After lurking on here for awhile, I decided to post my current build. I bought my first Evo 9 almost a year ago in December of 2023. I'm in Illinois so I didn't get to drive it much because of snow/salt/winter. The car had basic mods: fuel pump, injectors, intercooler piping, exhaust, clutch, and cams. My original goal was to just have some fun with it since I've never owned and Evo 8 or 9. I've had a bunch of dsms in the past and an Evo X. I currently have a full bolt on GTR, so the Evo 9 was just going to be another fun car to drive and I wasn't going to mod it. The car was in really good condition. The chassis had been undercoated so there wasn't any rust. The entire car had been repainted along with a carbon fiber hood and trunk to match. Well around May of this year the timing tensioner started leaking and the timing jumped. After hearing the pistons and valves smacking each other, I decided to do a full build.

My goal was to have a fun street car. I wanted 600whp with working air conditioning. I probably over built it for my goals, but better to be safe than sorry. Car will be tuned for 93 octane and E85 on stock ECU. Unfortunately, it's winter again so after I get it running it won't be able to put the break in miles on it until spring. After that it will be going to Boostin Performance to be tuned.

Current Mods:
Boostin Performance Stage 3 2.0L Long Rod Short Block
BP spec Steel I Beam Rods
BP spec 1400 hp HD Pistons
ACL Race bearings
ARP Main Studs
New OEM crank. (Mine had a crack in it)
Race balance shaft
New OEM front case and all timing components and water pump
GSC S2 Cams

Full Radium Fuel System
Dual Pump Hanger
-8 fuel feed from hanger to fuel rail
-6 return using OEM fuel feed line
FIC fuel rail
Fuel Lab Fuel Pressure Regulator
FIC 2150 cc injectors
Walbro 525 and 450

Skunk2 Intake Manifold
Skunk2 Throttle Body
STM 2.5in upper intercooler piping
Tial BOV
STM oil cooler
STM coil on plug ignition
ETS Intercooler
Evo 4,5,6 Koyo Radiator

ETS Quick Spool Turbo Kit
Garrett G30-900 Turbo
2 Tial MVS Wastegates with dump tubes
Downpipe and 02 housing included for turbo setup
Unknown 3in exhaust

Rebuilt Transmission
Xclutch Twin Disk
Sheptrans built Tcase with new LSD
DDS front axles



Pics of when I first bought the car and what I've done so far.










Teardown begins.


Something bad happened to this head prior to me owning it.







Boostin completed my motor.




Xclutch Twin Disk




STM Oil Cooler

STM trans mounted oil catch can.

Wire tucked some stuff

ETS Quick Spool Turbo Kit. Garrett G30-900 Turbo.

Very well made.

 

Good stuff but why are there three identical threads? Seems like this one is the one with the most pictures.