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Morning everyone thought we would start a project thread...last Friday me and the mrs was searching for a new car on the old eBay autotrader pistonheads.
Our toy was an m3 which which we loved which was our rescue chariot (long story I'll explain on another thread ) however we have always loved evos and always found ourselves looking at them on the net.
As it was the mrs child hood dream car.
So going back to the top of the thread... last Friday Leece came across a few nice evo we had a good budget for a decent one and not a rotten unloved one.
So Leece called me over to look at the iPad me thinking she's looking at porn lol turns out I was right because it was the most sexual orgasmic red evo8.we both looked at each other with them come to bed eyes next thing you knew no ... I wasn't balls deep lol.... we were trying to think of ways of getting to Ireland and bringing her home. So on the Saturday morning we thought we was viewing houses with Leece's brother but instead Leece was booking plane tickets as I was booking fairy tickets to go that day.by 3pm we were in a taxi on the way to the airport finally arrived at ema checked in went and got a table at frankie&bennys ordered a pizza and a couple of beers siting for our plane to Ireland.while waiting Leece got a phone call asking why is our dog at her mum and dads as the only one who knew we was off to Ireland was leece's bro lol so I left Leece to explain that one and carried on with the pizza lol.
Finally got our gate number and off we went to the plane that looked like it been built in a shed so my nervs where on over drive while the mrs was winding me up lol.we took our iPad to watch some fast&loud
It's was a nice steady flight.and we was in Ireland I text the guy Ben were come and have a look on the following conditions...pick up from the airport full tank clean car and not forgetting a bag of haribo for the mrs for our road trip home lol.
We finally met ben in pick up got in he's mrs golf and off we went on an hour half car journey to he's place.making one stop at a service station for a ribena and a water.then carried on out in to the sticks finally arriving at bens.to say we where a bit excited would be an understatement we walked around the back with Ben to he's unit he opened up the shutters and I could see a glimpse of red turning to Leece and smiling saying there she is Leece did no more and walked straight in and was basically creaming over the evo lol.
I followed her and was speechless Ben looked at me and I had no words I've never been able to afford a car like this in my life and that I could do with my best friend was amazing Finally picking my jaw up from the floor and looking over the car it was like it came off the factory's line and never seen the road taking my hat off to Ben you could tell he loved this car and it has been in the family for five years.leece come over to me and told me to feel the paint it was like glass no swirl marks so smooth the more and more we would looked at her she just got better and better and if I didn't know better my mrs was done she didn't need me that night lol.
Ben ask did I Want to look under the car so he parked her over the pit for me to go and have a full look at her spotless absolutely bloody amazing .we then went for a drive Ben drove the car out of the unit for us and took us both to some fast roads where he pulled over and I took her out for a drive WOW she was amazing so much fun she just got better and better.Ben asked if Leece wanted ago she couldn't wait considering she had already adjusted the seat for her self I thought maybe she go easy oh no did she hell Leece drove it as she should getting me excited my beautiful mrs driving a fast car life doesn't get better lol.
Finally taking her back to Ben place and I've never wanted to give someone a huge lump of money in my life lol then all the stress started with the bloody bank not wanting to release the money as they had to put it through the fraud team telling us the funds will clear Tuesday let's not forget our ferry is booked that night so that wasn't any good.barclays sent me a text to type yes I agree for the funds to be released one huge problem here no bloody signal lol. So after a drive to find signal, 3 stressed people and half of the Barclays staff being involved, the money landed in bens bank at about 10.30pm. We now had to drive to Dublin and catch the ferry home and let's just say we was already on a time limit without factoring in the many petrol stops we would have to make (and wee stops for the mrs). To find one service station was shut and we have about 30 miles left in the tank being told the next station is 20 mins away so it was a steady 60mph drive. To find this station only having 95 so it was a slow drive after this manage to get her on the fairy thinking she will be to low she was perfect and was sat looking mean as hell at the back of the boat.
So that was it for 3/5 hours to Holyhead Wales the boat was bloody cold and we couldn't get any sleep as some guy was snoring the bloody boat down lol.we got ready in the morning to start the road trip back home from Holyhead to Leicestershire so it's 05:30 am once we get to Holyhead and off we go stopping at the first golden m for some food as the fairy food was diabolical. Having no sleep would normally mean both of us reluctant to drive, however just looking at the red shiny mean machine sitting in the car park, there were no tired eyes that morning. Finlay getting back in to Leicestershire finding some v power and she was back in her natural water hole the mrs grabbing another ribena and some chocolate as we had been up for over 24hours now and living off excitement and sugar lol.we went back to leeece mam and dads to pick our dog up and to show the car off to her bro and her mam,mam was not happy as mam doesn't like fast cars.leece told me to take her bro out for a drive he loved it and now wants one more than ever lol. Leece asked if she could drive the evo home with the biggest blue eyes you've ever seen how could I say no lol so I took our dog home in Leece e46. And god dam seeing the evo dive with a hot blonde flying past you at some speed and hearing and smelling it was bloody amazing. Getting her home and tucked up in the garage for the night. Waking up the next morning thinking it was a dream we opened our garage door to find her still sitting there waiting to be touched. Leece always threatened she was spontaneous but f""k me this was another level for both of us.

Hope you like looking at her much as we do


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#39 ·
Take her for a rally stage to authenticate its heritage, thats my excuse for dirty look :mhihi:
Like that Mishimoto cooler .....think ill run out and gouge my oem cruddy looking one with a screwdriver just to say to the missus "oh dear , better replace that leaking item asap ....apparently silver ones work fastest /cool oil fastest etc :D"
 
#45 ·
So we took our evo down to bob and Lee for a map.
Right at the last minute I called bob and asked if I could bring the car down the morning I called them.
Bob and Lee agreed this so we drove 175 miles down south
Got some v power and on the rollers it went.
The car was running 260hp and mange to get 360hp out of the old girl.
The boost comes on so fast and is a different car she's so much fun to drive now there is two boost settings. Most of the time she's in low boost so we don't get to used to high boost and start wanting more lol.
Last week we got our fast road set up done so with the map and the wheel alignment so much grip and so responsive:).
Just in time for spring to enjoy her :)


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#55 ·
Hi all as this build thread has been quiet with a lot or personal things going in our life’s the old eve took a back seat and was nearly sold.
How ever after talking it over with Mrs we both agreed we want to keep her.
She’s been great fun all over Sumer there is loads we want to do to her.and of course there is loads we want to do to the evo lol
However I cant believe how much parts are for the old girl these days since this brixit crap.
We have ordered an aem boost gauge and an aem afr gauge yeah only small mods atm.
Just trying to get hold of a good battery relocation kit too.
We now have a full bolt in 6 point cage.
I will keep you all updated on the build now.
Anyway today after loads of fun in the summer I thought I’ll give all the coilovers and arches and wheel a clean which the Mrs suggested.
Here is a a photo boring photo but there will be lots more to come.
Thanks for taking time to read our build thread :)


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#57 ·
Evening everyone who ever is interested in our build thread anymore.
We had some new toys come today we have had nothing but problems with pads and discs.
And we decided to bite the bullet and gave Ross sport a call we now have a full set of giro two piece discs and endless pads all round with braided lines and high temp fluid.
We will be having the callpiers refurbished two as this set up was not bloody cheap lol.
And we also now have some gauges in the car all aem I've had defi before but with this brexit crap the prices have gone silly now.
And tbh we really like the aem gauges.
Anyway here are some photos


The console we haven't finished yet the final result will be black Flock we don't use the stereo and who needs that when you're driving an evo!

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