with the numbers comin out on some mildly modded evos, it looks like we're gonna need to b runnin 11's to stay in front. what do u guys think? how hard is it goin to b gettin the sti in the 11's?

 

dont worry just give it a year and all evos will be extinct cuz they're running 19psi on a 2 liter engine

 

MAN, that is the dumbest thing I have ever heard, the engine has been around for almost 15years. and it can take 45psi without any problem. check out JUNUSA. can you say over 500 hp to the wheels. try burning all 4 tires in 3rd gear. that engine will never die. as for the subaru. It will be as difficult to tune as the 2.5 rs has been.

 

Ok, rumor has it that the STi will run mid 13's stock. That coupled to the fact that the car onyl runs 14.5lbs of boost stock should make it fairly easy to get into the high 11's.


The comment about the Subaru motor from 2004STi doesn't even deserve a resopnse, but I will say this. I'm glad to see that you know this brand new 2.5 motor our US STi is getting will be as hard to tune as a 2.5RS motor. Since you know this you must be one of the engineers that designed it, right? Or now wait, you own a tuning company and have one right now that you are working with?

 

I think all he was saying is that the evo 2.0 engine has been around a while and can safely make 350 hp. While the STi's engine has yet to prove itself. If he wasn't saying this...then I am.

 

Agreed, but I've got a question. I don't follow Mitsubishi that much so I'm not sure about this. Have that got that crank walk issue fixed? I know lots of people in second Gen Eclipses that have had this problem and destroyed motors.

 

ohhh one more thing. why are you so worried about being faster? Mid 13's is really fast compared to most vehicles and to be in the 12's is really really fast. If all you care about is straight line speed then the STi is the wrong choice. You'd be better off with a Supra, '03 Cobra, or Corvette.

Just remember, no matter what you put on your car...there will always be someone that's faster.

 

Its probably best to do a search for this problem at "evolutionm.net". I'll paste in a post that I thought was helpful:

Crankwalk was mostly found in 95-99 DSMs. These motors were 7 bolt instead of the previous 6 bolt motor ( pre 95). There was no found rhyme or reason behind this. There were many theories but none were found to hold water fully. Crankwalk happened more on the 97-99 motors than it did the 95-96. The odds of the EVO havng a chronic crankwalk problem are small. This is because they did little to change the EVO motor from the past few years and the previous EVO's have had no problems with it. Saying that its not possible because they are new cars isnt true at all......there were reported cases of crankwalk on 99 GSXs with less then 30,000 miles. The reason the problem was never solved (i.e. a recall) is because the cost for Mitsu would have been more (new motors for 10's of thousands of cars) than dealing with the few lawsuits they faced on account of not fixing it. If the motor went and the car was under warranty however there was nothing they could do but fix it unless they could pawn it off on the car being modified. Hope this helped.

 

why do i want my car to b fast? oh, i don't know; why does anyone? wtf. also, there r a ton of 11 and 12 second autocross cars around here. speed can b used in many a ways, not just straight line.