Project Salt Collector
 

Here it is. The ghetto cruiser, highway only racer(since it won't shift into 2nd or 3rd worth a crap) and salt collector.

Winner of numerous Rock Falls trophies
Winner of the 2001 Buschur Racing DSM Shootout Home Depot Award
It used to only get hand-me-down parts and crap built out of whatever was laying around, but the last couple years it has received a bunch of new parts.
Went 12s on the stock 14B turbo back-in-the-day with no fuel controller. It has remained in the 12s since then.

Specs:
K&N Filter - From my 2G
2G MAS - From my 2G
3" Intake - Wrong size, from a Mutt turbo
Factory ECU tuned by me
SC61
Turbonetics Racegate
ETS FMIC Core
SLS I/C Piping
Greddy Type-S BOV - From my 2G, also used by SuperBleeder and maybe At-Least-It's-An-Evo
DB Performance Exhaust Manifold
ARP Head Studs - Might have been used
HKS 272 Cams - Don't remember if they were from my car, Speedfreak's, Cher or new. There was a lot of HKS 272 cam swapping between Rau, Mo, Cher, Me and this car during down times.
Stock 1G Intake Manifold
Unported 1G Head with Crower Springs and stock retainers
2.0l 4G63 Block/Crankshaft
OEM Mitsubishi Pistons
OEM Mitsubishi Rods
OEM Mitsubishi Headgasket
ACT 2600 Street Disc - Needs to be replaced
ACT Flywheel
KYB AGX Struts
Eibach Springs
Stock 16" Wheels
Dunlop Winter Sport M3 Tires

Wishlist / Future mods:
Aftermarket intake manifold
Tranny that shifts
Clutch that holds more power
ARP Rod Bolts? (What will fail first? Rod Bolts or the Rod itself?)
4" Intake
A decent external wastegate

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Notice the 2 different kinds of plug wires.

The intake setup goes 4" from the 2G MAS to a 4" -> 3" reducer to a 3" pipe to a 3" -> 4" reducer to the 4" inlet on the turbo.

Fancy NAPA flexy 2' BOV return pipe.

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A-pillar 3 gauge pod setup.

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Knock monitor covered in black tape and jammed into the steering column. The brighter middle number displays knock, the right number displays timing advance.

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SsssssssSSSSSSSSSSiiiiiiiiiiiiiickkkk!

get a pic of my pos while you are at it.

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This car runs 29-30psi daily and thats all it can run. I jammed so many washers into the quality Turbonetics Racegate(6 psi spring) on it that it only runs that boost. Without a boost controller it lags and creeps to 29, with one fully cranked in, it runs 29.

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LOL at everything Shane typed! Must have been a slow day at DB ;)

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Not bad for a daily salt collector!

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holy shit, what is the tuning software?

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I usually use Tuner Pro RT.

Revlimiter is set at 8200, but I didn't bring it out that far on the dyno run above. The power just continues to drop at the same trend. A different intake manifold should bring up the power a lot from 7000+ RPMs. I think it would make a good 550whp on an AWD Dynojet and a little more on a FWD Dynojet. On an older setup, pump gas, and 19psi it put down around 339whp on Elite's Dynojet in FWD mode and then put down around 265awhp on our Dyno Dynamics in AWD without any changes, but some time inbetween.

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And it would still beat most of the cars on the board/street :D I think we both have the stock intake manifolds about maxed out, I am curious to see what you gain when you add one.

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Is this 92 or E85?

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I think the exhaust mani is worth more than the car. :rollinglaugh:

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E85, this car always made the usual power numbers on pump gas and was hard to keep from knocking.

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Thats cool as shit, everyone is completing the projects i start before me.
Good luck with the car and thanks for the hard work on it, i get to see what my car should make before it gets done.

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You should just take the wastegate off and use a block-off plate there. If it only does 29 psi, then whatever. Leave it!

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I bought a different wastegate for it in the middle of last summer, but I haven't switched it out yet. The car has been in this state of mod for a while now, the dyno chart above was from the MitsuStyle dyno day.

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Thats a sweet ride! Love the details. haha

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nice

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Cool. Lets trade. lol.

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Got the car running again last week after a lot of help from Brian, Jim and Brad. It had been down on power last year from a mystery problem and got pulled apart to try to fix it, put in a new clutch and fix reverse. Goal was to to make it to the Midway Shootout at Cedar Falls and have some fun. The car had previously made a best 492awhp with normal correction on my dyno with the boost maxed as high as I could get it to go. The power band looked pretty bad with the way the boost dropped and seemed to be getting choked. With it that way my wife went 11.5@132mph not using NLTS and it falling on it's face going into 2nd gear every run.

We ended up taking about 100lbs off of the car between the slicks, removing power steering, lightweight front crossmember from Halon and a few other little things. With the weight reduction, slicks, NLTS and me driving I thought it might run into the 10s even if the power ended up being the same. We changed a few things in the setup powerwise, but still the same old SC61. After fighting some leaks after startup and then a locked up rear caliper on the dyno it was making good power with a really nice powerband. I turned the boost up another psi and was going to stop after the next run due to the factory internals but the tranny let go instead.

Dyno chart is a comparision of the old horsepower/boost versus the run before the tranny let go.

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Nice numbers but too bad on the tranny.

You still have your 99 as well?

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Looks good, sucks about the tranny though. I hope my SC-61 can make this much power :)

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way to go on getting it going. shitty on the tranny

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Yea, the 99 will probably get turned into a lower power road race car.

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Whoa, I think I tried to turn you to that dark side for years? But I'd kinda hate to see that kind of use/abuse to such a clean car.

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^^I like this idea

I remember watching the factory Talons clean up at the Minneapolis grand prix back in the 90's

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Good idea :) I have a 2g awd that I plan on making into a road race car if I ever get time. Haven't done much with it so far aside from start to gut the interior.

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Before Archer discovered Vipers.

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540hp on stock parts, I love it. It's funny how just a couple years ago, I was way more dumb than I am now. Did you ever get that 4" intake?

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540 are you freaking kidding?! Bad ass.

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:rolleyes: So you are saying you are still dumb? :)

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Yep, that's the reason for it making more boost and the power and not choking anymore.

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Badass, sorry to hear about the trans. Do u have a graph vs rpm?
Where did u stop revving? Looks like a nice powerband

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Yeah mang. I got the nuts to admit it. Everyone gets smarter as they grow up, you just learn more as you go. Like putting a 4" intake on when the 3" restricts you.

Think about the exhaust! a 4" exhaust would probably be helpful now too.

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A 4" would absolutely help anyone making over 400whp I bet. Shane also had a very short exhaust/dump on ol' salty last Sunday on the dyno.

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It's got a 2.5" o2 housing on it that connects to another 2.5" pipe that flares to 3". That could all be better, but we were out of time.

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I don't remember if I saw any difference going from a 3" exhaust to 3.5".

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Best Thread Ever!

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Bump for an old thread worth reading :D