I dont know where to start, so ill just start with the basic car info.. its a 2003 GSR EVO 8 thats painted Kandy Apple Red and yes its "stanced." previous to blowing the motor it was making 380hp, stock block, 272 HKS cams, HKS DLI ignition, megan o2 housing, 3" downpipe with a 3" straight pipe all the way back (no resonators, or cats), Speed Density on stock ECU. Enough talking, lets get to the cool stuff, PICS!

heres a few pics of the car.




last month i was getting on the highway, traffic was slow so i was doing about 40mph at about 2500 rpm when i heard a quick loud whine followed my a loud bang. i instantly knew my motor blew. i made 5 holes in the block, one of which had so much force that it blew out the rear passenger side corner of the block bending my oil pan an breaking my axle. Piston #1 and Rod #1 completely disintegrated into a million pieces, an put a nice gash down the cylinder wall.

notice anything missing in this pic?





so i did what any fellow EVO owner should do, i began wrenching.



the axles shot grease all over my firewall, and the motor spit oil like mad, so i used 2 bottles of degreaser and a powerwasher to solve that problem.



i decided to go with an EVO 9 MIVEC motor, and build her so that she can handle a few horsies.
- JE pistons 0.10 over 9.5-1 compression
- Manley Turbo Tuff rods
- ACL main and rod bearings
- ARP rod bolts
- ARP main studs
- ARP head studs
- AMS balance shaft eliminator kit
- Cosmetic Head Gasket
- Supertech valves, springs, and retainers
- Cosworth M3 cams

AND DRUM ROLL PLEASEEEE!

easily one of my favorite parts; AMS MOROSO wet sump oil pan.


other mods include:
- EXEDY triple disk sprung HD clutch
- Buschur double pumpers
- Precision 1000cc injectors
- Aeromotive fuel rail and fuel pressure regulator
- Tial Q bov 50mm and Tial 44mm wastegate
- AMS fmic
- Speed Density
- and a bunch of other things im forgetting

My goal is to break 600hp on pump gas, then bring it back down to 500ish so i can daily the car, as for the turbo I'll be going with a Precision 6262.

ill be updating pics and info as i go.

 

UPDATE: THE MOTOR IS IN!




and today (8/16/12) the snail arrived !! thanks to San Diego Forced Induction

 

UPDATE: the tuning date has been officially set for 4/29. Jamie at DYNOTECH TUNING will be tuning the car.

 

Looks good. My old civic was Candy Red.

Have you picked out a turbo kit yet?

 

not yet, but i already have a wastegate and T3 4 bolt tubular manifold. so a 6266 or HTA86 is pretty much the two turbos im interested in.

 

Beautiful car, man. I can't wait until I have the opportunity to paint my car.

PS, you should fit some BBS centercaps on those wheels!

 

Good luck with the build, great looking car buddy.

-Collin

 

wow that blowen motor made a mess , looking good now though good luck .

 

now i wana blow my motor just so i could do a build that sweet, well time to adjust my boost controller and that red looks amazing...it should have been the OEM paint instead of rally red thatd be awesome!

 

Go to love a candy Apple

 

I really like that color combo on the motor.

 

Build looks real good. I think you had that car for a while. I've seen it around.

Cant wait to see it running with lot of horsies.

 

thanks bro. the Kandy paint is beautiful but it sucks because you cant get touch ups or repaint anything an actually get a good match.

thanks Collin, its not as sick as your build but its ok.

thanks buddy, yeah ive been to most of the local shows. what do you drive? have we met?

 

question, do you know the reason for the motor blowing the first time? i mean 2500 rpm's is pretty low for it to blow..

 

I drive Evo 9 now but I had 700Whp Honda Civic.