aNAlUBé, a tribute profile Options

[akamiami]

In the vein of what xian and gsx are doing, I'm whoring a thread of my own to sing the praises of my UNBREAKABLE DSM!!!! It's like bruce willis on unbreakable. absolutely nothing phases this monster, not 7k rev launches, crazy quick downshifts, curbs, 89 octane fuel, bad language, conventional oil, leaded diesel fuel....NOTHING! MWA HA HA!


Right now I'm welding in a roll cage. There is a pic on my garage profile.

Also, the speed glass is installed and is sooo sweet. The rear window is already scratched to hell and it's like having tint but not the type of tint that blocks any of the sun, just the effect of it where you can't see out the rear view window very well because it makes it seem like you've got cataracts and everything is blurry and indistinguishable. I guess next time I'll try saran wrap since I've never seen that stuff scratch or crack and it's very flexible.

The speed holes and custom license plate are rather fancy and I think add style to the ride that was lacking. Now it's a venerable show car, and as soon as the faux fur steering wheel cover and neon dash trim kit arrive, I'll go pimp the car show scene like I do the local junior highs. That's right all you pre-teen honeys out there. I'm 24 and I've got a drivers license. Wanna ride to the orthodontist to get your braces tightened? No problem, I'm all 'bout that shi-at.

[akamiami]

link to my garage.
http://www.dsmcentral.com/invision/index.p...&CODE=12&CID=89

[wortdog]

Nice.

[eclipgst]

Nicely put but i thought you were searching for those pre-teen bitches that dont have there wings yet. Once they get there braces tightend its all down hill from there.

[Coiled]

I've got a case of bubble yum, you got any use for that? If not I know teh junior high bishes love that shiz.

[awd4kicks]

Hahaha...that is a sweet a$$ license plate and those speed holes from Hell ROCK!

[Benny Z]

aNAlUBé = teh official ghetto fab project car

very nice

[ranta18]

Looking good.

Buy some dam Lexan grade MR-10 you cheap ass! Also, I think for a roll cage to be certified and approved, you have to have it TIG welded. I'll have a TIG in a month or two, so we might be able to use that. Call Eric Vicary and ask, I'm sure he'd know.

[akamiami]

I've always heard it just can't be flux-core migged or stick welded. I'm not doing it for the certification though. I'll leave all that rulebook racing to the pros.

[xian 1g]

In the vein of what xian and gsx are doing, I'm whoring a thread of my own to sing the praises of my UNBREAKABLE DSM!!!!

like i said before... all credit goes to gsx.. not only am i a whore, but also a theif. it was his idea, i just liked it...

it's like having tint but not the type of tint that blocks any of the sun, just the effect of it where you can't see out the rear view window very well because it makes it seem like you've got cataracts and everything is blurry and indistinguishable.

wow kris, i've never seen you post with such humor? lfmfao...

[ranta18]

I kind of figured you didn't care, but then I wondered why you're putting in a cage in the first place unless you just want it to stiffen up the chassis. Can't wait to see it installed.

I could have gotten you a chromoly 6pt cage for around $300. The main hoop is bent and it comes with 4 other tubes that you have to cut and notch yourself. $600 for one that is pre-cut and notched.

[natedogg]

Sounds like a fun project! Can't wait to see it.

[awd4kicks]

Now that your putting a cage in you know this means that you're gonna have a true 'Race' car like Nates right!?!?!

[akamiami]

I think I'm safe because bernie has a bolt in cusco cage in his JDM silvia and it's still street. Unless the weld in takes it out of street class in the OIORR (odorless imports official race rules) I'll be able to continue to drive it on the street.

[ranta18]

A bolt in cage? LOL. What a tool. Doesn't that make his car not street legal according to the OIORR. I didn't have a dash and that was in violation, so a cage must be.

[xian 1g]

mmmmnnn... nice speed holes. they look nicer than benny z's

[ranta18]

Kris - Whats the update? Did you get my voice message from the weekend? Are you on the list or no? Bring your car to NOPI and shut him up...LOL

[akamiami]

bump for new pics in the car-hold. for not breaking this car sure has a lot of downtime....

[badbu68]

You have one too many big holes in your bumper otherwise it'd look like your template was a giant 4 cyl head gasket.

[akamiami]

not gonna let this thread die....

I've become increasingly aware over time that the exhaust on the GSX is just plain loud and now I'm past the whole 'coolness' of it and gotten over how neat it is to hear a loud raspy exhaust particularly when driving under overpasses or in tunnels (yes, my car will fit in moushon's anal passage and sounds pretty deep in the process).

anywho, as a solution, I've decided to augment my exhaust with not one but two straight through resonators. They are 3" inlet/outlet with a perforated core as opposed to louvered, which would have further reduced noise but at the cost of perhaps a psi or two of unwanted backpressure. I chose two because I really really want this thing quiet, not just a little tame. You've got to agree, a huge exhaust pipe on a turbo dsm sounds good, but it doesn't compare to the whistle of a high psi turbo spool.

The resonators should be arriving soon, and I'll be well documenting the install process with before and after video/sound clips of the exhaust along with more information on the parts and processes used.

[haunter]

wtf you forgot to take me to get my new retainer yesterday, no gorwnups touching for you!

[JMoushon]

My passage may be big, but I think a tunnel is a bit severe. Maybe a small tunnel, or a large sewer pipe...

[ranta18]

Why not just buy an electronic butterfly valve and have it dump before it hits the cat? I'm sure you could make or find one cheap. Cruise around with good power but a quieter exhaust. Then when some tool in a Saturn, or even a decently quick car, pulls up next to you and thinks he's fast, hit it the valve, and let her rip.

[natedogg]

Kris, did Dan steal your account or are those big city boys messing with your head?

You know what else fits in Moushon's wrecked 'em...

[Kazz5]

As you may know, I'm looking at a 3" TBE and will likely go with a HF cat and a muffler. That's mostly because I hear that a test pipe and muffler is STILL WAY LOUD. I don't need to attract more attention but am willing to have it loud for WOT. Especially if it gets me into the 12s...

I'd rather not drag on the street ... ahem. So I was wondering if, at the track, one could unbolt said muffler. Would something like that be realistic for analube and her resonators too?

Just a thought...

[ranta18]

At the track just make it so the muffler or whatever section you want slips on and off. Make it a nice slip fit joint with a SS exhaust clamp. Thats what I did. Undo the clamp, slip off the exhaust, slip on the dump tube, put on clamp, done. Saves weight too

[SCCA Stang]

what about a 3 bolt flange (like a header collector flange) and wing nuts to make the removal easy..... The dump on my Dakota R/T was set up like that. only for "off road purposes" though

[akamiami]

Thanks for the input guys on the easy clamp exhaust, but the way it was sitting was already easiest. I have 2- 3" v-band clamps holding the exhaust on with another 3 bolt right before the muffler. The first v-band was right at the bottom of the downpipe where it makes the 90 deg. bend towards the rear of the car and the second was after the flex where the testpipe was positioned. So the exhaust removal was literally a 1 bolt and 5 hanger affair taking a grand total 10 minutes at most to get off with no assistance.

However, I wanted to have aNAlUBé run at the track and on the streets with absolutely zero changes. No tuning, no ditching excess weight, and no exhaust cutouts, though that was a tempting idea too.

I've got the resonators in, though I had to place them pretty much back to back since there isn't enough straight pipe in the CB portion to allow them to be spaced evenly as I had hoped. I'm not sure if the noise cancellation would be optimized if the 3 noise reducers were equidistant, but it would seem so to my uneducated brain. Regardless, I've got a fair amount of perforated resonator under the car now and it sounds great. The exhuast note is sooo sooo much lower. Aside from some annoying rubbing, mostly due to lack of adequate facilities to work on the car, that will need to get hammered (pretty much literally) out, the exhaust is remarkably more tolerable across the entire rpm range and particularly cruising at speed on the highway. I'm very pleased with the results and the install was very very easy even with only access to jackstands, chop saw and my portable mig welder.

I've got video clips including before and after in-car and out of car sound tests and even one of me welding the resonators in place that looks pretty neat, so if anybody is willing to host them, let me know. I'll do my best to figure out how to convert them over to an easily downloadable form.

[haunter]

I can host em

[eclipgst]

i can host em in my ass where they belong,just like you!

[akamiami]

well, the videos aren't turning out well so far. First off, they don't really capture well the change in the exhaust, it seems to be out of the limited range of the camera or something.

And...the camera used is new and I don't even think I've got all the crap I need to upload it to my computer. Thanks for the offers though haunter and rantis, and even you garner, but I've got something else you can store there.

[akamiami]

aNAlUBé hasn't exactly been acting in character lately as the car has been sitting outside of my condo for about a month on 4 slashed tires. As some know, the car was vandalized, along with my dd (which was made not once but twice a lady at the ham-handed attempts of criminals), and the insurance company has been slow to respond. Basically, the car was raped pretty severely and about 3K worth of electrical components (it's not stereo equipment, so take a wild guess) were removed along with random items like boost gauge, battery, some wiring peices, and an ass-load of tools. As a parting farewell, the motherless f*&@s also slashed the tires on the car, ruining my best attempts to put over 100K on a single set of kumhos. Not even the sanctity of the bodywork was recognized as the immaculate hood of the silver steed also fell prey to the greedy pryings of the unpriveledged.

I had planned on putting a alarm in the car once it was running and tinting the rear windows, but I never really thought it was at risk sitting out in front of my apartment looking as ugly as it does. It's not exactly as if I live in the heart of the city surrounded by crack-rock smoking baby-smotherers with pawnshop fencing houses of ill-repute on every corner. Rather it's the suburbs, where atms and starbucks abound and, apparently, the inner-city delinquent thieves come to play. To quote Travolta from Pulp Friction, 'nothing is more chicken-s*&^ that f#$%ing with another man's car'.

But the lube refuses to give up the ghost and though I have lost much of the motivation for getting the car running due to an abundant number of un-related personal projects, I can say with complete certainty that I will not relent and the car will see many miles of ass-pounding this year in one form or another. Neither heaven nor hell will prevent the homer-sexual nightmare that is a grey-hatch, named after the sodomistic carnage from which it was conceived, from returning to the streets in a vengeful rage of traction induced performance.

For the first time since 2001 the car will have new tires, so perhaps now the car will be able to run with the pack. The gameplan this year is to focus on what the car was built to do, corner with high levels of grip, and gain speed through the ability to stop faster, and remain catnip to the ladies. Reliability, and solid engineering will be the goals.

So basically, to sum things up, hp and acceleration are not major concerns.

[xian 1g]

thanks for the update man... nice write up, bad story...

[Kazz5]

Sorry to hear of the trials and travails... I hope she's resurrected and surpasses what you aspire her to achieve ...

Chicago, well ... sux. I know, that's just my opinion. But I would be scared as hell to park up there for long with anything I value. I didn't realized they'd go after tooner parts but, less the ignorant I am now.

Hope to see you when you get down here again - hang in there!

[akamiami]

Got a new stock style hood from JVB off of CII, doesn't clear the engine quite as well, but looks 100% better than the one with the crazy scoop.

And, to disguise the car from future theives, I've painted it....rattlecan, oh yeah!

[mitsu90]

Nightrider reborn.

just the finishing touch

[SCCA Stang]

Nightrider reborn.

just the finishing touch

sweet man, I forgot all about that show...

if my car was still the original black I might have bought that scanner

[akamiami]

The lubey-juice is loose!

Oh yeah, it's been sooo long since I've driven that sweet hotrod. So long that I have completely forgotten what a sweet peice of ass my little lubey is. I finally got the car running and took it for a quick spin around the block. It was like driving the car for the first time. Over the past 8 months of not driving it I had completely forgotten how it felt to drive the car. The low low racing seats, the way the roll bar restricts my leg movement, the clutch engagement and pressure, the shifter movement....it was all just so foreign, like jacking off with the wrong hand.

Seriously though, after an entire wiring harness transplant and shoring up a few other loose ends, the car is now running and as soon as I throw a tune on it, it'll be back on the mean streets, polluting the air, terrifying passive drivers, attracting the attention of the local authorities, and ferrying me from high school to high school as I flaunt my wares in front of the local recently pubescent teen girl scene not unlike a shark fisherman ladeling chum from a drywall bucket full of fishheads, blood, and internal organs.

Guys, I know this car is hot for me too, because I've already got a wet spot under the engine on my driveway from where she's been idling. Damn, this aNAlUBe is just begging for action.

[eclipgst]

Kinda like your dear ole brother noumsi (anyone ever seen the movie Golden Child)? Thats freaking sweet brother! Now bring that car and your sweet ass down to see me!!!!!

[awd4kicks]

Excellent news Kris. Keep us a-breast of the lubilation.

[SCCA Stang]

glad to see that you got a functional wiring harness in that thing... I know the old one was plagueing you for quite some time...

BTW... good write up

[akamiami]

The car has been running very well, serving as a daily driver as the evo has been garaged pretty much since I put 275 azenis on it. Who says dsm's can't be reliable?

Aw shizzle, more goodies for analube.




I'm not one for suspense so I'll say it's a set of FP 2x's and a flywheel bolt kit for aluminum flywheels from FP. I'll probably wait to install the latter until something makes it convenient for me to drop the trans. ::knocks on wood::

[eclipgst]

ohhhhhhh shitttt that car rules!

[akamiami]

Well, over the weekend, I decided to perform some much needed work on the car to prepare for the 'season'.

I had several issues which needed to be addressed.

1. fp2x cam installation
2. intake pressure test
3. mysterious oil leak (presumed front case or oil pan)
4. new oil filter backet installation
5. gear fluid changes
6 oil leaking from exhaust manifold studs
7. reinstallation of timing belt covers

As can be seen, 2,4,5, and 6 are easy fixes, but the rest require considerable work. This has been a definate problem of scope creep a.k.a. 'while I'm at it'-itis. But I can't ruin all the fun. There's plenty of good weather for laying on my back under the car with oil dripping in my face and hair to be had in the coming months. No need to deprive myself of that joy now.

I'm still not done at this point and have the oil pan off the car with the timing side completely disassembled. I have a tube of silicon to seal the pan with and I certainly hope it works out better than the 'Import Grey' tube of junk I bought from Autozone for the last time. When I took the pan off, it was clear that the adhesive quality was of little use as it pretty much fell off by itself. There was oil covering everything in the vicinity of the oil pan, which is a big mess.

I chose a forward facing oil filter bracket, which is common in 4g63 RWD applications, to give me the most clearance with the downpipe. I've never liked having the oil filter so close to such a source of heat, and I most certainly don't like the idea of 'cooling' oil with 200+ degree coolant.

The stock timing belt covers needed to be replaced as well, and I'm not sure what possessed me to remove them in the first place in favor of a cut off portion only retained to use in timing the car. It was a poor decision, looking back. It made diagnosis of the oil leaks all that much more difficult.

The cam installation went very smoothly. I was pleased to see the cam journals look good as I have always been paranoid about excessive wear after ruining my head and 272 intake cam once when I swapped the cam caps in error, once.

I'll take some pictures of the car and more to say when the work is complete early this afternoon, if all goes well. I 'badged' the car with it's name as well, a very nice touch, I think. Pretty sad that my major motivation for all this work was simply to have the car not leak oil continuously.

[awd4kicks]

That is an interesting thought on the oil filter housing Kris. I also went to the forward facing housing to get away from the down pipe. I still would like to use an oil cooler on the system and this housing has no access point for cooler lines.

Sounds to me you feel keeping the filter away from the heat of the exhaust is as good as having an oil cooler. I like the thought, but what is your opinion for the riggors of a road corse.

[akamiami]

I've always used a cooler of some type on the car and I think this is necessary for a street vehicle that isn't strictly drag. Right now, I have an external trans cooler from Autozone on the car and I've been running this for the past 3 years. However, I plan to upgrade soon to -10 AN lines (running -6 now) and a setrab cooler that is more efficient. Should run about $250 but that is only becuase I already have the oil filter relocation kit and oil bracket already. The costs definately add up quickly when using AN fittings, but in the long run, they're very nice and durable.

[awd4kicks]

Where are you hooking the cooler lines up to then? There is no access for lines on the forward facing oil filter housing I have. Did you install the stock oil cooler puck or are you hooking in somewhere else?

[akamiami]

pictures will illustrate this better, of course, but I'll do my best and promise that pictures will follow soon.

I have a spin on adapter that came with an oil filter relocation kit I bought through Summitt Racing. I have this on the front of the filter bracket, and -6 an lines (soon to be upgraded to -10) running to both an oil cooler and an extra large oil filter in a series fashion. It makes for a lot of plumbing, but it's really a clean setup and makes things easy and durable.

Right now I'm debating between using a stock DSM external oil cooler or springing for an Earl's or Setrab cooler. Hard to justify the extra 150 or so for a cooler when it can easily be added in the future should I determine that the stocker is insufficient. I'll probably rock a stocker till my wallet cools down. I've managed to drop nearly 2K on the car in the past two months and all I have to show for it are a set of cams, new tires, and a bunch of parts still waiting to be installed at some undetermined later date. So much for cheap speed. This thing is neither inexpesive, nor fast.

[akamiami]

The first pic shows when I was using a 90 oil bracket. I'm sure my parents appreciated me using their garbage can lid as an oil pan.

[awd4kicks]

Ahhh... A basic oil filter relocation kit that you added lines and a cooler to. Excellent idea Kris. That is not too much plumbing a tall. Looks good.

[akamiami]

Sold the car on Sunday. I've had my fun and problems with the car, so it's somebody else's turn. The kid who came and got it is from the St. Louis area, and seemed like a good knowledgeable guy. He was smart enough to recognize that I was letting the car go for a good price, as most people wouldn't pay that much money for a 14 year old car with no ac, ps, etc etc....

I'd like to say that my days of spending far too much money on my automobiles are over, but I still have my evo, so some part of the DSM remains in the garage.

[turbohcar]

At some point we all have to let go Kris. Congrats and good luck with the EVO. Coming to Vicary Day?

If so I'd like to take an opportunity to call you out. What say you to an LT1 on the roids?

[AWD DSM 1]

It seems to be a sickness that's spreading like wildfire lately....

[natedogg]

Congrats on the sale, bud. I'm not sure how long mine is going to remain in the stable either.

[Kazz5]

What, you guys gettin' too old and responsible for this stuff anymore? You'll just be lookin' back in despair in another 15 years wondering why you let 'em go ... heh.

[turbohcar]

Eh, I sold mine for different reasons. There are more vehicles out there that I want to own over the span of my lifetime than just a 1G DSM and not all of them are built by Mitsubishi.

[awd4kicks]

Yeah, congrats Kris. I know you haven't had much time to spend on the old GSX over the past few years so it makes sense.

And I don't consider myself in this sickness yet either. I haven't decided to sell yet, and if everyone keeps jumping ship I will have to remain just to keep the beacon on for all those that venture this way.

I think the platform is a great one. Myself and a few others have just been overbuilding it lately. Backwards you might even say...Drive around in a V6 or V8 DD then try to build up the 4 cylinder for an all out race car? If we were trying to win money at these national events it might make more sense, but for an all around fun a$$ car these things are it with 200-400HP. I may go back to the high 300 level and keep her as a DD, then get a heavy duty car to make into a racer.

[black92_tsi_awd]

I may go back to the high 300 level and keep her as a DD, then get a heavy duty car to make into a racer.

Glad to hear that!

[AWD DSM 1]

I may go back to the high 300 level and keep her as a DD, then get a heavy duty car to make into a racer. 

Glad to hear that!

I like that idea also...

[natedogg]

My reasons are bit different. The only cars I've ever had any racing/modding experience with are AWD turbocharged 4G63T's. Not that that's a bad thing, but I want to broaden my horizons a bit. There are so many options out there in the world of motorsports its gets a bit suffocating to limit yourself to a single platform no matter how versatile that platform may be.

Right now its especially difficult for me to find the time and the money to do much of anything with my expensive hobby. Between long hours at work and spending time with the wife and the little one its damn near impossible. I love cars (esp. DSM's)...I always will, but I'm trying to keep my priorities straight.

[akamiami]

My decision to sell is very similar to a lot of the reasons you guys have listed.

I won't be going to Vicary day as I'll be in England until Christmas. Maybe when I get back to the states over the holidays some of us can have a winter meet.

[eclipgst]

u can winter meet me bitch