Once completely installed and thoroughly checked out, the car was started and idled briefly. Everything is checked again after a few minutes, and soon James has given the thumbs-up.

For its maiden voyage, the 3.9L motor propelled the GT3RS on a 500 mile drive, from SharkWerks to northern-northern California's coast, to meet with Snowboarder54 (a friend of SharkWerks and a huge GT3 fan).


Before any hard driving, the car was once again re-inspected by James. Now it's time to tune the car, which requires a 1500+ mile round trip to our performance partner and tuner, Todd Zuccone of Evolution Motorsports in Tempe, Arizona.


This also gave us a good opportunity to break-in and thoroughly road test the new motor.

Somewhere in the desert, we tested the effectiveness of our green camouflage. Maybe Sand Beige would've worked better here.


Much later, the car arrives at Evolution Motorsports, to begin tuning on this pleasant 110 degree day.





Big thanks to Geri Amani of Redlign Autosports for enduring the Arizona heat and taking some of these shots.

The car spent several days on Evolution MotorSports' AWD Mustang Dyno to tune and tweak every parameter of the fuel maps, ignition timing, camshaft timing and other parameters for safety, maximum performance, and reliability.


Todd Zuccone – Evolution MotorSports Founder and director of EVOMSit software development, used an ECU emulator / EPROM simulator module to live tune the ECU on the dyno. This type of technology allows live tuning of the ECU for instant mapping changes as well as live monitoring of the various EPROM functions. This is the kind of thing usually seen in Europe, but fortunately, we have some great footage which we will be uploading soon.







This is the emulator connected to the GT3 ECU which gets run through a special program on the laptop, allowing instant changes to be made to the ECU during the tuning process while still installed in the car.

For a full overview of the EVOMSit Tuning process, please view this article.