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[[Image:100 0200s.jpg|thumb|500px|right|'''1994 Mitsubishi 3000GT Base'''<br />Pearl White]]
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'''Modifications'''
*3SX Down Pipe
*3SX Lightened Pully
*Test Pipe
*Polished Front Strut Bar
*K&N air filter
*IPO 8MM MSD Wires
*Big Tlya Grounding Kit
*OPTIMA Red Top
*DNP Hard Pipe
*Polished Radiator Pipes (Lower and upper)
*Polished Plenum
*Other Engine dress up and polished parts
*Intrax Springs
*Panasonic 50 X 4 Mosfet Stereo
*Planet Audio Mosfet 400W X 4 AMP
*Two Orion Cobalt 10" Subs
*Clear corners
*EXEL H50 Chrome rims
*NANKANG 245/40 R18 Tires
*Full Custom Interior
*Carbon Fiber 575 Hood
*98 Front Bumper
*98 Hoop Spoiler
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'''Body:'''
*98 Front bumper
*98 Hoop Spoiler
*Victory hood
*Clear corners

'''Suspension and Wheels:'''
*Intrax springs
*Front Strut bar

'''Electronics:'''
*AEM Wideband
*AEM Oil Pressure
*Autometer boost
*APEXI S-AFC 

'''Interior:'''
*Two tone seats from Leatherseats.com
*Cianci 3 gauge Piller
*Aluminum speaker covers
*Aluminum shifter ring
*Aluminum radio surround
*Polished door sills

'''Engine:'''
*Twin Turbo conversion
*Rob Beck 13T's
*DSM 450 CC injectors
*99 Lifters
*DSM Side mount intercoolers
*Walbro pump (hot wired)
*Aluminum crank pully
*Nology HotWires spark plug wires 
*J-spec gutted pre-cats 
*3SX custom downpipe with 3" high flow Cat 
*Custom 3" stainless steel catback dual exhaust 
*K&N Air filter
*oohnoo fuel rail loops 
*Joe P boost controller
*Big Tyla Grounding kit
*Big Tyla Fuel Pump hot wire kit
*Fuel pressure gauge
*PMP Polished intercooler piping
*Dejon Intake Pipes
*A lot of Polished parts!

'''Audio:'''
*Panasonic 50 X 4 Mosfet Stereo 
*10" Sub in corner box
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'''My Story (2010)'''

The car started it's life as a 94 Base model.  I originaly bought it for a DD in August of 2003.  It had been very well kept and was pretty much stock besides a cheap open filter.  I started off with pretty much the same things most NAers do, test pipe, K&N, bought some polished engine parts.  First thing to go was the stock rims, I think with a base, that's almost always the first thing to go :p Then I moved to th interior and bought leather from leatherseats.com.  I put it in myself, we'll call that a learning experiance.  I was one of the lucky ones and got quite a bit of interior aluminum parts from smokinvr4
before things started going downhill for that company.  I lowered the car with Intrax springs and converted the body to a 97/98 style bumper/spoiler as well as a CF overlaid 575 hood and Deft Racing VLS.  The TT conversion bug kept flying around and finally one day took what turned out to be a pretty big bite.  I bought a car that had been converted but had a bad misfire.  I stripped the car for what I could and used the conversion it had on mine.  After we got it running it turned out the rear turbo was in pretty bad shape.  I tried having it rebuilt but that didn't work out very well either.  I decided to go ahead and make some changes at this point.  I sold the VLS so I would have some cash to pick up a few things.  I bought a set of 13T's from Beck, 450CC injectors, DSM side mounts and polished intercooler piping.  Had the heads rebuilt, threw in 99 lifters and with a little bit of help got her running and back on the road.  I also made a change from the 575 hood to a Victory hood.  Since my August 06 ROTM win, I've only put 8000 miles on the car.  It's been down and being worked on more than it's been on the road for the last 2 years, but it's finally at the point where I'm driving it when I want to now.  The AWD conversion bug is flying around now, but it looks like that will be a few years down the road.

-Tool Man (3SI Member #2117)

More pictures of my car http://www.3si.org/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=15720


'''My Story (2006)'''

I know an NA has a hard time in the ROTM, but I'm giving it my best. I've had the car three years now and it has 91,000 miles on it. It was stock when I bought it, and I've done quite a bit of work to it since then. The car was well taken care of by the previous owners, so I've tried my best to do the same. It's not a daily driver anymore, (yeah, it's turned into a garage queen) but I get it out and run around as much as I can. I have around $7000 into the car since I bought it, none of that was in repairs, as the car has been solid for me. Mods are below, but pictures are worth a thousand words.

1994 Pearl White 3000GT Base / DOHC, 5 Speed

==May 2010 Gallery==
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==August 2006 Gallery==
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