EVO no longer being imported to the US??

[Kracka]

Mitsu has already said it will be turbo.

[Super Bleeder!!]

i hope it has 8 million different electronic driver aids, fifteen pumps all over the chassis for various things, and a minimum of 8 more solenoids in the engine compartment.

i also hope they will offer an RS, with none of that crap.

[TheLBUGAWD]

Isnt the mivec in the new eclispes?(which i think are ugly as hell and they made it a V6, gay) and why would they switch from the 4G63? I hope they dont.

[JET]

The engine is not a 4g63, but is a 2.0 4 cylinder MIVEC. I have not heard if it was an aluminum block or not though. Hopefully they go bigger bore and shorter stroke. More top end powa!

[Kracka]

Its going to be an alloy block.

[cudvig]

fucking aluminium should only be used for pop cans. and maybe honda motors.

-Colin

[Kracka]

fucking aluminium should only be used for pop cans. and maybe honda motors.

-Colin


Yeah lightweight is never a good thing :/ More of the EVO body will be aluminum for the X than either the VIII or IX.

[niterydr]

Sweet, its easier to recycle it in one center then!
Go aluminum!

[Super Bleeder!!]

i hope they do a good job of implementing the extensive alum use; as it has a pretty poor fatigue life compared with traditional steels.
An example would be an aluminum bodied audi losing 50% of its structural rigidity after 5 years of normal driving, due soley to stress cycles and not designing around it. (after all, if the car gets creaky down the road you'll probably want a new one!)

bottom line, i hope they continue designing with sound engineering principles in mind. so far they've been pretty decent :)

[JET]

fucking aluminium should only be used for pop cans. and maybe honda motors.

-Colin
Yeah, because the LS7 engine is a piece of crap :rolleyes:

Aluminum is good if it is used properly. Like Floppy said, it isn't always used properly!