Dave's Evo X Build/The Life of Dave blog

[Kracka]

Shawn, no driver mod needed. It's an X. :)
LOL Right on!

[Murlo26]

I just saw Ryan Gates post on FB that he now has his X down to 2550 race weight...jealous, that is like 1000lbs less than mine, I hope to get mine in the 3100 area so about 300-400 lbs less.

I haz no driver skills so I guess its good I have the X.

[Kracka]

Losing that much weight gets expensive.

[Murlo26]

Losing that much weight gets expensive.

Depends on how much weight I want to lose and how I want the "street car" to remain. I could gut the car easy and cheap enough but then its straight race car.

[C3L1CA]

I've got a nice light Kirkey for sale.... ;)


From previous experience trying to save weight cheap, unless you're going for a full out race car leave the creature comforts, it isn't worth it in a street/track car

[Kracka]

Things I love:

-factory Recaros with airbags
-cruise control
-Bluetooth
-Sirius radio
-extra sound deadening
-auto climate control w/A/C
-navi
-SAWC

I'll keep my weight :)

The only places I would consider losing it are with a lightweight driveshaft, BBS wheels, and 2-piece brake rotors.

[Speedfreak]

Things I love:

-factory Recaros with airbags
-cruise control
-Bluetooth
-Sirius radio
-extra sound deadening
-auto climate control w/A/C
-navi
-SAWC

I'll keep my weight :)

The only places I would consider losing it are with a lightweight driveshaft, BBS wheels, and 2-piece brake rotors.


Something to consider, if you take out too many of the creature comforts, if/when you ever plan to sell, you just made your target market that much smaller. People like myself and most others as we all age will want them.

[Murlo26]

Something to consider, if you take out too many of the creature comforts, if/when you ever plan to sell, you just made your target market that much smaller. People like myself and most others as we all age will want them.

I still have all the creature comforts that came with the car. My car doesn't have navi or bluetooth, just the Rockford sound system, spoiler and HIDs (SSS package).

So far all I have done for weight that would affect anything really was strip my trunk out, which did get rid of the sub. But I can put all that back in.

The only thing I might do would be going to lightweight seats which could potentially bother another buyer but i will keep the stock ones.

[Murlo26]

Super bored, waiting for new black ops maps to download....so doing a throwback!

Found my old evo pics that I had to take for the lawsuit. I was like 21ish at the time, total noob, even worse than I am now if that is believable. Bought a 2005 evo with like 30k miles and paid 22.5k or so. Found out from a friend it had issues. Had to sue the dealer because they sold it as a clean title, clean carfax (found out carfax is worthless) and stock etc. I had no idea what to look for sadly, it looked ok in the back of their shop in the shaded area they showed it to me. NOte to self, never impulse buy a car!

Just for reference, it looks as though it was rolled, the front clip is from a GG car if you can tell and there are no VIN stickers on any panels (which all should have them).

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I did eventually win in arbitration after 2+years. Never buy anything in Illinois, no consumer laws to protect you.

Even given all the crap I had with this car, I miss my 8, seemed so peppy even for stockish.

Edit: you will also notice on the exhaust mani heatshield, its dented, the radiator was pushed back that far. Wish I wasn't so dumb, could have a good evo 8/9 now and not sunk into an X :)

[Kracka]

Buy my old IX, it's getting passed around down here like an underage sorority chick.