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

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with all the clearness for the brackets first knuckle I did before final clean up

 

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also got the H&R longer studs put in

 

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the smim just showed up from japan

 

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I have to tank my dad Ken for doing the coil pack bracket. he made it from a extra 90 dsm coil bracket and some angel iron I had at the house. it is now mounted on to of the A/C pump. I also drilled out the mount hole on a 91+ ignitor and put it were the oem intake bracket was. Dad also made an alum bracket to move the throttle cable so it would work and not bind up. We did a mini wire tuck also. I just have to get a longer hose for the PVC. We also had to redo the fmic piping with a 45 bend and cut the lower pipe shorter. On the smim we had to drill out the bolt holes a bit to get it to fit the bigger studs. But that was the only thing we had to do to it.
now to the pics

 

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also got the autometer cage mounts and got them installed also and cut the cage foam out to put them in and used some 3m spray glue and trimmed the foam to fit back on it all

 

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The auto climant controler went out a few weeks ago. I got lucky and found one on ebay in the UK and picked it up for 40pounds shipped (about 80.00)

also I sold the full alpine flip out set up to Mikey B and got a great deal on a 2din JVC deck and a new ipod cable

also found a replacement a-piller plastic at u pull it. had to take out part of the cage to get it back in there.

sense I had to take part of the cage out I move the wiring for the greddy gauges to the emtey spot under the heat vent.

 

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thanks to brandon for redoing the hot pink valve cover is looks great

also a big thanks to rosie for doing the brembo brackets on the cnc

 

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new pic with the valve cover back on it is now hot pink for the 2nd time and this time it will not turn barbie pink

 

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here is a remix of some of the pics from when I got the car till now

 

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also got the replacement climate controler yesterday from the UK and put it in and it works great
and here is why the first one went out. the fan motor was rusted probley from sitting as a front clip for a while got wet and rusted. It froze up and back feed the power back to the controler and burnt it out.

 

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also got the new bearings and seals for the evo knuckels they came from craigs 1g. also got the brackets on. I am just waiting for the alen heads to show up to replace the bolts. also cleaned up the knuckles and painted them gloss black

 

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got more done today on the car with the help of my dad Ken. We got the water bottle mounted after cutting a big hole in the sheet metal to the top of it so it can be filled easy. Got the boost pressure switch installed and set to 20psi to come on and stay on till 27psi. Had to take off the front bumper to get the 2 oem evo III water sprayers in. Als fixed the front bumper with some alum rivits to hold it were it has to be. The bumper did not have the tabs on it when I got it and has been lose sense it went on the car. last thing we did was take out the amp rack and put in the rear cusco tower bar.

water jets

hose routing w/pressure-vol nipple

were the hole was cut right by the P.S. resvore

the bottom were the evo abs was to start with that never went into my car(pic before brackets were made)

with the bumper back on

 

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were the bumper was reatached

cusco rear tower bar that sits behind the amp rack

 

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got the big alen head bolt today and got them in and they work alot better than the bolts that were cut.

also got one of the front brembos painted. it is a heavy metal flake blue that is close to the cusco blue. The pics dont do it any favors. it was sanded down with some 400. 1 layer of primer,3 coats of blue,hi temp brembo sticker,3 coats of clear

 

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got all of the brembos painted now

also went to the junk yard today and they had a 5g mirage so I snaged the arm rest out of it. No more crappy evo III plastic one for the car anymore that was to low to start with. To top it all off it was dirty as hell and was 2.00 because of that, nothing a carpet cleaner could not fix

 

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kevin and I got the 8an fuel lines in the car yesterday and finnished this morring. I taped the rail 8an by 3/8npt and brandon powder coated it hot pink to match the valve cover.

also the 2 other v.c. brandon did for me

 

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moved up from last year at the misu cook out in the evo class (2008)

 

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ot the tires mounted to the 18's thanks to my buddy Pete at goodyear

and yes they have the euro strech on them 18*8 rim with a 215/35/18 tire. I dont care at all sense the rims are new cost me 300.00 and the tires have few hundred miles on them they were 125.00 for the set and I can't get a 225/40/18 under it at all.

so with all this today done I will be getting the evo 9 brembos on the car front and back and the 5lug swap done tomorrrow

 

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any way got some of it done today with the help of my dad,kevin,and jon
got the rear arms off and apart and started to go back together. hit a road block with one of them the bearing broke pressing out the 4 lug hub, But it was craig for the save he was able to order one for me will be in tomorrow morring.

evo III rear arms. We cut up the oem brake brackets. We cut the ears off them. Also had to make the center hole bigger on the evo 9 ebrake and drill out the bolt holes in it a bit to line up with the evo III bolt's

here is the brackets that we made out of some 1/4in alum plate I had laying around also 1/4in spacers. still have to drill and tap the oem evo III brake bracket for then alum ones for the brembos.

Also got the front hubs put on the car and have some modding to do the front brackets and back of the brembo so they sit better.

 

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dad and I got the rears all done today. the car is on the ground. just have to blead the brakes some more they are still soft and get the ebrake to work better.
here is the first set of brackets. redid them a 2nd time with a smaller spacers. used just a washer on the 2nd run of them.

also a 18*8 will fit on the rear of a evo I-III arm with 1/8 or so of space

we had to cut the a set of bearing centers for a spacer for the hubs. with out them the hub hit the ebrake.

 

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the evo I-III arm with the 2nd bracket set up and the evo 9 ebrake set up

put all together with the evo 9 rear disk and brembo

 

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the fronts are on the car now. had to mod the brackets alittle bit and make 1/4" spacers the 1/2" ones were to much and made them sit funny and hit the rotor's.

also put one of the rims on the car to get a good look at the full new set up. It looks bas ass

 

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dad,kevin,and I got them all blead out and got the ebrake fixed so it works really well. The evo 9 cables were longer than the evo 3 ones. I still dont like the brake peddle so I am going to pick up a evo 8 master and swap that in. also will pick up a set of rear s.s. lines for it.