies = expensive month : - )

Ok there has been a bit of a hold up on the turbo side of things, with the one I am after just not being ready so in the mean time with aiming for 500bhp I needed to start thinking seriously about a fuelling system as from what I have read any sort of cornering hard on track can cause starvation to the stock fuelling system.

So I went about searching for a single Bosch 044 fuel pump, some sort of fuel filter and a Swirl pot. Straight away during my search I found an MLR member selling a bosch fuel pump and a fuelab fuel filter so these where bought. Very tasty parts and at a great price.

As of yet I havent found a swirl pot that is what I am after but will chase one up soon enough.

Next was a bigger intercooler and after a search on DTDirl.com I spotted that an Ex-Time attack car ownded by Brian Sexton was being broken and that he was selling his HDI intercooler with Hardpipes and a ported and polished head with Piper cam gears, piper valve springs, piper cams and ferrea exhaust valves, so quickly bought these as they were being sold for a bargain.

Now for the pictures

In the next few weeks ill be buying a Bushur Throttle body 65mm to suit my ported and polished intake manifold, a Bushur balance shaft eliminator kit, a Kiggly HLA Pressure regulator, and a Cosworth Crank scrapper. By then my turbo should be nearly available and that will be

Future Plans

With my move abroad, I am now in a full time job and earning again and all modifiers know well what that means.

Ok so I decided 400/400 wouldn't be enough before I even got there (this was discussed with Todd about 6 months back). So I went about hunting down parts for 500+ power and torque. I quickly spotted a Setrab 19 row Oil cooler for sale on MLR (www.lancerregister.com) and for a great price so snapped that up and had it delivered to CW headquarters, big thanks to HEL they had the part delivered in less than a week.

After a long discussion with Todd about what else I needed for the magic 500 he recommended a full race manifold or JMF manifold, bigger turbo (TT S205 or FP greeen), Bigger Intercooler and a set of 272 cams amongst some others. So like always I didnt waste time and went hunting straight away and managed to find a clean second hand full race pro stock manifold on www.evolutionm.net, from the photo's all I can see it needs is a good clean (fingers crossed).

During the hunt I had been talking with a member on www.evolutionm.net after noticing he was selling a set of very cheap unknown aftermarket cams that had made 320whp with a filter and a remap so picked these up aswell. If these don't look the part when they arrive ill start hunting for a set of Kelford 272's as these seem to be making good power.

Pictures of parts as always.

Next update will be bigger turbo time, I am hoping.

Sleek Show & Westward Rolling Road day

With the way the Ireland went, I decided to leave the country and go live/work in Australia, before I left I talked with Todd and Barry and arranged to leave the car with them while I was away.

Soon after I had left Ireland Todd was in touch to see if I minded if the car was to appear at the Sleek FX show in Limerick.

From what I have been told the day was excellent with the weather being clear of rain and a nice bit of sun too, luckily some of the guys off Irish mitsubishi owners club managed to get some nice pictures of the evo being groped up by some ladies haha.

Unfortunately with the Rolling Road day @ Westward engineering there where no pictures and I am yet to get a picture of the print out but todd assured me the car was running excellently and he had also managed to fit the set of RC 1000cc injectors I had bought about a year ago into the evo and remapped her to run E85 bioethanol fuel for the day.

The VI managed to make 396.3bhp and 478nm torque (352lb ft torque) which was good considering she is running 95% stock parts and made the most power on the day too.

Forging the VI

After a while collecting the parts and slowly getting the cash together to have the work done, I decided to get the engine forged.

From March till June I had collected, Manly Rods, Wiseco Pistons an 8MR headgasket and the lastly ARP headstuds and then it was just a matter of leaving the car with CW performance to have the work done.

The turn around from Todd was brilliant he had the bores honed and then it was just a matter of fitting everything up.

While the car was down with Todd, he also noticed that both the rear arms where in a bad way and changed them out straight away, pictures always tell a better story.

The day I collected the car I fitted a short shifter I bought off ebay, I was hugely impressed in the positive change it made and also gave a much quicker gear changes and all for about €60.

While running in the newly built engine in, I was keeping to 0.8 bar boost and the revs under 5k rpm for the first 1500km's the reason was so as not to bed the pistons in badly or to strain anyting internally.

It took me about two weeks to build up the mileage and then it was just a matter of arranging to get down to CW performance for a remap to 1.6 bar boost.

Feb 2010 New Evo 9 Wheels

After the trackday I had planned to do loads of mods but unfortunately work slowed down so mods where not going to happen as frequently.

All the same it was not going to stop me modding and when a set of evo 9 alloys came up for sale with a really good set of tyres I decided I had to have them and with some help from Todd, Barry, Poggy and of course Deccie the brilliant spray painter http://www.fredmapped.com/recon.php, I soon had the wheels looking amazing.

From this to this

 

To this.......

To this nice huh!!!!!

Sadly to this, as you can see the red outline is gone because the idiot fitting the tyres back on was absolutely ruthless and managed to break the laquer and tear the red strip but I still think it turned out very well.

Sean cahill memorial trackday

Irish Mitsubishi Owners Club managed to arrange a trackday to be held on the 24th of April 2009 in honour of Sean Cahill (a member of the Irish mitsubishi owners club) who sadly passed away a few of months beforehand.

With the trackday quickly approaching, I decided to look at upgrading the cams to add a little more power and torque so after a chat with Todd and Barry, I went on the hunt for a set of MR cams from an evo 8MR, during my search for the cams I managed to come across a cusco bolt in cage from a local lad and fitted it upon arrival it took me about 8 hours to fit with the help of poggy (the trusted CW welder), todd and barry from CW performance.

With the cams it didnt take long to find them, as people dont really regard them as a high performing cam but they would do the job nicely for a fraction of the price of aftermarket cams. After about a week of searching, Shergar a fellow Evo enthusiast was changing out his cams in his 8MR for a set of GSC 272's so I swiftly took the opportunity and snatched them up and a week later I had the car remapped by Cw Performance Fredstyle!!!!.

To be honest I wasnt expecting a huge difference in power between the standard 6 cams and the 8mr ones but my god!!! the difference for a 150 odd euro was amazing the torque had increased quite alot from the stock cams and general acceleration to redline felt much quicker.

The trackday had quickly approached and all the preparations where in place, I had been to visit Todd from CW on the 17th of April 2009 and had a fast road setup applied but as per usual in Ireland it decided to rain so there wasnt going to be any extremely fast laps as this was my first time going out in the Evo around Mondello and only my second time out ever.

Anyway the day started extremely wet and I decided to take it slow enough and get a feel for things and also make sure I bedded in my new Carbotech Xp8 Brake pads which had only been fitted the night before whoops. Anyway all went brilliant and later on I felt I was really getting the hang of it and with only one spin I thought all in all the day was a success and as usual the car perform flawlessly.

Check out the video of my best lap recorded as the battery died for some of the later ones.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROjVTNky5MU

I also had Paul Curren a far more experienced driver take me out and show me how to really work an evo at mondello and here is the result, extremely impressed with how the car performed and again not a bad thing to report.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltHCEU0cnH8&feature=related

Next was to make a move for Dublin Docks and catch the ferry across to the UK to go see some of the main tuners fight it out for the first event of Timeattack UK 2009. Here are the pictures from the weekend which ended with a nice play between the 4 evo's that went along in our rush back to docks on the sunday morning.

The four Evo's that made the trip and trackday

Some serious cars out and a scorcher of a weekend in Cheshire ha ha.