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Pursuit Systems Mitsubishi EVO VIII Camera Car!

Mike Kojima posted on October 20, 2009 20:31

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Pursuit Systems Mitsubishi EVO VIII Camera Car!

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Since Technosquare is the official shop of MotoIQ, we are often there many time a week working on various projects. Technosquare has many customers ranging from street car modifiers to pro race teams and everything in-between.

Sometimes Technosquare has customers from the entertainment industry and yesterday we got to see a very unusual vehicle that they were working on. This car is an EVO VIII that has been modified by Pursuit Systems as a camera car for the Movies and TV. The car has been used for such movies as The Fast and the Furious 4 among others.

While the Technosquare crew was working on things on the car we snapped some pictures and made some observations. Of course our ad hoc photography is not up to our usual standards but its still good enough for us to take you on a tour of this unusually modded EVO.

The EVO's murdered out flat black paint was not done to emulate Coleman but to reduce the chances of errant reflections from a shiny surface from ruining the shot. The push bar can act like a, well a push bar and serve as a point to mount rigging. A RMR hood scoop is used to divert cold air into the air intake.

The pushbar protects a huge front mount intercooler which allows a more aggressive tune for the 4G63 engine

The rear of the car is unremarkable other than the beefy push bar and the big stainless performance exhaust with extra muffling to provide low back pressure and low noise to prevent from ruining the shot. Check out the odd downward pointing diffuser on the rearmost muffler. The exhaust is a full 3" but has a lot of silencing.

The elaborate roof rack is tied into an equally elaborate roll cage and is used to support a huge carbon fiber camera boom that is remote controlled. The boom is not shown.

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# Eric Hsu

Wednesday, October 21, 2009 3:20 PM

What a coincidence: I just tuned this car a couple weeks ago. I'll blog about it later.

# Mike Kojima

Wednesday, October 21, 2009 6:43 PM

Does it use ECU flash?

# Eric Hsu

Thursday, October 22, 2009 7:11 PM

Hell no. It uses an Apexi Power FC for no bullshit perfection.

# Mike Kojima

Thursday, October 22, 2009 8:58 PM

Still uses the MAF?

# Eric Hsu

Friday, October 23, 2009 12:53 AM

MAF is king for perfect engine performance in all weather conditions and elevations. As you know, this is the reason why OEMs use MAFs. Aside from that, I prefer metered mass flow (MAF) vs. an estimated mass flow (speed density) when the application calls for it. Pursuit wanted perfect driveabilty, good fuel mileage, and performance under all conditions. The car sees all kinds of elevations, temperatures, and runs on pump gas so they needed no bullshit perfection.

I could have used an D-jetro speed density system with barometric correction, but unless I'm there in those conditions to tune the barometric compensation, it will not be perfect. A MAF handles that portion of the equation already.

I actually tuned this car about 4 or 5 years ago back at XS, but one of the camera crew accidentally cranked the boost up and destroyed the stock engine earlier this year. The boost in now controlled by the Power FC so nobody can tweak it accidentally by pressing the wrong buttons on an external boost controller. The Cosworth 2.0L components perform flawlessly and Technosquare did a great job building the new engine.

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