I hate my Evo...
Jun 28, 2009, 12:51 PM
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I owned a 1958 Alfa Romeo for about 10 years and never drove it once. Just worked on it. And stored it a lot 
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I finally had my first real problem. A spring in my clutch disk blew out at Lime Rock. Since I have the tranny out and have always had a bad 5th gear (synchros) and find a lot of metal shavings on my tranny drain plug, I figured now's the time to get the tranny rebuilt. So my car's on jack stands for a month while Shep rebuilds the tranny. Add that to the Exedy twin and rental car and I'm looking at $3k+. Definitely not a cheap car, but she will be back and better than ever!
Oh, 70k miles and an ACT clutch with at least 40k miles on it (I bought the car with 30k and don't know how many miles it had before that).
Oh, 70k miles and an ACT clutch with at least 40k miles on it (I bought the car with 30k and don't know how many miles it had before that).
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Damn thought shep turn around time was sooner than months. Whenever I needed to get mine rebuilt, I was hoping on just turning it into a mini vacation around that area for a week or so until it was ready. I hate renting cars here. About 25% rental tax here ><
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bought mine in march. 200 miles (3 days) later the clutch quit. was without for about a week sourcing parts and had to drive my moms car to work. got the tcase, trans and diff fluids changed when the clutch was done, mid may took it out to a test and tune and in two days completely destroyed a set of tires. so bought a set of star specs. after driving on those for about 3k miles, i got thinking, wow, another 8k miles and these will be done for (if im lucky) so instead of going thru tires every couple months, went out and got a second set of wheels from a member on here, and got a set of all seasons for my daily commute. coming up on 60k next month, gonna have to sink some money into her then too.
i love my money pit.
i love my money pit.
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I know this thread is a little old, but I just came across it. I just read all pages and this is very
interesting. I am getting ready to get an evo and now I am a little nervous. Could all these
problems be due to careless drivers and not changing fluids properly. My srt-4 got flooded out
in a storm this year and now I am saving up mod money before I got the evo. There were
alot of guys with serious problems with their srt-4 including my friends. My friends went
through tranmissions,clutches, and axels like crazy. I purchased my srt-4 with 20k miles and it
had 83k miles when it got flooded. I had all bolt-ons and a 75 shot of nitrous and was still on
the factory clutch and NO tansmission problems but I was the only one who change my oil
every 2500 miles(mobile 1), spark plugs every other oil change, trans fluid every 10k miles. I
did these things because I drove my car everyday and I did not want to be sitting on the side
of the road like everyone else. So I was just wondering, I could drive my NEON everyday
modded with no problems but I can't drive an evo(double in price) daily because things will
break. I will have a dd when I get the evo but I was wondering why the evo can't hold up to
dd like my srt-4 and I went wot almost everyday in the srt-4, not racing everyday but getting
on the interstate going to work I would hit it so I could be smiling when I got to work to deal
with crazy guest. The srt-4 was a super fun car to drive everyday and my car
was never broke down. I just want the evo to be the same way especially for the price.
Oh, I want at least 400whp out of the evo.
interesting. I am getting ready to get an evo and now I am a little nervous. Could all these
problems be due to careless drivers and not changing fluids properly. My srt-4 got flooded out
in a storm this year and now I am saving up mod money before I got the evo. There were
alot of guys with serious problems with their srt-4 including my friends. My friends went
through tranmissions,clutches, and axels like crazy. I purchased my srt-4 with 20k miles and it
had 83k miles when it got flooded. I had all bolt-ons and a 75 shot of nitrous and was still on
the factory clutch and NO tansmission problems but I was the only one who change my oil
every 2500 miles(mobile 1), spark plugs every other oil change, trans fluid every 10k miles. I
did these things because I drove my car everyday and I did not want to be sitting on the side
of the road like everyone else. So I was just wondering, I could drive my NEON everyday
modded with no problems but I can't drive an evo(double in price) daily because things will
break. I will have a dd when I get the evo but I was wondering why the evo can't hold up to
dd like my srt-4 and I went wot almost everyday in the srt-4, not racing everyday but getting
on the interstate going to work I would hit it so I could be smiling when I got to work to deal
with crazy guest. The srt-4 was a super fun car to drive everyday and my car
was never broke down. I just want the evo to be the same way especially for the price.
Oh, I want at least 400whp out of the evo.
Last edited by qdiddy; Oct 11, 2009 at 09:08 AM. Reason: added words
Oct 11, 2009, 11:13 AM
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I know this thread is a little old, but I just came across it. I just read all pages and this is very
interesting. I am getting ready to get an evo and now I am a little nervous. Could all these
problems be due to careless drivers and not changing fluids properly. My srt-4 got flooded out
in a storm this year and now I am saving up mod money before I got the evo. There were
alot of guys with serious problems with their srt-4 including my friends. My friends went
through tranmissions,clutches, and axels like crazy. I purchased my srt-4 with 20k miles and it
had 83k miles when it got flooded. I had all bolt-ons and a 75 shot of nitrous and was still on
the factory clutch and NO tansmission problems but I was the only one who change my oil
every 2500 miles(mobile 1), spark plugs every other oil change, trans fluid every 10k miles. I
did these things because I drove my car everyday and I did not want to be sitting on the side
of the road like everyone else. So I was just wondering, I could drive my NEON everyday
modded with no problems but I can't drive an evo(double in price) daily because things will
break. I will have a dd when I get the evo but I was wondering why the evo can't hold up to
dd like my srt-4 and I went wot almost everyday in the srt-4, not racing everyday but getting
on the interstate going to work I would hit it so I could be smiling when I got to work to deal
with crazy guest. The srt-4 was a super fun car to drive everyday and my car
was never broke down. I just want the evo to be the same way especially for the price.
Oh, I want at least 400whp out of the evo.
interesting. I am getting ready to get an evo and now I am a little nervous. Could all these
problems be due to careless drivers and not changing fluids properly. My srt-4 got flooded out
in a storm this year and now I am saving up mod money before I got the evo. There were
alot of guys with serious problems with their srt-4 including my friends. My friends went
through tranmissions,clutches, and axels like crazy. I purchased my srt-4 with 20k miles and it
had 83k miles when it got flooded. I had all bolt-ons and a 75 shot of nitrous and was still on
the factory clutch and NO tansmission problems but I was the only one who change my oil
every 2500 miles(mobile 1), spark plugs every other oil change, trans fluid every 10k miles. I
did these things because I drove my car everyday and I did not want to be sitting on the side
of the road like everyone else. So I was just wondering, I could drive my NEON everyday
modded with no problems but I can't drive an evo(double in price) daily because things will
break. I will have a dd when I get the evo but I was wondering why the evo can't hold up to
dd like my srt-4 and I went wot almost everyday in the srt-4, not racing everyday but getting
on the interstate going to work I would hit it so I could be smiling when I got to work to deal
with crazy guest. The srt-4 was a super fun car to drive everyday and my car
was never broke down. I just want the evo to be the same way especially for the price.
Oh, I want at least 400whp out of the evo.
As long as you change your transfercase fluids every 15k, oil every 3500, and rear diff & trans fluid every 30k ( i believe ) and make sure timing belts changed at around 65k, you should be fine.... depending on what spark plugs you decide to use, youll be changing those every 3-5k as well.
If you decide to launch the car, ALWAYS slip the clutch, never let it dump or you will break all kinds of **** left and right.