MrTwister

I did not change the sway bars. The workshop to buy Ironman coils and struds: Dollar Auto Works Address: Ras Al Khor Industrial Area 2, Street no 7 , Plot no 101 - Ras Al Khor Industrial Area 2 - United Arab Emirates Phone:+971 4 333 6780 Best regards MrTwister

Acceleration test Pajero 3.8 SWB loaded with usual off-road stuff, driver and half tank fuel on seemingly flat road produced the following acceleration 0-100 km/h Without nitro 11:30 sec With nitro 7:30sec Jetting was +100hp but Nitro bottle was not full. Still 4 sec is a lot of improvement!

Dear Gaurav, this system was installed DIY. It is excellent for off-road. On-road it is not allowed, but I did not check the rules in detail. There are some workshops in Al Quoz (Sub Zero) and in Sharjah that can do the installation and sell kits. I do off-roading around Abu Dhabi as well as around Dubai on the weekends. Send me a private message.

100 horses more? Turbocharger requires replacement of headers and has got turbo lag at low rpm. Expensive and complicated. Centrifugal charger is still expensive and requires pulleys and an intercooler, but there is no lag. Nitrous oxide systems are simple, cheap and powerful. The following system costs about 3000 AED. Here a NOS single fogger wet system was installed. Wet system injects fuel as well as nitrous oxide, so the fuel injection system of the car does not have to adjust the fuel quantity. So the Pajero fuel line to be replaced by rubber fuel line and brass fittings (red arrow). Two electric solenoid valves (yellow arrow) open or close the pipes of nitro and the fuel. The ratio and horsepower is set by the (replaceable) jets located in the fogger. The fogger is placed in the air duct in front of the throttle body (blue arrow). The NOS system is activated by a micro switch when the pedal is pushed to the metal. Full nitro power kicks in instantly and you experience 380hp sports car acceleration by a Pajero 3.8 SWB. Nitro is coming from a relatively small gas cylinder. Two days of fun costs 75-90 AED of 4.5kg NOS recharge. Each serious acceleration costs about 3 AED.

There is a saying for off road driving: "Go as slow as possible and as fast as necessary" I think, drivers try to compensate the lack of power and the disadvantages of LWB by speeding on the dunes. Speed is dangerous in the desert. It gives you no time to assess the terrain and you may break your car. I deflate to 10 psi and avoid sharp turns. As soon as I hit the sand I switch to low gear with the diff locked. I drive by using power rather than high speed. If your diff is not locked you are prone to get stuck and the diff lock may not engage when you need it. In the rare case when I got stuck with low gear and diff lock, I lift the wheels and put a plank under them, and drive out of the trouble. I am talking about medium to difficult dunes, not an easy family trip with a 20 cars convoy.

The 3.8 SWB 2011 does not have a long range, it would be nice to extend it by a long range fuel tank. 500-600km would be ok. Any idea by anybody?

Hi Anoop, I have been offroading since 4 years. First with off road groups, and later just alone. So I like to be prepared, because I cannot count on a buddy to pull me out. Kaiser is a Brazilian brand, but based on the name I guess they have German owner, so I trusted their technology. They extensively tested their difflock and they produce parts for heavy vehicles as well. Pajero is not used by most of the people for hard core off roading. If they do, they will modify it just as they would do it with any other standard 4x4. Just for a few customers, Mitsubishi does not provide hard core off roading options. The max you can get is a center and a rear difflock. Hard core equipment is the business of specialty suppliers and tuning shops. They pool customers from all car brands to reach an acceptable minimum production quantity to be able to provide an acceptable price.

Hi Anoop, off roading is a technical sport. The sport part of it is the digging of a stuck vehicle. I am an engineer, so I prefer the technical part. I worked for a car manufacturer, so I can tell a true story to shed some light on their thinking. One day a car mirror supplier was asked to make an offer for a manually adjustable mirror. They attached another offer for an electrical mirror for the same price and expected the car company to choose that one, so complexity of having two production lines could be eliminated. But no, the car producer prefered manual mirror, because that was designed in the package of that car model. They did not want people run for the cheaper package and get electric mirror, they wanted them to buy the more expensive package that exclusively provided the electric mirror. Customer satisfaction is not the ultimate objective it is just a way to sustainable profit. If companies have to choose they choose money.

My Pajero is a year 2011, 3.8 SWB. Chipcentric can chiptune almost anything. After some more driving I can give some update. The rpm goes to 6000 if I really push the gas and the engine gives a healthy and eager v6 sound and pull. The consumption is now 17.8 l/100km.

And now Chipcentric called me to say that they have an update for the chiptuning of the 3.8 liter engine. Of course for free! And they really did it for free. It took 2 hours. After one tank of fuel the car computer got used to the updated software and the car become even more sporty. The rev is going up to 5000 rpm and there is agility increase on top of the previous gain of approx 10% more hp. This is what I call customer service. (The fuel consumption is 16.5 l/100km, mainly highway use at 140 km/h speed.)

The Pajero (especially the SWB) has good body geometry, but a lift is needed for off roading for several good reasons. The lift will make the car less likely to stuck on the top of the dunes when cresting. The lift together with proper front bumper cut and rear bumper fix will prevent any damage to the body. The disadvantage of a lift is that the center of gravity will be higher and the risk for roll over increases. The remedy to that is a set of aluminium wheel spacers to widen the stance. Too much lifting reduces the "droop" of the wheels and the car starts lifting a wheel from ground and loses traction. Difflock will be useful to compensate. So how much lift is enough? 40-50mm is good even without any other compensation. The cheap lift is done by rubber spacers placed under the coil springs and a front torsion bar adjustment. Sounds good but look at the photo what a Sharjah specialist (dirty workshop) is capable of doing for that 800 AED. When the rubber spacer does not fit, they cut it to increase the diameter. The car gets bouncy when crossing humps of residential areas. They do not care that the open spacer may get out of place and the car sits down to the original height. Proper lift can be done by replacing the coil springs by longer and stronger ones and replacing the shock absorbers too. Iron Man an Australian brand provides a complete set for 2600 AED and the installation is 400 AED. The opportunity should be used to replace the rubber washers that are under the springs. After this 50mm lift a computerized wheel alignment is necessary. This Ironman lift provides a firmer ride, but it is not harsh at all. The car does not kneel down when it hits a hole in the desert, and the sand will never touch the (cut and fixed) bumpers again.

One day my colleague let me try her brand new G Mercedes in s (slow ) mode. Brutal metal! The 700k AED price tag is brutal, too. I saw three strange switches in the middle of the dashboard and tried to figure out what they were for. My colleague had no idea, and it is no joke. Of course two can be explained by having a rear diff lock and a central diff lock, like Pajero. But why the third diff lock? Anyway, I went home and told to my wife I need a girls' car... After my fair demand for G Wagon was rejected, I was just thinking how a front diff lock would help offroading and could it be fitted on a Pajero. I had the feeling that this could be the secret behind the legendary capabilities of the Gelendewagen. I was watching my off roading videos that my friend took some time ago and commented that while playing on the dune, the Pajero was lifting one of the front wheels. Of course, that means that both front wheels lost the traction. But traction is very important in the sand. BHP is nothing if you cannot take it to the ground. If front traction is lost, the rear wheels need to transfer all the power to the sand. But sand is loose, rear wheels will tend to spin and the car slows down or get stuck, especially, if they are not locked together by the (OEM) rear diff lock. This would not happen, if there was a front diff lock, that keeps at least one front wheel powered and use its traction to pull the car. The switchable front diff locks however prevent the car from turning, that is not a good feeling. I need front diff lock, but I do not need a significantly harder steering and lost maneuverability. I Googled it and found Kaiser Locker, a Brazilian brand. They provide a front diff lock, that is even better than the one in the G Merc. The Kaiser Locker is a mechanical automatically unlocking differential locker. It is fully mechanical, because all parts of it are mechanical, it has got no pneumatics, hydraulics or electric parts at all. It is automatical, because you need no switch to activate or deactivate it. Although you will feel its effect only when you shift to 4 wheel drive. It is a diff lock that is normally locked when driven in a straight line, but in the turns one front wheel that needs to turn faster is allowed to do so. This automatically unlocking feature makes the steering easy and preserves the car turning ability, or even improves it in the loose sand. The Kaiser Diff Lock is a straightforward replacement for the front differential gear assy. I (over) paid 800 AED for the job in Musaffah in a dirty workshop. It requires the usual OEM differential oil (GL5 90 for Pajero). The diff lock was 600 USD and another 100 USD was the home delivery. I tested it all over UAE and in Liwa, too. I am very happy with it.

Hi, Noman, I have just checked Unichip. as you can see from their dyno test, they also achieve max 10% horsepower increase. (Something is wrong with the Unichip graph as the Pajero 3.8 has got around 245hp not 160hp. Maybe they edited the graph, since it does not look like a professional printout of their test. This graph could be for a 3.0 liter engine, which is very likely.) I have just tested the Chipcentric-tuned Pajero 3.8 SWB in Al Khatim this morning, and it was pulling just like a dream. I guess the feeling of power is more important than any graph. Chipcentric can also restore the original program in the ECU free of charge, as many times as needed. I will not need this service anyway. I pay only 2000AED for 1 car, since I got a deal for 4000AED for 2 cars.

I have a 3.8 SWB 2011 and was looking for chip tuning in the UAE, but I could not find any. Finally just now I found a company in Dubai close to Emirates Mall in the Al Quouz area that does chip tuning for many cars, including the Pajero. Check out the Chipcentric.me website. I have done the tuning, but I did not ask for the brake pad testing, simply, because I did not want to pay for it. The result is as they promissed. The Pajero pulls like never before, more responsive to the trottle. They promissed 10% hp increase, and I can confirm that. Torque has also increased. I am not sure about the fuel saving, more time needed to overwrite the memory by new data and see final result (500km). I am now tempted to speed all the time Chip tuning is nothing else just adjustment of the set limits in the car computer (ECU) still within safe limits. I got a deal for 2 Pajeros for 4000AED. I am going to chip tune a 3.0 SWB on the weekend.

Let's see what car is an alternative to a Pajero in the desert. Landirover 1st gen V8. Cheap, cannot break, not powerful, small tires, heavy as a lokomotive. Good starter kit. Jeep 2012: expensive, not a daily driver with constant steering wheel corrections above 100km/h. Acceleration is still not impressive. Nissan Xterra Off Road: Very good engine and transmission, difflock. The front bumper and radiator is very sensitive, even after lifting and with 16-285-75 BFG AT tires. Little heavy, but I liked it. Long Wheel Base cars are not for the desert, thely are not only heavy, but their belly will sit and stuck on top of the dunes. Speed will be needed to compensate, and that is the first step before a jump. Usually their rear end is long and caches the sand. No engine power can compensate for a Long Wheel Base. LWB Pajero is not for the lonely offroader crossing the desert. Short Wheel Base Pajero 3.8: Light, powerful, easy to lift by 4cm plastic spacers and twisting the front torsion bar. With 16-275-70 tires (or 75) and 8psi and difflock it will go anywhere. Front bumper lower flaps should be partially cut. Rear bumper needs to be fixed, or will be damaged. It has got the best 4wd that can be used on road as well, if needed. Good daily driver, too. The SWB 3.0 GLS is also amazingly good, but it will not go on top of extremely high dunes. Toyota: I do not like it. Al Ain story with Pajero SWB 3.8: I popped a tire and because the wheel nut was overtightened could not replace it. I drove out of the desert, approx 10km on 3 wheels, in 50 degrees heat. Local came to me and said: Mitsubishi not good, buy Toyota.