1. Whats up guys. I'm new to this forum. I'm currently writing this because I'm super frustrated with the car purchase that I made about a year ago. Hopefully someone in the comments can chime in and give me some advice/hints on what my issue may be. If you want to just skip to issue, skip to paragraph 4.

2. So, I have a 2013 Mitsubishi EVO X. I basically purchased it in a race ready condition. It was fully built at ONE race shop (VERY REPUTABLE RACE SHOP) that I want to keep anonymous for now that pretty much did a **** ton of work on the car(we are talking like ~$90-100k just in parts and labor, not including car cost). About 1k miles before I bought the car, it had a brand new stage 3 clutch and aluminum flywheel installed (stage 3 cause it's pushing about ~460whp) It is running a pretty conservative e85 tune(27psi) with injectors, cams (new lifters, springs etc), gtx3701 garrett turbo, ams intercooler, and couple other small misc parts. It is pretty stock compared to alot of other EVOs I have seen or read about. The whole reason being is, we were trying to stay "reliable" with the stock long block. ANYWAYS, so I bought the car right around 8700 miles. (Yes, 4 digits)

3. The car now has just above 9600 miles. Basically, I put about 1k miles on the car within like 10-11 months cause I bought the car last year in August. Since I’ve owned car, I freaking babied it and never did any hard launches on dry tarmac just because I know that hard launches (especially with 275s all over) on this car can lead to premature failures. I mean even though I knew it was a race car, I still didn’t feel comfortable doing launches. The only 2 times I did hard launches were when it was pouring outside and even then with Toyo R888R tires, the car didn’t like launches. As a matter of fact, both times the car never lost traction and I was left with horrible lag. I have maybe done a few dozen rolling launches, but Jesus Christ, if you have an EVO and don’t do any freakin launches, I don’t know why you have the car. Also, I never did any work on the car since I’ve had it. I wanted to do an oil change, but every time I looked at the dipstick, it looked and smelled fine so never had the urge to change it. I was going to change it at 10k miles.

4. Me and a friend in a Porsche Cayman S, decided to just cruise around town because we had never driven the cars together at the same time. Of course, we had some fun and did multiple rolling launches(again, NO HARD LAUNCHES. At least for my cars, unless if I’m at the track). We drove the cars maybe 15-20 min before I got off the freeway when the symptoms started happening. Whenever I was at a stop, it was pretty difficult to shift into 1st gear (edit: actually all the gear) and the car had pretty harsh clutch chatter. (NOTE: I have a 6 puck single clutch, so clutch chatter wasn’t totally abnormal but this time I did think something was wrong.) The clutch chatter felt like I had little mini engagements and the only way to fully engage the clutch was to rev up the car about like ~2k rpms to get it move properly. (also note, the cams don’t help either, LOL) Within the next 5 miles, the symptoms didn’t go away and it would slightly get worse but the car still accelerated fine and no other weird noises were present so I didn’t really think too much of it. I mean, the car has 9600 miles, would you have thought there would be something wrong??

5. Anyways, so I was about pull into a gas station to kind of see if there was an issue when I started hearing a wierd hissing sound coming from the leftish side of the motor, followed by some faint TUMBLING sounds of (most likely metal) parts. It was weirder because my boost guage was still working and it showed I had pretty normal boost. I checked most of the piping and didn’t see any cuts or anything (dunno why there would be but checking cosmetically I know it’s hard to notice anything). As soon as those events happened, the clutch chatter seemed to completely go away. It was ****ING WEIRD AF. When I pulled up to the gas station, I had the car just parked. Turned the car off; then turned it back to on to hear where the sound was coming from. It randomly stalled. I tried starting it again and it stalled faster. The third time, it wouldn’t even turn over. No clicks, no nothing. The symptoms seemed a lot like a battery issue and I checked all the leads and tried a different battery and no luck. I decided to take the airbox out to look get a better peek at what might be going on and the first thing I see is a gapping freakin hole in my bell housing. Dude, I felt so ****ty hah.

6. Unfortunately, the story goes on. I contacted the race shop that did the work and they basically told me to go pound sand (meaning they won’t help me out). The clutch was changed out at 7772 miles on 1/23/2016. That is practically 3 ½ years ago. It is understandable that clutches are wear items and that they can wear out with use; especially on a race car. I just feel that less than 2k miles on a brand new clutch (AND NEW FLYWHEEL THAT THEY INSTALLED, btw it was their own manufactured flywheel $$$) that THE RACE SHOP MANUFACTURED (the ones who installed it) mind you, is total bs. So that is basically about 700 miles of “racing miles.” If you don’t include the 300 mile break-in, which the previous owner told me he did. Even if he didn’t, that’s 1k miles of “racing miles” and 1k miles of street use. This is on a ~450 (with dyno numbers) “SOFT” whp, not even like ~450 whp raw hp that maybe a tuned v8 would have. I just don’t understand this.

7. I’m sorry for the rant but dude so freaking angry at this whole thing. Bought practically a new EVO X. Put 1k miles on it and theres a hole in the bell housing. Like WTF man. Any opinions and input would be SOO HELPFUL. Thanks so much bros.