Mark's Evo IX MR Winter Projects

[turbotalon1g]

Sunday?
Oct 4th is the midway shootout. You going with the TaloN?

[Mark Leasure]

Sunday?
Oct 4th is the midway shootout. You going with the TaloN?

No talon outings for the rest of the year. I don't have time as my MBA is kicking my ass, good thing I'll have my degree in December!

My win RSU slip attached below:

http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp207/Wicked_EE/20140921_090141.jpg

[MorningWood]

I'm going to give that a shot. So did it make it harder to push down? I need to look in my 1g too. thanks for sharing! You going to make it out again this year, to get that 9? Cedar Falls is a great track to do it, the porky/midway shoot out or whatever the f*** they call it would be a good opportunity. The track hooks.

My clutch has had enough haha. Without that little spring in there it feels the same pushing in, but releasing feels a lot better. Maybe it's in my head but it made it a little easier to take off slowly from a stop.

[Mark Leasure]

The car has been still rocking along. It's been a reliable car, for the exception that I stripped teeth off of second gear about a year ago and I had to open up the aem ems to replace a low side driver for mivec control. Other than that not too bad for a 770whp car! The exaust is annoying loud, it's got 3.5" aluminum exhaust with vibrant mufflers. My little project was to quiet down the beast!

I decided to try to make a larger muffler, since there were no alternatives in aluminum.

http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp207/Wicked_EE/20170403_071410.jpg

With the stainless steel and fiberglass packing.

http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp207/Wicked_EE/20170405_160418.jpg

Welded and polished:

http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp207/Wicked_EE/20170409_144841.jpg

In comparison:

http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp207/Wicked_EE/20170409_151916.jpg


I just finished it up and it did exactly what I wanted, it's got a deep tone with no more weird resonance, and it's very quiet. Should be a good summer!

[tehehodi]

Quality work as always. Do you have a before and after video?

[turbotalon1g]

how do you like it for a DD? is it truly a DD?

[Mark Leasure]

how do you like it for a DD? is it truly a DD?

I try to drive it as the main car in the summer. I still have my silver SE IX for all other driving. The qm clutch kind of sucks due to it wanting chatter on light take offs like in bumper to bumper traffic. The tune is refined so it will idle smooth in gear, it's nice for bumper to bumper drivability.

[A//// Guy]

So clean, perfection. I see you are in Eagan, as am I, hopefully see you around!

[Mark Leasure]

It was time to switch up and improve my suspension. I was following schides recipe from his Evo. I bought a set of new bilsteins with some Swift spec-r's, I restacked the rear differential, installed a whiteline rear sway bar with whiteline bar links and larger brackets. The car looks way better lowered a little bit. What sparked all this was that my silver evo has a blown strut. It's going to get the bilsteins from my MR. I also bought a tatricx 2.0 cable to replace my 1.3 that died on me, I'm playing with ACD tunes now.

http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp207/Wicked_EE/20170812_081540.jpg

I also had really crappy looking brembo's, so I decided to repaint them. Evo M had a great write-up on refinishing. I never realized they sold 2K clear coat in a rattle can. The results were really good. I bought one of those paint code custom aerosol cans.

After I manually chipped off the failing clear coat:
http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp207/Wicked_EE/20170723_121140.jpg

Afterhttp://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp207/Wicked_EE/20170727_073033.jpg

With the high temp vinyl decals.

http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp207/Wicked_EE/20170731_075022.jpg

[evotuner]

Damn they look good