Just out of curiousity, does the USA spec EVO's run the Magnesium Turbine wheel that is found on the JDM MR, RS, and GT? Just curious. I found they have two different turbine wheels they are using on the 9 and was just curious to which one ours have. You should be able to tell by the color, I believe the Mag wheel will have a golden or yellowish color to it, but since it may have been contaminated by the exhaust who knows. I can try to get a pic of both if someone knows what a 9 USA spec turbo turbine/compressor wheel looks like?


Thanks For your time on this one

Just Curious.......

 

Nope.USDM EVO don't recive mag wheel.Also,mag wheel will broke easily from what i heard.

 

+1 - nope. +1 - mag wheel explodes.

 

Isn't it a titanium wheel?

 

Uh, no, haha.

 

It's made of unobtainium.

 

Japan doesnt offer a MR. It doesnt exist in japan.

 

Wasnt that on that movie the core?

 

The Titanium wheel on the turbo was in the EVO VII. As far as the magnesium wheel breaking apart or something, I just cant see it. Unless someone has proof of that? I would think Mits would research it first don't you think? I was just curious about it. I have seen japanese racing films where they are racing an MR. So I am guessing the Japanese imported it since someone said they don't have MR's in Japan? That doesn't make sense either. We all get our research from different places I guess. Video is pretty clear on the MR thing though. Maybe it was a UK model there for testing? I am still getting a kick out of people in the USA calling their base IX's as GSR's. They are not GSR's. haha. If anything, the closest model ours is to the JDM versions is the GT not the GSR.

 

Unless someone has proof of it? We didn't just make it up - it's happened all over Europe where that version was sold. There is no true Evo IX MR - only we have it in the US for marketing purposes. Any Japanese or UK MR you see is 2005 or newer.

Why get a kick out of us calling it a GSR? We don't call it a GSR because we think it's like the JDM GSR. We call it that, because it has no name and GSR is the easiest thing to call it. We call our MR the MR even though they have the same features in Japan without it being an MR. So what, we're not in Japan.

Titanium wheel in the VII? Sweet, never knew that. I thought only the TME 6.5 had that...

 

Not trying to argue here but isn't it easier to just say EVO 9 than GSR? I don't know it just sounds like we are posers to me. As for the Magnesium turbo wheel, maybe that is why Mits didn't give the USA the Mag wheel? With that 100K drivetrain warranty they are giving us here, imagine the warranty claims on that one! As for the MR thing, I just through it out there, I personally don't care for the MR, I mean I'll take one, but I drove both and took the Regular 9 home instead. I may get flamed for saying that, but there just isn't enough on the MR here in the good ol US of A to justify the almost 5K price difference. Maybe if it had more power or something. I don't know, but oh well, just glad we have the EVO here. I just get pissed off sometimes when I see rich bratty kids that never worked a day in their spoiled lives driving EVO's. Just one of my pet peeves I guess. I am hatin the rich supose...haha.......

 

No, it's not easier, because they're all Evo 9s. Just like all the 03-05s were Evo VIIIs. Telling me you have IX means you have an 06. Telling me you have a IX GSR means you have the base IX...

There's only a 1.5-2k difference between the GSR w/SSL and the MR. If you are talking about the base GSR vs the MR, then there's plenty of things worth 5k. It only matters if those things are valuable to you or not - in your case, the 17lb forged rims, 6spd tranny, aluminum roof, vortex generators, Bilstein shocks, and HIDs weren't valuable.

 

This was not true, at least in the Evo VIII timeframe. The internal Mitsubishi designation for the 2003 Evo VIII trim was GSR, even in the US.

 

If I had a dollar for every STI VF39 turbine wheel that fell off the turbo. The VF39 turbine wheel and housing was contracted to MHI heavy by IHI & FUJI.

Cheers,

Gary
Gruppe-S

 

Yeah how you mentioned the MR differences. I drove both, and yes in my point of view its not worth the bread to say. yeah it has 17lb forged wheels vs. 18lb semi forged wheels, a 6 spd people love to hate, vs a tried and true 5 spd, vortec generator that really does nothing unless your at like 130mph, and bilstien shocks that give it a softer ride, and lets not forget the so easy to dent aluminum roof that if a cat jumps on it dents. mmmmm plus 5K more? See my point. The 6 spd and the suspension is what I didn't like the most. The suspension on the MR compared to the base is just different to say the least. I like the firmer KYB set up but that is a wash to preference. The 6 spd just was a love hate affair. After driving a Toyota Matrix XRS with a 6 spd, driving the MR 6 spd you would think would be better, but it shifted much worse. The 5 speed just seemed smoother. Don't know, like I said its a wash. I also liked how I didn't have to shift from 2-3 on the on ramp like in the 5 spd. I just seemed to get to freeway speed quicker with the 5 spd. I don't know, again a wash. Great car though. I liked the Guage Pack the MR comes with, that is sweet, and its a novelty, supposevly only 1000 coming to the USA this year, vs 3000-3500 for the other cars (combined). So exclusivity is there. I spoke with a friend that works at Cypres (Mitsubishi Headquarters in California) where he works is research and developement, he told me the GSR name was not coming here, I asked why they didn't just keep the same names, simply put, they are not the same car. So take that for what its worth. He did say there is a US spec, and a UK spec JDM spec. All meeting different demands for the area of the world in which they are sold. Our crash tests, fuel regulations, and smog requirments, no AYC (to keep cost down) and other add on's that we will never see here. The little add on's it what makes each model different. Can we call a GSR? Sure you can. Is it a GSR no its not. So I am still confused on that notion. Since there is no "base" car in Europe, I can see how we are making the comparo, base vs. base, but "their" base and our base cars are not identical. I saw a video with the GT model in Japan and it had a GPS system and DVD with 7" screen in our stereo location. Now that would be cool. For the 9, the closest thing we have to the UK and Japan versions is the GT which we share the same suspension, tranny, NO AYC (like here) but it DOES have the engine with the Magnesium Trubine of which we don't have here. Plus that nice looking ICE inside.