Well we can agree to disagree My stock block Evo IX has carried me through DE1-4, well into NASA TT over nearly 4 years and has only left the track not-running one time, and that was mechanic error (me, left some wiring too close to the exhaust manifold, melted-dead short).

And rocker arm broke? WTF? How does that even happen?

 

IDK man. I hate this car. Trading my 335i is the dumbest thing I've ever done

 

Well with stuff like that I can understand. I do all my own wrenching and spend countless hours working on the car, but, it's a race car now and that just comes with the territory....

I got lucky and bought a bone stock IX with 25k on the clock. Had never been modded. Buying a used Evo can be risky. Too many people do stupid things to them, then do half baked jobs of trying to de-mod them before selling them.

 

amen to that

 

So, I'm the original poster. The "survey/vote" thing was a gimmick to see if I could get some feedback from the community; I was feeling a little desperate and felt I needed it. Thanks again to you guys who responded. I wound up getting it rebuilt by one of the guys who reponded, evolve_viii. The review of the build is here:
https://www.evolutionm.net/forums/ev...l#post10965929

 

Except for when the Vanos fails and costs $6-$7k to fix!




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I went through that one, had to do the rebuild myself ;(

But you cant be serious about a junkyard? Either sell it broken or fix!

 

til you get an electrical problem