Charith

Too bad I'm landing in SL two weeks too late

That's the spirit!

Anyone got pics? I heard DD had some bad luck

They started offering the new facelift here in the US as the SE model. My understanding is that it's only an extention to the existing bumper, but it looks like a single piece in these pics.

http://www.srilankaecotourism.com/cycling_home.htm http://www.jetwingeco.com/web_pages/active...day_biking.html

Yeah, doing alright. Good to know you're still focused on the Viper but I can't say the Evo is a bad choice Yup. I spoke to you on the phone sometime last December, but I still haven't met you in person. BTW I saw this and thought you might like the excellent feedback.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%BCrburgring

I think I agree with The Don here. In trying to prevent plagiarism we've driven away someone who's intention was to simply make an informative post. Try not to attack someone (even if you feel that they attacked you first) if you feel they're in the wrong. If someone in your team were to make a mistake, the right thing to do is pick up his/her slack rather than point out the error, correct? So let's consider all members of this forums as part of the Autolanka Team, unless there's a real reason to disown them We all make mistakes and hopefully we'll all learn from them. Ministry, I look forward to more informative posts like this. Just remember to cover your ass and cite the source next time

...and it's ugly as f*ck!

What's all this talk about getting an Evo? I thought all you wanted was a Viper?

Quicker than your Tommi?

Reviving an old thread. I recently heard that Shantha's car was tuned by Phil, might be why it was leading the M3.

Only the UK get's the FQ models. The US is getting an Evo IX SE later this year, but the changes are purely cosmetic (wheels, body color etc.).

No machang. I'm working this Sunday so I won't be going. I got a call from your friend, so hopefully we'll meetup soon at another event. It'll be good to have another Sri Lankan in the racing scene here!

Hah! Who cares about mileage when you're tearing up the track. Those mileage figures for the Evo look like what they claim for city usage. Evo IX (city/highway): 19/25 Evo IX MR (city/highway): 18/24 I know I've gotten as low as 16mpg

From the August issue of Road & Track magazine. Having trouble linking directly to the scanned images. So here's the link to another forum. http://www.lancer-evo.net/community/viewtopic.php?t=13702

What an asshole! Probably some stupid ricer with a lame Nissan... just kidding, that's my idiot brother Anyway, back on topic. I got a ride in my friend's Evo last night. It was absolutely crazy. He still had some of the C16 race gas left, so I got to see what 500whp feels like. The idle is really rough, probably because of the new fuel maps and the cams, but he's had those same cams on for a while and it was never like that. The turbo definitely kicks in much later, maybe around 4k rpm. Can't really concentrate on watching the tachometer when you're holding on for life But when it hits, oh man! The tuner raised the fuel cutoff to 8,200 rpm because before you know it you're already there and still in the power band. Also the external wastegate from the turbo goes stright down into an open pipe and doesn't go back into the exhaust, so when the wastegate is open it's loud as hell. You can't even hear the turbo spool. For a track like Katu this will be ideal because on those two straights you'll be flying. But if you let your rpms drop, you're dead. To end the night, another friend of mine had gotten his WRX tuned, so was taking me for a drive. About 2km from the house he turned onto a big road, redlined it in 1st, shifted to 2nd, and BANG! Broke 2nd gear We tried to get the car off the road, but could hear something rattling inside the gearbox, and eventually it got wedged between some gears and jammed everything. Had to wait two hours for a flatbed truck to come and take it home. Subaru put a much weaker gearbox in the US WRX (STi gearbox is the same worldwide) so this is very common here.

Thanks machang. Let's see you take that Z to an autocross

I'm too afraid to ask Those kinds of mods are out of my range, and in the autocross events I do we get bumped up into a higher class as soon as we put any major mods, so there's very little that I can do. Once I'm ready to move up to a higher class I'll probably start looking at suspension mods, exhaust, and get it tuned. But that's a long way to go

Awsome pics! Did/do you live/work here or were you on holiday? I'm about 2 hours away from there, close to the NY state border.

Of course. I have a friend who goes up there often to watch the races, so I'll just tag along. Can't guarantee anything because sometimes I'm on-call during weekends, so won't be able to go. There are also a few clubs here that hold track days at LRP which I am thinking of attending. A local photographer attends almost all the events in the region. Check out his site, I think he has pictures from last year's Ferrari days. Please don't direct link pictures from his site: http://www.plaftaphoto.com/gallery/album74 http://www.plaftaphoto.com/gallery/album74/IMG_4123 Here's a picture here took of me http://www.plaftaphoto.com/gallery/album314/IMG_3568 - C

Yes. Mods: - TXS U-Tec - RNR GT35R Kit - Peakboost Intercooler - HKS 264' cams w/ ARP headstuds - HKS Cam Gears - HKS (HiPower) Cat-Back exhaust - Ultimate Racing 3" Test pipe - Perrin Fuel Rail - Precision 1000cc Injectors - Exedy Twin Plate - Walbro 255 Fuel Pump It wasn't too hard really. Just took a long time because he did all the installs himself (with some of us helping him when we were available). He had the cams and the U-Tec (piggyback ECU) on for a while, so the car was pretty fast to begin with. What really bumped up the power was the garrett GT35R turbo. Due to the size it's very laggy, but makes a whole lot of power once it spools up. Probably good for drag racing, or an open track. But on a tight track it'll be a big disadvantage, unless you're running anti-lag Here's a picture of it(right) against the stock turbo(left): As for the tuning, it all depends on what kind of fuel maps the tuner started with and how much he tweaked it.

My friend's Evo VIII has been stuck in his garage for the last few months while he tore it apart and put it back together. He just got it tuned earlier this week and it made 503whp on race gas. Supposed to make 430whp on 93 octane. The ingredients: Dyno graph: http://www.icsperformance.com/Alvin-Evo8-35R.jpg Video: http://media.putfile.com/GT35-on-the-dyno-503whp Parts and more pics: http://forums.evolutionm.net/showthread.php?t=206416

Nice pictures. I was hoping to see the new Porsche Turbo and GT3, the next gen Skyline GT-R and a few other cars. Overall it was disappointing.

Ok, I'm gonna delete my OT posts from here. Oh wait, why we can't delete our own posts in this forum?