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Project Airtrek – Fixing The Stalling Problem

It’s been a while since I’ve written about my black beauty, a 2004 Mitsubishi Airtrek Turbo – since the first (and terrible) mechanic I had for my car – Project Airtrek — The First Service – Part 2. So here’s my story about the fixing the stalling problem. I’d spent so much, but didn’t manage […]

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Project Airtrek — The First Service – Part 2

After the first major 2-part service I thought I’d be all good, after spending RM6100…I thought I’d be ready to go! But no, the car was smooth and powerful now but the idle was very lumpy, there was jerking during WOT (wide open throttle) and it STILL kept stalling. This was the part where things […]

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Project Airtrek – The First Service AKA The Wallet Destroyer

So I’d got my car and as the tyres were almost bald and seriously hardened, I got those changed first thing as a priority. After that came time for the first major service, this is an important thing to do when you buy a second hand car – even if it has a ‘full service […]

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Project Airtrek – A Day At The Dynojet Dyno

A few Sundays ago a bunch of us headed down to Sunway to do some dyno runs with a friend of ours who was doing some dyno tuning on his Evo 6.5 Tommi Makinen Edition (still considered one of the most powerful evos ever made). I was gonna do some dyno tuning too, but due […]

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Mitsubishi Airtrek Club Road Trip To Hat Yai – Thailand

I gave a little sneak peak of the Road Trip to Hat Yai when I got back, now is time for the full run-down! We met up at Sg. Buloh rest stop at 12.30am on Friday night, some people were late though so we ended up leaving a little after 1am. We might quite a […]

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Back From Thailand – Airtrek Club Roadtrip To Hat Yai

Just a quick update, still pretty tired from the drive there and the drive back. Was a great weekend though, plenty of awesome food, did some shopping and got to test out the car properly. Will do more updates on Project Airtrek soon, my only observation right now though is my car HATES RON95 petrol…I […]

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Project Airtrek – Choose Tyres For Your Car – Mitsubishi Airtrek Turbo

Choosing tyres for your car is a very important thing, for most people (who care about their safety) the two MOST important parts of a car are the tyres and the brakes. Because together those two components are totally responsible for keeping you on the road and coming safely to a stop. A lot of […]

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Project Airtrek – The Beginning

I’ve been wanting to change car for a long time, but due to saving for something else and financial commitments it really wasn’t a smart thing to do. So I had to bite my tongue, suck it up and carry on. Not that I minded my previous car, the best Proton ever made, the Lotus […]

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