wow! You've been stock for that long man? lol. last I saw your car it was years ago at the dcevoclub bbq. Lookin good man.

 

Will have to check my invoices to see all that I ordered. I didn't do any dynos prior, but there are a lot of stock dynos out there on the 9. You'll definitely see an after chart.

Yeah man. Its changed internally. Externally, still stock looking. Hoping this time around, at the BBQ, I won't feel so nubbish.

~Chug

 

Looks like fun! btw, which intercooler is that?

 

This one

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/585/imag0052.png/

 

ETS intercooler.

ETS intercooler pipe.

~Chug

 

Some more pics.

Battery out. Removing stock intake out (please excuse the dirtiness of the engine bay).



New ETS intercooler on.



Stock Exhaust off (amazing how dirty it is under the car).



More to come...

~Chug

 

good build

 

I like the exhaust, tanabe?

 

The car will be night and day different. I hope you end up making good power!

 

Agreed.

Yep. Wanted something that would not be a popo magnet and it looks clean to me.

Yeah, I can't wait to see how much we can unlock in this, especially going from bone stock to 'mild' power. I still have some parts that I need to install (cams, retainer/springs, heads, etc.). Hopefully once this baby is tuned, I'll be in the high 300s.

~Chug

 

More updates (I know its been a while):























Just put the car into the shop this past weekend. All the engine work to be done within this week. Hope to have more to show and get some numbers in by next week.

Cheers,

~Chug

 

that exhaust looks real nice. are you doing any suspension work?

 

i don't know how you lasted 5 years, but you for sure won't be able to stop upgrading now.

 

As of right now, no. Just keeping the stock MR suspension (until some more funds become available).


Haha. It wasn't too hard. But now that I've started, it's definitely not easy to resist clicking 'submit' and buy.

Just super excited to get it up and running and tuned. I want to hear it roar and feel the power change. Figured anything is going to be different than stock.

~Chug

 

Hahaha, it sounds exactly similar to what I'm doing. I inherited the Evo from the wife a few months back, and just pulled the trigger on over $5000 worth of mods in the past few weeks. A local shop is installing most of my parts and doing a tune by the end of this week. Mine's also a WW '06 MR with just under 30k miles on it.