Lokke 2006 GG EVO IX MR

Here is the story if you want to read:

When I was in my early twenties I bought a Gen 1 Mazdaspeed 3. At the time it was the most I could afford and offered the greatest bang for the buck for a new car (subjective I know). I learned a lot from that car – doing all of the bolt-ons and service myself.
About a year ago my younger brother bought an Evo VIII SSL. This is where my problems begin.
I got to a point where I was just throwing money at the car to get close to 400whp. I did a big turbo, E85 tune and supporting mods. It is fail wheel drive to begin with so this was just a ridiculous endeavor. No matter what I did I could never be as fast as his evo – in a straight line, 40 roll, dig, in the twists – didn’t matter. So knowing that my efforts would be futile I decided to sell the car. The car had about 95k on the odo - so I got a lot of miles out of that stock block. I have always been a fan of evos since I first saw the EVO VII when I was in high school.
Enter the 2006 GG EVO IX MR
My brother had done some business with FFTEC previously and highly recommended them. So I called up Mike and we had a talk.
Will had an evo he was looking to sell – I bought it and the rest is history. I decided to enlist them to do the build – I want to do this right the first time and have neither the time nor the means to do it myself.


My goal is a 600-700 awhp reliable daily driver.

Motor:
- 4G64 2.4L
- 85.5 Bore Wiseco 9.0:1
- Kelford 272
- Race Engineering Rods (ARP bolts)
- ACL Thrust Washers, Rod Bearing and Main Bearing set
- Supertech Beehiv Valvesprings
- OEM Engine Gaskets, timing belt, balance shaft belt, water pump, etc
-Exedy Twin Plate – Cerametallic
- FIC injectors (Bluemax High-Flow) 1450CC
- Mishi Aluminum Radiator
- Blox Front MM

Turbo:
-FFTEC V-BAND 6466 TURBO MANIFOLD
-FFTEC V-BAND WASTEGATE DUMP TUBE
-FFTEC V-BAND 6466 O2 HOUSING
-FFTEC V-BAND 6466 DOWNPIPE
-FFTEC EVOLUTION 8-9 LOWER IC PIPE
-PRECISION TURBO 6466SP
-PRECISION TURBO 46MM V-BAND WASTEGATE

Intake/Intercooler:
- 4 inch intake and tube
- FFTEC V3 Intake Mani
- ETS 4” intercooler

Misc:
-Flipping the plates around in the dif for 8-way
-HKS Coilovers
-Advan RS w/ Bridgestones – 18 x 9.5
- AEM Wideband and Boost
-Still trying to figure out what cat back to go with.

The motor is in the process of being built – not sure of a timeline for completion yet, most likely late August or early September. I will keep the thread updated as I go along.

I am sure I am missing something – feel free to chime in if you see anything obvious.

Thank you for looking! Glad to be joining the evo community!

-K

I will update with pics later today.

TL;DR Sold my Mazdaspeed3 - slow and fail wheel drive. Bought an evo - fftec build. Because race car.

 

Sounds like a solid build. I am doing very similar setup.

 

Best of luck with the build.

 

Everything looks good except this part ^ That part will be doable if you keep it under 3500rpm and out of boost for its whole life


Looks like a solid build. Dunno if its something you could change, but I'd say go to larger cams. 2.4's really need big big cams. Kelford 272 on a 2.4 is a really small set of cams.

 

Oh and shep built trans and transfer case.

 

Do yourself a favor and ditch the HKS coilovers.

 

ahhhh lovely another 6466 guy, the best big hp street setup! I cant wait till I am putting together my hot parts kit for my 6466 setup. anyways goodluck you cant go wrong with this!

 

That 6 speed is going to hate what little life it had left.

 

 

Good call. It's a built 5 speed.

What's up with the HKS coilovers?

 

Thank you guys for the input!

 

Welcome to the Forum bro! I'm going to be super jealous when you drive up our driveway for the first time. I gotta step my game up now! Anyway don't forget to edit your post and add that it has a custom 5 speed transmission shep did for the car. Also the stage 3 transfer case etc.

 

Update:

Going with GSC S3 cams.

Still trying to figure out injector size. I do not want to have any fueling issues so bigger is better I suppose.

 

Hey, nice thread! =)

 

Update:

Waiting on pistons and valves to come in. Then off to the machine shop.

Here is a picture of the exhaust manifold. Thank you FFTEC! Looking good!