either something is wrong with your car or its just the driver. At this point I would suggest having a friend drive the car down the 1320 to confirm it isn't just the driver. which track in PA do you go to?

 

dude your weather conditions look fine to me. Over here in vegas 100+ degree weather @ 10 pm, @2300ft elevation there are stock IX's that trap just over a 100mph with et's a lil faster than yours.

IMO your trap is really low for your conditons.

 

Simply put, you suck at driving. Weather, definitely not going to make that much of a difference. Maybe if you were at 10,000 ft elevation.

 

I AGREE I shifted a BIT too early at 6900rpm, but if I shifted at 7100, would it give me that MISSING 5-6mph, 'Maybe' 1-2 TOPS!!

Hey the ENTIRE Reason I BOUGHT the car was BASED on those 12.9/13.1 ET's I saw posted but what the Hell Man....

 

It'll a make a difference in my opinion, but 5-6mph is probably just not going to happend. 103-104mph trap speed is probably the highest you will ever see. Nothing wrong with that, not all IXs dyno 275whp and higher, just a fact of life. But I know your IX is strong, just by looking at how strong it pulls on the back half, from a roll, your car could probably pull on mine (although you are on 94 octane compared to 91 octane for me). Still it's gonna take practice, and a 12.9-13.1 E.T. is attainable, but it's gonna take practice, you don't have to trap 105-107mph to hit low 13s, even a 102-103mph trap speed is capable of very low 13 second E.T., it's all in the driving. I mean just keep at it, it can be a couple more passes, or even 20 to 30 more passes, but eventually you will get it, if you choose to keep racing stock.

 

Also 11SECEVO I don't understand why you are panicking so much, your launch wasn't great and neighter wasn't your shifting, I mean if you came on here and just had the best run you could possibly do and your car still ran 13.9@99mph then I could see you saying that something is wrong with the car. But this is not the case, there is considerable improvement needed in your driving to accomplish times that you feel are acceptable. Work on your launching, work on your shifting, all this stuff makes a huge difference, I know it may not seem like a big deal, but it is. We are talking about differences in the tenths, not seconds, not minutes, not hours! When your talking about time differences that are so minute, even the smallest things can make a huge difference. I'll agree with this though, the EVO is no walk in the park when it come to drag racing, for most of us it takes practice, but your case is no different than hundreds of others who have been a bit disappointed at first, only to get better with practice.

 

Maybe you should have finished breaking it in... My Camaro didn't get into the 12s untill I got about 3k miles on the clock. Bone stock runs of 12.8 at 111 mph... Of course it is an automatic, stick and go.

Granny shifting is never going to get you in the 12s or low 13s. An 8.9X in the 1/8th just plain sucks...

Get a shift light and a short throw.

 

3000ways, you too have a misconception, and in this case, it's the back half mph. It's easily gaining 21mph, because it's already at such a low mph in the 1/8th (78). In stock form, my 05 picked up 24mph in the back half on 93oct. I did 8.4@80 en route to that 13.1@104. I now only pick up 22-23mph in the back half with an extra 100whp, because my 1/8th mph is so high (~90). The back half mph analysis can be skewed when the 1/8th mile mph is so low. It's much easier to accelerate from 78-99 than it is to accelerate from 90-113.

 

I think it's you personally. My car bone stock, I was afraid of beating on it because of the stock clutch. It's a IX MR. Full lift shifting @ 7000 I went 13.6 @ 99 with a 1.9 60'. I know with that pass I had a slow launch, and didn't push it as hard as I could have because it was stock. When I added the cat-back I pushed it a little harder on the shifting but not on the launch and went 13.2 @ 104.8 with a 1.9 60 foot. I think it's just going to take some practice to get your times/MPH were you want it. I know a cat-back didn't add 6 mph So I have to say that a lot of that just came from more expierence on the track.

 

I ran a 12.9 @ 106 bone stock. So your driving could def. be improved upon. I also was able to pull off 1.6 60' times on the stock clutch.

 

HEY, you may be onto something.......I WAS full lift Shifting, although I KNOW your not really supposed to Powershift these cars, do you guys keep it to the floor in between shifts???

 

That seems very low, and like others say, mitsu cant make every car the same.. Some are stronger and some are weaker..

My very FIRST TIME at the track with 1800 miles on my car i ran:

RT: .044
60' 1.942
330: 5.490
1/8: 8.421 @ 83.86
1000: 10.944
1/4: 13.062 @ 106.38

Now.. My launch was horrible, but hell i only launched it about 3 times b4 i went there..


Work on the launch.. My WOT shifts seemed to help my times alot also..

 

Yea, I'm not worried about it....Hell with better Shifting and 500 or so more Break-In miles I'm SURE that 60-70 HP will MAGICALLY come back... :-)

I know WARTALON thinks so!!

 

Whatever, guy. Figure it out yourself then...

 

Are you ever going to get it tuned? Because at that point, it will not matter. At the Vishnu dyno days I've been to, I've seen some IXs with wild stock variations. Some are almost 30whp lower than others, and that's on a Dyno Dynamics.

The good news? Post flash and custom tuning, every IX was within 5whp of each other. That's great for you, becasue if you don't leave your car stock, you'll stand to pick up a lot more than the average guy. With just a flash, 12s won't be a problem. With a flash and exhaust, you'll be deeper in the 12s at or over 110mph. Forget your stress and chalk this up as early drag racing lessons with a IX.

Plus, a flash will get rid of that stupid 5000rpm rev limiter.

I do agree with the others, though. Get a few more miles on it before you go smashing on it some more. As green as the motor is, its bound to pick up a little on its own.