as title running costs etc?

 

My best mate has bought one. here it is.





He gets 200 miles to a full tank, its hideously expensive to buy bits and replacement parts for. It goes like stink and he loves it and wouldn't swap it for anything in the world.

 

hmmmmmm i am really tempted

 

I was never a jap fan, but when he got it, he took me for a spin and I was seriously impressed with it. It pissed on my Saph which I wasn't expecting.

As long as you can manage the costs, its a great car.

 

OMFG

 

shat it

 

Personally prefer the evo 5 myself.

 

 

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mike

 

Driven a couple and would have one over a scoob anyday. As said though, expensive upkeep

 

I prefer 5 aswell , which is also supposed to be the lightest I belive?

 

i bought one and i couldnt put my finger on it but it did nothing for me.i owned it for 13 hours and 8 of them were sleep!p/x'd it next day for an escos.maybe its just me but it didnt excite me at all-but then again neither did the escos-maybe im just meant to have rwd cossies forever!
i have an rs500 now

 

give JC a ring Gus.

he has one that he uses fr road and track days and he really likes the way it goes and handles.


just get another cosssie, you know them inside out.

 

I nrealy bought one in June but I got all sensible right at the crunch

It was a lovely car, drove really well, handling was superb

Decided that 8 grand of finace was daft, but now I'm thinking it's a smashing idea

 

and upside down
Sorry Gus I couldn't resist

 

inmy opinion they are better than any cosworth
but ask which one i whould sell first then it whould be the evo
nice to have the choice though
if you ar after a good car with class and decent performance gus you can buy my audi quattro turbo Ł6000
cheap as chips
thanks jc

 

nah got a audi tdi like the evo though i am going to look at a few

 

They can be very good..

Have a look on the MLR, you need to check it's not suffering crankwalk, intermittent tappety noise from the top end will be the lash adjusters (they sorted this on the later cars and the newer ones are avialble for Ł100 for a set and are an easy DIY) check the AYC fuse is in place (near the battery) some people get AYC probs, remove the fuse (to disable it) and take the light out in the dash. Give it some hard'ish cornering on a test drive and flick the wheel left to right sharply in a straight line (you shouldn't hear any noise from the rear diff)

There's a few about with evo 6 engines in and this would be a good bet. The 4 engine isn't as good (capable of holding good power) as the 6 engine.

There was a silver one on ebay with an evo 7 engine the other day, I'd be on the lookout for one like it.

I've had a few with various states of modification, my favourite was standard chassis but with about 350bhp, that one was superb on our roads.

It makes a difference where it's bee tuned too (like anything) but I've had 1 with a 6 engine and loads of mods that made 353 on the dyno, and 1 (mentioned above) that had very few mods apart from power FC, hks filter, 3" exhaust and it made similar power but felt much faster on the road.

 

Is that just a confusing name for excessive crankshaft end float?

 

It's another word for it, not sure about 'confusing' but I believe it's something the Americans came up with. It seems to be the word the evo boys use, guess it's just easier than writing crankshaft end float every time

 

I've only ever hear it called end float to be honest and I am from the motor trade.

 

Yeah, I'm pretty sure the Evo sites are the only place I've heard it called that. As I say I'm pretty sure the Americans came up with the word and it's sort of stuck around the Evo world.

Go on the MLR and put in crankwalk and then you'll certainly hear a lot about it.

 

 

Daz they do call it Crank walk on MLR


Mike

 

Mike, I wasn't disputing anything! Just being in the trade and never heard anybody call end float "crank walk" before....

 

This is because Americans are the stupidest people ever to take an engine apart. They invent simplified names for everything. It's cos they're stupid, like, you need to go there to beleive it.

Worked for an American company for 3 years. Idiots, the lot of them