FAO Titan

[_Nathan_]

More details on the Evo please

is it a stroker? htf did you get 285s all round? Wide arches? We need pics and info

[glendog74]

www.lancerregister.com

[Craig]

The Evo is pretty MEGA and you can't miss it!!

[titan]

Ingredients:
One evo. Time And Money.

Recipe:
Take one evo, fully strip, remove seam filler and seam weld, full T45 cage, remove bonnet, roof and boot and replace with carbon items, ditch the doors for GRP replacements, chuck the original wings, cut away the rear quarters and fit do-luck wide bodykit. Fill with 18x10 Advan RS running 285/30 DZ03 rubber. APR splitter, canards and GTC rear wing, ralliart CF mirrors and thats you done on the exterior.

A stripped out but still alrite interior, pair of CF seats, schroth harnesses, relocation of battery and thats your interior sorted.

Ask your friends at KW by way of a cheque to make you a nice 3-way competition suspension setup, stick on a big alcon kit and you've something which handles and stops.

Engine wise, take the original engine, throw away anything with "mitsubishi" stamped on it, bore to 2.3 litres and fit forged aftermarket replacement items. Give the head to Richard Wood (cncheads) and get back some flowed, ported big valve jobbie. Stick some Jun racing cams in the top. Hybrid GT3076HTA turbo, AMS F1-i inlet, fancy exhaust headers, milltek system, massive injectors, twin fuel pumps and a motec m800 are the order of the day. Some daft ignition system. Countless other ancillaries.

Keep it all lubed with 15 litres of Motul 300-V in a dry sump kit. Cool it all down with custom pace intercoolers, rads and power steering rads etc.

Pictures speak a thousand words.

One perfectly good car to wreck:

Who needs metal rear quarters anyway?


Convertible?


Taking Shape


Refitting




We like rubber!


Back off to the bodyshop for final bits


And Home !



Straight out on track


Out to the ring


like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exmzq0LvWyo

and then later this year


which was done like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9tN00JubGg

(my daft overtake, got clouted by the white bimmer saving him from the armco!)

got an email from ABW yesterday - its all fixed with new panels, paint going on. So its a couple of weeks from being back on the road/track.

In many ways, its an awesome bit of kit. In a lot of ways it was the wrong thing to do. Was glad I did it but wouldn't do it again.

[Yanto]

<shudder>

Looks very quick.....sorry to see outcome of vid but looks like it could've been a lot, lot worse....

[_Nathan_]

I like!

Cheers

[Bealo]

Nice car mate

Sorry to see you little mishap.... Bloody BMW drivers eh?

[karbonkid]

Only 0.7G into the Armco!? Agree, could have been a lot worst. Bloody M3 Drivers!! Doh..

Originally Posted by titan

In many ways, its an awesome bit of kit. In a lot of ways it was the wrong thing to do. Was glad I did it but wouldn't do it again.

Like to do something similar one day soon, starting from scratch/ built from own spec.
Explain why never again? Still cant get past those damn CSLs?

[titan]

Originally Posted by karbonkid

Like to do something similar one day soon, starting from scratch/ built from own spec.
Explain why never again? Still cant get past those damn CSLs?

I was bullied into getting an evo by my brother and friends lol. I was going to get a GT3 but they (perhaps rightly) pointed out that its a fair bit of cash to maybe find out you don't get back into the trackday scene (I used to run the SIDC (scoobies) years ago...)

The evo was meant to be a cheap alternative. Trouble is, they are just made to be modified and like all modified cars you end up chasing the weak point around the car until you end up with something that bears little resemblance to what you started with.

An evo is not a circuit car. If you want a circuit car, start with something more suitable. An M3 is perhaps a good example.

The reason I wouldn't do it again is because (in this case, with the evo) you're on your own. No tuner can advise you on what components to run, what rideheights, geometry, pad compounds, you are literally building a prototype with only your own ideas. Its a very time consuming and costly way of getting a track car.

Take suspension. When it was a "road car" I had exe-tc which was fantastic. When the car was stripped and lightened it sat too high on the exe-tc, this was already at its limit of adjustment and so it got replaced by a tein kit which seemed to promise all that was needed. Great on UK tracks and a deathtrap on the 'ring so it was over to KW. That little exercise is months of waiting, trips for fitting/geo and testing on tracks, very painful.

Conversely I bought a CSL, stuck an Alcon brake kit on it, will have Intrax fitted, leave the engine alone and end up with a very capable car indeed. Simpson can tell me exactly what spring rates, ride heights and geo to run for the different conditions because guess what? They've done it hundreds of times before.

The CSL will never be as quick as the evo but perhaps thats the point. I'm averge joe with average joe driving skills yet I've ended up with what is a race car. We reckon the evo is easily capable of sub 7:30 BTG at the 'ring in the hands of someone who knows what they are doing. My best was 7:45 so I'd hope for a pro to bang out 7:15 or so. Good luck catching that