kev_evo1

Hi People

Heard few good tings about the forum so thought I would join up. I have been floating around Mlr and evo123 sites for awhile but they seem to be losing there ways as everyone is turning towards fb etc

Anyway I have a Evo 1 which I have had in use since 2010

Shall post some pics very soon



Been using the car as a daily and many blast down the dragstrip aka santa pod and still going strong

Speedlimit

Hello!

Thank you for checking in and welcome! It is great to have you part of our community and thank you for picture!

Bob..

Jonno99

hey mate, tell me a bit about your Evo 1, dont really get to see to many of them around these days

kev_evo1

well when I got my hands on it she was only running light mods ie Air filter, 3inch turbo back exhaust a uprated clutch and lighten flywheel and that was it she run 277bhp on 10psi.

I got the car for a steal as the head gasket was blown

I replaced that and then the tuning bug started I fitted a ostrich piggy back so I could map the ecu then wound the boost up o 20 psi and ran a 12.1@111mph

But then the engine suffered crank walk so I rebuild the bottom end, Got my hands on another crank which I had hardened to help stop it from walking again, I used evo 8 mr320 piston and rods, arp con rod bolts, head stud conversion, mls gasket, balance shaft delete kit and to top it of a td05 20g

Then I decided to change the ecu for one out of a evo 6 so I could run a 3 port controller. Mapping finished @ 385bhp 370ft lbs running 1.6bar

That was back in 2012 and the engine was still going strong to this day.

Last month I took things further and took the head off fitted new guides bc springs and retainers and a brand new set of Kelford 272's

Used some nice piper cam pulleys so I could have a play with the cams found a nice setting with +2 ex +1 in

Also fitted a custom td05 with a 6sl2 20g 11 blade wheel

I tweaked the map myself, removed some timing and added fuel to get 0 knock and fuelling in the 11.5 range then went for a power run on the local rolling road and she pulled 430bhp @1.6bar

Jonno99

wow that's great for such an old car, must be the fastest Evo 1 in England, have you done any drive train upgrades?

kev_evo1

Mine is very light weight compared to a few other early evo's in the uk, There is one running 800+ and a fair few around 500-600 marks

DRiddick82

WOW... another stunning car.... welcome to the forums... talk about "old school"