Mitsubishi Evo 6 worth buying ???

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EddScott said:
If you're worrying about not being able to afford an engine or gearbox rebuild then you can't really afford the car.

Not being funny but I did it twice. Nissan GTIR and my first Impreza. Bought both, ran on shoe strings and although the Impreza didn't bite me, £500 on a clutch for the GTIR killed me. Impreza No2 was a weekender and got next to no use in 6 months so sold it to buy the GF a hair salon (yes, that really happened :( )

Mal X - what history was with the yellow 5? Auction grade sheet? service history Jap or UK. AYC service etc etc.
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I wouldn't worry about the cost. I would worry about the wrath of a woman when she opens up an invoice receipt for a turbo and witnesses a bill for £800. Normally I tell her everything costs £20 but I couldn't get away with that one :D
 
That's because all the evo's you've looked at are overpriced. You should be able to get an evo 5 for £7k.
Not in that condition but it should still be a good one.
 
this is why i want the thread deleted but he wont !!!!!

i cant stay away from here, right i need a distraction, something much cheaper to forget about this bloody car, it's time for a new tv, which i'm after anyway.

i'm off to currys
 
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SS-89 said:
So as we expected...dreamer :p
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Can't express how much I hate that term... realistically if someone wants something enough they could always finance themselves up to the eyeballs to make it happen. I've seen it done by someone who most definitely could not 'afford' to do it.

When shopping for a v8 Esprit (1.5 years searching) I had the funds sat in my account and viewed about 7 cars. Some let me test drive them, others took me out in them and one flat out refused to do either. Fortunately none of them were for me (various reasons, mostly paperwork not stacking up, cars not as described etc) and my Noble was definitely the one so all worked out ok in the end :)

Coincidentally the Noble was one of the two cars I viewed where I felt I was taken seriously which drastically increased the likelihood of me throwing caution to the wind :D
 
rjk said:
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Well, they're getting good reviews from some - but I'm gonna jump to the other side - I took a kit apart a mate of mine bought at Autosport this year, and the internals weren't impressive both design and quality wise, so I hope they've changed since then, the piston finish was *****, the wear bands aren't energised, there were burrs on the valve shims and the semi-synth oil was nothing special either - rather thick to compensate for the internal tolerances at a guess.
He was happy with them on the car at the time - maybe they've just got the right valving out of the box - but in pure quality terms they were not really any better than KYB/GAZ/Koni, etc, same straight cut* needles for the adjusters with hysteresis issues and no temperature compensation, double whammy with the cheap oil there tbh.
I will say over the Koni/Gaz, etc, offerings the plating and finish on both the shafts and the bodys is pretty damned good though.


*So they adjust different amounts at different points in the range
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http://www.s2ki.com/s2000/topic/112...w+speed+coilover__fromsearch__1#entry23693607

There's also been pics of broken c spanners doing the rounds on Facebook. You could probably kill someone with the c spanners that came with my Ohlins.
 
ouch. I knew yellowspeed would be garbage but its interesting to see a technical analysis of exactly how garbage they are :D

also lol at completely unexpected outcome of thread...
 
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