Project Colt
 

This little abomination has been my winter beater for three years running. Now I think it's time to ask for a bit more. This car is mechanically identical to a 90 DSM, with everything being smaller, ie engine, turbo, injectors. Here's what I'm starting with:

Car: 89 Dodge Colt GT

Engine:
1.6l turbo 4G61T. Non intercooled, factory turbo is an 11B.

Performance Mods:
2.5" turbo back exhaust (factory exhaust rusted off, so no baseline there), and a K&N air filter. I dyno'd before and after the K&N and made something like 135whp/140wtrq on LSE's dyno. The K&N picked me up ~2whp.

Visual Mods:
wat?

Plans: Eventually I want this car to be running E85 and a small 16G. Should be more than enough to put a smile on my face with a 2500lb car.

This car has taken more abuse than I could describe. Including setting fire to the front bumper/plate and driving miles in foot deep snow with 800-1000 pounds of people, guns, ammo, steel targets, etc.

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Here is the Colt when it was "new." Awww, so cute and innocent
http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...camps_0011.jpg


That fateful day:
http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/.../Colt_Fire.JPG

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...lt_Fire_01.JPG


Abusing the colt:
http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...9/Chris001.jpg


Current condition after 3 years of winter abuse:
http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...9/Colt_001.jpg

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...9/Colt_002.jpg

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...9/Colt_005.jpg

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...9/Colt_006.jpg

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...9/Colt_008.jpg

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...9/Colt_009.jpg

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...9/Colt_011.jpg

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The first thing this car needed was an intercooler. I thought the best option to be a DSM sidemount. (Somewhat) easy to install, cheap, and it should do the job. Later in the project I'll be leaning on the cooling effects of E85 a little bit, but that's ok because the car is totally expendable.

Big thanks to Kyle for coming over and spending most of his sunday covered in rusty bits of Colt. We really went to town with the Sawzall here and pretty much solved all of our problems by cutting or smashing. It's ok, the car deserves it and it knows it.

Having a set of 450cc injectors, a DSM MAS, and a DSM ECU laying around we made a late decision to go for it and install all of them.

I also decided to really go for the gusto and spiff the front bumper up with some paint-matched duct tape. I decided to leave the caked-on bondo on the passenger fender and other visual, um, impairments - they give the car character.

Final tally - Performance mods:
1G DSM Sidemount intercooler
450cc injectors to replace the factory 390's.
90 ECU and 1G MAS to control the injectors.

Visual mods:
Duct tape

http://www.dsmstyle.com/photopost/data/519/Colt_012.jpg

http://www.dsmstyle.com/photopost/data/519/Colt_013.jpg

http://www.dsmstyle.com/photopost/data/519/Colt_014.jpg

http://www.dsmstyle.com/photopost/data/519/Colt_015.jpg

http://www.dsmstyle.com/photopost/data/519/Colt_016.jpg

http://www.dsmstyle.com/photopost/data/519/Colt_017.jpg

We had over 1lb of "Colt dust" left over on the floor after all the smashing and cutting.
http://www.dsmstyle.com/photopost/data/519/Colt_018.jpg

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That poor car.

You gonna throw in a '63?

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OMG! its still alive.

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No. There is really no need. The 4G61t is basically just a de-stroked 4G63t, and they don't make or hold much less power than a 6 bolt '63 with the same mods. I'm just throwing on parts that I have laying around or that I can get cheap. Lots of stuff left over from parting out my DSM 3 years ago like a 16G and a HKS VPC.

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Not just alive, indestructible. I can't break it, and trust me I have tried. I have never been nice to this car and it's still never let me down.

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My first car was a 89 Colt E. Had the 4g15 and 5 speed and I could not break that thing. I beat the living piss out of it and it kept going. Made me a believer in Mitsu products until I got my DSM. lol


These cars really are indestructable.

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lol man that thing is a beast!

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Sweet! Get that 16g on and bring this thing to the spring dyno day! :D

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Screw the small 16g! DO A BIG 16G! That thing would be crazy!

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I'm actually going to try to break 200whp on the 11b on MAP's dyno. I'll probably throw the 16G on there closer to July or so, after I've had my fun with insta-spool 11b.

I work the spring dyno day though so I wont make it.

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Take the day off :) We haven't seen ya in a looooong time man!

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Good call, come to some events asap. :D

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I saw him almost exactly a year ago at an autocross. :)

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Haha, I know guys. School is KILLING me. For the last two and a half years I've been going full time year round, plus work. It's all over on May 23rd though and I hope to be getting out a lot more this summer.

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^nice, but i will be in TX by then.

There are a ton of guys modding the colt using link, its crazy. 700awhp swapped one too, when they are done nice they are awesome.
16G that bitch

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Woo woo colts ftw. I want one soo bad, prob should focus on my talon first.

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Wow you still got her eh? I ditched mine as I just had no time. The plans for it sound awesome! Let me know if you ever need a hand!

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Looks good! Hope to see you at some events this summer.

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whatever happened to the 13g you bought from me?

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It's still sitting on my shelf. I wanted to use it to keep spool time reasonable since it's just a winter car, but my decision to run E85 changed that.
The car already has problems starting below -12 F. Since I'm sure E85 wont help that situation I'll have to have a backup car for the really cold days. And with 2 cars I'm less likely to get annoyed by the slow spool times.

Re: Project Colt
 

Just have a tune for pump and run it for a couple months. Or be a man.
I ran into E85 and my car would take a decent time to start.

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If tuned right, it should start on E85 no problem despite the temperature.

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Yeah, we'll see what happens. This car isn't long for this world so I'm eying the Neon SRT4 as a good candidate to replace it when the Colt collapses into a pile of rust. Or lands upside down on fire in a swamp. Whichever comes first.

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Thats sad too, because thats an original turbo model which are more rarer than gvr4's. They only imported like 1500 of these for one year, 89.

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I got a buddy with a super clean SRT-4 if you're looking for one :biggrin:

I think I have some pics of it in the gallery here....

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Very sad, but as you can see here this car was a goner when I bought it 3 years ago for $300. With all the rust this car could never have been saved.
http://www.mitsustyle.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9222

As for the SRT4, I'm gonna have to wait until I sell at least one car, probably two. Plus I still really want to buy an Evo 9 while I can still get my hands on one with low miles. Oh yeah and a house probably isn't a bad idea either. So yeah, gonna be about 6 months unless I find a screaming deal on one with a LSD.

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Yeah, whoever owned it before you must've been pretty ignorant.

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I think he wants about 14k for it. It's one of the nicest ones you'll ever find and it's pretty damn quick too.It's only got about 30k miles on it as well.

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...trainyard3.jpg

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...rainyard12.jpg

It's got an AGP 3147 on it right now.

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Haha, that's an understatement. They crashed it into a curb at 50mph destroying everything on the front right corner. The tires that came on it were bought used from a junkyard. And there was tobacco chew spit on the inside of the windshield and passenger window. It was missing a sideskirt and neither door closes correctly.
It's been a hell of a beater though, and I wouldn't trade or sell it for anything. It's a goddamn tank.

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Nice SRT4, but keep in mind I need to replace my winter beater. I want it to be something fun but I don't want to get Minnesota road salt on someones mint street machine.
My summer cars will be a stock Miata and lightly modded Evo.

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Ah, I see. Well now you know! :D

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Das colt lives! Nice to see it still going strong for you CVD, that thing is a tank for sure.

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Update on the Colt: New fuel pump and AFPR are in the car. Next is better IC piping, motor mounts, and VPC.

Unfortunately the water pump just let go though, so we'll see how quick this thing gets up and running. I may skip dynoing the 11b and toss the 16g on while I'm doing the water pump/timing belt BS.

Re: Project Colt
 

Project shitbox goes E85 finally.

The car got hard IC piping, metal intake pipe, 550cc injectors and VPC/GCC combo.

It's now ready for crazy 11b dyno numbers on October 3rd, then it'll probably get a 16G and a real tune before the cruise.

It also needs a blow off valve, since the factory unit is just plain obnoxious, especially with the instant spooling 11b.