Hi Guys
Well, not a huge update really as the the car has been sorned over the winter, just done a few little bits and pieces while its been off the road, Im going to look at getting the car booked into a bodyshop in the spring to have the scuff in the rear door fixed as well as a couple of other bits like fix the leaky boot sill
Firstly the Evo has a new stablemate!
Its very interesting comparing the 2 cars, both absolutely fantastic to drive although completely different really!
Back to the Evo! when I bought the car, the air con control unit display had failed, still worked but you couldn't tell what it was doing.
Lucky enough a guy living a few miles away from me had one from his old Evo 1, so that was bought
and fitted, you also can see the awful jap stereo has gone
and been replaced with a more up to date, Pioneer USB ipod player, but not too flashy as it would stand out quite a bit in the dash otherwise, also got a little cubby hole underneath where i keep an old ipod to connect to the radio
The speakers have all been replaced for new ones as well
Before the car was sorned, i had the air con regassed as i really needed it on that day out in the summer! the Evo interiors do get hot!
Another job that needed doing was replacing the leaking decat pipe! as it could get pretty fumey sometimes, you can see from this picture how bad it was, looked like it had been chopped in half and badly welded back together
Replaced with this one
Much better! doesnt leak!
Another job that has been done is to replace the gear shift bushings from rubber ones to brass ones, The
problem with the rubber ones is that over time they perish, which makes the gearchange become slack and inprecise, on mine it wasnt too bad but you could tell it needed doing
The new bushings were ordered from the USA as the Early Evos share a lot of parts with the DSM cars in America
and here you can see the new Brass bush along with one of the perished rubber ones
Fitting was a bit of a nightmare mainly because the access to the gear cables was pretty tight, having to remove all the turbo pipework etc as well, but here is a picture of one of them fitted
It should hopefully tighten up the gearchange a bit, but i'll be able to report back once I retax the car in the spring
Apart from these things there hasn't been a huge amount going on
The engine bay has had a good old clean..
Before
after
Including a new dip stick as the rubber had seemingly gone hard on the old one and didnt really fit well in the pipe any more, new one fitted perfectly
The next thing on my to do list is to get the steering wheel retrimmed, I saw this Evo 2 which had the Tommi Makkinen Interior fitted from the Evo 6 TME as well as the alcantara steering wheel
Also the M3 has an Alcantara wheel and I really like it
So Ive bought a replacement Evo 3 Momo wheel (just in case I wanted to go back to standard leather) and this will soon be getting sent off for a retrim
Also bought my first mod! (apart from the decat!) a HKS panel filter!
Thats it for now but there will be a lot more when I get the car out in the spring
Also does anyone know how I can edit my post on the front page, to fix the photos? the option for me to edit seems to have gone?
