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cmspaz
03-23-2010, 11:03 AM
Body shop already has the car torn down, it's pretty much waiting for Mitsu to get parts to them at this point, so it's a little late for borrowing parts.

And yeah, I just took it to Luther because they were close by I've seen the good work they do.
sleepydsm
03-23-2010, 11:14 AM
That sucks. But why did you get an Evo anyways?
rose0529
03-23-2010, 11:19 AM
That sucks. But why did you get an Evo anyways?


Why not?
Kracka
03-23-2010, 11:24 AM
My guess is because Evos are much newer and superior to DSMs in all performance aspects (with the one exception being stock weight). I'm not just talking about power, I'm talking about the whole package since a lot of us like to turn the wheel too.

DSMs are great considering what they are (cheap and easy to mod), but they are not the end-all for performance cars. Oddly enough, advances have been made in the past 20 years :D
cmspaz
03-23-2010, 11:29 AM
Why not?
This.

Also, didn't want to deal with the necessary restoration on the Talon with all the rust. Just keeping it on the road in that sense has been expensive enough as it is (between broken bolts, cutting crap off the car, and the whole core support fiasco), I have no desire to tear it down and fix all the rust on the frame. It's not unfixable, but I just don't have the time or motivation to put that much effort into it.
curt_gendron
03-23-2010, 12:33 PM
Sorry to hear about the accident. That sucks when you just got your EVO. Hope it turns out better than ever.

later,
Curt
1QUICK4
03-23-2010, 12:39 PM
Shitty, hope everything gets fixed up right for you.
Tachyon
03-23-2010, 01:15 PM
My guess is because Evos are much newer and superior to DSMs in all performance aspects (with the one exception being stock weight).

Consequently, what do Evo 8's and 9's weigh? Wiki says the IX RS weights 2,888, which strikes me as a tad on the light side. Has anybody here weighed their Evo on a set of corner scales?
cmspaz
03-23-2010, 01:28 PM
I'll actually be putting mine on a truck scale in a few weeks when I go down to Iowa to get a general ballpark. The scale at the power plant in Ames isn't gated off. :D
Matt D.
03-23-2010, 01:35 PM
Consequently, what do Evo 8's and 9's weigh? Wiki says the IX RS weights 2,888, which strikes me as a tad on the light side. Has anybody here weighed their Evo on a set of corner scales?
Just over 3200lbs usually. Add in things like SSL and it weighs a bit more, and any model with ACD. The RS is just under 3200 if I recall correctly.