Figured Id stop in and introduce myself. My name is Wes and I live in Vegas and it sucks. I owed a EVO 9 for about a month until I heard a ticking noise comeing from the engine area, it only had like 50 miles stil breaking it in. I go back to the dealer where I bought it from and they basicaly said sucks for you, pay to get it fixed. I told them to shove it,got my down payment back, walked across the stret and picked up a 07 STi. I just recently sold the STi, loved the car but wanted to go for a EVO. Ill prob be picking up a EVO 8 in July, need to save more money so I can pay cash.
I have no pics of the STi, but Il put up a mod list anyway.
Exterior:
Seibon carbon fiber fenders
Seibon carbon fiber hood
Seibon carbon fiber trunk
Seibon carbon fiber lip
Blacktop Aero carbon fiber lip spoiler
Performance:
Turbo XS tbe
Turbo XS fmic w/ tial 50m bov
PnP manilfold and uppipe w/Tial 44mm ewg
SPT intake
HOA ebc
Rims:
XXR 522 18x9.5+25
225/40/18 Nexen N3000
Suspension:
Godspeed coilocers
Cobb 25mm front and rear swaybars

 

Well with that mod list, you shoulda kept the STi

 

ticking noise is normal..?

 

whys that

 

Yeah ticking nosie is normal it could be a lifter or injectors. should have kept it

 

It was not injector tick, trust me, way worse. I met the guy that bought the EVO after I gave it back, he said the engine blew at 3k miles but didnt know the reason why. I got rid of the STi due to unemployment, then wouldnt you know it, the next day I got a new job.

 

Because that sounds like it has a lot done to it. To get the Evo to that point your going to spend twice as much as you got selling the car...Whenever a car is modified you never get your money back out of it.

 

Ru roh...my engine is ticking, but it just sounds normal to me, good to hear you are coming back to the Evo though.

 

Although you have a point in your statement, you point is invalid in this situation. If you actually read his mod list, you'll realize that the only performance parts he really had where a boost controller and piping. The blow-off valve is minimal.

In terms of performance he would be better off in the Evo, as Evo's gain much more power from minimal mods than STi's do.

 

Pics of the STI.

 

Pay to get it fixed. Isn't it still under warranty since its only been 50 miles?

 

I never once mentioned performance mods? Performance bolt ons are penies compared to suspension mods and cosemetic mods, if done right. Regardless, I have learned from buying things, modding them then selling them, that you loose un Godly ammounts of money doing this.

 

was the 9 brand new?

 

They wouldnt warrenty it, they said i bet on it. Yes the EVO9 was brand new. I sold the car for 23k and parted it out, it was al stock when I sold it. When I sold the STi, out of parts plus the money left after I paid it off, I made a little over 10k.

 

Good luck with the search, there's deals to be had out there.