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96_zjlarado
02-11-2008, 09:14 AM
Here's my baby 2005 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII MR.


Upgrades: (AKA: Reasons why I don't have a winch or bumpers for the ZJ)

-Koyo aluminum radiator
-Trust Oil cooler
-Injen 3" Stainless steel downpipe
-Trust 3" Titanium Cat back exhaust
-"high flow" cat
-Injen Intercooler
-Injen upper and lower polished aluminum charge pipes with intake and open element filter
-JDM Mitsubishi Evo FQ-400 Blow off valve (recirculated to intake)
-Forced Performance "White Rabbit" turbo
-HKS 272 intake and exhaust cams
-RPS Carbon/Carbon clutch
-ECU reflash
-Blitz FATT DC turbo timer/lap timer/volt meter/temp gauge
-Tanabe Sustec Pro 7 coilovers with electronic damper adjustment in glove box, adjustable camber plates and pillow ball mounts
-19" Ray's Engineering/Volk Racing CE28 wheels with Toyo T1R tires (Factory 17" BBS wheels with Toyo RA1 Race tires for track)
-DC Sports Titanium Upper front and rear strut braces
-Inner fender bracing to stiffen up the body
-Tanabe front and rear subframe bracing
-Fiber Images Carbon Fiber hood and trunk
-Custom Carbon Fiber Roof
Probably a few more things I'm forgetting too. On to the pics!

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seans
02-11-2008, 11:23 AM
Very nice! Almost the exact opposite of your offroad ride. You've a little "ying/yang" automotive philosophy going on.

J B
02-11-2008, 12:01 PM
Wow, how much cash do you have invested in that thing?

tywilson88
02-11-2008, 12:04 PM
sounds like you got a few pennies in that thing... i had the opportunity to drive one of those MR editions... they are fast. i bet yours is real quick with all those xtra goodies.

Hurricane 4x4
02-11-2008, 12:28 PM
Very nice! Almost the exact opposite of your offroad ride. You've a little "ying/yang" automotive philosophy going on.

At least the evo is 4wd

I test drove a new stock evo about a year ago and it was one of the fastest cars I have ever driven. I bet yours rips

ILikeMud
02-11-2008, 12:29 PM
I wish we got those here, stupid 5mph bumper laws.

Nice car.

5.9 ANDY
02-11-2008, 01:09 PM
ddeeaamm!!!! that thing looks SWEEEEEET!!

96_zjlarado
02-11-2008, 01:42 PM
Very nice! Almost the exact opposite of your offroad ride. You've a little "ying/yang" automotive philosophy going on.

Kinda. they're both white with black wheels.... one is just higher than the other. The ZJ goes anywhere I want slowly and the EVO goes where I need to go really really fast. :D

I've always liked having the best of both worlds.

96_zjlarado
02-11-2008, 01:45 PM
Wow, how much cash do you have invested in that thing?

TOOOOO much! I'd say close to $50k including the cost of the car. :bling:
I work at a performance shop on the my weekends, so I get a lot of stuff at cost or just a little above. Makes it a little easier on the wallet.

redline61
02-11-2008, 01:53 PM
Very nice, makes me miss my RX7. Man cars drive so much nicer on the road.

96_zjlarado
02-11-2008, 01:57 PM
Thanks for all the compliments guys! It's a quick little sucker, but it gets a lot of unwanted attention from Mr. PoPo. I think they get a little confused when they see it because I drive it like a granny...... unless i'm on some twisty back roads at night. :driving:

We did a photo shoot for a magazine in a few months back of our R34 GT-R Skyline and I got to go zoomin around some back roads chasing it and then we got turned around and it was chasing me. you should have seen the group of cars that ended up behind us trying to get a good eye full of the Skyline! It was rediculous!here's some pics i took with my camera. Didn't get any action shots tho. still waiting on the mag guys to send all of them to me.

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ILikeMud
02-11-2008, 02:40 PM
I'm sorry but the Skyline is hotter.

J B
02-11-2008, 02:45 PM
I never was impressed with the R34. A lot of people are fans of the car, but stock, it's performance wasn't spectacular, by any means.

Hurricane 4x4
02-11-2008, 02:47 PM
Oh and also nice beer fridge.

http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/6249/dscf1511vz9.jpg


You should make that into a kegerator. I made one last week for a friend's apartment. Kits are only about 60 bucks if you can find suitable co2 tank and regulator... and about $170 if you need to buy the tank and reg. And because its co2, kegs will stay fresh just as long as bottled beer. We used to buy busch light in cases. But now we drink yuengling and actually pay less per beer. Not to mention we don't have to recycle hundreds of cans every month :drinkers:

J B
02-11-2008, 02:48 PM
TOOOOO much! I'd say close to $50k including the cost of the car.


:smt104

Another reason that I'm really not overly impressed with a lot of the imports. No doubt your car is fast, but you still have to dump some serious coin into one to make it a contender.

ZJ Pappy
02-11-2008, 03:47 PM
Sweet car you got there....but I like the Subaru STi's better.

Skyline
02-11-2008, 04:22 PM
I never was impressed with the R34. A lot of people are fans of the car, but stock, it's performance wasn't spectacular, by any means.
I beg to differ. Keep in mind that an R34 is a 6 year old car today. In it's time, there were a couple of cars that were a little faster in the 1/4 mile, and a couple that were a little faster in top end, but there was nothing you could buy that was a fast in real world conditions. All you need to do is look at the records that Nissan set at the Nuhrburing. The R34 set faster lap times than ANY production car, and most of those that were anywhere close to the R34 were several times the price. The level of sophistication of the drivetrain has yet to be matched by anything USA legal.

Skyline
02-11-2008, 04:29 PM
:smt104

Another reason that I'm really not overly impressed with a lot of the imports. No doubt your car is fast, but you still have to dump some serious coin into one to make it a contender.

A contender for what....blowing the doors off a GT2?

There is NOTHING even close to the performance potential of an EVO for $30,000 except perhaps an STi. These cars handle, stop and accelerate as well as a Corvette for 2/3 the price. Or a Porsche for 1/2 the price. Actually, they handle real world roads a whole lot better than a 'Vette. I would love to know what new car you think is a better performance value?

J B
02-11-2008, 05:15 PM
A contender for what....blowing the doors off a GT2?

There is NOTHING even close to the performance potential of an EVO for $30,000 except perhaps an STi. These cars handle, stop and accelerate as well as a Corvette for 2/3 the price. Or a Porsche for 1/2 the price. Actually, they handle real world roads a whole lot better than a 'Vette. I would love to know what new car you think is a better performance value?

With his setup, yes, he'd blow the doors off a new Vette. But then again, he's got race tires for the track, which make a HUGE diffrence, and 99% of Corvette drivers, and probably about as many Porsche drivers, can't drive worth a shit. They're simply guys who had the coin to buy a car like that, and the potential of the car is well beyond their skill as drivers.

That's important to note when you see some of these cars at the track getting their asses handed to them by lesser cars. Hell, I've seen videos of stock S2000s beating Vettes and Vipers on the track, and the S2000, although it handles well, is an underpowered turd.

Any RWD car is going to require more skill to drive, because the AWD makes up for a lot. The lack of AWD makes the driver's lack of skill much more apparent. But, these AWD cars are also nose heavy, and the AWD system adds mass (rotating mass at that).

But with his Evo sitting at $50k worth of cost, You could have a Vette at that price and still have money for race tires, which will do WONDERS for the vette, since the factory run flat tires are the biggest pieces of shit imaginable. In fact, that's THE first mod anyone does to a vette if they're going to race it at the track...the factory tires. Many people have seen huge gains just changing the run flats for the exact same tire, in a "conventional" version.

And a stock Evo doesn't handle stop and accelerate as well as a Vette for 2/3 of the price. A stock Evo is capable of the 1/4 mile in the mid 13s, which is about a second behind the Vette (in other words, car lengths), and that's due to the AWD. It's power to weight ratio is worse than the Vette, so it's no surprise that acceleration is going to be worse once you get past that pesky traction issue.

But, the Vette is 50% more in cost than an Evo, so the comparison is largely worthless.....not too many buyers would be seriously evaluating both cars and comparing them to each other given the price.

Back when the Camaro and Firebird were in production, you were able to get about 85% of the Vette's performance for about HALF the price. Granted these cars aren't as refined as the Evo, but they could be had for a tad cheaper too. The Mustang, which is the only American model that competes price-wise, IMO, just isn't up to par on the performance scale, because Ford has easily recognized that it doesn't matter if it's slower or shittier, they'll sell all of them they can build anyway, which is a damn shame.

MoonWorks
02-11-2008, 05:21 PM
There is NOTHING even close to the performance potential of an EVO for $30,000 except perhaps an STi.

Correction! VW R32!

And yes I have one. :)

ZJ Pappy
02-11-2008, 06:12 PM
That's important to note when you see some of these cars at the track getting their asses handed to them by lesser cars. Hell, I've seen videos of stock S2000s beating Vettes and Vipers on the track, and the S2000, although it handles well, is an underpowered turd.

I guess this is one of those "gotta see it to believe it" things because I don't believe that at all.


Any RWD car is going to require more skill to drive, because the AWD makes up for a lot. The lack of AWD makes the driver's lack of skill much more apparent. But, these AWD cars are also nose heavy, and the AWD system adds mass (rotating mass at that).

I don't think an AWD car would be that much easier to drive, different...yes. It takes a different skill set because AWD cars have a tendency to understeer.


The Mustang, which is the only American model that competes price-wise, IMO, just isn't up to par on the performance scale, because Ford has easily recognized that it doesn't matter if it's slower or shittier, they'll sell all of them they can build anyway, which is a damn shame.

I'm pretty sure Ford built the V6 Mustang and the GT this way so they could leave room open for higher end models such as the Shelby etc. I think the GT is a great car, and just like the Evo, it is a great platform for building off of. And I think it is a definite competitor in the performance aspect. My buddy's GT is faster than my Dad's G35 Coupe and my other buddy's Z (all three equipped with manual tranny). It still won't touch my Dad's old 89 Carrera though! :D

96_zjlarado
02-11-2008, 09:52 PM
Oh and also nice beer fridge.

http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/6249/dscf1511vz9.jpg


You should make that into a kegerator. I made one last week for a friend's apartment. Kits are only about 60 bucks if you can find suitable co2 tank and regulator... and about $170 if you need to buy the tank and reg. And because its co2, kegs will stay fresh just as long as bottled beer. We used to buy busch light in cases. But now we drink yuengling and actually pay less per beer. Not to mention we don't have to recycle hundreds of cans every month :drinkers:

why, thankya sir. I got the fridge for free from a buddy. His step dad (who owned Oregon Premium Cigar) had just passed away, and happened to leave about $2000 worth of NICE cigars in it like a giant humador. I ended up giving half of them away,...... and i have no clue what relevance any of this has. I should have just left it at " thank ya" and possibly "i plan on it one day, as soon as it gets emptied". I just woke up to go to work, so that may have a lot to do with it. I'm out like a boner in gym shorts! :supz:

96_zjlarado
02-12-2008, 12:06 AM
I'm sorry but the Skyline is hotter.

It is pure sex. after driving it..... I want one!

96_zjlarado
02-12-2008, 12:16 AM
I was actually going to buy my buddy's 01 Z06 for $20k, but it's just not a practical car for me. I REALLLLLLY wanted it too. Car was SWEEEEEET! 530whp black on black and a $3500 stereo system that I installed for him. Problem was that it's not a practical car for me because I have a 4 year old daughter that still needs to be in a car seat, and since I try not to drive the ZJ too much on the street because of the tires sticking out so far, I wouln't be able to take my girlfriend with me. Soooooo, if I wanted to go anywere with my kid and my girlfriend, we'd have to take her car.... and it sucks! I needed a 4 door, or at least a car that had a back seat with some room. Suprizingly enough, the evo has more leg room in it than the zj.

tywilson88
02-12-2008, 12:56 AM
that skyline is NICE. i bet that costed more than yours too. i would take either of them

96_zjlarado
02-12-2008, 04:03 AM
yeah, about 3x what i have into mine. everything on it costs more because it comes straight from japan. Front and Rear bumpers and carbon fiber diffusers are from Top Secret (Crazy amounts of:bling:) side skirts are from C-West, Custom offset 19x11 HRE wheels F&R. Status Carbon Fiber Seats ($4 geezles per seat... again :bling: ), half the interior is custom carbon fiber panels (a,b and c pillars, numerous trim panels and inside the trunk). Ferrari F50 6pot Brembo's up front and F50 4pot brembo's in the rear which makes 18" wheels the smallest you can run on it.
I could go on for a while, but you get the picture. Since it's our shop car, no expences were spared on making it one of the most badass street legal GT-R in the U.S.

We're planning on converting it to run on E-98 and we're gonna try to get between 600-700awhp out of it on the E-98. should be a fun adventure.

J B
02-12-2008, 10:07 AM
I guess this is one of those "gotta see it to believe it" things because I don't believe that at all.

I see what you're saying, and I was in the same boat until I saw it a few times. You have to understand that every road course is different, and every car is different. The combination of HP, torque, acceleration, braking, cornering, etc., will yield different results from track to track.

On certain tracks, A bone stock Camaro will leave an S2000 in the dust, and on other tracks, the Camaro would be left behind by the more nimble, yet much slower S2000. The key is to have a car that does everything well, and then be able to tune the suspension setup for a particular track.


I don't think an AWD car would be that much easier to drive, different...yes. It takes a different skill set because AWD cars have a tendency to understeer.

The AWD is much more forgiving when any sort of acceleration is involved. With a 400 HP RWD car, you better know what the hell you're doing, or instead of moving forward, you'll just be making expensive smoke with the rear tires. That's why I stressed the driver so much in my above comparison. The AWD largely removes that risk. And look at accleration numbers for AWD vs. RWD cars. The AWD cars often have SICK 0-60 times, but the 1/4 mile times are nothing special. It's simply because the RWD cars don't have the traction to pull that off. You have to be aware of that.

And keep in mind most of these AWD cars are quite nose heavy, so that makes the handling dynamics kinda messed up.


I'm pretty sure Ford built the V6 Mustang and the GT this way so they could leave room open for higher end models such as the Shelby etc. I think the GT is a great car, and just like the Evo, it is a great platform for building off of. And I think it is a definite competitor in the performance aspect. My buddy's GT is faster than my Dad's G35 Coupe and my other buddy's Z (all three equipped with manual tranny). It still won't touch my Dad's old 89 Carrera though! :D

Meh, I'm not impressed with the Mustang. I haven't driven one of the newer GTs, but I think Ford is still sandbagging on the power. A friend of mine has a V6 car, and if the manual transmission in it is like the one the GT gets, then that alone is a deal killer for me. Plus, the interior sucks. It has the quality of an 80s Cavalier. And the GT500 is tons of power in an otherwise shitty package....kinda like the Pontiac GTO, but worse.

96_zjlarado
02-12-2008, 10:14 AM
And the GT500 is tons of power in an otherwise shitty package....kinda like the Pontiac GTO, but worse.

Hahahahahaha! Well said! :-D

DarkXJ
03-24-2008, 04:12 PM
JB, I'm with ya on that for the most part. The Corvette C6 originally ran with the Viper on the track, even though it was 100hp short, thanks to its excellent balance and more forgiving nature. Then came the Z06 which beat the Viper. Viper increased its power to 600, and now they run fairly even again. But Chevy's got the revived ZR1 comin soon. 620+ supercharged horsepower. Designed to be the fastest Vette yet, even though they're still gearing the Z06 towards the people looking for the ultimate track Vette.
The new Evo X really does take advantage of its AWD system with the computer controlled power shuffling it does. Come into a corner too fast and understeering, it kicks more power to the outside rear tire to "slide" it around a little.
That said I'd happily take any of the cars mentioned in this thread. :D

96_zjlarado
04-07-2008, 07:35 AM
that skyline is NICE. i bet that costed more than yours too. i would take either of them

yeah, it's got about 6 evo MR's worth into it....... and about to get more. :bling:

Jeeperoni91
07-29-2008, 11:44 PM
your dd is a beautiful machine.

96_zjlarado
07-30-2008, 04:11 AM
your dd is a beautiful machine.

why thank ya sir! :smt023

96_zjlarado
07-30-2008, 04:19 AM
got a few pics of it at Lewis AFB when we drove up to pick up my buddy's Deuce that he won on a Gov liquidation auction for $1600. I've never seen so many deuces in my life! :eek:

http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/5420/dscf2153sw8.jpg

my buddy's deuce is in the background with the lights on. we had just got it started and i thought it would be a pretty cool pic.

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96_zjlarado
08-16-2008, 10:11 PM
well, i finally decided to get off my arse and refinish the carbon fiber wing on the Evo. the factory clear was starting to flake off. pretty common issue on the Evo VIII's. What a pain in the A$$!!! can't go too far because you start getting into the carbon, but you have to go far enough to get all, and i mean ALL of the clear off. Anyway, on to the pics. Thumbnails.

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/101/badclearcoatis3.th.jpg (http://img80.imageshack.us/my.php?image=badclearcoatis3.jpg)

after a LOT of wet sanding, this is the first coat of clear.

http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/8030/wingnewclearzo6.th.jpg (http://img201.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wingnewclearzo6.jpg)

I sprayed 4 more coats on it and then had a little boo boo. didn't clear the tip between coats :smt021 and a drop of clear formed on the tip and got sparyed onto the wing causing a big run. once it cures i can scrape it with a razor blade to level it, wet sand it and put a few more coats on it. hopefully without any F-ups this time.

stockzjwnc
10-10-2008, 07:01 PM
whats the mpg like

94zjcrawlr
10-11-2008, 05:51 AM
Nice DD! And super sweet R34. Always loved those cars. If you don't mind me asking, whats the shop called that you work at? Just curious.