change your name to Shiv Yenko and embroider big initials in the head restraints......

 

Is it an MR!>!>!>!>!

 

 

Shiv, must be nice. At least this lets me know that Mitsubishi is either reading these forums, or they are reading all the SCC magazines!

 

congrats

You you have to give it back

 

What are the plans for it??

 

Thanks guys-- We're still not sure what we are going to do with it. We have a few ideas, one of which is trying to make the car as quick as possible without making it appreciably louder than stock. I'm talking like 400+bhp with a stock-like exhaust note. After driving the stock car around for a few days, I just fell in love with how hard I can beat on it without raising any eyebrows

The 550bhp red beast, by comparison, can be heard from two miles away.

Also, it may be of interest that this pre-production car, like all the others we've tested dyno'd unusually high. It made 220-230whp with no mods, a good 20-25whp stronger than most other stockers. I hooked up my flashing programmer to look at the ECU code's checksum and yep, it is completely different from the factory ECU code. It is as if the car came, from Japan, with an XFlash . It runs a bit more boost, leaner a/f, a more aggressive timing map and revised knock control logic. It's pretty remarkable. After pulling off all the info I could, I dumped a standard ROM file in there. Car wouldn't even start. Leads me to believe that other portions of the flash memory are different as well. Ended up having to dump an extra ECU unit in the car and reset the immobilizer to get it to work.

Needless to say, we learned a lot about the factory ECU code by just this excercise alone

Cheers,
shiv

 

With that in mind Shiv...you think maybe you can learn how to stop the cel from triggering at closed loop for random missfire under light throttle? Or is this still going to have to be a mitsu fix?

 

Shiv, so what you are saying is you tried to reflash the vehicle's stock ECU, however, the car did not like it. After that, you lost me with the fact that you had to hook up a second ECU. Was this one hooked up as a piggy back or just as a temporary fix since the car would not start.

Sorry for the ?'s, but I just wanted you to clarify this a little bit for me because it is very interesting to hear...

Gnulooks

 

Sounds like it has been mapped like the euro evos...they just feel stronger IMO

 

Most of the car makers do this with trusted tuners.

Whats in it for Mitsu? Magzine time, hype, people talking about it just like this equate to more units sold. The tuner usually takes the freebie, tunes it and works on getting it into the magazines. Also, these cars tend to show up at races and events. Looks good for the tuner and the car company.

I have two friends who tune and race for another manufacturer. They get cars like this often. Sometimes I am jealous of the number of cars they have at thier disposal. In reality, once the car is tuned, it spends most of it's time in the hands of magazines for testing and write ups. The cars usually haven't paid all the proper federal taxes and eventually end up being destroyed or turned back to the car maker. When the manufacturer wants the car killed, they strip the goodies and have the body crushed at a local junk yard. They must send evidence of the destruct to the manufacturer--photos, etc. Pretty funny to see!


Congrats Shiv, must be noticing your success.

 

I have friends that get a very favorable nod from Nissan, using them to tune for Nismo and their racing vehicles. Factory "backing" is a huge blessing - access to the internal guru's, dish on upcoming changes and products, trick parts, etc. It's a good thing and speaks very, very highly when a tuner can get into this inside track.

 

Thanks DrMerl We're certainly not complaining!

shiv, on lambtron's computer

 

So any updates on the donor Evo?

l8r)

 

Any new information on the quiet stages?