The four-banger is rocking Ferrea 1mm oversized race valves, Kelford springs, as well as Kelford 278 cams and a 214-C camshaft.
McConnell kept the already-phenomenal 4B11 Mitsubishi 4-cylinder as his canvas and then went to work. Now, you may be wondering what goes into a record-breaking Mitsubishi.
This problem brought another long year of tinkering and toiling in machine shops and plenty more frustration, but at the end of that tunnel stood the newly reborn Evo X, ready to start touring with Amsoil and breaking some records. The motor was pulled and it was found that the wrist pin on the first cylinder was bent. “After what was supposed to be six to eight weeks and five thousand dollars, it ended up being seventeen months, four shops, and $33,000,” said McConnell. When it fell short, shoulders were shrugged since AMS didn’t build the motor. At this point, unfortunately, another pothole shows up on the road to Mitsubishi glory: the Evo came up short on power. The Evo then took a trip to AMS Performance where the crew was excited to see the power made on pump gas and couldn’t wait to see the figures produced once they switched over to a race fuel system.
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ETS shipped a full kit over to Fazeli for install and the car was finally running. Fazeli Mitsubishi took the car to go over the motor, while the Evo received sponsorship from Extreme Turbo Systems. “Once again, I’m fighting to release the car.”Īt this point, McConnell gets a much needed stroke of luck. McConnell thought this was the end and that the car would be completed in just a few more weeks, but three months pass and “he gets fired again.”Īpparently the company was unaware that the car was a sponsored build and did not have the budget for it. “The owner wouldn’t honor the build sponsorship and said the car would have to follow him.” The Evolution was one of six or seven cars that needed to be transferred to the new shop in order for the build to be completed. “After about three months of lies, there was a falling out at the shop which left the sponsoring party without a job,” recalled McConnell. Unfortunately for him and the Evo, however, the drama was just beginning. At the end of it, he’d have a roaring, Ferrari-eating beast in his garage and that thought would carry him through those weeks of waiting. They recommended shipping the car for a full build.” The projected timeline for a full motor build and a custom turbo kit was anywhere from six to eight weeks, which McConnell accepted. “I needed more power than the kit was making. “Shortly after buying it, Artisan Performance sponsored it back in 2009,” said McConnell. McConnell’s super-Evo didn’t have just a few hiccups: it had a fit, passed out, and didn’t wake up for a while, repeatedly. What is a project without a hiccup? When you are building a car, especially in a case like this, you’re expecting to run into a few troubles here and there that can be overcome and turned into little anecdotes you tell once you finally get to show it off.
McConnell has built a car that isn’t only a bullet, bu t is comfy to sit in and can probably bust an ear drum or two.
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Usually though, when you build a car to be a thousand pony plus demon, you dump all of your money into the engine and dyno away until you’re happy (or broke). Matthew McConnell and his Mitsubishi Evo X are aiming to go above and beyond that figure to break the most horsepower squeezed out of an Evolution X, ever. A thousand horsepower is not only a ton, but it’s a pretty legendary and impressive figure in the automotive world. A thousand is a lot of anything a thousand pounds, a thousand dollars, a thousand people.
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