The Pulse Racing Evo 8 Evolution

Now just to re-iterate the main purpose for this vehicle; 1. Obviously to have a truck load of fun with 2 To serve as a rolling ‘Test Bed’ for all types of parts & services Pulse Racing offer, so as we can confidently show our customers what’s possible to achieve with what mods. The first port of call for almost any EVO is the exhaust. Now if you’ve ever driven a std EVO for any length of time you’ll have a fairly good idea what I’m on about. Basically it’s to drown out the so called ‘sewing machine’ noise that comes out of the things, to move the noise from the Engine bay to the rear of the car (where it should be). Its just a 4G63 thing, they’re noisy, it feels like your giving the engine a hard time every time you give it even the slightest bit. The fact that the std Exhaust is restrictive & replacing it can give you a power boost is just an added bonus, it’s the noise we’re after. Enter TXS Exhaust pic So on went a Turbo dump back ‘Turbo XS’ 3inch stainles...

No sooner was the car home & the laptop was out. Those who know me will know that I cant leave anything std for long. I remember riding home my brand spanking new Honda Fireblade to a whole host of parts waiting to be installed. Yes I’m that bad, Im even straight barred from working on my wifes car (of course it NEEDS a Turbo luv, look at them hills). So onto the Dyno it goes, only to find that my lovely one owner/never thrashed car is a bit of a nugget. You know one of those Friday cars, it run low power in std & no matter how hard I tried I cant push it beyond 185Kw when similar cars still with std exhaust get close to 200 – bugger! Anyway off to the Drags we go for some baseline testing, managed a 12.8 @ 101 mph, not all bad so im slightly happy again.

Which model & why?? As with any car search, budget plays a huge role - I didn't want to blow it all and not have enough left to mod it all now did I. I originally looked at EVO 7's as this was my preferred shape as it looks slightly more modern than the 6's, and if I wanted all it needed was cosmetic changes and it could look like a 9. Black or Blue were to be the colours of choice, so this tended to narrow my options slightly. I looked over a stack of 7's ( almost all with 40K on the clock - go figure eh), yet most seemed poorly modified or heavily thrashed out. Even though i was planning to mod just about every inch of the car i still felt the need to source a good example. Then I found it! A one owner Black Aus spec EVO 8, slightly more costly than a 7, yet completely untouched, 40000Ks, log books and still under factory warranty. I had no chance of bargaining for this one, surely he could see I wanted it BAD! The deal was done!