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Well fam tuning on Friday didn’t go smoothly. First problem was a pretty stupid one from a simple oversight. After burping my coolant system the rubber gasket from my no spill funnel was left behind in the top of the radiator. During the first highway run on my new base map the upper radiator hose blew off and I dumped all my coolant. Luckily I was right by an exit with an advance auto seconds away. After reconnecting the radiator hose and going to fill her back up realized the rubber gasket was there not allowing pressure to bleed off causing it to blow the hose off.

Aside from that the first few data logs went smoothly. I did two 20+ minute city driving logs and two 20+ minute highway driving logs as well as a couple idle logs. I did my 1st 3rd gear wot pull data log and…

Seems like there’s always something but this one made me laugh a little. I switched to a metal under tray a while back which did not require the use of the rearmost mounting point. I was getting a wild vibration sound which I thought was a heatshield… and I did actually have one on the up pipe that had broken loose. After spot welding it back on I was still getting the same metal on metal vibration sound. Well, at least it’s fixed so I guess that puts me back at “Modify” in the cycle!

So to start off I had this post in the wrong channel so I moved it here. Long story short I had dropped my Z off at a autobody shop to get a polyurethane Nismo V2 front bumper installed (got it for the durability) and when I went to go pick it up after it had been at the shop for 24 hours and had been sitting all day the next day, went to start it and my engine started knocking I sat there confused and it started to run normal after it had warmed up, I got to a intersection and all of the sudden my "Check Engine Soon" light started flashing followed by my V6 turning into a V5 when I got back to my house I ran a engine scan and it came back as cylinder 3 was misfiring so been fixing that

Me and my son along with my dad are working on a 2008 Mitsubishi gts 5spd we have done a few basic tune up to it have a new bumper and lights coming to install going for a aggressive stock look any ideals is much appreciated