Going to be looking for evo 9 in the next month, what should i be looking out for? my budget is 15k would that get me 50k car? any advice welcome

 

Rust believe it or not, they suffer badly, if you can get it on to a ramp then do so. Prices are rising lately like crazy, there are cars out there for that but be very careful in your reaserch

 

Yes they do rust. Welded a mates one up. Rear sills and inner arches where sills meet. That section has a foam type material behind it which gets wet and rots inside out.

 

I use to think it was the 8 that rot, I found one for sale not far from me, its fq340 says its forged running 450bhp, when is the breaking point on the gearboxes? rs box any better?

 

The 5 speed I's the better box longs it ain't crunching or notchy as for forged running 450hp get the spec of the car

I don't really understand if it's 340 out the box standard and he done abit of money on it to only make 110hp more

 

Mark Shead said one of the evo boxes was good at 650bhp still. The guy that owns Dimma has full evo running gear and engine in a 205 shaped shell. The car is an evo with a t16 body kit, not an actual 205 shell and Mark mapped it. It

 

I didn't think they would rot mind.

 

15k I would buy the most original Tommi Mak that I could for the money as it is likely to go up in value.

 

I'd rather buy an 8 mr in grey and abuse it

 

back in 2007 I bought a year and half old one with 10k miles. turbo went at 14k miles. cost 2400 euro to fix. I had it for 5 years and that was the only trouble it gave. I sold it with 28k miles on it. you could see alright on the A arms underneath that they were starting to get spots of rust on them but as far I knew all the panels were aluminuin . mine was the 6 speed. a friend had a GT 5 speed and they were the exact same when lined up

 

If you can find one the 9GT is a fantastic thing to drive it's the RS model with some extra electrics like central locking windows etc plus aircon. These have the 5 speed box.

Tuning wise MR300/320/340 basically just the same car, so if you are going to increase the power makes no difference which one you start with.

Prices have firmed up in the past 12 months on these.

 

My friend is looking at selling his evo 9 gt if you are interested. 78k in white. A really clean thing.