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Kumakubo's brand new D1 drift machine - Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 9 (IX) was finally unveiled and made its debut run at Round 5 of the 2007 D1 grand prix series at Ebisu

Lancer Evolution 9 D1 drift machine driven by Team Orange's front man Kumakubo Nobushige. As you can see in this picture the 500+hp 4G63 turbo engine is installed north-south like conventional rear wheel drive cars and not east-west how Lancers originally come from the factory.

Kumakubo qualifed in the Best 16 and made it through the first round but was knocked out after he missed a gear shift on one of his runs. He said the cause was a stuck clutch. The clutch pedal didn't come up - The painful woes of a new drift car.

Kumakubo said he wanted to change to a Lancer after he was a stunt driver in this years Hollywood movie Fast and Furious 3: Tokyo Drift and liked the way the Lancer Evo handled and moved.

xLaNcErEvOx

iTrader: (57)

wow i like that better than the sti drift car they have.

Vostok 7

iTrader: (13)

Hey, those are MY wheels!

Mmmm RWD rotated engine Evo *augughghghhghghghhg*

Vostok 7

GarageRM

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NICE to see another well build JUN creations..

kyoo

iTrader: (29)

crazy! why's the engine rotated?

flye8

Better weight distribution? the layout is just like s15.
Anyone know which turbine this one used? 20G or 25G?

Abner

Ive seen intercoolers mounted this way on other drift cars but never without an air guide. You guys think the aerodynamics of the hood helps pull air through?

evo ippo

iTrader: (40)

actually i think it should have a scoop because that looks like a slandered v mount and JUN auto won't forget th scoop on a RWD Evo with a rotated engine

4g63_guy

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wow...that's just crazy...sick car all together

Evo IX MR

The engine is "rotated" a.k.a. transversely mounted because thats how RWD cars are supposed to be. Our engine is originally horizontally mounted because the Evo is an AWD car that is based on a FWD setup (which is horizontally mounted)- think Honda. Now that the Evo has been converted to RWD they transversely mounted the engine so that they could move it further back in order to get better weight distribution. This and the fact that it does not need the front and center differentials should make the weight distribution much better than a normal Evo. This car is going to be bad-***, it has a Jun Auto built 500-600hp stroker engine and a Hollinger sequential transmission.

tripperfx3

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Damn sexy! That must be hard to do the V-mount on that car. It looks like the did what Weld did with their S14 silvia and mounted the motor lower in the car (lower center of gravity) and pushed the firewall back along with moving the motor back (for better weight distribution). It wasnt really necessary on the Evo to turn the motor, but i see why they did it like mentioned above. Im really looking forward to seeing how this car will perform.

Just noticed he debuted at Ebisu which is his home course and he owns part if not most of it. Gotta go big for the hometown

kikiboi

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Ballin!!!!

WW IX RS

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Im pretty sure they did that so they could use a real trans. like a normal rwd car insted of a trans. axle like the evo comes with stock.

Emagine all the stress from drifting like kicking the clutch and stuff.... It would kill the trans. axle but especially the transfer case all the time im sure..

IMR-TIM

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Wow, thats a lot of fabrication. Very nicely done. Hahahaa I just sold "erraticevo" on here those same Enkei GTC-01 wheels for his GG IX.

NY Evolutionary

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I like that front bumper!