original owner was smart! 3m clear bra'd the front of the car to help ****ty mitsu paint lmao.


love WW favorite color on an evo

 

Haha yea - I'll be doing the rest of the front bumper this week

will do!

 

Nice! Seems like it needs a little tlc work here and there to buff some stuff out, over all looks great! Hope it gets tastefully modified!

 

Cool. Your old car just seemed so well setup, which is why I asked!

 

it was man.. i'm pretty sad to see it go, but i'm transferring a lot of that setup to this car. i'll have to make a post of it's final build

 

Lol what needs buffing?

 

Get rid of those tail lights lol. JDM tails will set the rear off.

 

lol I know, I'm trying -

https://www.evolutionm.net/forums/sa...o-7-tails.html

 

i have an evo already, but my dream car will always be a WW evo..you are very lucky and goodluck

 

Make it happen man.. I was in a TB IX for 6 years before I made the change

 

I know I'm starting to see a lot come up for a sale too. I am inspired

 

Congrats on the new car, I've always like WW. Did you want the MR for the 6 spd or the other features? Plan on doing a 5 spd swap?

 

I'm doing a bunch of swaps from my old car drivetrain-wise, so I think I'm gonna test out TRE's built 6 speed. I'm a little nervous because the 6 speed shifts so smoothly, especially compared to my built 5 speed, so hopefully the built 6 will be as smooth

 

When I first got the car, the seats were lowered on Binary Engineering brackets, but the seat rails were stock. The seating position was lowered a good amount, which was fine, but I couldn't pull the seat all the way forward - Danner said the only thing changed was the bracket. I was just about to get seat rails in addition to brackets but -

http://www.binaryeng.com/products%20...0brackets.html

So I guess it does restrict some forward motion. I'm not that short (5'10-11) but I like to sit up really close to the steering wheel etc, so the bracket will be coming out I guess!


edit::

After finally driving around a little with the stock seat height, I'm starting to feel less like a stranger in the car. stock seat height puts me back to exactly where I'm used to in an Evo, so it's like I never left.

 

Went to a local clear bra shop to redo the clear bra on the hood and add it for the bumper and mirrors - I was dead set on whatever they had for the 3M brand but these guys sold me on the XPEL Ultimate - the owner said the original XPEL brand films were pretty crappy, but this latest iteration is even better than 3M's - they're about equal in terms of protection from rock chips and both are UV-neutral, but XPEL is more invisible, more resistant to insects, and is self-healing. He said it'd look better on white cars than the 3M as well.

On top of that, XPEL has a 10 year warranty against yellowing, staining, cracking, blistering, and delaminating that covers parts and labor (vs 3M's 5yr, which also covers parts and labor).

Pics:



^ this is the kind of shot that used to make me envy WW owners












Very happy with the results - like the guy said, it's practically invisible. I can't see any of it unless I get right up close to the car. It's starting to feel a little more like my own car now.