Hello everyone, I would like to start of by saying thanks to everyone who takes the time to read my post as well as respond to it. I'm currently in the market for an Evo 8. I came across one that looks rather awesome. It is a 2005 Clean title with 85k miles. It is nearly stock, the only modifications being an intake along with a greedy turbo timer. And some recent maintenance done to it including timing belt, water pump, and idler pulley done at 78K miles. My question is, once I go check it out in person what should I look for in terms of making sure that the engine is in good condition and wasn't necessarily abused too much, and if everything checks out fine is the price of 17.5k a good deal? I appreciate all the feedback, (Noob question how do I post pics, when I try to upload them a different pic comes out?)

 

Find a local shop that specializes in evo's and have them do a Pre-purchase inspection on what ever car you are serious about moving forward with. They are cheap and will save you piles of money and grief down the road.

 

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If you don't know what to look for you need to get someone who does, my advice would be to go out and test as many cars as you can around your local area, even if you dont want to purchase them. Get to listen what they sound like and the noises they have under the hood and through the drive trains. You will get a feel of what the good ones are v the bad ones, alot of it is how the owners attitude is towards maintaining it and how the log books and services are up to date. Don't throw you money away on the first one until you can make an informed decision based on experiance

 

if you search the forum, this question gets asked pretty often. but heres what I would do


before even going to look at the car I would ask the seller to do the following. if they're honest and they care about selling the car (these are the types of sellers ou want to deal with), then they would have no issues doing this


- compression test the engine (this is super easy to do vs a leakdown test)
- video of the car while its cold (start it and get shots of the cluster to see if there's any lights on, go outside to the exhaust to see if its smoking, then to the engine bay so that you can hear the engine) - host the video on youtube
- video of the car while driving to see if you can here any whines from the transmission, acd, transfer case - host the video on youtube
- pictures or video of the vin tags to make sure its not been in an accident


once you get the video/pics, post it on this thread and have us listen/see and we can provide some feedback. if things look good, then spend the time to go and look at it. again, this is what I would do.
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Compression test (easy diy) if you have a shop do it may as well have them boost leak test. Check all fluids, listen for knocks, t case whine, and/or rear diff grumbles these usually mean the respective part is on its last leg. Synchro grinds (can happen at high rpm so check those) but doesn't necessarily mean the trans is shot but a good penny to have fixed and can be a sign of abuse. handful of other things, if i repeated anything i apologize i didn't read the previous responses lol
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