Our workshop development Evo 7 and Jamie’s daily drive.

Originally imported from Japan in May 2007, this Evo started out its life in Australia as a totally stock Evo 7. Now it is our test car and is constantly being modified and upgraded.

The aim of this project was to try and build the ultimate compromise between street car, track car and show car.

We wanted to make the car as lively as possibly in the mid range and chose to go for maximum torque spread throughout the rev range instead of high top-end power. This was achieved with the lightweight Evo 9 RS turbo, some careful head porting together with fairly mild 260 degree cams. The body was lightened slightly (1320Kgs in race trim) and fitted with adjustable coliover suspension, stiffer sway bars and good quality Project Mu brakes.

Accelerating from a standing start to 100Km/h in 4.0 seconds (with the help of a carbon fibre twin plate clutch), the results speak for themselves. 

Maximum power of 240kw (measured at the hubs) is at 6500 rpm and peak torque (measured at the hubs) is 425NM is reached at just 4200rpm.

The list of modifications is as follows:

Power plant:

• Evo 7 engine with stock internals.
• Tomei 260 cams with Gates Racing wheels and belts.
• Clear cam cover.
• Under-drive crank pulley.
• Evo 9 RS turbo (with 360 degree thrusts) port matched to exhaust manifold and GT Pumps dump pipe.
• Cylinder head port matched to Tomei Expreme exhaust manifold.
• Custom 3” stainless exhaust front pipe.
• Tokyo Motorsports 3” stainless cat.
• Tokyo Motorsports 3” Power Exhaust.
• Silicone suction pipe.
• Apexi power intake and cold air box.
• HKS hot-side intercooler pipes.
• Fujita intercooler piping on the cold side.
• MR BOV.
• HKS EVC-6 electronic boost controller.
• ORC Carbon twin plate clutch.

Suspension:

• Tein Super Street coilovers.
• Whiteline sway bars front and rear with rose jointed links.
• Whiteline roll centre adjustment kit.
• HKS rear strut brace.
• Carbing front strut brace.

Brakes:

• Project Mu SCR Pro two piece front rotors.
• Project Mu SCR single piece rear rotors.
• Project Mu B-Spec pads front and rear.
• Ballsy’s braded brake lines front and rear.
• Project Mu G-Four racing brake fluid.
• Repainted Brembo callipers.

Exterior:

• Wingless boot lid.
• Full respray in Scotia white and Debadged.
• Custom orange 18x9.5 Rota GRID rims with serious rear gaurd modification..!
• Evo GTA front and rear light clusters.
• Dark tint.
• Agency antenna.

Interior:

• Takata four point harnesses.
• Modified harness mounts in the rear parcel shelf.
• Five Defi gauges (with triple gauge pod and twin A-pillar mount).
• Rear seats removed.
• All boot lining removed.
• ICE (under the bonnet).

ECU:

• Stock Evo 7 ECU with in-house reflash.

Power output:

• 240kw (at the hubs) at 6500 rpm and peak torque (at the hubs) 425NM at 4200rpm.
• Barbagallo long track in 66.51secs

Even at 240Kw this car is blistereingly fast on the road. It is also an excellent 'real world' example of why you do not necessarily need big horsepower numbers to make a fast car.

Please contact us for more details or visit the workshop where we will be pleased to give you a tour of the car.