I'm driving the Evo all this week, letting the RA take a break.

Snapped a quick photo of them together today.... awww so cute together..

 

From your pic the weather looks pretty nice! I walked out of work on my lunch break to find my RA all iced over. The car handles so nice though!

 

Bryan, why doesn't your 8MR have the black rear tail lights????????

 

The siblings together make a nice family photo dude!

Owning an EVO is sweet, owning an Evo and a RA is almost like showing off

They both look very nice, is must be good to be you!

Thanks for all your contributions to this board, with all your hard work you certainly deserve to enjoy your toys/ Cheers!

 

USDM 9 had the black chrome rears

USDM 8 had the chrome clear altezza style

Euro 7 had the red rears

It's a USDM 8 with Euro 7 rears.

 

Nice pic. The SB is on Pro kits right?

 

Yup

 

Oh ok.
I've only ever seen 8MR's and 9's in Aus with the black chrome tail lights.
Only the 7 and 8 GSR came out here with the red and everyone swaps them for the black

Nice rides either way

 

This is what the 2003-2005 USDM Evo 8 OEM rear tail lights look like, this is back when I first got the Evo, 100% unmodded, almost exactly 6 years ago...





Funny thing is, the very first mod I did where the Evo 7 rear tailights.

Funny to see the two side shots from before and now:

 

Looks great with those new wheels too!

 

Awesome, i have them as well. They are nice.

 

are they new/different? they look like they're just powder-coated stock bbs?

 

18x8.5 Rota SVN +30 w/ 265/35/18

MR BBS are 17x8 +38

 

So I threw the Sportback back on the dyno today just to check the AFR and clean it up a little if I had to. 3rd gear was all good, pretty much running right in spec power wise from last time.

Also did a pull in 4th to make sure everything was ok.

I'm still impressed by the power this thing is making at the boost level and still with stock catback.

370whp / 326 wtq in 4th gear.

26.5 psi peak and I taper it to about 24.5 psi up top to keep the Injector duty cycles under 100%.



The little dip in 4th gear at 6500 is because I have the boost error correction tight to make sure I don't max out the IDC's up top.

I am now getting a little bit of logged clutch slip but I can't feel nor do I see it really register in the power curve (yet). I really wish the RA had S-Sport mode to get the clutch pressure up a little higher. I would love the added pressure with the power the car is making.



I did another 4th gear pull on the street to show how well the CBRD BBX lite spools in 4th.

26psi in 4th at 3500rpm.

 

I know you're running mostly stock exhaust, but are you running an aftermarket downpipe or high flow cat?