Its been said a billion times whenever someones looking for a evo. The MRs 6 speed cant hold as much power. The transmission breaks easier. If you search you can find all sports of technical info on it.

 

Heat soak kills fourth gear in the six speed, there are cars on EvoM putting down over 500whp without issue.

It's long duration performance driving that eventually does it in, not spirited driving or daily commutes.

 

So I'd be better off gettin a 5 speed over a 6 if I want less
problems or is it all a gamble?

 

Five speed if you plan on heating it up by road racing, auto-x, etc for peace of mind.
Six speed if you need the cruising gear and don't have plans to track the car, etc.

 

Alright that sounds pretty good, I was always wondering whether 6speed would dominate over 5 or not

 

close to stock is always a plus

 

Yeah I was told, the more you upgrade the more maintenance will be needed

 

I'm looking for one right now and I'm very picky when it comes to my cars.

• 8.5/10 Condition Inside & Out
• Low Miles
• Stock or Lightly Modded
• No Accidents
• Clean Carfax
• Preferably Private Seller

The reason why I say preferably private seller is because that way you can know more about the car. What he did to it, what his plans were and where he got his parts, if any, installed.

 

Those are great points to follow by when buying any car!

 

year, mileage, divide the mileage by the years driven to get an average. body condition for knicks, rust, chips to see how the car was driven (hwy will usually have more chips in bumper). How clean the interior is also shows how the previous owner treated the car. Just the usual stuff....i'd always get stock and do mods yourself, that way you know the car is unmolested

 

I agree with other posters on here about the benefits of buying an evo from a private seller. A dealership will have a mark up and try to sell you extended warranties etc without really telling you much/anything about the car's history. Unless you get lucky and it was serviced there or something like that.

Anybody have thoughts on whether or not it means anything if the car has a manual boost controller? Do people tend to leave those in when they sell them or remove them? Figure an evo that's never had a boost controller installed would be a plus.

 

A MBC allows you to run higher than stock boost levels by preventing the wastegate from opening at its rated pressure. It does a great job at this but if boost is available under the MBC setting it will give you that full boost. So for instance, you set your MBC to 18psi because from 3000-6000rpm thats what you want. But then say you get detonation with 18psi when you are at 7000rpm unless you are below 16psi. With a MBC, you do not have this control so you are forced to run 16psi through the entire rev range. With an electronic boost controller you could run 18psi from 3000-6000 and 16psi at 7000rpm because you can tune the boost map in the ECU which will allow you to run the maximum amount of boost at every given rpm. This gives you more power throughout the range and better control.