2003 Evo 8. The walk of shame!
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Been in the garage for 9 months. Looks like a f
king barn find. If I'd have said that's what it was and put in to an auction looking like this I'd have probably got twice what it's actually worth...... 
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Amazing how much you can get done in an hour!
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Oh dear!
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Well, not perfect, but the wonders of a dry, clean paint brush, a damp chamois and half an hour of effort have got it half way decent.
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king barn find. If I'd have said that's what it was and put in to an auction looking like this I'd have probably got twice what it's actually worth...... [url]Amazing how much you can get done in an hour!
|https://thumbsnap.com/QUx6j8jM[/url][url]Oh dear!
|https://thumbsnap.com/PTJmE8Up[/url][url]Well, not perfect, but the wonders of a dry, clean paint brush, a damp chamois and half an hour of effort have got it half way decent.
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Don't know how to do photoshop! 
Just dragged it out like that this afternoon. Surprised it started tbh, the trickle charger is giving all the signs that the battery's on the way out.
It's a Mivec top end.....I put the head, E9 turbo, inlet and ECU on it about 10 or 11 years ago. I had a local Mitsi specialist in Portsmouth ( I lived down in Southampton back then ) swap the head and turbo,
I had Pirtek make up a braided line and took the oil feed for the Mivec from the oil filter housing rather than pull the motor and do it the way Mitsi did from the back of the block.
The real headache for me was wiring the Mivec, I couldn't get an Evo 9 engine loom for love nor money and ended up having to dope out the voltages for everything over about 4 months, make a loom from scratch and figure out which pins to take the feeds from in the ECU for the oil control valve, map sensor etc. Not my thing at all, but at the time no-one in the UK had done any of this on an 8, and the people who had done it were in America on EvoM, and the pinouts are different on their models, so not a lot of help really. Between help on the MLR and an auto electrician mate, got there in the end.
It's got a few bolt-ons, 3 port boost solenoid, Walbro pump, decent intercooler, coil on plug kit, HKS Silentpower exhaust, panel filter with modified airbox and cold air feed, mapped on the safe side at about 390 brake, 380 ft/lbs on high boost, 1.8 bar max.
I've had the car 17 years, it's magic.
Just had another look at the first pic, I see what you mean about photoshopped! It isn't, I couldn't do that if my life depended on it!
Just dragged it out like that this afternoon. Surprised it started tbh, the trickle charger is giving all the signs that the battery's on the way out.It's a Mivec top end.....I put the head, E9 turbo, inlet and ECU on it about 10 or 11 years ago. I had a local Mitsi specialist in Portsmouth ( I lived down in Southampton back then ) swap the head and turbo,
I had Pirtek make up a braided line and took the oil feed for the Mivec from the oil filter housing rather than pull the motor and do it the way Mitsi did from the back of the block.
The real headache for me was wiring the Mivec, I couldn't get an Evo 9 engine loom for love nor money and ended up having to dope out the voltages for everything over about 4 months, make a loom from scratch and figure out which pins to take the feeds from in the ECU for the oil control valve, map sensor etc. Not my thing at all, but at the time no-one in the UK had done any of this on an 8, and the people who had done it were in America on EvoM, and the pinouts are different on their models, so not a lot of help really. Between help on the MLR and an auto electrician mate, got there in the end.
It's got a few bolt-ons, 3 port boost solenoid, Walbro pump, decent intercooler, coil on plug kit, HKS Silentpower exhaust, panel filter with modified airbox and cold air feed, mapped on the safe side at about 390 brake, 380 ft/lbs on high boost, 1.8 bar max.
I've had the car 17 years, it's magic.
Just had another look at the first pic, I see what you mean about photoshopped! It isn't, I couldn't do that if my life depended on it!
Edited by Heaveho on Thursday 9th April 00:40
TheAngryDog said:
Could be an Evo 9 engine as they were mivec, or just have an even 9 cam cover. This isn't the engine from the Evo X.
Yes I know that, owned 4 of them 
. It’s a 9 engine as the covers isn’t interchangeable due to the cam housing for the mivec.It’s quite a big job fitting that engine though.
Edit: just read the reply from the OP, so it is the head that’s swapped along with the associated wiring etc. Hats off for doing that job, the wiring is where the work is. Brave soul undertaking that one.
Edited by Evolved on Thursday 9th April 07:17
Thanks for the replies. I don't like car covers, I'd rather have the dust just lie on the car and blast it off. There's enough room in the garage to not have to touch the car when I'm in there, and with covers the car always has to be clean before you use them, otherwise they can scratch,
The garage is on the ground floor ( obviously ) of a town house I've been refurbishing, the Evo lives in front of the space that used to be the utility room. I knocked that down to have a bigger garage ( as well as lifting the kitchen and dining room floors to make headroom for a ramp, there are three cars living in what is essentially a two car garage ), and I do a lot of work like cutting tiles and timber behind the Evo if the weather's bad, hence the clip of it. That's been going on for 4 years now, as bad as it looks sometimes, the paintwork on the Evo hasn't noticeably suffered.
Back to the car. It was indeed a bit of a mare to wire it, probably a lot more info out there about it now, but at the time, for me anyway, it was hard work. There are only 10 additional wires to control the Mivec, and the 9 ECU will run an 8 engine with the Mivec disconnected, so I wasn't entirely without the car during the final stages, but it dragged on for a while. Then, when I did get it connected, we had problems mapping it, and it was suggested that the Mivec inlet pulley wasn't functioning correctly, so another headache.
I tried another pulley without any difference and worked my way back through all the stuff that had been modified without getting anywhere. Out of desperation, I changed the ( aftermarket ) boost solenoid, and the first time I drove it afterwards, when it came on boost it nearly threw me out of the rear screen. Because the map wasn't right for a faulty solenoid I briefly saw 2.2 bar on the gauge!
Other than the 2nd hand Evo 9 turbo stting itself 3 years ago on a blast around Scotland, it's been dead reliable. I can't blame the turbo, it was of unknown provenance and mileage, and had been subjected to 7 or 8 years of 1.8 bar, about the max that turbo will run at. That's including a couple of track days and several quarter mile efforts at Santa Pod and Thorney Island.
The garage is on the ground floor ( obviously
) of a town house I've been refurbishing, the Evo lives in front of the space that used to be the utility room. I knocked that down to have a bigger garage ( as well as lifting the kitchen and dining room floors to make headroom for a ramp, there are three cars living in what is essentially a two car garage ), and I do a lot of work like cutting tiles and timber behind the Evo if the weather's bad, hence the clip of it. That's been going on for 4 years now, as bad as it looks sometimes, the paintwork on the Evo hasn't noticeably suffered.Back to the car. It was indeed a bit of a mare to wire it, probably a lot more info out there about it now, but at the time, for me anyway, it was hard work. There are only 10 additional wires to control the Mivec, and the 9 ECU will run an 8 engine with the Mivec disconnected, so I wasn't entirely without the car during the final stages, but it dragged on for a while. Then, when I did get it connected, we had problems mapping it, and it was suggested that the Mivec inlet pulley wasn't functioning correctly, so another headache.
I tried another pulley without any difference and worked my way back through all the stuff that had been modified without getting anywhere. Out of desperation, I changed the ( aftermarket ) boost solenoid, and the first time I drove it afterwards, when it came on boost it nearly threw me out of the rear screen. Because the map wasn't right for a faulty solenoid I briefly saw 2.2 bar on the gauge!
Other than the 2nd hand Evo 9 turbo s
tting itself 3 years ago on a blast around Scotland, it's been dead reliable. I can't blame the turbo, it was of unknown provenance and mileage, and had been subjected to 7 or 8 years of 1.8 bar, about the max that turbo will run at. That's including a couple of track days and several quarter mile efforts at Santa Pod and Thorney Island.Edited by Heaveho on Thursday 9th April 10:49
Heaveho said:
The garage is on the ground floor of a town house I've been refurbishing, the Evo lives in front of the space that used to be the utility room. I knocked that down to have a bigger garage ( as well as lifting the kitchen and dining room floors to make headroom for a ramp, there are three cars living in what is essentially a two car garage ).
Give yourself a PH Gold Star Edited by Heaveho on Thursday 9th April 10:49
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