What's up peeps. I was just wondering what parts on the Evo wear out pretty fast with just daily driving. I know that the clutch wears out pretty fast becuase the stock flywheel doesn't do a good job of dissipating the heat created by the clutch well, so it makes the clutch wear out pretty fast. But all I would have to do is just put in a performance clutch and flywheel, which I would have to do eventually when I start making some real power. Just trying to make a list of stuff I would need to do to make the Evo a better daily driver.

 

tires, brakes, spark plugs every 3-6k if you run coppers, drive train fluids every 10k. I do it every 6-8k, coolant flush 3 times a year.

 

That plan is for like Race cars,if you don't drive spireted all the time you can change stuff at a later mileage. I change things as they are needed, but i do have a full shop to my disposal to do stuff like that. I know your tires wear out verry fast, mainly because of the negative camber the evo has stock.

Basicly all the Stuff that normaly wears out on a average car wears out on an evo, only much faster.


BTW if you put a performance clutch, or even if you don't, you should change your motor mounts to the polyurathane ones. Much much better, it even minimizes wheel hop!! I didn't beleive it a first but I installed a set of 4 on a customers evo, and wow there was a huge difference, you don't even have to rip it to notice. I was just moving it out and you let the clutch out and it grabbed without doing that wobble. The stock mounts are Extremely soft to allow for little cabin vibration.

 

I wouldnt let copper plugs go any longer than 6k. After that their shot. Also If you like to keep your tranny shifting nice change the fluid regulaly. TC fluid changes regularly with Diaqueen are a must too. Especially in 03-04 EVOS with the weaker spider gears. TC fluid gets nasty quick

I follow my methods and my EVO runs 100% almost 60k on mine and 32k on hers now and it gets better everyday

 

Would you suggest changing the shifter bushings at the base and under the hood? I'm assuming anything to help shifting would prolong the life of the TC/Tranny or am I wrong? Hoping to add to the thread here.

 

I service mine per the book (owners manual). 40k and counting. nothing unusual. the clutch will only give up the ghost quickly if you a) can't drive or b) launch regularly.

 

Haven't seen an Evo with them changed yet, but I would supposed that the Would help stiffen up the Linkage. But rember with new bushings that are stiffer you will have more vibrations. But only a small price to pay for some intense improvement on the performance end.

 

coolant flush 3x a year? wow.... you probably run your car pretty hard

 

I put alot of miles on. Its my DD

I do it once before winter once after than once during the summer. Im ****.

Im buying a GSR Swaped hatch for DD. I miss my VTEC

 

Service the car by your owners manual unless you are really beating the crap out of it or making a ton of power with it.

The shifter bushings make the shifting feel much tighter, they do not add any vibration what-so-ever.

The engine mounts can add some vibration and we only suggest installing the front mount in most cases.

Neither of these mods are going to be something that needs to be done to make it more reliable as a daily driver.

I'd say don't change the clutch until it is worn out and needs to be replaced.

 

EVO is a high maintenance car

 

I've used mine as a DD since I bought it in June of 2005. I'm at 49,000 miles. To date, the only things I've had done are:

1) Oil changes every 5,000 miles.
2) Fluid change + drive belt replacement at 30,000 miles.

I'm still on my stock clutch (no sign of needing to be replaced any time soon), stock brake pads (perfect so far) and stock spark plugs (Al said they were fine - no knock - during the custom road tune he gave me in Sept). I just put on my third set of tires a week ago (Khumos). The stock Advans lasted me 16,000 miles and the Falkens lasted me 32,000 miles. All told, the Evo hasn't been ruinous financially. The enjoyability quotient is, in my opinion, high enough to justify the cost.

 

Wow that's a lotta miles for 18 months!

 

Strait from the horses mouth.



Severe Driving

 

Thank you so much for the scans ak47po. I lost my owners manual Not tha I ever read it but I wanted to have that scheduled mainteance table to serve me as guide.