Tim's evo x

[timschot]

Had some fun at the amery event.
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Picked the twin up last week.
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And sounds like the turbo is almost done
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Car is at RS getting some love as of this morning! Sounds like the engine will be out today.

[timschot]

Haven't posted updates on here in a while... copying from evomn

Old turbo...
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New turbo and some quieter pads for the street...
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Motor ready to be torn into...
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Empty car
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The motor ended up having some scoring in the cylinder walls, so we were going to just overbore .020 on stock sleeves, but that didn't work out, so off the block went to ERL, and they sent back this... bored and honed for my .020 over pistons. Would've gone a bit bigger bore, but I like having plenty of meat and the extra ci isn't worth a 3 week wait on pistons.
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Also picked up the AMS CMC kit... no more plastic CMC. Adapts evo 8/9 oem CMC.
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Ron started getting things put together.
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Ron noticed this... "T1M"? It was meant to be.
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Turns out the block I got from ERL is the newer style with the deleted timing chain oil squirter, which threw us off at first but I guess that's good news. We were also missing two galley plugs from the core, so ERL shipped those up, waiting on those to arrive now.

[awd-drifter]

beast of a block man.

[Kracka]

Awesome dude! I highly suggest you get something other than Girodisc Magics though.

[timschot]

Thanks guys, hopefully not much longer now.

Awesome dude! I highly suggest you get something other than Girodisc Magics though.

Those are just for street when I'll be doing light cruising and want some quiet. Swapping pads for anything spirited.

[Kracka]

Noted, but they are a love/hate pad; people either love them or hate them. I'm personally on the hate side of the fence (tried them on my IX and the ex's WRX). The Stoptech Street Performance pads are much better for a daily-driver, plus they're cheaper (silent, less dust than OEM, etc.). The friction coefficient as they heat up can be downright scary even during a hard highway stop. It's quite strange actually, as they get heated up grip will fade, then they get a little hotter and the grip comes back, and so on... Makes for an interesting fast stop from highway speeds.

I know there are some people on this site who like them, and I hate to sound like I'm bashing, but I seriously couldn't wait to take these things off my IX and my ex bitched about them constantly until I finally replaced them for her.

[timschot]

Thanks for the info. I'll read up some more on the X pads (if they're any different) before I install them. They're still in the box, so I could probably return them if they're really that bad. I like the pads that are on there now - I belive they're hawk hp plus. They're just squeaky as hell.

[Kracka]

Front pads between the 8/9/X are all identical (and the same as STI/35Z/G35/TL/etc.).

The aftermarket pads I've tried on Evos are:
Girodisc Magic
RacingBrake ET500
Stoptech Street

The ET500's are probably my favorites as they nearly dust-free but were a great street/autox pad, but at half the price the Stoptechs are a very good pad too and work fantastically on an aggressively driven DD (this is what the guys at GTWorx recommend too); they've yet to let me down during even fast group cruises.

[Kracka]

Forgot to mention, Girodisc actually has a new street pad in the works that should be out soon, but they said it will be dustier than the Magic's compound.

[timschot]

Thanks Kracka. I'll probably return and go stoptechs before I install them then.

Ron's bringing the turbo to MAP today to do the wastegate flapper/actuator arm swap. Then it's all clear to finish building it I believe.