I am at 3400 with me, how did you drop 200lbs? hahaha granted I am full weight..

I feel the same way.

I had all mentioned installed by a professional Evo shop and still had a failure 4 months down the road.

More or less a defect then an oil problem, as my turbine blade broke off causing the seizure. Maybe due from the crazy heat cycles I was experiencing. I was traveling 160mph on the straight of the CalSpeedway Roval...

I was on a conservative tune of 445whp at 25psi on 100 octane. And it was the first time I tracked the car at that power.

I ran my 91 pump gas tune of 370whp at 22psi for the the full duration of the last time attack event and only partial for the current event before switching to the race gas map.



The Evolution is a great car out of the box except for the brake pads...!

You can further increase your pleasure buy purchasing a decent set of coilovers, (hit up Robi from RobiSpec) and pick up some decent 140+ treadwear tires. Dont forget the the pads...!

Please dont waste your money on power mods until you harness the power that you have now.

You'll thank us and yourself in the long run...




with all the BS aside, it is your money have fun with it...



If you do upgrade your turbo go with a ball bearing turbo kit such as a FP HTA3076, FP HTA35r, the CBRD TAK33 or a twinscroll setup...

The stock frame turbos are a toss up on longevity on a road course setting...


phew...

^word.

+1 to what o-townFLA said, its not necessary to mod it like right after you get the car. u really should leave it as is, take it to the track, get a feel of the car, then go from there

my main concern is that i dont want to be buying the same parts again for a different setup in the future....

for example: if i am to run a o/2housing, downpipe etc on stock turbo... for 300whp...when i build all the supporting mods (intercooler, etc...) for a bigger turbo (suspension, braking, etc... included)

WHAT IF i want to upgrade to to for example a gt3076, id probably need a new manifold and then i prov have to change the o/2 housing and a different downpipe, different wastegate??? if i stick with stock frame turbo this isnt a problem

BUT it really depends on how far a reliable stock frame turbos like the FP turbos and CBRD BBK turbo will take me...
again, i am looking for 400-450whp/wtq Daily Drive, don't stick with stock frame turbos? so your recommending get the ball bearing Garrett turbos?like the FP hta 3076???what about the AMS kits?

which reliable turbos can do 400-450whp on pump gas 91-93 octane? and which can do them pump gas + meth?

they say "fast, cheap, reliable...pick one"....and i say fast and reliable evos9s are too rare in canada :P

^^ I'd stay away from meth on the track. A lot of group/organizations have bans against that kinda stuff anyways.

400-450whp on the track is 1 thing; but 400-450whp on pump gas is quite another. That's a pretty tall order and you're going to be looking at some major lag if you're on the stock bottom end. I've got a feeling you're getting into a situtation with a lot of lag and a lot of wrenching in the pits. Just my .02.

Now if you really wanted to get aggressive, you could build up the bottom end! For example a high revving 2.0 or even a stroker could really feed that larger turbo that you seem to want to do.


....But really, if you look at what everyone has said, don't worry about the power. Have you tracked the car AT ALL yet? If it's still 100% stock power, you're looking at ~250whp. See what that feels like...

You can go with a gt30 kit and make your mentioned power level and have the reliability of a larger turbo... and the AMS 750r is very similar to the gt30...

you can go with power first but you wont truly be able to use it until you have your suspension setup....

He's never been to the track in the Evo and has only been once in his life and it was in an Eclipse but now wants to run 450hp at the track. Bad juju IMO. Run stock or close to it for a while. You'll still have plenty of fun and will be able to learn much better. You'll be thankful in the long run. Suspension before power.

Heres some general info for you to think about:

Advice to beginners

Nice info Ed...

+1

As quoted in my sig:

I did time attack with my evo big turbo it kicked butt!!

We've had a few people like this in our local car club, they do a single track day (or none at all) and then decide to dump huge amounts of money into their car. In the end, they end up with a very light wallet (the leading record is over 100000$ into an STI), a monster of a car and no idea how to use it. They run lap times similar to cars with 1/20th of the money invested if they even get legitimate lap times at all, it's hard to abuse a car and potentially write it off (always a risk with any kind of track use) when you've spent a year and massive amounts of money building it. Take the advice some are saying, get some seat time before you slap your credit card down. The more power you have, the greater the risk you'll end up in trouble. There's a reason why so many people don't track their daily drivers.