Doing some ricer lighting mods.

Got the spoiler LED brake light working.
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Installed the 4300k HID kit I had laying around since removing it from my Envoy.


Bought some LED's off ebay. White LED's in the license plate area as well as the headlight city lights. They look more blue to me than I would have light, was going for more just pure white. But whatever, looks better than the dull standard bulbs. Also purchased Yellow LED's for the turning lights. I have the blinkders on in the pics so it would turn on and you can see how it looks. They actually look fairly amber in real life which was another disappointment as I was hoping for straight yellow. Looks more yellow in the pics than they do in real life. But whatever, it'll work. I will be rewiring them however so that they just turn on with the parking lights.
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How is the trans holding up so far?

And if you had to do it all over again what would you have done different?

Car came a long way!! Outstanding job.

So far so good. It's hard to really say though since I haven't been pushing a lot of power through it. Hopefully I get on the dyno here soon and can get some decent WOT tuning done.

If I could go back and do it again, I'I guess I'm not sure what I'd do. The 2 issues I see with this trans is it's so big it's just a bear to install/remove with the engine still in the car, I dread having to remove it or install it again. But everything has it's pros and cons. And the shifter is not ideal. I've gotten used to the shifter though and it's really not an issue for me anymore. It is pretty smooth shifting, strong enough that I shouldn't ever really have to worry about it breaking, so that's real nice.

In the end everything has it's pro's and con's I suppose. I do think if I could do it again I'd just get Collins standard flywheel/clutch setup rather than my adapter. Going that route requires milling of the bellhousing which may not be the easiest thing to do, but that little bit of material removal would help with install/removal of the trans. Every little bit that trans can be shortened would help.

I also noticed a place called Maverick that sells a kit as well. Their adapter plate is a hair thinner, and again every little bit helps I think.

Just anyone attempting to do this swap, don't expect a straight forward bolt in and done kind of job. Collins has everything you need though to make it work. Adapter, Flywheel, Clutch, Mount, Driveshaft, etc. Just realize it will take some skill on your end to make it all come together.

Oh i know!

Reason i asked , was ive been doing my own research and i like that trans ,I just hate the fact that you have to do alot of modifications to make it work on your car... and couple guys ive met running the setup complain about the Custumer service.

Again like you say they are always pros and cons.

ill go through your thread one more time and see what i find.

I glad it working out for you, now turn the boost up and see what it does!!

Thanks again for feedback.

Customer service meaning Collins?

I've asked ya several times about your build, but it is coming along!
Excited to see what your numbers will be.. I'm over here just gathering parts endlessly, haha.

Any plans to dyno soon?

Long time no update. Hasn't been much to update anyway. But did do some small stuff.

First, I feel like the sound quality coming from the China head unit left a bit to be desired. The aux input plug was becoming intermittent, and the bluetooth streaming was just horrendous, it's like it only streamed treble. So, I picked up a new Sony unit off Amazon for $150. It doesn't have GPS but I never really used that anyway, just use my phone. It does do DVD though, has aux in, USB in, and bluetooth which included a mic. So that is installed, and man everything sounds so much better. So if anyone wants a china unit, I have one up for bid lol.

http://mitsustyle.com/forums/attachm...1&d=1427848977

Also, I had my twin 255's installed but still on stock wiring. So I picked up some relays and did a rewire. I bought a bulkhead stud connector off Summit that seems to work good for passing the power through the tank lid rather than connecting it back to the stock small wiring for passing through that which seems kind of like a waste to do all that just to have it go back down to a tiny wire at the end. Can immediately tell they are louder than they used to be. I mounted both relays so I'd have an installed spare in case the one dies. I've never had one die on me before but I've read several stories of relay failures so I figured for how cheap they are why not have one in there ready to rock just in case.

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I also did an oil change with some Pennzoil Platinum and a Wix filter. I will be changing out the tranny fluid with some Redline MT-85, then putting some Amsoil in the diff. At that point, take it on a few test drives and then I'll be shipping the car off to Jordan (Shaodome) in Florida to get this thing running like a top hopefully.

That's about it for now!

Hey man anything new here? I referred a newer member to read your thread front to back for NA-T info, always liked the route you took with this car. So last you said you were getting a tune. Why not just fly him in to tune it, wine and dine, then send him back, would that be cheaper, plus a small get away for him..?

Trying to schedule tuning currently.

Fly him in? Not to get off track here but if I was a businessman my time for travel, food, hotel, tuning and paying a shop to use their dyno would be a bigger price tag than sending my car off to get tuned.

Hope your car makes great numbers I've been following your thread closely.

Yeah, you're probably right but for a good tune and a loved car, flying in a tuner is not at all uncommon or as outlandishly expensive as you think. I can guarantee for the cost of shipping a car across country, round trip, that distance is far less than a plane ticket and hotel/restaurant accomodations. The rest is a wash since he's going to be paying for dyno/tuning time anywhere.

Round trip shipping will be more expensive than flying him here.

I did change out the diff fluid with some amsoil, and changed out tranny fluid with some redline mt-85. Car has been running great. I have dyno time scheduled at RavenWorks for 5/20. Going to give it a shot locally before flying in any gurus. RavenWorks I think is plenty capable, it's just the quirks of MS that can be a ***** and is where Jordan comes in if things don't go well. Fingers crossed.

Goal isn't anything crazy though. Just a quick dyno session focusing on WOT fuel and timing curves since idle and cruising is spot on right now. Going to keep it at WG spring boost levels (17ish psi), and aim for a very conservative tune. Then just enjoy it, and perhaps turn up the boost little by little as I get more comfortable with it.

what did you do with the blue and white wire that is grouped together in the yellow wrap? Did you just tie those back into the power wire?

The wires in the yellow wrap are the original fuel pump signal wires. So those are wired to the relay coil, to energize the relay.