Hey all, here is a picture of my new evo and I was just wondering if the stance looks a little funny. I hadn't noticed it yet until I was sitting outside a decent distance away and noticed that the front looks higher than the rear (judging only from the wheel wells and how far away they are from the tires). Is this how it's supposed to look from stock (no aftermarket coilovers are installed)? It more noticeable in person but there are shadows in the picture.



Secondly, I noticed that if I'm in neutral, or holding the clutch in, and I rev the engine, there's definitely some response lag (not a huge amount of lag but noticeable). It also takes a very long time for the engine to cease the rev. For example, if I rev to 2500 rpm, it takes almost 2 seconds to get back down to idle from the peak of the rev. I apologize for the confusion with the wording but I'm not sure exactly how to explain it. This is my first evo and my first TC car, so I'm wondering if this is common/expected?

Thanks.

 

Stance is normal. Get the new flash to help with the revving, but that's normal too.

 

Check the springs to be sure that the dealer didn't leave the shipping spacers in there, but it's normal for the front to be a bit higher than the rear.

The revs hanging a bit is normal on modern drive-by-wire cars. supposedly it has something to do with emissions.

 

these cars mountain climb from the factory

 

I didn't notice the stance with my factory springs but with my new Tanabe GF210s the front sits a little higher.

The Tanabe rep told the guy who sold them to me that the fronts will settle in a week or two and the reason they are higher at first is because of the different spring rates between the front and back.

I haven't noticed any lag in revs but I have the newest reflash, got it 2 days ago

 

maybe it's the shadow, but it looks higher than normal..

 

Your car's stance is fine.

The slower rev drops on the Evo X are normal (makes it tougher to rev match though).

 

normal stance. subes had the same thing with the front fenderwell making the gap appear bigger. and drive by wire is the lag. which is on all new cars

 

The stance is normal for stock. Check out tire rack, they have eibach pro-kit.
The hesitation on initial rev should be fixable with flash, its still drive by wire, which is better than throttle cable, but still not instantaneous.
The slow rev drop is by design. Its supposed to help with rev matching.

 

Check for spring spacers, I know Honda dealerships leave them in S2000's all the time so it wouldn't surprise me if Mitsu dealerships did the same on Evo's.

 

I checked and there's definitely spacers in the front springs. I didn't think to check until I started hearing weird noises coming from the front of the car. Some people on here thought it was normal so I hadn't looked. I tried to pull them out myself (stupid idea) so I guess I'll have to take it to the dealer but I won't be able to until the end of the week. Is it bad to drive with the spacers in for so long (I've already put 750 miles on with the spacers in)?

 

Its not going to hurt anything to leave them in (except your car will look lifted and it won't handle as well as it should), but if you jack the car up (you can use the spare tire jack in the truck if you don't have a better one) the spacers should pull out very easily. I pulled the spacers out of a S2k with over 50k miles on it once.

 

I never even thought to check for this. Where would the spacers be and what do they look like? I don't think mine has them in it since my dealer knows how to properly PDI a car I would assume, but I would be curious to check just in case.

 

The wheel gap is stupid

 

They are black rubber pieces that fit between coils of the springs. Hearing of dealerships leaving them in is unlikely but do-able I guess. But ya you can't miss them...look inside the wheel well and at the springs and large rubber blocks will be in the coils.