Hey everybody,
I'm running a 2.4l '00 Mitsubishi Galant GLS GDI with the 4G64 engine, that holds great emotional value to me.
While having 150 bhp on a naturally aspirated engine is nice if you're in the right RPM range I'd like to have a bit more power on it. Only problem is I'm absolutely clueless when it comes to that sort of thing. I thought adding a turbo might be an easy way to add a bunch of power but after some reading into it that doesn't seem like a good idea.
So the queston is: what would be a good way to start? How much power can I approximately expect out of reasonable mods, it is a 20 year old car that's run a bit over 105,000 km or almost 65,000 miles. What kind of money can I expect to pay? I know pricing can vary greatly between the US (where I expect most of you guys to live from the threads I read so far) and Germany, but since I'm completely new to this sort of thing I'd at least like to know if a mod would be closer to 100 or 10,000 dollars/euro if that makes sense.
Would I be better of sourcing a V6 and going for an engine swap? I've spent quite some time trying to read into it but I just can't find much on a car that had it's prime way before posting about it on forums was really a thing, not to mention that most of post that were around at the time probably don't exist anymore.
At what point, if at all, would a FWD to AWD conversion make sense? I know that's not reasonable anytime soon, but what if in a year or two the car is at 250 bhp? Or 300? Would it make sense then? Can I expect to add a "modern" AWD system or would I be limited to a 20 year old system that can't manage the power nearly as efficiently?
Also while I absolutely love the car and it's features, it is the GLS, so the one with ALL the optional features, some things could probably do with being modernized a bit. But again, I have no clue as to what's possible and or reasonable to do.
For example is it possible to play around with the tech behind regulating the AC, i.e. adding a sensor to the interior and having the AC automatically react based on those readings? Say it's 22C (I'm sorry, but I won't be converting temps for this) outside and the AC is set to 20C or even 22C, I can basically chose between AC, which leads to the car cooling down to probably more like 16C because apparently the car's struggeling to barely cool down the air, or AC off which leads to the interior warming up considerably because the black leather interior will soak up a lot of heat on a sunny day with not enough comparatively cool air being added to actually keep the car at outside temps.
Basically I love this car and I'm absolutely willing to put in quite a bit of money and work into it, probably a lot more than it's actually worth after 20 years, but I'm an IT guy, who's absolutely clueless when it comes to cars and I need some help here.
Thanks in advance for your answers.
I'm running a 2.4l '00 Mitsubishi Galant GLS GDI with the 4G64 engine, that holds great emotional value to me.
While having 150 bhp on a naturally aspirated engine is nice if you're in the right RPM range I'd like to have a bit more power on it. Only problem is I'm absolutely clueless when it comes to that sort of thing. I thought adding a turbo might be an easy way to add a bunch of power but after some reading into it that doesn't seem like a good idea.
So the queston is: what would be a good way to start? How much power can I approximately expect out of reasonable mods, it is a 20 year old car that's run a bit over 105,000 km or almost 65,000 miles. What kind of money can I expect to pay? I know pricing can vary greatly between the US (where I expect most of you guys to live from the threads I read so far) and Germany, but since I'm completely new to this sort of thing I'd at least like to know if a mod would be closer to 100 or 10,000 dollars/euro if that makes sense.
Would I be better of sourcing a V6 and going for an engine swap? I've spent quite some time trying to read into it but I just can't find much on a car that had it's prime way before posting about it on forums was really a thing, not to mention that most of post that were around at the time probably don't exist anymore.
At what point, if at all, would a FWD to AWD conversion make sense? I know that's not reasonable anytime soon, but what if in a year or two the car is at 250 bhp? Or 300? Would it make sense then? Can I expect to add a "modern" AWD system or would I be limited to a 20 year old system that can't manage the power nearly as efficiently?
Also while I absolutely love the car and it's features, it is the GLS, so the one with ALL the optional features, some things could probably do with being modernized a bit. But again, I have no clue as to what's possible and or reasonable to do.
For example is it possible to play around with the tech behind regulating the AC, i.e. adding a sensor to the interior and having the AC automatically react based on those readings? Say it's 22C (I'm sorry, but I won't be converting temps for this) outside and the AC is set to 20C or even 22C, I can basically chose between AC, which leads to the car cooling down to probably more like 16C because apparently the car's struggeling to barely cool down the air, or AC off which leads to the interior warming up considerably because the black leather interior will soak up a lot of heat on a sunny day with not enough comparatively cool air being added to actually keep the car at outside temps.
Basically I love this car and I'm absolutely willing to put in quite a bit of money and work into it, probably a lot more than it's actually worth after 20 years, but I'm an IT guy, who's absolutely clueless when it comes to cars and I need some help here.
Thanks in advance for your answers.