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I've never made a thread on my build. I got my IX SE at a dealer auction around 4 years ago for 13k with 67k miles on it. Quite a few owners on the title but I was fine with it. I got the car for such a great deal I knew that there were going to be problems. It was an extremely sturdy car for the first year of owning it. I ended up selling the xxr's it came with and I bought a set of Volks LE28N 18x8.5+30 with 255/40/18 Falken Azenis RT-615 from Evom member Inphluence. I later learned the Megan Racing coils that were on it when I bought it were blown. Okay could be worse, which it was. After getting the volks on and having someone in my backseat, the tires rubbed really badly. Thats when I got out and learned my entire passenger QP was filled with bondo! It was fine for a couple months as long as I didnt have people in my backseat. About 3 months after learning about this fantastic news, I woke up to a cracked crank. This is when I started thinking on what to do. Should I sell it as is? Build it? Source a new stock engine? I called English Racing and started talking to them about building my engine, price quotes, 2.0 or 2.3, what turbo, e85 or 93? Myles probably hated me after all of it but I cant thank the English Racing team enough. I decided that if the engine is going to be pulled I might as well send it off to Victory Lane Auto Body in Washougal Washington. It was there for atleast 16 months, but, well worth the wait.
I cannot find any pictures of it right when I got it, but it was relatively stock with intake, exhaust, shot coilovers, and awesome xxr's, making about 320hp. Here's what I ended up ordering and having done to the car.
English Racing built 2.0
GSC s2's cams springs retainers lifters
9:1 wiseco HD pistons
Oliver 150mm Rods
New gasket kit
ACL Bearing Kit
ARP head studs
BS delete
Evo 9 crank
PTE 6466 turbo kit from ETS
1350cc injectors
ETS mini battery
ets short route uicp and licp
speed density
ETS 3.5inch FMIC
BR double pumper
Exedy Triple Disc
Fortune Auto 500's
Unknown exhaust system that came with the car
As for cosmetics and interior
Stock Evo IX SE seats
3 gauge pillar pod oil/volts/boost
AEM Air/fuel ratio gauge
Volk LE28n's gold with polished lip
C-west front bumper
C-west Sideskirts
Authentic JDM rear bumper
Rexpeed type-c carbon wing
Seibon carbon fiber fenders +20mm
Not all the pictures (atleast the right ones) are transferring with icloud, will edit in the rest as I get time.
I'm sure that I forgot some things but huge shoutout to the English Racing team, another huge shoutout to Victory Lane auto body in Washougal
After many hours of bodywork it was finally time for primer.
I was absolutely shocked that the car made 706 on 1350cc injectors(e85). Being honest, if I kept the STI LVR plates I would've easily gained another 25-35hp.
Dec 15, 2016, 09:28 PM
