2003 Evo 8. The walk of shame!
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fred bloggs said:
I had a evo1 from 2001 intill 2011 , ended up with a full t45 cage, 390 bhp , and evo3 diffs ect. it was stupid fast.
The next owner put a bigger fuel system and upped the boost made 500 ish and promptly grenaded the gearbox.
The next owner put a bigger fuel system and upped the boost made 500 ish and promptly grenaded the gearbox.
Well, as the saying goes, too much is never enough!I reassembled the few remaining parts that weren't on the car. The lower heat shield was treated to a fresh coat of matt black heat resistant paint. In theory, replacement should have been reversal of the removal procedure, but obviously that wasn't happening, with it getting jammed solid between the actuator and rad, resulting in multiple rows of bent fins and cut hands.
I ended up bending it into a flatter shape, unplugging the lamda sensor to get more freeplay on the cable which had also gone rogue and decided to be obstructive, and being brave about the use of force required, which ultimately did the trick without too much more grief, although I think it's fair to say that the fresh paint will have been a waste of time! Some of the bolts are completely hidden or are in ridiculously inaccessible places, and I've deliberately left one out as it isn't needed and is a right ballache to remove and refit. I refitted these without any form of grease, which I don't like doing, but I think the temps down there would eliminate any benefit anyway.
The upper shield is easy enough. I ran the polishing mop over it to get the shine back. The bolts are just plain steel and visible, and are prone to rust. You can't replace them with stainless, as the threads on them don't like the combination of iron and extreme heat, and get stuck. I can't see a way around this first world problem, so have resigned myself to just removing and cleaning the bolt heads as required.
I've started to work my way through the engine bay with button head stainless allen bolts, washers and nuts everywhere, rather than the normal capheads. Just looks neater. A decade or so ago, I removed loads of little brackets dotted around the bay, used a wire brush attachment on the grinder to get them to bright metal, and repainted them all, including the bonnet catch. They're getting a bit scabby again, so they'll all get a refresh, as will the slam panel area.
I'm hoping to renew ( and am in the process of booking ) my acquaintance with my favourite track, Spa, in May for the Classic, which I was taking the Evo and 3 friends to regularly, before covid ruined things. I'm going to succumb to the delights of a modern double din carplay head unit and part company with the lovely period Alpine single din and 6 disc changer that's hidden in the glovebox, as I've reluctantly accepted that it just makes a car an easier and more pleasant place to be. It'll be a Sony XAV AX1005 DAB, as it's one of the few you can still get with a rotary volume control, and I've learned from past mistakes that touch screen for that is crap.
So, finally, out with this, which has been a resident in the Evo since 2004........
.....and this, which has resided in the glovebox for the same period......
.... to be replaced with this......
......which seems to be the only brand name with a rotary volume control. I wanted carplay, this was £270. It's nice that the Brodit for my phone is right there, so no long leads flapping about any more.
I was going to swap the units at home, but when I pulled the Alpine out, although it was fitted with ISO's, some of the wires weren't running through them and were connected directly from the head unit to the original car loom. Also, there's the added complication of the 6 channel Denon amp under the passenger seat, which has all 3 pre-outs utilised. The Alpine has the pre-outs on 6" flyleads, the Sony just has the holes in the back of the unit, meaning the leads from the amp weren't long enough to reach.
Lucky me, I've got a mate who works a mile away as an auto electrician in an outlet that supplies and fits alarms and stereo equipment, and one of the few people I know I can trust with stuff, so I took the easy way out and booked it in there. For £50, he fitted the head unit, supplied the right length cables and gave me a DAB screen aerial ( didn't need it in the end, as the original aerial is powered ). Also discovered the passenger door speaker wasn't working, and reattached the speaker cable to it. So, all in all, a good decision not to bother myself with it.
Fitting the Sony meant I lost the cubby hole this used to live in, so it's here for now. I use it to measure intake temps among other things, plus it should be configurable to read boost levels, although for now that's proving more tricky than expected to set up.......
At least it's in view now better than it was, which is also what I had in mind when I made when I made the pod for the boost gauge......
Gratuitous shot of old school security measures! We used to fit these when I worked at Ford, circa 1990, when stealing Cosworth's was all the rage.
I doubt the Sony's the last word in sound sophistication, but for the money, and how much easier life is with Waze, Spotify and bluetooth, it's a cheap fix for lots of problems, and thanks to my mate also finding and fitting a gloss black surround to match my ( painted ) dash inlays, it looks as integrated as I cold hope for.
.....and this, which has resided in the glovebox for the same period......
.... to be replaced with this......
......which seems to be the only brand name with a rotary volume control. I wanted carplay, this was £270. It's nice that the Brodit for my phone is right there, so no long leads flapping about any more.
I was going to swap the units at home, but when I pulled the Alpine out, although it was fitted with ISO's, some of the wires weren't running through them and were connected directly from the head unit to the original car loom. Also, there's the added complication of the 6 channel Denon amp under the passenger seat, which has all 3 pre-outs utilised. The Alpine has the pre-outs on 6" flyleads, the Sony just has the holes in the back of the unit, meaning the leads from the amp weren't long enough to reach.
Lucky me, I've got a mate who works a mile away as an auto electrician in an outlet that supplies and fits alarms and stereo equipment, and one of the few people I know I can trust with stuff, so I took the easy way out and booked it in there. For £50, he fitted the head unit, supplied the right length cables and gave me a DAB screen aerial ( didn't need it in the end, as the original aerial is powered ). Also discovered the passenger door speaker wasn't working, and reattached the speaker cable to it. So, all in all, a good decision not to bother myself with it.
Fitting the Sony meant I lost the cubby hole this used to live in, so it's here for now. I use it to measure intake temps among other things, plus it should be configurable to read boost levels, although for now that's proving more tricky than expected to set up.......
At least it's in view now better than it was, which is also what I had in mind when I made when I made the pod for the boost gauge......
Gratuitous shot of old school security measures! We used to fit these when I worked at Ford, circa 1990, when stealing Cosworth's was all the rage.
I doubt the Sony's the last word in sound sophistication, but for the money, and how much easier life is with Waze, Spotify and bluetooth, it's a cheap fix for lots of problems, and thanks to my mate also finding and fitting a gloss black surround to match my ( painted ) dash inlays, it looks as integrated as I cold hope for.
Edited by Heaveho on Wednesday 22 November 17:21
After a 5 year hiatus partly because of covid, I finally managed to sort my life out to the point where going to the Spa Classic became a possibility again. for the purposes of travel, this meant the Evo would be required. All very well, but I hadn't driven it since September last year, and then only very briefly for
a few miles after a 26 month lay up.
Oh well, in for a penny. Various other things conspired to get in the way of meaningful preparations, and I finally got to give it a shakedown run on the Friday before we were booked on the ferry, which was last Wednesday night. Living in a city centre currently full of road works and " improvements " that have lasted for months, and start practically in my street is proving to be an utter pain in the arse.
Never mind. I navigated them and had a trundle about. That didn't last long. It was a warm day, and during the 20 mins I was out the air con was conspicuous by it's absence. One of the few things I've ever had to replace on the Evo is the air con rad, about 6 years ago, coincidentally just before an earlier trip to Spa. Typically, the minute I parked up back home and opened the bonnet, the air con reappeared, ice cold and faultless. My instinct was that the compressor clutch had somehow temporarily got stuck, as I hadn't heard it kicking in and out. Not sure how plausible that is an explanation, but I elected not to ask too many questions and just be happy with a free fix.
I celebrated by giving the car a scrub and letting a local dent guy loose on it. He was there primarily to remove about 15 dents in my Scotland trip purchase, a 2001 MR2 Roadster that is now up for sale, but the Evo hadn't emerged from storage quite as it went in, and I gave him a nudge in it's direction with superb results.This is how it looked after his handiwork, a non Mitsubishi approved stone chip touch up treatment with a black sharpie, and a two stage going over with Poorboys black hole followed by Poorboys natty wax including the alloys, both products an absolute pleasure to use, and a godsend I discovered when bringing the paint on my 2018 Ford Connect work van back to life. I followed this up with a coat of Q2M Wetcoat which helps bead water and massively speeds up the drying process.
I had a Sony carplay head unit fitted last year. After the Connect, which came with carplay as standard, I've finally conceded that a modicum of tech has it's place even in older cars and fitted it to pretty much everything I own now. Lots of little jobs were attended to, my Brodit phone mount had snapped a mounting point. I finally got around to glueing that back together and also rescued my back up Garmin in case my Waze preference had a freakout as it occasionally does.
There's a small squashy bag on the left of the boot under the jackets with all my stuff in. And the cider is mine. Other than the steering wheel lock, and the tools, jump leads, bulb kit and tyre inflator that I always take on trips like this, everything else was deemed necessary baggage for my two passengers.....
As if that wasn't enough, here's the overspill.......
This for 5 nights away. Jesus. For all the criticisms it has to endure for it's supposed lack of practicality ( fuel consumption, servicing costs, I won't leave it anywhere I don't like the look of, you get the gist ), other than the Lexus we have, it's the only car any of us have that can cope with this nonsense.
Oh well, that's the first leg of the trip completed. A whole 8 miles to North Shields ferry terminal without incident...........
Home for the night..........
Ok, officially now on holiday....
Bye bye Newcastle.......
This'll keep the foreigners guessing.....
As usual, DFDS provided an all action, event filled entertainment package, comprising of a band so lacking in enthusiasm that had I not actually witnessed them walking on stage to take up their instruments and positions, I would have assumed them to be mannequins, such was their utterly static and disinterested approach to the task at hand. Suffice to say, alcohol provided welcome and necessary relief from the torture, although even their rendition of Hotel California by The Eagles did provide a brief respite from the otherwise turgid drivel.
A pleasant, if uneventful 3 hours or so after our egress from the hospitality of our overnight passage to Amsterdam found us in the village of Jalhay, a small and pleasant village about a 20 minute drive from the circuit. We've stayed here twice previously, in the same Gite, it's well appointed and convenient and safe for the car.
We were earlier than the owner had anticipated, so we dumped the car and had a wander around the village to reacquaint ourselves with it. Typically, we got about a mile away and the heavens opened. This was at maybe 1.30 in the afternoon, I still hadn't had a text from the owner to tell us the place was ready, so, with heavy hearts, we accepted our fate and headed to the bar to address both our inner dryness and our outer wetness. The owner offered us what looked to be thimble sized vessels for the Juliper lager on draught ( very drinkable ), the problem eventually resolved when one of the locals realised we were English and pointed to proper pint glasses, these placed at such a height as to suggest little use and indeed apparently reserved only for use by those from our part of the world!
3 pints later and I finally received the text I'd been waiting for.....half an hour later and this was the scene back at base......
This was Thursday afternoon. Practice starts on the Friday. Thursday's weather continued the following day and these were the scenes that greeted us on our first day at the track......
Understandably, there weren't many takers there to spectate and the place was pretty bereft of the usual atmosphere I love it for, but practice went ahead and we witnessed a few cars splashing through the downpour, interspersed with what appeared to be the Alfa owners club braving the conditions for a few laps.......
As always, some lovely stuff dotted about in the car parks and paddocks.....GT40 in Gulf colours works for me....
This appeared to having an identity crisis........
This was stunning.....
Thought this was a brave choice of colour.......
The only other Evo I saw all weekend.......
And it's nemesis.........
That's more than enough for now. I'll put some more up soon, the weather did dry out on the Saturday and Sunday and the temp briefly got to the giddy heights of about 18 degrees eventually.
a few miles after a 26 month lay up.
Oh well, in for a penny. Various other things conspired to get in the way of meaningful preparations, and I finally got to give it a shakedown run on the Friday before we were booked on the ferry, which was last Wednesday night. Living in a city centre currently full of road works and " improvements " that have lasted for months, and start practically in my street is proving to be an utter pain in the arse.
Never mind. I navigated them and had a trundle about. That didn't last long. It was a warm day, and during the 20 mins I was out the air con was conspicuous by it's absence. One of the few things I've ever had to replace on the Evo is the air con rad, about 6 years ago, coincidentally just before an earlier trip to Spa. Typically, the minute I parked up back home and opened the bonnet, the air con reappeared, ice cold and faultless. My instinct was that the compressor clutch had somehow temporarily got stuck, as I hadn't heard it kicking in and out. Not sure how plausible that is an explanation, but I elected not to ask too many questions and just be happy with a free fix.
I celebrated by giving the car a scrub and letting a local dent guy loose on it. He was there primarily to remove about 15 dents in my Scotland trip purchase, a 2001 MR2 Roadster that is now up for sale, but the Evo hadn't emerged from storage quite as it went in, and I gave him a nudge in it's direction with superb results.This is how it looked after his handiwork, a non Mitsubishi approved stone chip touch up treatment with a black sharpie, and a two stage going over with Poorboys black hole followed by Poorboys natty wax including the alloys, both products an absolute pleasure to use, and a godsend I discovered when bringing the paint on my 2018 Ford Connect work van back to life. I followed this up with a coat of Q2M Wetcoat which helps bead water and massively speeds up the drying process.
I had a Sony carplay head unit fitted last year. After the Connect, which came with carplay as standard, I've finally conceded that a modicum of tech has it's place even in older cars and fitted it to pretty much everything I own now. Lots of little jobs were attended to, my Brodit phone mount had snapped a mounting point. I finally got around to glueing that back together and also rescued my back up Garmin in case my Waze preference had a freakout as it occasionally does.
There's a small squashy bag on the left of the boot under the jackets with all my stuff in. And the cider is mine. Other than the steering wheel lock, and the tools, jump leads, bulb kit and tyre inflator that I always take on trips like this, everything else was deemed necessary baggage for my two passengers.....
As if that wasn't enough, here's the overspill.......
This for 5 nights away. Jesus. For all the criticisms it has to endure for it's supposed lack of practicality ( fuel consumption, servicing costs, I won't leave it anywhere I don't like the look of, you get the gist ), other than the Lexus we have, it's the only car any of us have that can cope with this nonsense.
Oh well, that's the first leg of the trip completed. A whole 8 miles to North Shields ferry terminal without incident...........
Home for the night..........
Ok, officially now on holiday....
Bye bye Newcastle.......
This'll keep the foreigners guessing.....
As usual, DFDS provided an all action, event filled entertainment package, comprising of a band so lacking in enthusiasm that had I not actually witnessed them walking on stage to take up their instruments and positions, I would have assumed them to be mannequins, such was their utterly static and disinterested approach to the task at hand. Suffice to say, alcohol provided welcome and necessary relief from the torture, although even their rendition of Hotel California by The Eagles did provide a brief respite from the otherwise turgid drivel.
A pleasant, if uneventful 3 hours or so after our egress from the hospitality of our overnight passage to Amsterdam found us in the village of Jalhay, a small and pleasant village about a 20 minute drive from the circuit. We've stayed here twice previously, in the same Gite, it's well appointed and convenient and safe for the car.
We were earlier than the owner had anticipated, so we dumped the car and had a wander around the village to reacquaint ourselves with it. Typically, we got about a mile away and the heavens opened. This was at maybe 1.30 in the afternoon, I still hadn't had a text from the owner to tell us the place was ready, so, with heavy hearts, we accepted our fate and headed to the bar to address both our inner dryness and our outer wetness. The owner offered us what looked to be thimble sized vessels for the Juliper lager on draught ( very drinkable ), the problem eventually resolved when one of the locals realised we were English and pointed to proper pint glasses, these placed at such a height as to suggest little use and indeed apparently reserved only for use by those from our part of the world!
3 pints later and I finally received the text I'd been waiting for.....half an hour later and this was the scene back at base......
This was Thursday afternoon. Practice starts on the Friday. Thursday's weather continued the following day and these were the scenes that greeted us on our first day at the track......
Understandably, there weren't many takers there to spectate and the place was pretty bereft of the usual atmosphere I love it for, but practice went ahead and we witnessed a few cars splashing through the downpour, interspersed with what appeared to be the Alfa owners club braving the conditions for a few laps.......
As always, some lovely stuff dotted about in the car parks and paddocks.....GT40 in Gulf colours works for me....
This appeared to having an identity crisis........
This was stunning.....
Thought this was a brave choice of colour.......
The only other Evo I saw all weekend.......
And it's nemesis.........
That's more than enough for now. I'll put some more up soon, the weather did dry out on the Saturday and Sunday and the temp briefly got to the giddy heights of about 18 degrees eventually.
oxnop said:
As an ex Evo 6 owner - a very good write up / I enjoyed reading the entire thread.
Thanks for that. I don't think many people are that interested, but writing stuff about the car is a useful resource to refer back to when necessary. It's like an online service history!Some more pics, some from a still very wet Friday, and the Saturday, when things gradually started to become less inclement........
The world's most expensive dodgems?.......
Lovely shot of Eau Rouge showing the new stands on a dry Saturday with a packed grid.....
mwstewart said:
Nice trip report and interesting selection of cars. YouTube has its place, but I'll always enjoy reading something like this.
Thanks. I wish I was doing trips like this in something as interesting as your Ferrari, but the Evo serves it's purpose more than adequately for trips to Spa and the like. 
Few more pics, couple of lovely pups enjoying the better weather......
Probably as many of these as I'll ever see in one place..........
This was absolutely lovely, I'd love to own that........
Possibly not a popular view, but I worked on these for a while and couldn't help but wonder how many of them would get back home under their own steam and not on the back of a truck! I'm such a cynic........
Our last day at the track and the weather held again, the forecast turned out to be worse than the reality fortunately.
Great views of the action from the new stand above Eau Rouge........
Thank you Spa, see you next year. Hopefully......
Back to our Gite and Clarkson's farm before our 4th and last trip to the Italian restaurant around the corner. The one downside of Jalhay is that it's the only restaurant within walking distance, and although lovely, 4 nights in a row is enough!
Our accommodation is lovely. The owner keeps the place in nice condition and the cost to rent is more than fair.....
This is the house over the road from our place. The local architecture is beautiful.....
And that was that. The run back to Amsterdam was pretty tame compared to previous years. I used 2 tanks of juice to cover about 470 miles in total, which is pretty good going for a fully loaded Evo, but it was barely on boost for much of the trip. It'll do a ton off boost, and that's about as much as I saw in either direction.
Breakfast of champions before disembarking back in Blighty........
And safely back in one piece with the siblings.......
If you bothered to put yourself through that, thanks for reading.
Great views of the action from the new stand above Eau Rouge........
Thank you Spa, see you next year. Hopefully......
Back to our Gite and Clarkson's farm before our 4th and last trip to the Italian restaurant around the corner. The one downside of Jalhay is that it's the only restaurant within walking distance, and although lovely, 4 nights in a row is enough!
Our accommodation is lovely. The owner keeps the place in nice condition and the cost to rent is more than fair.....
This is the house over the road from our place. The local architecture is beautiful.....
And that was that. The run back to Amsterdam was pretty tame compared to previous years. I used 2 tanks of juice to cover about 470 miles in total, which is pretty good going for a fully loaded Evo, but it was barely on boost for much of the trip. It'll do a ton off boost, and that's about as much as I saw in either direction.
Breakfast of champions before disembarking back in Blighty........
And safely back in one piece with the siblings.......
If you bothered to put yourself through that, thanks for reading.
In other Evo specific news, I had decided to pay more attention to security. I was astonished to be offered 30k for the car a while ago, and while it might be worth that to the person who was doing the offering and admittedly knows the car well, I didn't think it likely it was worth more than 20k on the open market. Any sane person would have probably accepted 30k, but I'm not covered by that description and kept it!
Then the insurance became due for renewal. And they suggested upping the cover with regard to values. So it's now on an agreed value of 30k.
The car already has a Clifford alarm, a multi lock and I use a steering wheel lock. Having searched and found something useful for my van, and been very impressed with it, I went ahead and ordered the same thing for the Evo.
These are Cruxer remote wireless bicycle alarms found on ebay. They're extremely sensitive vibration sensors which are built in to a 120db siren. You can pair up to 8 sirens to one remote. They are sensitive enough to give off a warning if someone tries a door handle, yet I've never had a single false alarm on the van in over a year. Rechargeable through a supplied usb cable, but battery life is very impressive. On bulk purchases I've paid as little as £11 for each kit comprising of siren, remote, usb cable and mounting kit.
I mounted them on the rear doors where they are protected from passengers by the seat squab when closed.
The fronts are mounted at the back of the door pockets and are nicely shielded from from getting knocked about.
I also mounted one in the boot lid near the lock. They don't sound like they'll make much noise from outside, but if the car was broken into and the noise allowed out, they're ear piercing. Not the last word in sophistication but cheap, reliable and easy to use.
I've also begun to address little things that I thought would improve the aesthetics, namely replacing tatty bolts and clips with stainless button head allen bolts in the engine bay, and securing the mudflaps etc.....
There's also the small but irritating matter of the broken off mounting lug on the lower front edge of the upper timing belt cover. This was caused by a pillock at a Ralliart dealer in Southampton many moons ago, the same halfwit also being responsible for giving me the car back with the balancer shaft timing 180 degrees out after a belt replacement. I was so incensed at the nonsense with the belt that I failed to spot the damage to the cover until it was too late to realistically complain.
The nut and bolt have been my substandard solution to this for far too long now, so I've been on the prowl for a decent 2nd hand one with limited success. I can get an aftermarket clear one quite cheaply, and if I had a nice purple HKS belt fitted, aesthetically I might be tempted. But I'm not changing the belt again just to accommodate that folly, so it'll be a standard Mitsi one. Which unfortunately looks like having to be a new one at circa £100 as used ones haven't thus far been forthcoming. There also a couple of eyesores in the area of the cover that I'll address when the cover's off for replacement.
Then the insurance became due for renewal. And they suggested upping the cover with regard to values. So it's now on an agreed value of 30k.
The car already has a Clifford alarm, a multi lock and I use a steering wheel lock. Having searched and found something useful for my van, and been very impressed with it, I went ahead and ordered the same thing for the Evo.
These are Cruxer remote wireless bicycle alarms found on ebay. They're extremely sensitive vibration sensors which are built in to a 120db siren. You can pair up to 8 sirens to one remote. They are sensitive enough to give off a warning if someone tries a door handle, yet I've never had a single false alarm on the van in over a year. Rechargeable through a supplied usb cable, but battery life is very impressive. On bulk purchases I've paid as little as £11 for each kit comprising of siren, remote, usb cable and mounting kit.
I mounted them on the rear doors where they are protected from passengers by the seat squab when closed.
The fronts are mounted at the back of the door pockets and are nicely shielded from from getting knocked about.
I also mounted one in the boot lid near the lock. They don't sound like they'll make much noise from outside, but if the car was broken into and the noise allowed out, they're ear piercing. Not the last word in sophistication but cheap, reliable and easy to use.
I've also begun to address little things that I thought would improve the aesthetics, namely replacing tatty bolts and clips with stainless button head allen bolts in the engine bay, and securing the mudflaps etc.....
There's also the small but irritating matter of the broken off mounting lug on the lower front edge of the upper timing belt cover. This was caused by a pillock at a Ralliart dealer in Southampton many moons ago, the same halfwit also being responsible for giving me the car back with the balancer shaft timing 180 degrees out after a belt replacement. I was so incensed at the nonsense with the belt that I failed to spot the damage to the cover until it was too late to realistically complain.
The nut and bolt have been my substandard solution to this for far too long now, so I've been on the prowl for a decent 2nd hand one with limited success. I can get an aftermarket clear one quite cheaply, and if I had a nice purple HKS belt fitted, aesthetically I might be tempted. But I'm not changing the belt again just to accommodate that folly, so it'll be a standard Mitsi one. Which unfortunately looks like having to be a new one at circa £100 as used ones haven't thus far been forthcoming. There also a couple of eyesores in the area of the cover that I'll address when the cover's off for replacement.
Edited by Heaveho on Thursday 23 May 17:08
Nice write up... Especially over Spa Classic! First time for us this year and the general level of access, along with the lack of chaos I'm used to at Le Mans was amazing.
Although we had no idea what was going on with timings on Sunday, and still don't understand how they got finished on time..
My pics..
Untitled by David Powell, on Flickr
Untitled by David Powell, on Flickr
Untitled by David Powell, on Flickr
Full album - https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBrkMY
Although we had no idea what was going on with timings on Sunday, and still don't understand how they got finished on time..
My pics..
Untitled by David Powell, on FlickrUntitled by David Powell, on FlickrUntitled by David Powell, on FlickrFull album - https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBrkMY
surveyor said:
Nice write up... Especially over Spa Classic! First time for us this year and the general level of access, along with the lack of chaos I'm used to at Le Mans was amazing.
Although we had no idea what was going on with timings on Sunday, and still don't understand how they got finished on time..
My pics..
Untitled by David Powell, on Flickr
Untitled by David Powell, on Flickr
Untitled by David Powell, on Flickr
Full album - https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBrkMY
Thanks. You must have been sitting pretty much exactly where we were above Eau Rouge. I had a look through your flick.r pics, better than mine! I found the place a little lacking in atmosphere this year compared to previous visits, but it won't stop me trying to get there every year, I enjoy the whole experience from start to finish. I'd like to go over in one of the other cars for a change, but it doesn't make sense as they're both 2 seaters and we'd have to shell out for another car on the ferry. There's always at least 3 of us, so the Evo ends up being the default choice. Not really complaining as I don't get to drive it much, so it's still a treat after all these years. Although we had no idea what was going on with timings on Sunday, and still don't understand how they got finished on time..
My pics..
Untitled by David Powell, on FlickrUntitled by David Powell, on FlickrUntitled by David Powell, on FlickrFull album - https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBrkMY
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