Evo lifer? Or....
I was building a mint condish 1990 eagle talon all buschur built talon. my barn got broken into and everything was stolen except for the motor and trans. I ended up selling the car and motor and buying an evo. I always wanted one, and now its fully built. It took me 2 years but I love it. next car will be a z06!
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ok another old guy here, 43. i have , as you can imagine, a list of cars. but after all the chevy and ford small block strokers big block buicks etc. i finally bought my dream car . an 87 grand national. with a turbo the size of a basketball. bad ***. 25 psi of bliss. then i built a 85 regal with a 6.0l ls and a t76. YEAHHHHH buddy. big burnouts.
so for me it wasnt power it was boost. but hold on; in upstate ny and with my life clock winding down i thought it might be time for another subaru, maybe a wrx something 4wd. i bought a bugeye for a song. burnt exhaust valve. pulled the motor repaired, retuned. not bad but not nearly scary enough. in the meanwhile i was tuning a 04 sti for a local doctor and it was a max checkbook effort. wicked. i thought "i gotta get an evo" so thats what i did. 03 with a aluminum ix hood and fenders. atp gt30 v2, injectors blah blah but most importantly zero rust. i promptly wasted all the intake valves which i then debugged the whole car. long story short. i have no desire to buy another car. all season , big power, flat sexy. no reason to leave. i love my evo
so for me it wasnt power it was boost. but hold on; in upstate ny and with my life clock winding down i thought it might be time for another subaru, maybe a wrx something 4wd. i bought a bugeye for a song. burnt exhaust valve. pulled the motor repaired, retuned. not bad but not nearly scary enough. in the meanwhile i was tuning a 04 sti for a local doctor and it was a max checkbook effort. wicked. i thought "i gotta get an evo" so thats what i did. 03 with a aluminum ix hood and fenders. atp gt30 v2, injectors blah blah but most importantly zero rust. i promptly wasted all the intake valves which i then debugged the whole car. long story short. i have no desire to buy another car. all season , big power, flat sexy. no reason to leave. i love my evo
GN With an Evo? Love it!
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Bought my first evo in 2005. I bought a house and got married so I thought I needed a truck. Traded the evo for a 2004 duramax and drove it till it was paid off. Once it was paid for, I decided to get another evo. My wife and kids were very convincing because they missed it as much as I did. I will be keeping this car for a long time. I still remember how sad I was when I got rid of my first evo.
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I was building a mint condish 1990 eagle talon all buschur built talon. my barn got broken into and everything was stolen except for the motor and trans. I ended up selling the car and motor and buying an evo. I always wanted one, and now its fully built. It took me 2 years but I love it. next car will be a z06!
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Bought my first evo in 2005. I bought a house and got married so I thought I needed a truck. Traded the evo for a 2004 duramax and drove it till it was paid off. Once it was paid for, I decided to get another evo. My wife and kids were very convincing because they missed it as much as I did. I will be keeping this car for a long time. I still remember how sad I was when I got rid of my first evo.
"It rides too rough"
"It's too loud"
"It's a boy racer car"
Pisses me off.
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From: Nebraska
"i gotta get an evo" so thats what i did. 03 with a aluminum ix hood and fenders. atp gt30 v2, injectors blah blah but most importantly zero rust. i promptly wasted all the intake valves which i then debugged the whole car. long story short. i have no desire to buy another car. all season , big power, flat sexy. no reason to leave. i love my evo
05 and up RS/MR/SE had AL roofs as well
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I can say for certain I'll be a lifer. Been on these forums since 07, I'm going to be 22 next week... Went from a 2003 Ford Taurus, to a 2005 SRT-4, then to a 1999 GMC Safari (The Bang bus 
), had a 02 Subaru Wagon and now finally my 2005 WW Evo GSR. I'll drive this thing until it dies, revive it and repeat until the end of eternity.
Mike
), had a 02 Subaru Wagon and now finally my 2005 WW Evo GSR. I'll drive this thing until it dies, revive it and repeat until the end of eternity.Mike
I came from a bunch Foxbodys, then an 03 Cobra, then sold it for the Evo, huge mistake. Evo was my least favorite car I've owned yet. It was so expensive and unreliable it was never fun, just a pocket/time drainer. Just sold the Evo and got into E30s and couldn't be happier about that decision.
I've literally only had like maybe 5 people total ride in my Evo since I've had it. It's my toy and no woman is going to influence what I do with it.
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I just went TRE 1.5-Way and one thing... some people say you can only tell when you're ***** the wall... it's not true... there are some slippery roads around here where my car would understeer at decidely non-BTTW speeds and even though I cannot get on the power hard (I just passed 400 miles on break-in) I can tell the car is completely different. I could never power-slide (drift) the Evo as well as the WRX and I thought it was due to the insane grip but I think that won't be the case when I get round to testing it after break-in. Only 1600 miles to go. 
Yup. I restacked my diff and can now "drift" any turn I want at autox by simply giving it a bit more gas. It's a blast, having that option. I can now get on the gas much, much sooner at any event I do.