Decided to swap to stock FMIC to run in STU & also to save weight. Autox doesn’t really pick up too much heat – you get a lot of time between runs to cool things down and spray things down, so an upgraded intercooler doesn’t do too much.
These are some of the first few mods I did for the Evo. JDM rear bumper, STM rear crash beam, JDM taillights (only recently found out they’re Evo 8 taillights and not Evo 9 taillights), and a Buschur SCCA legal exhaust with mil.spec high flow cat that would fit the JDM rear bumper.
Another carry over from my old Evo, the Buschur Racing harness bar & Schroth harnesses. While I was looking for solutions to stiffen the Evo chassis, one thing that came up was a removable harness bar – as the inside of the chassis itself is the weakest, so a harness bar helps some there, while…
On my old Evo, my suspension set up mainly consisted of GTWorx springs & Bilstein HDs. This setup, while good, was just too soft for autox. In general that car was overpowered and undersuspended. I decided to go the opposite route with this Evo, adding more suspension than power. Went with Ohlins with the stock…
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