I bet you it's even cooler than all of these suggestions.
At least you believed in me.
Anyways, yeah. Bought an Evo 3 because it is most dominant on the downhill.
Before buying the car my friend went and looked at it for me and said definitely bring a new filter. Luckily I had one. It was also mentioned to me by the previous owner that the car had a rough idle.
When I showed up, did it ever need a new filter!
And when I removed the filter, I found big chunks over the honeycomb of the MAF. So, I was like wow it would be funny if this fixed it... and fix it it did!
Not long after I was heading to my friends house for an inspection, prior to the OOP inspection. Found loose nuts in engine bay, a bunch of loose bolts, good stuff.
Made it to the OOP fine, surprisingly passed, and found some goodies along the way.
The car has: hks intake, double diverter valve, an apexi exhaust, crazy catch can, pvc hood prop, JIC Magic coilovers, cusco front and rear sway bars, sway bar endlinks, fresh ish poly bushing kit, underbody bracing that runs north-south on the car, double bracing in the rear, cusco front strut bar, a bolt in roll cage, a whole whack of gauges, some that work some that don't, some insane short shifter, momo steering wheel, some old bride seats, and a set of enkeis. It also has two flippy switches I don't know what they do. Measure for crank walk before buying and that crank doesn't move at all. It is seriously a relic of 90's Japan and something about it just seems so cool to me. It was like at first site. Mechanically, the car is tight.
After the OOP, met some friends at Dorinku... somewhere along the way my front signal light fell out and got lost.
It made the trip back to slave like like a champ! 8.5L/100. Parked it and went back to work.
Impressions! Pretty great car. It drives very solid, feels planted, and has a ton of character. It feels very light, and is much more tail happy than the 6. The body though, is rough. The flares aren't fastened well, trunk has tape over the bolt holes, dent in the trunk, rust on the roof. Needs a lot of love cosmetically. At this point I think I will focus on cleaning up the body of the car.
