1992 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution GSR

[Cambs_Stuart]

As another Subaru fan, thats utterly brilliant. Very jealous.
Those early EVOs are just perfect. Simple styling, no unnecessary vents or skirts. Perfect.

[greenarrow]

Ah, another one that got away. Remember looking at EVO I and II models about 10 years ago when you could pick them up for £2,500 - £3,000. Why didnt I take the plunge?! Too late now!

Great car. In some ways the earliest models are my favourites. Really light compared with modern cars meaning they're pretty damn quick off of 250/260 BHP.

[myhandle]

I have a friend who is looking to sell his. It's fully rally prepared but has never been in a rally since being restored and painted in works colours. If anyone is interested I can put you in touch with the guy.

[st4]

Cambs_Stuart said:

As another Subaru fan, thats utterly brilliant. Very jealous.
Those early EVOs are just perfect. Simple styling, no unnecessary vents or skirts. Perfect.

It was a really great era for cars. I've never had either but totally get why you would.

[Teggers]

Awesome story there! The car looks great in white and does look tidy - preventative maintenance is the way to go! I really hope it gives you many happy years of fun and as much pleasure as my Evo 2 gives me.

I bought mine in mintier than a polo condition 5 years ago as a *cough* "sensible family car replacement for the 200sx". Still have it, still love it and still gets driven! Not as a family bus though... And I'd love a bonnet pod for lights like the above rally prepped one! But would have to get a different bonnet as I don't want to cut into my good one!

[Kev_evo1]

Awesome example of a early Evo

I too own a Evo 1 and used it daily for 9 years.
There great cars and still surprises a few other cars.

Always get asked ... what is that?? Ha ha ha

Mine standard on outside but running closer to 400 ponies 😁

[fred bloggs]

Matt Cup said:

Lovely car!

These and the 2/3's suffer from crank walk from what I can remember, have you done any remedial work to combat this?

That was a load of bull.

[TheAngryDog]

fred bloggs said:

Matt Cup said:

Lovely car!

These and the 2/3's suffer from crank walk from what I can remember, have you done any remedial work to combat this?

That was a load of bull.

I thought it was the Evo 4 that suffered crank walk?

[Jon_A]

Thanks for all the comments guys

I drove the car around for a few months after I got it and all was fine, It performed very well, no reliability issues, you do miss some of the modern day creature comforts when driving these cars but in a way I find that quite nice, you can just concentrate on the driving, there's no infotainment (other than a radio!) to distract you, just basically, steering wheel, pedals and gearstick....and not much else! However, after a few months I decided to carry out some maintenance and put my Golf R back into daily use, nothing major really needed doing but as the car was about 25 years old at this point there were a few jobs to do,

The car was firstly serviced, new oil, filter, air filter, fuel filter etc including belts

The next thing to do was give it a good old clean! although it actually does look good when its got a bit of dirt on it to give it the rally look!

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I also gave it a machine polish, I'm not sure if the picture shows it very well but hopefully you can see the difference, left hand side has been polished, it really made the paintwork much shinier

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Then the next thing I really wanted to do was replace the suspension all round, the car had only done around 48000 miles at this point but you could feel the suspension was quite worn, probably due to the age of the shocks etc and there were a few creaking noises coming from it here and there, I dont actually have many pictures of this, but here are the shocks when they arrived

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My cousin and I fitting them -

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and fitted

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Unfortunately I don't have any pictures but we replaced everything suspension related, the shocks, the top mounts, the drop links , all the bushes, all replaced with brand new OEM ones which made the car feel a lot better, the ride was massively improved, no longer crashing over bumps and no more creaks coming from it

The next thing I wanted to do was clean up the front end of the car.....the intercooler in particular was looking very much like it had seen better days!

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So a new one was ordered from Viamoto, a company who specialise in Japanese car parts

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and fitted

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While the bumper was off I I decided to clean it up a bit too, we took out all the old rusty screws, and replaced them with new ones, and gave it a proper clean

you can just about see the intercooler spray in the middle of the picture above the mini rachet
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Really did need a clean!

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bit of a 50/50
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and all put back together again

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Even a new Mitsubishi badge to go with it

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and back on the car
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I cant say I really noticed any difference in the way the car drove with the new intercooler, but I did have piece of mind that it wasn't going to fall apart at least! and the front end was a lot fresher looking

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One other small thing was that for some reason the car was missing of its factory stickers, I'm not sure if they were an option in the first place but my car didn't have them, so I managed to get some GSR Evolution stickers made up from a company in Canada along with the "full time 4WD" sticker for the rear window

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The car was still running really well at this point, costing me nothing other than the parts that I wanted to replace/refurbish and I was enjoying driving it but around this time I started to notice some funny behaviour with the clutch pedal, It would go all the way to the floor, but then not come back up, I had to hook my foot underneath it to bring it back.....and then it seemed to work as normal again for a bit....very strange! I thought that it must of been some sort of issue with the master cylinder, but looking at it, there were no leaks or anything so I decided to send the car off to Fusion Motorsport in Surrey to investigate

[F1GTRUeno]

Love me a Lancer Evo, my childhood dream car in all its evolutions.

Great to see this one being looked after so well, especially being kept as standard as possible. I know they respond well to mods and it's personal choice for people to mod their car as they see fit but these are like hen's teeth now so preserving the few remaining mint examples should always be an option.

The original wheels were five spokes weren't they for the EVO I?

Wonder just how hard it is to find them?