if thats right, that sux. Now all I want to know is if the evo sportback will be produced for the US. If not, it looks like a 135i for me .

 

That would be amazing. I hope you're right, but even as a Subaru-guy (Or soon to be ex-Subaru-guy) I have to admit that the Evo VIII and IX are very responsive cars; superior to the STI in that respect by a long shot. If the X proved to be noticeably more responsive than the previous Evos, that's stunning.

Probably not for another year or two. I'm not a fan of hatchbacks or stationwagons (though I'd take one over an SUV or Minivan ANYday.) But the sportback concept looks really good to me. If you look at the Sportback Concept as the same as the Concept X and see how MItsu changed that, then the Sportback should look really good in final production form. If Mitsu acts like Subaru and makes the sportback the only version of the Evo, I wouldn't mind, to be honest.

But I definately think it'll be a 2010 car. I'll bet Mitsu is looking at the USDM acceptance of the new STI to see if the sportback would fly here.

 

astonishing compared to the 8 and the 9?

 

You know Mitsubishi themselves said the steering on the X won't be as "tactile" or as involving as the IV. Came straight from the project leader's mouth.

 

Yep.

 

Wow you have 1700 posts on here and you don't even own an Evo? If you plan on buying a 4B11 X, it looks like you never will either. Lame sauce. Why don't you just leave and go back onto the honda forums or something until the X actually comes out?

 

As the 4? Seems like an odd comparison. How did the IX compare to the IV?

And you have over 2000 and this is how you behave? You do realize the evolutionm.net has a bad reputation for responses like that, right?

 

I'm not into Hondas. You are one of the most immature people in this forum.Go away.

 

I tend to disagree. Ford boys blow motors all the time, just like anyone pushing any motor to its limits. The argument between the strength of aluminum to that of iron is really pointless. Aircraft are built out of aluminum and I don't exactly see too many dropping out of the sky because the "insane amount of power" coming from huge turbine engines distorted or warped the aluminum structure. The reason isn't the fact that in a 1/8" slab the iron has slightly higher strength than the aluminum slab, it is the shapes, gussets, supports that are created to make the aluminum structure actually stronger than a comparitive iron or steel one. AND, since aluminum is easier to machine and extrude, shops can make aluminum parts with the structural pieces a whole lot easier than they can with iron (and of course by iron block, it is meant cast iron). Therefore aluminum blocks can be made just as strong if not stronger than an iron block.

As an example, I have 2 friends with nearly similar srt-4s. One has a DTEC piggyback and puts down 381hp at the wheels with his "weak aluminum block", the other is running an AEM EMS and lays out 408whp/406wtq. remember that's with a weak aluminum block and a mere 2.4L compared to the 5L 302 motors. These guys aren't even close to the real power making srts out there either. There's also a guy on the srt forum making 789whp (street legal too!) and it's reliable as far as the block and heads are concerned.

On another note, what I find interesting is the fact that the Lancer currently has the 4B11 world motor and the evo x is supposedly going to be using it as well. It looks as if for the first time the Lancer will be able to hot swap parts directly from the evo without much effort! Which will make the Lancer tuner market a lot better than it is now.

 

i might remind everyone that the number of posts shown under our names means absolutely nothing. evom did this a long time ago. I have around 1500 for instance yet it only shows 204.

 

I'm one of the (few) people that doesn't seem to be crying over the new aluminum block, but it should be noted that the SRT-4 block is cast iron.

 

I thought the Srt4 engines are made of cast iron (A853) There are plenty of games you can play to beef up the strength of an aluminum block. The point is, with cast iron you don't need to beef anything up. Just add plenty of boost and your ready to start whoopin ***. I'll miss those days

 

my bad. i guess i was just going by this post and didn't look it up for myself. thanks for correcting the error though.

 

Under the discussion of aluminum engines, should I bring up the old VEGA engines. All aluminum block with no iron sleeves, only aluminum and impregnated silica. The engines got a bad rap, but it was because of poorly engineered valves and not the bad *** aluminum blocks.

 

sucks!!