Zack@Devo2ning's JDM Evo 7

[l0wb00st]

Hey Guys, Just thought I'd make a "build thread" for my little monster :smile:

A little Back story:
I used to drive a 2008 Evo 10, but in August 2010 I was in a bad accident on my motorcycle (a Triumph Daytona 675) and I suffered many injuries, the biggest being a total loss of movement in my right arm. Since my Evo X was manual, and I couldn't move my right arm anymore, I couldn't drive it. I thought I would have to give up driving stick for the rest of my life... One day I saw a friend on facebook post a picture of her friends' right hand drive evo. I immediately got the idea to bring over a car from the uk, or japan.

My original plan was to bring over an Evo X FQ400, however, I had no idea what had to be done to get one imported. I asked my friend to talk to the guy with the Evo 7 about what I needed to do to import the car. He said, "my wife is 7 months pregnant, and I need to get rid of one of my toys, do you want to buy it?" to which I replied "SOLD!"

This is one of only a handful of cars that have a manual trans that I can drive, in this country. I love getting into this thing and being able to drive a manual car again. After being without one for almost a year, I get a big grin on my face every time I get in the car

So the car is a real, JDM Evo 7. The First Evo brought to the US was the 8 (as a 2003 model) The JDM cars have ACD (Active Center Diff) which was available on 2005+ US Evos. The JDM Evos also has AYC (Active Yaw Control) US cars didn't get AYC until the Evo X's in 2008.

Here is the current mod list:
2.3L Stroker Motor
-Stock Block Bored .040" and Stainless Steel O-ringed
-Wiseco 1400HD Forged Pistons (.040" overbore)
-Manley Turbotuff Lightwight Rods
-Winberg Billet Crank
-ARP Custom Age 625 Head Studs
-ARP Main studs
-ARP 2000 Con-rod Bolts
-Milled Balance shafts
-GSC R2 274 "Stroker" cams
-GSC Valve Springs
-GSC Titanium Retainers
-Supertech Black Nitrite Intake Valves
-Supertech Inconel Exhaust Valves
Ball Bearing BBK-C turbo from CBRD
ETS 4" Intercooler and pipes
CBRD Speed density Intake
Speed density conversion
MAP Rev3 intake manifold
Full Blown 70mm throttle body
Tial Q BOV
Sparktech Coil on Plug W/CDI
Walbro 450 fuel pump
FIC 2150cc Injectors
Toxic Fab "Stock Replacement" manifold, Ceramic coated
Toxic Fab Titanium Cam sensor shield
CBRD Big 02 housing/downpipe
3" no name Turbo back exhaust
USDM Evo 8 ECU swap
Optima Red-top Battery Relocated to the trunk
Stance Coilovers with SSD
Perrin Adjustible Rear sway bar
All Suspension Bushings are Poly
Enkei RPF1 Wheels, 17x9.5
-Dunlop Star Specs 255 wide (Summer/track duty)
APR Carbon fiber Front Splitter.


Pictures:

The oil cooler setup:

Stock cooler vs. new

Here is the car when it was at Devo Getting:
Kelford 272's
Supertech dual valve springs w/ retainers
Kiggly HLA pressure regulator
ETS upper I/c pipe with iat bung and tial flange
Tial Q bov
Intake manifold and throttle body sent to buschur for porting
Deck head
full timing belt service
Toxic fab ceramic coated exhaust manifold
Toxic fab ceramic coated o2 dump
FP 25psi Wastegate actuator
FP 84mm anti-surge compressor housing (stock 9 turbo)
Buschur COP with CDI
AMS race balance shafts (not the stub shaft)
Speed density conversion
FP Speed density intake
Tune by the master himself, Yusuf ( Flyinevo2ning.com )

All Finished up:

Winter mode:

My splitter turned into a snow plow

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[Mook]

First off, sorry to hear about the accident. I can somewhat relate to the arm injury but not to the degree you've gone thru.

Second, this is awesome not much else needs to be said.

 

[l0wb00st]

First off, sorry to hear about the accident. I can somewhat relate to the arm injury but not to the degree you've gone thru.

Second, this is awesome not much else needs to be said.

Thanks! I absolutely adore this car :hsughcool: What happened to you, if you don't mind me asking.

 

[Mook]

Ironically enough, I was run over by an evo9. Broke my arm at the elbow and had pretty bad nerve damage. 3 surgeries later and its mostly healed. Still got a plate at the elbow and some nerve issues still.

 

[l0wb00st]

Ironically enough, I was run over by an evo9. Broke my arm at the elbow and had pretty bad nerve damage. 3 surgeries later and its mostly healed. Still got a plate at the elbow and some nerve issues still.

Damn, that's terrible

I ended up hitting my shoulder so hard that every nerve that went from my spinal cord to my right arm was torn out of my spinal cord. As you probably know they can repair stretched or torn nerves, but not if they are torn out of the spinal cord. I've got a couple of big plates in my shoulder too.

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

I've seen this car on 53 south before and

 

[Eagle]

This is one impressive vehicle. Great story to go with it too! I really want to get into road racing! Seeing builds like this don't help deter me very well either.

Sick ride, Zack!

 

[Mike@Devo2ning]

This is one impressive vehicle. Great story to go with it too! I really want to get into road racing! Seeing builds like this don't help deter me very well either.

Sick ride, Zack!

You'd probably liquidate your fun toys and start a project such as his if you got a ride in it. This car to me is a lot more fun that even the "big turbo cars" especially on the street. The quick spool up of the car puts it hitting fulll boost at the most 2300RPM, which makes it feel nothing like a 4 cyl, and doesn't drop off up top like one would think it would. We had a great time working Zack's EvoVII yet again, and it has opened my eyes to the world of small turbo setups becoming a lot better of an option for people looking for a fun street setup.

Zack- I hope you have as much fun with the new setup on your car as we did while tuning it. This car is going to be a blast on the road track this coming summer! :smile:

 

[l0wb00st]

I've seen this car on 53 south before and

Thank you!! I'm on 53/355/290 all the time to get to/from work

This is one impressive vehicle. Great story to go with it too! I really want to get into road racing! Seeing builds like this don't help deter me very well either.

Sick ride, Zack!

Thanks a lot! Be careful though, the track bug is very addicting!

You'd probably liquidate your fun toys and start a project such as his if you got a ride in it. This car to me is a lot more fun that even the "big turbo cars" especially on the street. The quick spool up of the car puts it hitting fulll boost at the most 2300RPM, which makes it feel nothing like a 4 cyl, and doesn't drop off up top like one would think it would. We had a great time working Zack's EvoVII yet again, and it has opened my eyes to the world of small turbo setups becoming a lot better of an option for people looking for a fun street setup.

Zack- I hope you have as much fun with the new setup on your car as we did while tuning it. This car is going to be a blast on the road track this coming summer! :smile:

I'm sure it'll be a blast out on the track! I'm going to have to take it slow at first though, considering last time I had it out on the track it probably had 100+whp less

 

[RICH17]

I love this car!!! My only import soft spot is evo's except tens. Love these cars

 

[Jean Ralphio]

Gorgeous car, and very cool story (sorry to hear about the accident).
Do you get a lot of odd looks with the car out on the roads?

 

[Calvin@Devo2ning]

its so funny riding in the "drivers" seat of the car, and people are looking at you, looking for the steering wheel, and it's not there

 

[Intel]

Yeah pretty sure I have seen this Evo around at some point when I was driving home from work.

 

[l0wb00st]

I love this car!!! My only import soft spot is evo's except tens. Love these cars

Thank you!! :smile:

Gorgeous car, and very cool story (sorry to hear about the accident).
Do you get a lot of odd looks with the car out on the roads?

Basically just like Calvin said, you get a ton of double takes from people A lot of people don't even notice it though

Yeah pretty sure I have seen this Evo around at some point when I was driving home from work.

The previous owner lived in chicago too, but he didn't drive it a whole lot

 

[Outlaw]

I've seen this car around.... looks decent

 

[l0wb00st]

I've seen this car around.... looks decent

Thanks! My roommate has a random orbital buffer, and we're going to detail the car this week, hopefully well be able to shine up the 11 year old Mitsubishi paint

 

[C.Evans]

That car is sick, and sorry about the accident. This may be a dumb question, but is the shift pattern opposite since it is right hand drive? (1st gear being all the way to the right and foreward, instead of the traditional left and foreward).

 

[l0wb00st]

That car is sick, and sorry about the accident. This may be a dumb question, but is the shift pattern opposite since it is right hand drive? (1st gear being all the way to the right and foreward, instead of the traditional left and foreward).

There is no such thing as a dumb question.
The pattern is the same as a left hand drive car. So first gear is to the left and forward. The pedal position is the same as a left hand drive car as well.
The turn signal stalk and windshield wiper stalk are reversed (turn signal is the right stalk)

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

That car is sick, and sorry about the accident. This may be a dumb question, but is the shift pattern opposite since it is right hand drive? (1st gear being all the way to the right and foreward, instead of the traditional left and foreward).

No; it's the exact same pattern as a lhd vehicle. Same with the pedal layout.

Edit: damn too slow

 

[C.Evans]

I was gonna say that if everything is opposite that's gotta be confusing as all hell trying to figure out.

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

The weirdest thing I've found about driving a rhd car is the door up against your right side. Feels super weird. Shifting with your left actually doesn't feel as weird as I thought.

 

[RICH17]

I was gonna say that if everything is opposite that's gotta be confusing as all hell trying to figure out.

Ive heard it takes some getting used to shifting with your left hand.

 

[l0wb00st]

The weirdest thing I've found about driving a rhd car is the door up against your right side. Feels super weird. Shifting with your left actually doesn't feel as weird as I thought.

The weirdest thing that I found was that normally the right hand side view mirror is the "objects are closer than they appear" but on a RHD car the left mirror is the objects are closer than they appear mirror. Switching back and fourth between RHD and LHD can get a little confusing

Ive heard it takes some getting used to shifting with your left hand.

It isn't all that bad, you get used to it really quickly.

 

[Prevent]

Forgive my ignorance, You cannot use your right hand to change gears, but can to control the steering wheel ?

 

[l0wb00st]

Forgive my ignorance, You cannot use your right hand to change gears, but can to control the steering wheel ?

Nope, I use my left hand for everything.