I havent even gotten my X, and I am complaining already
I was browsing some photos here. And saw that the engine on the X is transversed. Did Mitsubishi do this to reduce heat?? I really liked the layout on the previous model. Where you can see the manifold and especially the turbo upfront.

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lol wait till your gas pedal brakes

 

Dude, I have to nit pick. People, when referring to those things that stop your car, can't help but call them breaks, yet when referring to something turning from one piece into two, they call them brakes!

DAMMIT PEOPLE!!!!
BRAKES stop your car

BREAKS is when you turn something from one piece into two

This is like 3rd grade english!


And OP you are on crack. Putting the turbo on back, yes makes it harder to get to and you can't show it off, but it also moves weight more to the center, allows for freer flowing exhaust and intake and honestly there's a ton more room horizontally and vertically back there now.

 

The engine with the intake in the front is a bit easier to work on. Secondly Mitsu did an excellent job engineering the aero dynoamics of the car to cool the engine through the firewall, through the front fenders and out the black shark gills. Very functional design.

 

Ive seen under the hoods, but never had enough time to experiment. Is swapping a turbo harder or is it just like doing an intake manifold on an evo8

 

There are benefits of having the turbocharger face the rear of the car;

1. Shorter exhaust run increases efficiency.
2. Engine can be mounted lower which helps lowering center of gravity.
3. Cooler engine bay temperatures.

 

sorry .. I thought transverse mount simply means the engine is mounted with the crank 90 degrees to fore-aft of the car and ALL series of the evo are transverse mount engines ????????????

And longitudinal mount means the engine is mounted along the fore-aft of the car ???????????????

Nothing to do with whether the turbo is at the front or rear ..

Just found it I was right
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transverse_engine

 

Yeah, the OP is crazy. The only good thing about the old design was ease of access and show.

Like everyone else said, there are too many benefits from turning the engine the other way.

 

Oh stop your complaining OP, when you get the car you can complain then. Until then enjoy the wait.

 

Yeah, same thing I was about to say... transverse just means the cylinders line up from left to right, with longitudinal means front to back, regardless of turbo location.

So to answer the question correctly, mitsu has always used transverse mounting for most of their cars, I believe the Starion was longitudinally mounted... could be wrong though.

But, all previous posts have pretty much answered the question the way he had intended to ask it

 

[QUOTE=goofygrin;6170588]Dude, I have to nit pick. People, when referring to those things that stop your car, can't help but call them breaks, yet when referring to something turning from one piece into two, they call them brakes!

DAMMIT PEOPLE!!!!
BRAKES stop your car

BREAKS is when you turn something from one piece into two

This is like 3rd grade english!

 

the turbo weight has been located more to the center of the car and the driver is located on the opposite side of the engine (in LHD market cars anyhow). battery is in a good spot too. weight balance is optimal , the car is in it's own league handling wise.

 

ok, will trade my personable traneing for 3rd grade english coarse. we can discuss this more in deepness at an ntec meat

 

After 18,000 miles of nothing but hard beatings all I can say is that everything on this car is right where it needs to be . I find it easy to work on Vs the 8 and 9 .