Hah, sorry, I don't think he (or I) were saying YOU drove crappy, just that a 1.8 is not good for drag racing an Evo. Yeah, it's fine on a stock 05 using the 5k limiter...hell, I got a 1.92 on my first try as you can see in my sig, but the point is that if you're going to go through the trouble to pay for some test'n'tune, you might as well go all out. You only need a few runs with solid launches to get your best ET, and then you don't have to launch it anymore. YOu keep talking about transmissions and diffs, but you don't realize that we aren't talking about dumping. My launching method takes all the slack out of the drivetrain before launching, and I do not dump, so my tranny/diffs don't get killed.

The guys launching at 4500 on an ACT are slipping the hell out of it, because that things grabs with a vengeance and 4500 is way too low on a highly-boosted car. Letting the clutch out at 4500 will induce an immediate bog. Slipping it out a while will result in a 1.7x but with clutch burn.

 

ah everything is clear now , thx for clearing it out

 

I didn't see a clear answer to the 2005 question.


Find the clutch pedal.

Reach as far up towards the top as possible. (contort your body and head)

Feel around (cut your fingers)

Find the plug that is facing the fuse box (away from firewall)

Unplug it.

Launch the car above 5k

Mattj

 

What magazine were you reading that had a test on the EVO IX?

 

i think the 9 will still have the rev limiter

 

I think it was Sport Compact Car or something like that - i have the copy in my room. I do remember reading something like that tho. They were testing the evo in japan and they did like 100 launches and mr. evo ( forget his real name - the japanese fellow ) said the clutch would be just fine. So mitsu can basically cram it up their cram-hole about the 5000 rpm drops.

 

i know japan doesnt get the rev limiter

i guess us americans are tougher on our cars

 

im sure you already know ,this is not exactly a drag limiter, this limiter is in place to protect the pinion gear which happens to be alot heavier on us models for crash test reasons, our tires are stickier than japans which would cause a higher load in the pinion gear area. Japan doesn't have the limiter thus with less sticky tires and a lighter pinion gear they can achieve some wheel spin at heavy lanches.

 

Thats what they say about the 06' Im just telling you what I read.

 

how about the 2 step for 03's? whatever happen to that? Al was talking about it, i've never heard the end of that story.

 

or less skilled

 

One thing to note is that if you disconnect the plug to the clutch pedal you may experience some drivability issues. I disconnected the plug on my '05 GSR and I was able to do my drag-strip launches at 6k like I prefer. However, I left it unplugged for a few weeks and on several occasions I noticed my car would hold the RPM's in certain gears even with the clutch depressed. So, I'd be going 50+ mph, slowing down for a red light with the clutch in and the RPM's would stay at 5k for a few seconds before they would drop back down. After I plugged back in that plug to the clutch pedal- all was fixed. That plug down there does have a function for the ECU. I leave mine hooked up now until I get to the track.

 

I do the same. I plug it back in as soon as I leave the track, unless I forget, that is...

 

I'm just gonna get AEM and forget about the whole thing

 

Or they haven't learn from the school of hard knocks...

If they owned an automatic they'd probably *****h about how they were in neutral on the rev-limiter and when they put it into drive the transmission went boom...." Dude, WTF man? Mitsubishi sucks because I can't drive it like Grand Turismo."