Towing with your evo??
 

I enjoy doing trackdays and weekend races with my sportbike during the race season, I always see guys showing up with all types of cars hooked up to trailers towing in smaller trailers with bikes. Has anyone did tried towing with an evo? total weight for my setup, trailer and bike is around 900lbs.

900 pounds is nothing. Go for it.

dont do that

I don't think I would put my Evo through that.

So thats one and one right now. What component of the drivetrain would fail first?

dude that lil bit of weight isnt going to hurt your car. I would think it would hurt your clutch more then anything.

now towing trucks and jet skis woudbe a no.(cuz your have to dip your car is water and have to drive up the ramp and what not),....

I've seen a single jetski towed by an STI before, so I see no reason why an Evo wouldn't. I mean the brakes are more than capable, and its not like you have to drive agressively, I would say it is harmless. However a hitch will look dumb on the car IMO, but it is your car.

I've towed a jet ski with my Evo MANY times, you will not have any issues. I agree with last guy though, it will be harder on your clutch.

it'll be fine!!!! when i blew up my transfer case my buddy in his evo towed me 3 miles home!!

I'd say go for it, if you do not have another vehicle capable of towing.

x2 on the tow hitch looking dumb though. but go for it i see no problem. i forget what our tow capacity is but im sure you could look it up. i wouldnt reccommend towing with like 5 people in the car though. maybe just you and one other person max

thanks for the feedback and yes I know it would look dumb but it wouldnt be permanent. I woulndt drive with that setup more than 100-125 miles as I'd be sticking to the closer tracks mostly thunderbolt in S NJ.

Is capable of towing ...
But some people rather not too
But hey is your evo do what you want to do with it

You want to make sure that you're not constantly in boost; I wouldn't tow anything up a mountain for instance.

nice your in south jersey like me and you safe its flat here no mountains or anything. i dont see why it can't tow 900lbs. I have seen all types of piece of crap cars towing jet ski and everything down to the shore, in the hottest weather.

Personally, I think an evo towing a sportbike would look bad a**. :) Shouldn't have any problems...

Virtually any car can handle under 1000lbs, it is just going to come down to how you drive while pulling it. Seems like everybody I know likes to try to drive as fast as they normally do when they aren't towing anything which is part of the reason why so many people down here have diesel duallys to tow some tiny ***** ass fishing boat - they just don't want to feel any sort of drag at all.

Your clutch is going to absorb most of the pain, followed by your brakes.

1k is nothing, if you have doubts about towing that little amount of weight with your car, you should probably never launch it as well. lol

Personally it's too nice of a car to be using it for towing. Buy a beater for towing.

if I had money to buy a whole nother vechicle to tow my bike, I wouldn't have made this thread in the first place. And to add to this I've been at trackdays when we shared track with cars/bikes, and there were 911's showing up with trailers made for extra wheels and tires, spare parts etc. I wouldn't mind the look of towing something that could whoop my evos ass anyday pound for pound.

My brothers Evo towed me when my fuse blew....just start very slowly(think 90 year old grandma) after you have inertia then its easier on the car.

yea man thats all you see going to the millville track, 911's with a small ass trailer and 4 tires with rims on it lol, i don't think it looks dumb at all and those guys don't drive slow at all.

Yea 900lbs is nothing I would not hesitate to tow with it if I didnt have a truck to haha

DO it. It will be fine.

http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l1...t/IMG_2981.jpg

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Total weight above was almost 1500LBS.No problems for my EvoII.

Here is the thread I started(that some mod moved to show/shine for some reason?)

https://www.evolutionm.net/forums/ev...e-tow-rig.html

^^ lol I want more pictures of evos towing something :D

I have a tow hitch with a 1 1/4" receiver for my Evo. Purchased it off this board. They say not to tow more than 1,000lbs with these cars and watch your tongue weight. I haven't used it yet but I plan to tow my Yz450F to the track next spring.

very nice setup, how much difference do you feel in the car while driving with the trailer hooked up?

Very little.Find 3 or 4 large people and toss a bit of weight in the trunk of your car.......it feels about the same.You know there is a bit of weight behind you,but the car can easily handle it.

As long as your car is in decent shape.....no problems with towing a little trailer.

Even with my Land Rover engine and tranny in the trailer the EvoII just sailed along the highway like it was nothing.

+1

evom memember Savaho's evo.
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Hell yeah were the only words that came to mind when seeing evo above! lol. thats awesome.

I used to tow 2 dirtbikes, a pressure washer, and a half-full 30gal drum of water back and forth with my Dad's 95 4cyl accord, and my moms 99 Toyota Camry. Neither had a problem (I will admit, the camry was a little hairy above 45mph though haha)

towing a motorcycle with an evo is nothing compared to this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6yj7kHHg08

When I had my wrx I towed a 450 dirt bike on a small trailer with it for 2 years. The car had an 18g turbo and all the mods to go with it. It was tuned with a Utec so I just copied my normal map and added some fuel and pulled a bunch of timing. It worked great. I used tell people that my tow vehicle ran 12's. LOL

i pulled my friends sti after he blew the motor on it... and it was no issue...

I would not sweat pulling it... Its only 900 lbs, then no problem.... Just like rolling with 4 hefty passengers.

i wouldn't hesitate to tow that much weight at all, especially since it is rolling weight if it messes with anything on your car there are deeper problems that need to be addressed anyway

keep in mind, evo has a unibody frame and it's not meant for towing unlike a body over frame small pickup which is good for towing...

Most,if not all,SUV's are now unibody.They along with most cars are rated to tow from the factory.

I used 3 locations to attach the reciever to the Evo,its fine.
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Using the factory tie down/tow hook gives a strong mount location right behind the hitch itself.
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No worries.

That jetski set up is sweet!

I'm curious who "they" is, but I'm 100% sure the manual states this vehicle (evo 8/9) is not towing capable....saw it the other day.

Now that being said, what does that mean?
The vehicle was never meant to tow anything, which means it never passed any gov. tow regulations/tests etc. or internal OEM tests.

In general most vehicles can tow 1000lbs, and that is because the vehicle's passenger loading/luggage is normally double that (depending on the vehicle). So fully loading your vehicle up and towing a trailer would not be a good choice.

Some reasons for towing limits are:
1) Axle gross weight (added by tonge weight)
2) Bearing loading
3) Engine cooling
4) mission/driveline cooling
5) Engine torque
6) Frame loading
7) Brake capability

Not saying these apply, just in general.
In addition, most unibody vehicles with tow packages can not attach to the subframe, so hitches are mounted to the actual white body frame, but those sections of course have increased strength/stiffness for towing capabilities.... IE look at all Honda vehicles.

If you do a search you'd see this had all been covered in the past. I bought the tow hitch from a rally team on this board. I believe it was used to tow equipment around.

You are right about the limitations of towing and what you can get away with on the Evo. I am sorry if I hadn't explained it enough. But like I said, a simple search will pull up all the information you need. {thumbup}

TOW a Banshee With my evo
 

I Tow my Banshee with My Evo With noproblems every weekend
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What hitch system do you use?

shouldent have any problems towing one.. just make sure your not having it towed as in the front end off the ground and the rear on the ground. ull destroy ur limited differential in a heartbeat .. and maybe more..

Are you joking? Oh wait.... you're a newb....

May want to make sure you've read the OP properly before responding.

I made a custom tow hitch from a 1996 Yukon I cut the mounting points off and fab up some bracket weld it to the hitch and bolt it up to the two slots in the frame also I fab up a mounting point on the factory tow hitch for support and cut out the bumper were the plate goes and put a hinge on it so the plate can hide the tow hitch when not in use.