Congratulations to our November 2009 Ride Of The Month!!
Aatif Sheikh "Pezcore" - [#2391]
Pearl White 1997 Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4
Ok, I'm up for ROTM again, 2 years later and quite a bit has changed. Still no dramatic how I found her at a junkyard seconds away from being crushed stories; just a well taken care of car bought by a responsible owner. Dan and myself still do all the work (or just me because SOMEONE lives in Iowa...) and the car still runs mid 12's at the track (though that should change next year, when I'm not racing in the crazy TN heat). I bought the car in 2005 with 31k miles on the clock and 4 and a half years later she has about 50k so I'm hoping to have this car for as long as gas stations sell 93 octane. My goal is still 400AWHP, but really I'd like to get into the 11's in the 1/4. The car was mostly stock when I bought it, and I've really only added minor appearance upgrades because these cars look so good from the factory. Plenty has been done to the rest of the car though. Oh, and 2 years ago I lied about being 'done' with modding this car but you know how that goes...
Interior
Custom White EL Main Gauges
Auto Meter Nexus Accessory Gauges (Boost, EGT, Oil Pressure, Water Temp, WB02)
Factory Floor Mats
Door lights replaced with white LED bulbs
Foot lights replaced with white LED bulbs
Key ring, cruise switch and cig lighter light replaced with white LED bulbs
Custom sunroof. Tinted glass panel instead of stock body panel. No leaks!
Sun visors with lighted mirrors
Leather Interior
Power Driver’s seat with power lumbar adjustment
Exterior
Beautiful Pearl White Paint
18” x 9” SSR GT3 Rims
Falken Azenis
8000k HID Low Beams
3000k HID Fogs (99 Style)
Silverstar Hi-beams
Clear corner turn signals with silverstar bulbs
Tinted windows
Front Mitsubishi star removed
Engine Performance/Show
TD04 15G MHI turbos
CX Racing FMIC & Hardpipes
DNP Turbo Intake Hardpipe Kit
K&N Intake
Greddy Type-S Blow off valve
Walbro 255lph fuel pump, hotwired
SX Fuel Pressure Regulator w/ gauge under the hood
eK2 fuel rail loop
550cc injectors
Accel Motorsports spark plug wires
NGK Coppers
Powder coated white front and rear valve cover
“3000GT” Polished spark plug cover (a Dave Best plate, not a knockoff)
Polished plenum and throttle body
Polished front fuel rail
Koyo Radiator
Polished upper radiator pipe
Stillen Downpipe
Custom exhaust
Dual chrome exhaust tips
Performance, other
All wheel drive
All wheel steering
4 wheel disc brakes
4 wheel ABS
Slotted & dimpled rotors
Hawk HPS brake pads
Stainless steel brake lines from 3SX
RPS MAX Stage 2 street clutch
Megan Racing Coilovers
Front strut bar by Ultimate Performance
Rear strut bar by Cusco
Topline Engineering Ground Wire Kit
Electronics, Audio
Alpine CDA-9855 deck (CD, Radio, iPod)
Alpine KCA-420i (iPod interface)
PACSWI-ALP (Adaptor to allow steering wheel controls to work Alpine radio)
JL Audio 5000/1 subwoofer amp (500watts x 1) attached to rear seat
JL Audio 300/4 four channel amp (75 watts x 4) attached to rear seat
JL Audio 10w6v2 D4 subwoofer in a custom enclosure
2x JL Audio XR650Csi component speakers (1” tweeters in the dash, 6.5” mids in the front doors, crossovers hidden)
2x JL Audio VR690Cxi 2-way speakers (rear speakers)
EVERY wire in the audio system is brand new JL wire that I ran. NEW speaker wire, NEW interconnects, NEW power and ground wire. All of it!
JL Audio Amp Kit
JL Audio Battery Terminals
No wires showing! Anywhere!
Electronics, other
Apexi SAFCII (under radio)
EVOScan for Datalogging
Apexi turbo timer
Greddy Type-S Boost Controller
Congrats to our November 2009 ROTM :: PezCore !!!
