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Been wanting to do this for ages with this car, put a little build thread together like this, not only just for my own reference but because I'd always loved doing them and reading them on anywhere from Edition38 to an electronics forum or shed building forum (I'm sure they do exist) :lol:
They'd always been so interesting - to see the evolution (pun pseudo intended) of all these people and to their cars as well. The ups and downs and getting to know the person behind the car a little while you're at it. I’ve always loved people’s really in-depth and personal build threads that people have done, so here's my stab at that... Let's hope it's not insanely slow progress and hard reading for those that take the time to read it :lol:
So hi!! ! I'm Tom, self-confessed car lover from a young age ever since I was old enough to be my Dad's tool caddy/gofer. I've had manly VW's and a couple of old-ish BM's but it was 56 years ago when I got my first proper passenger ride in an Evo 6 at that moment something clicked and in fact that rekindled my experience from maaany years ago… Where I’d seen an Evo 6 ‘relatively' young in my home village of Bath in the United Kingdom, picture the scene...
(*Waynes World dream sequence*)
You hear the exhaust and waste-gate sound first of all around the narrow streets just outside Bath and around the corner catching you completely unawares, comes a truly mint phat, low and very wide black Evo 6... Looking like a more bad-ass version of the bat-mobile crossed with a plane that someone’s strapped to the floor. Like I said, I’d never seen one before really, I knew of their existence but never “seen” one before (think Avatar - the difference between ‘I see’ you’ and I “seeeee yooouuu” here lol).
Post passenger ride... Boom, a couple of weeks later I had this… Owned it for a while (changed the wheels which I would kill to have back again now FYI, rookie mistake...), changed onto some different coils as the GAZ ones where buggered... And then sold it after about a year. It was a solid car, M.A. Development stage one car, handled really well and looked good at the end, people either loved or ***** the wheels, but I liked them... Not so much now, but at the time it made sense to me...
So she went in exchange for moving up to London, house came along and all was good, brilliant job and was all set up etc... But you know that feeling where you're minding your own business but then (you know how it goes) one unsuspecting day: you're living just like all those friends that you both do and don't envy for not really caring about cars... And you see a picture on FB or are trawling through old magazines in the garage having your 'normal' car looked out (they could be jumping up and down on it for all you care, it is just a normal car after all...) and...then you stumble across a picture that makes you go straight onto AutoTrader/PistonHeads (or CraigList etc - if you're American) pretty much straight away)) a car picture that hits you like this...
Well that was me... A phone call later I'd arranged to see a perfect looking 6.
The funny thing is that as much as I had distanced myself away from car I'm a little in love with Japan anyway so the love was never that far away - everything about Japan just has it's awesomeness multiplied so many more times compared to anywhere else. They seem to the originators for so many things and what't not to love - the car culture, the tech, manga, the history (like the fact they were already drawing and experimenting with so many things while the rest of the World was trying to get it's shizzle together). This is why this car is so special to me and this thread will be a bit of everything from inspirational thoughts and photos and my thinking as I go along to actually completing things on car.
Jumping right in, roughly about a year and a bit a go now I bought this... And at this point I must apologise and break one of the cardinal sins of build threads... And basically show you a load of pictures of how it is now with no back story in-build photos (sorry guys)
With roughly 90k on the clock, had a couple of interesting mods but nothing to heavy or far gone/stuff that I wouldn't have done myself. Priced at a ridiculous price for the fact that the guy lived in Cornwall and no-one was coming to see it - needless to say I've been to Belgium for cars before so Cornwall wasn't that daunting...
But the best of all by far was the fact the engine was just forged courtesy of the man, the myth, the legend - Alan Jeffery (aka EngineTuner - he's an extremely good engine builder here in the U.K.) bonus being that it was only about 4k ago the guy had just had enough of the up keep costs etc associated with Evos, plus his wife was about to give birth etc... Gave him a break on the negotiations and only haggled a bit...Walked away with her for a steal!
Pretty decent list eh, and for less than you would for a normal Evo... Spool up to today and here's the stuff that I've done so far:
It's been a bit of a slow progress across the last year or so with not 'that much' done in terms of the grandiose and impressive scale of other cars on here because I've changed over to being a freelance instead of perm, getting a new house. It's been a long road but finally at the end of it now and can spend some time and money on her and make the car I've always wanted...
Cheers for reading!
Been wanting to do this for ages with this car, put a little build thread together like this, not only just for my own reference but because I'd always loved doing them and reading them on anywhere from Edition38 to an electronics forum or shed building forum (I'm sure they do exist) :lol:
They'd always been so interesting - to see the evolution (pun pseudo intended) of all these people and to their cars as well. The ups and downs and getting to know the person behind the car a little while you're at it. I’ve always loved people’s really in-depth and personal build threads that people have done, so here's my stab at that... Let's hope it's not insanely slow progress and hard reading for those that take the time to read it :lol:
So hi!! ! I'm Tom, self-confessed car lover from a young age ever since I was old enough to be my Dad's tool caddy/gofer. I've had manly VW's and a couple of old-ish BM's but it was 56 years ago when I got my first proper passenger ride in an Evo 6 at that moment something clicked and in fact that rekindled my experience from maaany years ago… Where I’d seen an Evo 6 ‘relatively' young in my home village of Bath in the United Kingdom, picture the scene...
(*Waynes World dream sequence*)
You hear the exhaust and waste-gate sound first of all around the narrow streets just outside Bath and around the corner catching you completely unawares, comes a truly mint phat, low and very wide black Evo 6... Looking like a more bad-ass version of the bat-mobile crossed with a plane that someone’s strapped to the floor. Like I said, I’d never seen one before really, I knew of their existence but never “seen” one before (think Avatar - the difference between ‘I see’ you’ and I “seeeee yooouuu” here lol).
Post passenger ride... Boom, a couple of weeks later I had this… Owned it for a while (changed the wheels which I would kill to have back again now FYI, rookie mistake...), changed onto some different coils as the GAZ ones where buggered... And then sold it after about a year. It was a solid car, M.A. Development stage one car, handled really well and looked good at the end, people either loved or ***** the wheels, but I liked them... Not so much now, but at the time it made sense to me...
So she went in exchange for moving up to London, house came along and all was good, brilliant job and was all set up etc... But you know that feeling where you're minding your own business but then (you know how it goes) one unsuspecting day: you're living just like all those friends that you both do and don't envy for not really caring about cars... And you see a picture on FB or are trawling through old magazines in the garage having your 'normal' car looked out (they could be jumping up and down on it for all you care, it is just a normal car after all...) and...then you stumble across a picture that makes you go straight onto AutoTrader/PistonHeads (or CraigList etc - if you're American) pretty much straight away)) a car picture that hits you like this...
Well that was me... A phone call later I'd arranged to see a perfect looking 6.
The funny thing is that as much as I had distanced myself away from car I'm a little in love with Japan anyway so the love was never that far away - everything about Japan just has it's awesomeness multiplied so many more times compared to anywhere else. They seem to the originators for so many things and what't not to love - the car culture, the tech, manga, the history (like the fact they were already drawing and experimenting with so many things while the rest of the World was trying to get it's shizzle together). This is why this car is so special to me and this thread will be a bit of everything from inspirational thoughts and photos and my thinking as I go along to actually completing things on car.
Jumping right in, roughly about a year and a bit a go now I bought this... And at this point I must apologise and break one of the cardinal sins of build threads... And basically show you a load of pictures of how it is now with no back story in-build photos (sorry guys)
With roughly 90k on the clock, had a couple of interesting mods but nothing to heavy or far gone/stuff that I wouldn't have done myself. Priced at a ridiculous price for the fact that the guy lived in Cornwall and no-one was coming to see it - needless to say I've been to Belgium for cars before so Cornwall wasn't that daunting...
- Walbro fuel pump
- EcuTek remap
- Tein lowering springs
- Gizmo boost controller
- Greddy intercooler and hardpiping kit
- Fully polybushed throughout
- OZ Superturismo GT 18x8's (ET40)
- Forge waste-gate
But the best of all by far was the fact the engine was just forged courtesy of the man, the myth, the legend - Alan Jeffery (aka EngineTuner - he's an extremely good engine builder here in the U.K.) bonus being that it was only about 4k ago the guy had just had enough of the up keep costs etc associated with Evos, plus his wife was about to give birth etc... Gave him a break on the negotiations and only haggled a bit...Walked away with her for a steal!
- K1 H Beam Rods
- ACL Rod Bearings
- Stripped and Overhauled Head
- Cosworth Head Gasket
- Cosworth Kevlar Timing Belt
- Wiseco 1400HD Pistons
- New Water Pump
- New Cam Sensor
Pretty decent list eh, and for less than you would for a normal Evo... Spool up to today and here's the stuff that I've done so far:
- 3 x 60mm gauge set up
- Fully flocked dash with gauge pod blended in before being flocked
- A-pillar water gauge
- Boss kit with the proper air-bag cancellation stuff
- Sparco deep dish suede steering wheel
- Zillalife gearknob
- HKS EVC 6 (swapping out the Gizmo one)
- HKS type 1 turbo timer
- Tiny Japanese man that lives in the dash
- Universal corner splitters
- Universal carbon side canards
- Self made canards
- iPod connector to stereo
- Twin plate HKS clutch (and have an OS Giken twin R2C to go on as well)
- Refurbed the brake calipers all round
- Godspeed 2 piece front discs and XP8s all round
It's been a bit of a slow progress across the last year or so with not 'that much' done in terms of the grandiose and impressive scale of other cars on here because I've changed over to being a freelance instead of perm, getting a new house. It's been a long road but finally at the end of it now and can spend some time and money on her and make the car I've always wanted...
Cheers for reading!
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