Here's the MOTOR TREND article (56k beware)

Reply Subscribe

Thread Tools

Search this Thread

Sep 2, 2004, 11:47 AM

#31

Evolving Member

iTrader: (3)

Join Date: Oct 2003

Location: at the track

Posts: 296

Likes: 0

Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts

THANK YOU!!! great post.

anyone know what the '03 Evos can lap the Streets of Willows in? that'd be great.

Reply Like

Sep 2, 2004, 11:48 AM

#32

Greg K

Evolved Member

iTrader: (2)

Join Date: Aug 2004

Location: Pacific NW

Posts: 955

Likes: 0

Received 1 Like on 1 Post

thanks for the article, still going to buy the mag when I can find it, but I liked the "preview".

Reply Like

Sep 2, 2004, 11:48 AM

#33

GPTourer

Evolved Member

Join Date: Mar 2002

Location: Birmingham, AL

Posts: 4,312

Likes: 1

Received 3 Likes on 3 Posts

Don't worry, even though I read it, I'll buy the magazine anyway.

Someone will find a way to remove whatever resistor on the ECU to get full RPM launches. 6000 dumps can't be good for an STi either.

Reply Like

Sep 2, 2004, 11:49 AM

#34

mitsuorder

EvoM Staff Alumni

iTrader: (106)

Join Date: Nov 2002

Posts: 2,816

Likes: 0

Received 6 Likes on 6 Posts

I will too, anything for ramen

Reply Like

Sep 2, 2004, 11:54 AM

#35

s4awd

Evolved Member

Join Date: Aug 2001

Location: Westchester NY

Posts: 616

Likes: 0

Received 1 Like on 1 Post

Quote:

Originally Posted by EVO Neil

It's not just the MR that gets the 5,000 rpm launch limit, it is all versions of the Evo, world-wide.

How would you compare the new '05 Evo with the active diff to the 03 Evo that has the mechanical one.?

Reply Like

Sep 2, 2004, 11:54 AM

#36

EVO Neil

Evolved Member

iTrader: (6)

Join Date: Oct 2003

Location: Orange County, CA

Posts: 831

Likes: 0

Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts

Quote:

Originally Posted by DizzyTT

Evo Neil, I am going to buy it, so you can have your ramen noodles for dinner!

Thanks, much appreciated. We worked hard on getting these cars before anyone else and doing the most comprehensive testing we could do.

Reply Like

Sep 2, 2004, 11:56 AM

#37

modvp

Evolved Member

iTrader: (13)

Join Date: Nov 2001

Location: Maryland

Posts: 847

Likes: 0

Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts

Quote:

Originally Posted by EVO Neil

Thanks, much appreciated. We worked hard on getting these cars before anyone else and doing the most comprehensive testing we could do.

I'll be buying it too!

Reply Like

Sep 2, 2004, 12:00 PM

#38

EVO Neil

Evolved Member

iTrader: (6)

Join Date: Oct 2003

Location: Orange County, CA

Posts: 831

Likes: 0

Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts

Quote:

Originally Posted by e8

THANK YOU!!! great post.

anyone know what the '03 Evos can lap the Streets of Willows in? that'd be great.

We had an '03 stock Evo there the day of testing at Willow and if I remember correctly, it was 2 seconds a lap slower than the MR.

Reply Like

Sep 2, 2004, 12:03 PM

#39

EVO Neil

Evolved Member

iTrader: (6)

Join Date: Oct 2003

Location: Orange County, CA

Posts: 831

Likes: 0

Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts

Quote:

Originally Posted by s4awd

How would you compare the new '05 Evo with the active diff to the 03 Evo that has the mechanical one.?

Like the STi, it gives the driver more control, but do you really need it? All of our testing was in tarmac mode, although at the press preview our driver did use gravel mode on a wet track and noticed it was better than tarmac mode for those conditions.

Last edited by EVO Neil; Sep 18, 2004 at 12:20 PM.

Reply Like

Sep 2, 2004, 12:03 PM

#40

modvp

Evolved Member

iTrader: (13)

Join Date: Nov 2001

Location: Maryland

Posts: 847

Likes: 0

Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts

Wow 2 seconds is quite significant!

Reply Like

Sep 2, 2004, 12:09 PM

#41

mitsuorder

EvoM Staff Alumni

iTrader: (106)

Join Date: Nov 2002

Posts: 2,816

Likes: 0

Received 6 Likes on 6 Posts

Agreed, but, and please no future mr owners take offense to this, when something goes wrong with that acd system I don't want to be within 5 miles of that bill. Awesome numbers from some cars that we are very fortunate to even have.

Reply Like

Sep 2, 2004, 12:10 PM

#42

Ookami

Evolving Member

iTrader: (19)

Join Date: May 2003

Location: CO

Posts: 355

Likes: 0

Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts

Curb weight of the MR is 3273 ?? Isn't the regular Evo 8 (not RS) w/o sunroof only 3263 (according to Mitsubishi's website) Hmm...

Reply Like

Sep 2, 2004, 12:13 PM

#43

EVO Neil

Evolved Member

iTrader: (6)

Join Date: Oct 2003

Location: Orange County, CA

Posts: 831

Likes: 0

Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ookami

Curb weight of the MR is 3273 ?? Isn't the regular Evo 8 (not RS) w/o sunroof only 3263 (according to Mitsubishi's website) Hmm...

Every vehicle we test is weighed at our office, on our scales, with a full tank of fuel sans driver.

Last edited by EVO Neil; Sep 2, 2004 at 01:39 PM.

Reply Like

Sep 2, 2004, 12:28 PM

#44

legal-z

Evolving Member

iTrader: (7)

Join Date: May 2004

Location: Deland, FL

Posts: 307

Likes: 0

Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts

after reading this, i'm hoping someone like vishnu gets to work programming out that clutch-in limiter. i think the acceleration numbers would be quite different without it and the difference between the two cars would be more apparant.

thanks for posting this and thanks to evo neil for continuing to follow up with the useful info not in the article, especially the 2 sec lap difference between the mr and '03.

Last edited by legal-z; Sep 2, 2004 at 12:32 PM.