Newb from WA

[skippy]

Thought I'd say 'Hey!' seeming I'm going to be lurking for a while/reading your collective knowledge.

My name's Skippy, live in Perth, and I don't own an FTO, but I do own the heart of one!

I've recently taken on a project car to make my daily drive, a 6a12 mivec power lancer coupe. The catch is, that the last 5owners or so didn't know what they were dealing with nor how to even look after a car to much.
I was directed to this site by another lancer mate doing a 6a mivec swap, and tbh, I'm loving all of the information on here and benefiting from it a lot!

So... Hey!

P.S. a lot of nice cars on here and a lot of mods that are worth admiration.

[aza013]

WTTC Skippy .
Keep us all posted with how the car is going and don't hesitate to ask any questions.

[ZFL45H1]

Make a thread in members rides about it and some pics something different and welcome keen to hear about what your plans are as well

[Bennoz]

Hey mate. There's a few owners in here that have done the Lancer conversion, so there's a bit of info here

[Vectose]

WTTC mate.

[ObsidianRadio]

Welcome to the forum mate!

If you ever have any queries, you can simply post on these forums and there will be loads of advice and tips your way!
You should put some pics up of that Lancer of yours so we can see what you're dealing with

Enjoy the heart of the beast!

[Kustom]

Welcome,

Goodluck with the conversion!

[kiz]

WTTC

[PHIL069]

G'Day skippy and welcome.

[Technikhaus]

WTTC mate, sounds like an interesting ride!

[skippy]

Woah completely forgot to check back on this thread

Thanks for the warm welcomes!

I've just quoted the first post of my ride thread from my main forum:

Hehe, so was holding off ruining the surprise really and trying not to give anything away incase it fell through, only Jeffaz on here new I what was in that car.

So some story of it. Saw this car whilst looking for a potential car to take the CH's engine, this looked ok though a bit pricey, so I emailed him, got this in reply:

Hi, mods are v6 mivec, thanks

!?!?!??! MIVEC?!?! So ofc I RACED over there and sure enough, there is a 6a12 mivec sitting in this coupe.
So then I decided and paid for it last night and took it home from work this morning... Haven't had a chance to take proper photos yet but here are some goodies.

The outsite, nice and straight, though will be getting a new front bumper possibly depending on my motivation to fix it.



Interior... Still trying to figure out if MR or GLXi... leaning towards GLXi.


Battery relocation... pretty simple and nice, and is a dry cell:


Cup Holders!!!!


and found this in the glove box:


Two of my lancers together:


Brakes:
Fronts

Rears


And... engine:






Trev broke it some more:


wtf is this:



Apparent list of mods:
6A12 DOHC MIVEC
2.5-3" system w/ headers
coilovers
Full black interior?
Boot relocation for battery
Front and rear FTO brake upgrades w/ slotted twin pots at front
Aftermarket ECU OR Flashed FTO ecu (need to find out...)
EL Dials
And thats it until i start pulling stuff apart

So list of things to do to remove yellow:

• Engineer Engine, Gearbox, Brakes and Suspension
  Buy inner wheel arc guards
  Buy new tail lights and headlights (stockies) to allow rego
  Buy a lot of zip ties
  Make new front mesh grill
  Raise the coilovers
  RETUNE (holy sh*t it's running rich, won't idle either thanks to it... to much full being pumped in at low rpm's and drowning out the engine)
  New muffler to quieten it down, and possibly change down to 2.5" or even 2.25" to give it some back pressure cause atm it sounds way to echo-ie for my liking...
  New cat since the old one went out the muffler this morning
  Get obrian out to fix chips in windshield

So yeah, it's not going to be on the road any time soon, this is my new project, CH is staying and getting her interior finished as well as smaller things like new sub and maybe exhaust system, but ATM my main goal is to fix the CE.

Think I will make a ride thread for and Q's you might have.

Also the builders of this car was RPW, which I'm 50/50 on tbh. Mainly because I don't know what they've done or what previous owners have done, but a lot of it is a shamble... Pretty much require full Lancer loom and full engine loom incl. ecu.

[aza013]

After seeing that I may be looking to get my son a new car .
Keep the lancer for me and drop the FTO engine in it .

Looks sweet mate keep up the good work .

[Supplanter]

It looks like the circuit boards (the green ones, at least) are hand soldered. They could be an after market ECU kit or ignition/EFI kit, or maybe some form of data logging for the Haltech. With all the wiring looms floating around it is hard to tell

[PHIL069]

It looks like the circuit boards (the green ones, at least) are hand soldered. They could be an after market ECU kit or ignition/EFI kit, or maybe some form of data logging for the Haltech. With all the wiring looms floating around it is hard to tell

Could it be for the ECU to be plugged into a computer monitor directly, maybe to monitor the engine stats live, it seems to have a power adaptor and a RGB monitor plug, but then many things communicate with a RC-232 plug.
Maybe it's for a serial to USB adapter cable so you can plug in your laptop

[Supplanter]

It is a 9 pin D-sub connector, usually used to connect to a serial port on a PC.

[skippy]

Ah, I didn't update the front post on my ride thread on AL.

The grey box is a "mivec" controller apparently since the Haltech couldn't actually switch the mivec on at X,XXXrpm. Idk why this car has a aftermarket ecu, but I'm currently sourcing parts to put the ECU and stock loom back in to power the 6A12 (stock FTO loom that is).

[fto_rookie]

WTTC if you after a few things in WA then PM me since I have done quite a bit of legwork for stuff

btw nice ride!

[illmotion]

most jealous of your cup holders