Evo VIII swap

[11secDSM]

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[mavisky]

wow talk about doing something the hard way . is it just me or does it look like that turbo would be constantly trying to suck his pant leg off. also what friggin tranny are they using with that thing, and being as its rhd it's obviously not a dsm chassis.

 

[11secDSM]

From what I remember, it is a DSM chassis. The car is from Australia. Just some pics I found a while back so I know nothing about the car. I just thought it was rediculous....no point in spending all that money.

 

[mavisky]

wow someone went way overboard then seeing as how they would've had to convert it over to rhd and then do a complete engine swap into it, when back here in the states i'd bet that shepherd is still nearly as fast and without half the custom work.

i was thinking it might be an evo3 or something, at least that would give them a reason to mount the motor like that and would also explain the rhd setup. but still the evo3's had 6 bolt blocks, so there wasn't a whole lot of reason to go tearing it out.

 

[GPTourer]

but still the evo3's had 6 bolt blocks, so there wasn't a whole lot of reason to go tearing it out.

I had thought all Evo's were 7 bolt, and that it was the 1G's, Hyundais, and GVR4's that were 6-bolts. Oh well.

I wish they had a pic of that car further back. Still seems like a frankencense monster. Remember Sean Glazer's Mirage, (same idea just reversed)? I think he ended up getting rid of it because even with all the fabrication the car tranny wouldn't go into first.

 

[jefferino]

Okay you guys want to see something that is entirely rediculous...but kinda bad a$$ nonetheless.

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Evo VIII motor and Evo V AWD drivetrain.

 

[11secDSM]

WTF?!?!?! That's just insane! I'd like to see some up close pics to see what work went into that...

 

[mavisky]

either i've seen that one before or its gotten a paint job since i saw it last.

 

[Boostin'X']

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That is the new zealand evo that is running 9s right now I believe. It is an evo 5? with the 7/8 motor in it with it reversed, hence the intake manifold in front. They wanted a drag and track car with only haveing to change suspension settings.

 

[EclipseOwner95]

So they did ALL that work just to stay away from " SUSPENSION SETTINGS !?! " :thumbdown :thumbdown Big waste of money IMO

 

[GPTourer]

It is an evo 5? with the 7/8 motor in it with it reversed, hence the intake manifold in front. They wanted a drag and track car with only haveing to change suspension settings.

If it is a V, why would they have to turn the motor around? A III or back I could understand. Or did they do it for less weight transfer to the rear?

 

[mavisky]

If it is a V, why would they have to turn the motor around? A III or back I could understand. Or did they do it for less weight transfer to the rear?

i'm guessing they did it for weight balance. driver and tranny on one side, engine on the other, but that seems like a whole hell of a lot of work for a very small gain in performance.

 

[Boostin'X']

Sorry, got confuse on the info. Here is what I dug up. The car is owned by Zohab Rakar(msp?) It uses a Evo 4 block, in an evo 3 chassie with an evo 7/8 head. It is currently the worlds quickest evo, oh and it runs methonal

http://www.onboost.co.nz/images/sinats04-009.jpg
http://www.onboost.co.nz/images/sinats04-017.jpg

 

[HokieDSM]

Thats an Evo III - here's another pic of it from the outside:
http://www.idrag.co.nz/downloads/wallpaper/rippa800x600_001.jpg

Makes the orientation of the swap make a lot more sense, eh? I guess the EVO III tranny bolts right up to the reversed engine - weird, otherwise he'd have had to do all sorts of other mods to accomodate the reversed engine direction.

*EDIT* Boostin got to it first - but you want to size those pics down some? They're huge.

 

[mavisky]

yea it makes a little more sense to find out its an evo3, but i still don't understand the point for switching to the evo 4 block if he's obviously going to replace almost all of the internals anyways. whatever works i suppose.

 

[Boostin'X']

He may be using an evo 3 block which explains why the evo 1-3 tranny bolts to it, which is the same as what is in our 2gs but it looks to be a little different than ours, so it's probably a evo 4.

 

[mavisky]

no i think they're right with the evo 3 tranny (that's why it's on our side of the motor) and on the evo 4 block since it would have the exhaust exiting out the back if rotated 180 degrees like it is. the evo 8 head must just be there for better exhaust flow.

it'd be similar to bolting up an 1g tranny to a 2g motor. it'll still bolt up, but in this case they had to rotate the motor around in order for it to work right.

 

[ItsStockOfficer]

i'm guessing they did it for weight balance. driver and tranny on one side, engine on the other, but that seems like a whole hell of a lot of work for a very small gain in performance.

Thats one reason, but another huge one is that they did it so the engine and wheels rotate in the same direction, making the tranny less complicated by one shaft. You will note that Honda's with the engine/tranny setup like a DSM rotate in the opposite direction from every other engine in the world for this same reason.