MY923ksl (David Mennella)

2011 Ride of the Year 3000GT/Stealth International

1994 Mitsubishi 3000GTVR4
Red

Ride of the Month Submission 3000GT/Stealth International December 2010

3SI Member #8702

Body:

• 99 front end
• Smoked tail lights
• 99 rear garnish w/chrome emblem
• vr4 Brake light
• 15% tints
• Carbon fiber gas lid

Suspension, Brakes and Wheels:

• Bc Racing coilovers
• Saner front sway bar
• Rota G-Force time attack 18x9 bfg drag radials
• rolled fenders
• stoptech st40 big brake kit (in posession, installing in winter)
• hawk pads and cross drilled rotors on back
• goodridge stainless brake lines
• ate superblue brake fluid

Electronics:

• Defi BF Boost,egt,water temp,oil temp,oil pressure,
• AEM wideband
• AEM EMS with 5 bar map and IAT sensors
• optima battery
• HKS EVC 5 boost controller "Ray P's favorite"

Interior:

• Sparco Milano Bucket seats with wedge engineering bases
• MY923ksl custom shift/ebrake boots
• MY923ksl Alcantara wrapped door inserts/headliner/a-pillars/b-pillars/rear quarters/sun visors
• custom carbon fiber wrapped center console lid
• evo shift knob
• Pampena Motorsports Custom 6 pt roll cage with swing outs

Engine:

• Pampena Motorsports BUILT 3.1 w/custom ross pistons, oliver connecting rods, brand new mitsu crank
• Pampena Motorsports Custom stage 3 ported heads w/1mm ferrea oversized valves, titanium retainers etc etc
• Pampena Motorsports ported lower plenum
• Pampena motorsports custom intercooler pipe kit w/greddy 3 row intercooler core
• Pampena motorsports custom 3 inch intake pipes
• tial blow off valve
• Unorthodox racing cam gears
• Power enterprises kevlar timing belt
• Dynamic racing Header kit
• Dynamic racing Intake manifold w/q45 throddle body
• Precision 39mm wastegates
• Custom precision 3082 dual ball bearing turbos (currently upgrading to gt35r's)
• atr downpipe
• custom 3 inch catback to dual apexi n1 mufflers
• Accel thundersport wirs
• HKS dli
• Custom External fuel sump powered by an Aeromotive eliminator pump
• Precision 1000cc injectors
• Aeromotive Fuel pressure regulator
• Custom dual feed system
• powdercoated valve cover and misc pieces
• Pampena motorsports spark plug cover
• Pampena motorsports Custom front mount oil cooler
• 3sx crank pulley

Drivetrain:

• 5 speed conversion (rebuilt by pampena motorsports)
• broomfield racing billet transfercase housings, mid and main
• Pampena motorsports bellhousing brace
• PST carbon fiber driveshaft
• Pampena motorsports/Mark williams 300m rear axles
• Pampena motorsports/Mark williams 300m output shaft
• RPS carbon carbon clutch

Audio:

• pioneer headunit and stock infinity speakers

My Website: Pampenamotorsports.com

My story:

For as long as i can remember i've loved these cars. So it was only natural when i turned 17 to buy a 3000. I owned a 92 non turbo for a few years and in that time i purchased a 1991 vr4 and slowly modified it until this year. This year the motor came out for a complete rebuild with all the bells and whistles giant turbo's, built motor and everything else. i had spent the better part of the year slowly gathering a garage full of parts to put on the car and was all ready for assembly when a customer at work (pampena motorsports) wanted to sell his 1994 vr4. Being that it had the same exact setup that i was going to put on my car, had half the miles, was the SAME COLOR and was worked on only by the guys at the shop it was a no brainer. The car was mine!! Immediately me and my brother (who also shares my screen name) began to transform the car from a 100% stock looking 1994 to the car you see before you. everything was taken out of the interior and replaced with mint pieces(door panels, pillars, console, boots etc etc), the entire body suffered from faded paint and was hand polished by myself, wheels and suspension were transfered from my 91 along with a 99 conversion and many other misc pieces. as of right now i am in the process of reworking all of the intercooler and intake pipes with larger 2.25 hot and 3.5 inch cold side and 3 inch intake pipes, the pictures below are before the new pipes are gonna be going on. in the past week 11/25 i lost the rear turbo and had the chance to upgrade to a pair of GT35r's, i'll be installing them as soon as the rest of my parts come back from powdercoating. also coming out is the POS 6 speed and being replaced with a 25 spline 5 speed w/300m shaft and bellhousing brace. as she sits she is currently making 650 awhp on low boost, if i'm finished with the upgrades planned by the end of december/beg january the car will be making in excess of 1000awhp.