Full on Evo III swap to a 95 Mirage shell, 4g63, AWD, RHD all OEM

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had to lose the piller pod for the gauges the cage hit it so I have to get a new one from the junk yard

 

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the temp fix for the gauges

 

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just got my evo 9 rear hubs. I am going to try to use the ebrake set up also so I could run the evo 9 2pistion brembos on the back

got the front hubs yesterday. Traded a 2g colom for them. I now have the parts to do the 5 lug swap. Now I just have to find a deal on front and back evo brembo brakes

 

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got my new fuel line today. It is earls superstock -8an feed and return
2 rolls of 14ft each

just need a fuel filter some lines from filter to rail and rail to fpr and some other fittings for the rail and tank. no more running lean

 

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the evo 8 rotors. the fronts were all messed up from bad pads the rears were in good shape still

 

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the front evo 8 rotors after I turned them at craigs work

the oem 2g gsx/evo I-III rotors on the top of the evo 8 rotors

 

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the evo 9 brembos. that will be powder coated candy blue. I have new hi temp brembo stickers on the way for 7.00 shipped

 

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the new hi temp brembo stickers showed up

also the 8an fitting came for the fuel rail

yesterday when I was welded a i/c pipe for scheides and a exaust for rosey I made my self a new upper radiator pipe to ge rid of the hose that has a kink in it.

 

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the evo 9 antenna came today

 

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got the new set of rims for the car when the 5lug and brembos go on this spring.
18*8

got them from my buddy brand new in the boxes for 300.00

 

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got the new clutch for the car. It is a quarter master twin plate. They messed up when they made all the fly wheels to start with. They used a 6bolt crank only to make the aliment rings on the flys then just put in 6bolt or 7bolt holes. The 7bolt crank is bigger so the fly wheels do not fit at all. Other people have the same problem sense they got theres yesterday one in OH and one in the UK all 3 of us were not happy at all about this. The diffrence in the cranks is. the 6bolt one is 3.134in. and the 7bolt crank one is 3.345in. Lucky for me my Dad's buddy has a huge laythe that will hold the fly wheel and my Dad turned it out so the fly will fit the 7bolt crank like it should have to start with.

 

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this is what had to be turned out bigger. just the aliment ring

it all together

also got a set of megan racing rear toe arms

 

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well with the help of my dad and my buddy kevin we got all the evo II doors on and working after some fixing of the wiring that I redid to make the usa doors work with the jdm harness. we also got the rear toe arms on. that was a pain in the ass. The oem ones were also ajustable but were frozen and ended up cutting them out with the saws all.

 

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the new doors and a big thanks to kevin for helping hang them and get them alined up

the inside of the drives door

 

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found them in the front drivers door when we were putting them on the car

 

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here is the fix for the loose flywheel. used the 2.4 auto spacer ring and tacked the bolts after they were torqued down so they will not come loose a 2nd time.

the new PTT t.o. bearing that you need to put the oem backing plate one

after I cut apart the oem t.o. bearing and pressed it on to the PTT bearing. It is so nice to have a 12ton shop press to do stuff like this and not have to pay for it.

 

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well yesterday I got the wood templates made and got them mounted to the evo III knuckle with the 1g 5lug hub in them. I had to tap the knuckle with a 5/8 tap to put the bolt in to it and get longer bolts for the brembos. It all went easy till I went to fit the 18's on it and they do not clear at all. the back spacing on the evo III knuckle is totaly diffrent from the evo 8/9 knuckle's offset. So now I am at a stand still because to make the fronts work I will need a 1/2in spacer or so to get the rims on them now. But the thing is if I put them 1/2 spacer on and mount it all on the car for mock up and it sticks out of the fender I will be scraping it all together.
here are the pics of what I have done to make them fit so far.

 

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got some spacers today from my bro. The rims now clear the brakes by a mm or 2. the plates are 7/16in thick. next will be to get the knuckle on the car with the rim to check out the clearence from the coils and to see if it will still be all in the fenders

 

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got new spacers from craig used to smaller ones to space it out a little over 1/2in. I have now got good clearness on the brembo to rim. I will put it on the car to night to check it all out.

 

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well I got it put on the car tonight to make sure it will all work. I have 2in of back spacing from the rim to the cusco coils. The rim sits with in the fender still with the little over a 1/2in spacer plates. I used a jack to compress the suspention to make sure also and was all good to go. So it is a full green light for the fronts no I just have to order the good 1/2in spacers for it. I am also pretty sure this is the first early evo with evo 8/9 brembos on it and 18*8 rims.
Now to the pics

 

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some new up dates on the car. Last week I went to the junk yard for parts for the wifes 1g that I did not have. I ended up picking up a mazda washer bottle with the motor in it so I can hook up my fmic sprayers. I just have to order a alky/meth injection boost pressuare switch for it.

Also got tired of the red gas door on the car sense it was the only thing that was red so I shot some primer on it and it looks a lot better now.

Other parts that will be here thus this week
the smim was sent 3 day air from japan for ems pricing
the 1/2 front wheel spacers from H&R with the extend wheel studs
3 auto meter roll cage mount cups for the greddy gauges.
Also picking up a set of tire from a buddy for 150.00 they are 215/35/18 Falken 452's with a fe

 

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awesome thread. May I ask what $$ you have into the car at this point? I know you got the original car for free.

 

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the H&R wheel spacers showed up today for the fronts

stock 1g stud next to the H&R stud

 

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here is some more
pics of the other knuckle and the one that has been ground down to make the brembo brackets fit. Pic was before I did the final clean up on it and did the other knuckle.