I just bought my first evo, but I first autocrossed one in 03 when they first came out.

Bone stock car with Victoracers: Quick, but a lot of understeer. It had to be trail braked a lot to get it into corners, still a top 5 car at the local autoX. With only the addition of a rear sway bar and the thing was MAGIC, very memorable and I checked the box that I would own one, one day. We immediately set FTD in that car and the best part? our run group ran in the rain that afternoon.

The car's owner got excited about the car's results and wanted more. By the next event he had lowering springs on it (I don't remember the brand), a mbc, "cold-air" intake, and a cat-back. The car was definitely quicker in a straight line, but the thing handled like garbage. Roughly the same competition, and we were 10th or so from FTD. He left it like that a few more months because "it sure did look good", and it did, but when he finally put the stock springs back on it, it was game-on again. FTD, FTD, FTD.

I'm with cs8265, these cars are awesome out of the box, and that goes for A LOT of newer performance cars. Its just my opinion, but I think its a whole lot easier to make a new car worse, than better, these days. Reasonable hp gains are easy enough, but all but gone are the days that Joe Schmo is going to out-engineer the guys at the factory. How many guys have you talked to that have the latest, greatest, multi-adjustable dampers and the car is slower than stock? They probably won't admit it, but it happens all the time.

I'm looking forward to transforming the 9 I just bought back to more of a stock car too.

Speaking of that, anybody want some Tein parts...

 

ITS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE THE MOD BUG BITES.

My only suggestion is to think 10 steps into the future of your car BEFORE you start modding it. That way you don't do every mod three times like I'm going to end up doing..

 

Jumped off the edge with my blue Evo. Was geared more towards drag. Never got to put on the strip before it met its early demise.

Black one I have now I'm not even sure if I'm gonna keep it. I'm still pissed at spending essentially the same amount of money a 2nd go round. For now its going to be a daily driver (although I must be getting old because its a little too loud for me and its the same damn exhaust).

 

Before I bought my car, I always knew I would track it. There was no doubt in my mind. Like others have said, my car is strictly a garage queen. I have a DD for everyday use, and barely drive the Evo. So if I broke it going anywhere, I would be ok. It already had a few mods when I picked it up, but I have added stuff to it over the last couple months. Since this is my first year going to the track in my own car, I'm taking it as a learning experience. I'm building my car to be able to go to shows and have it look nice, but then take it to the track and run a good quarter mile. I wasn't interested in anything else for the car and probably won't be.

 

Plan is when the car is paid off, i want to restore and detail the car replace all worn out parts with new ones, remove rust, restore the paint, then build it into a 700hp car that i can enjoy on the weekends, and at local car meets. I dont plan on tracking it mainly to enjoy on the streets and shows

 

Making sure everything runs the way it should and stays as reliable as Evos get.

Added: beyond that, I want it to stay balanced. Faster and quicker in a straight line, but better braking and handling, even more so.

 

A very fast street car.

It looks like this, but makes ~900whp/715wtq. I even have my M&H Radials mounted on the stock IX wheels.


I'm selling it now for a lot less than I have into mods alone, I just want something else(with /gasp a V8).

 

^Going for that new boss 302?

Sleeper evo if it's producing that. I wouldn't guess even half that from the exterior!

 

thats pretty bad ***, nice job man

 

Yea something like this where people cant tell its fast

 

That's a little to nice!!!

 

I believe my best situational direction will go from weekend/nice weather warrior to straight Track Time Attack/Time Trials once the car is paid off in 3 years.

 

I think overall a daily driver with weekend power. Does that make any sense?