The taking forever is what's killing you. All these issues are stuff that should be sorted in a few weeks if the car was actually getting worked on.

 

I don't disagree with you. However, It's been more than just him taking his time. Everything has taken a ton of time from various places. It all adds up. The head took forever, the machine shop took forever, Precision is taking forever to ship one item, etc etc.

The funny part is that the one place that has been lightning fast, is the shop the internetz likes to crap on. MAP has shipped things so fast over the term of this project and be so respondent to emails and phone calls. They are saints compared to the rest of the yahoos I have had to deal with. RED who sleeve the block was also awesome.

I just want to drive a car on track. I have little time and I want to spend it having fun with a car and not working on or waiting on a car that I barely drive. At this point, as long as the car is capable, I'm not going to be choosy.

One of the reasons the BRZ is attractive. Relatively low admission price, capable on track. Somewhat reliable unless you do stupid mods. The biggest con is lack of power but as I have said before, I would rather drive a car all year long with a 1/4 of the power of my Evo, than drive my Evo for only five events over two years, with the rest of the time it being unable to move under it's own power.

I literally could have purchased a brand new fully loaded BRZ with performance pack, in cash, with money left over for mods with the amount of money I have dumped into the Evo the last two years. That is the other thing that is so aggreviating. I built the Evo with super high quality parts. Every single bit, just so I wouldn't have to deal with what I am dealing with, and I am still dealing with it. So over it.

 

Yeah I had similar experiences back when I did business with them too. Everything is a mixed bag anymore.

Yes..... Get a simpler platform that you are happy with and try to keep it from being a bottomless money pit. It worked for me with the FiST. Looking forward to your track reports/ reviews from the other coast..

 

much of the reason i went from a relatively heavily modified stock evo to a stock powertrain. 95% of the fun, none of the ****ing headache. i tried the m3 for the first time last weekend, was a blast too. the brzs are pretty competent out there, but i'm echoing the lack of power sentiment. i do agree with the problem-free track rat life though lol.

 

Its amazing what happens to reliability when you are ok with backing off the power.

 

I definitely understand that concept. I extremely overbuilt the car for that reason and I only ran 24-24.5psi on track and ran E76-E79 but with pump gas timing.

 

See that's what kills me bc I had the same mindset that while the car will be making some jam, if everything is done proper and overbuilt then why can't it be reliable? Sadly it seems to not matter much so if you want reliability it needs to remain stock or very close to stock. And I don't have the funds to throw towards a Porsche so alas I keep modifying my evo

 

Its the common conundrum of building a car. Just cause you upgrade A-B-C to handle 1000hp, doesnt mean X-Y-Z thats still OEM is also capable. And its things you cant account for like block flex, vibrations, hot spots, etc.

On track, more than double stock power seems to be where you're going to find those other things that weren't meant for 2x the power.

 

...says the guy running SM

 

Doesn’t apply here. Nothing OEM failed here. In fact, the OEM parts that are left have been solid.

 

Comes with a special set of understanding

 

Oh, how I feel your pain Bryan. After crashing my RR 9 in 2013, I let it sit until the end of 2017, and I finally took it to a body shop to get checked out. Pulled the motor, trans, t-case before dropping it off at the body shop so I could get them all built while it was at the body shop. Body shop ended up having it for 6 months before touching it, and they ended up not even fixing it properly and leaving me with a car that still had a tweaked frame. Didn't find out until KT motoring went to put the motor, trans, and t-case in and told me they had a hard time putting the motor in and that I should get the frame re-checked. Mind you, this is after I dropped $40k in about years time in modifications. Ended up buying the WW 9 MR you saw on my FB and swapping all the parts over and i'm STILL not done. Now with the cost of the new car i'm in about $64,000 in two years

 

Hold off maybe??

https://www.evolutionm.net/forums/lo...rged-2-4l.html

 

If anyone is still interested in what the issue was with the oil in cylinder #3.... it was the rings. Put a new set in and all is good...

 

Thanks for the update.

Any guesses about what was wrong with the rings?