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today we are driving an Evo 8 it's gonna
be a great time I have not driven an Evo
actually since we were down in
California and I drove that insane 650
wheel horsepower Evo Evo's always tend
to scare the shit out of me I don't know
what what it is about them and even more
so than skylines to be completely honest
unless we're talking about a skyline
with like 700 plus but Evo let's have
this thing where it's like they're not
front-wheel drive so they don't have the
torque steer that a lot of front-wheel
drive big power front wheel drive cars
have but they've got this like you've
got to hold on to the steering wheel
kind of thing about them that makes them
incredibly exciting and a lot of the
times honestly more exciting than an
equivalently powered STI but let me tell
you something Evo eights and Evo nines
are the best-looking Evo's and from what
I've seen the the best platforms out of
the entire Evo lineup to actually build
big power we're talking four hundred
plus wheel horsepower so let's go for a
drive and we'll see what it's all about
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so this is actually a 2.3 liter stroker
it does not have it's not 2 litres
anymore so obviously that helps a little
bit with torque right and then you stick
a like this card out at 60 millimeter
turbo roughly 31 pounds of boost for
high boost with 85 which now is becoming
a little bit more readily available here
in the Lower Mainland Vancouver
allegedly I'm not going to say exactly
where we are but it's becoming a little
bit more readily available and
especially with Evo's and these
four-cylinder cars 85 is yes it can be
kind of a pain in the ass but it's kind
of a necessity if you want to run safe
moves like high boost and a high power
out of a four cylinder engine like an
evil
this is gone one of the points that I
wanted to make with this video is it you
can actually drive like a high
horsepower Evo pretty much year-round if
you've got proper if you got the proper
set up proper tires
see that's what I mean right there
there's definitely torque steer but the
steering and Evos is so precise and like
so manageable and it's fairly light to
that it doesn't it doesn't like stress
you out when there's torque steer you
feel it but it doesn't like literally
pull your hands out of position too much
right when you're really hammering on it
but
okay yeah
oh that feels good that feels good
always surprising especially to people
who have been brought up on v8 cars and
muscle cars and stuff like that they
hear about four cylinders of 500
horsepower and they think wow it must be
incredibly just laggy and depressing to
drive you know between two and three
thousand rpm and that can be the case
especially with like I was saying
improperly tuned vehicles with a
properly tuned force alone there like a
4G or an STI engine you've got plenty of
torque you've got plenty of torque and
the thing is most inline-four is of this
caliber from Japan Rev way higher than a
lot of v8s like LS v---aids fox bodies
you know stuff like that so you have a
the other same rpm band to play with
it's just you got to stay up in the rpm
bands and some people are like oh you
gotta you have to rev it out but it's
like no you get to rev it out right you
get to actually enjoy the screaming
power right
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honestly you guys this was kind of the
end of the era for the iconic Japanese
cars that are all about the drive and
I'm talking no real driver assist no
driver aids right I don't believe this
car even has cruise control and that's
that's kind of why a lot of the cars
JDM important stuff I've become so
popular and are now arising in value
especially the Evo eight sandy bow nine
just because like yes it's a four-door
sedan but at the heart of it it is a is
a rally car right it's it's about input
it's about feeling the road feeling the
surface you're on and trying to put the
power down as fast as possible which is
one of the things that Evo's are the
best at is putting power down to the
road right whether it be drag racing
road racing whatever
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yeah all right big Crocs probably shoots
flames I'm gonna guess the Dutch shoot
flames especially when you're like you
know two-step dragstrip kind of stuff
no this is not a paint job I actually
thought this was a paint job when I
first saw the car it is in fact a wrap
surprising yes but striking nonetheless
I mean this is whenever I see an Evo I
cannot help but think of The Fast and
the Furious I know that that's so cliche
to say but a lot of the cars from that
movie are just so brightly colored so
whenever I see a car that's like even if
it's not overdone like this car it's
very tastefully modified especially from
the exterior but it's got that striking
color so you definitely notice it coming
down the road
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the best thing about that well I'm not
the best thing about this car but one of
the things about this car is like it's a
sleeper but it's not a sleeper at all I
I'll tell you why it's a sleeper to
everyone that's not into cars I mean the
color no but everything else about this
car is just like it's a four-door sedan
to any normal person with a big wing on
it right but like in comparison a brand
new Type R looks just as insane as this
car but you know Evo's to the to it an
untrained eye is just a four-door sedan
but any real car enthusiast will
definitely take note of this car very
easy to drive this car though all the
inputs are great the clutch is extremely
daily drivable extremely David drivable
and in fact Evo's do have like I was
mentioning very a very light steering
but very direct steering right so
there's not a lot of input there's not a
lot of effort and then you actually get
into the shifting of the car and
everything and it's nicely weighted it's
got a good good throw it's not too short
but all the inputs and Evo's are
honestly very fantastic I know when we
were comparing the STI in the Evo we
filmed in California and I pretty much
said I mean I would probably take that
particular STI over the Evo because it
was a little bit more
or up like a sensory overload I feel
like right from the sounds and
everything like that but overall overall
I'm gonna I gotta say I'm a bigger
friend of Evo's than I am SC is but this
was basically one of the last Japanese
cars of this caliber with no driver
assist that was like you know left-hand
Drive but
that will that will never get old that
will never get old it
so this is running 85 at the moment
again to net evolution Auto a lot of the
work was done over there as well 1000
army
not a whole lot of weight in between
shifts Wow
but yeah it throws you back in your seat
it really does
always impressed doing the amount of
boost these cars can run high on ously
don't know how don't know how they do it
it makes my mr2 just seems super weak
you know like if you push boost cut on
my own where 2 is like 17 psi and if you
push them much above 20 the engine is
literally going to blow up so it's
pretty impressive to see a an Evo like
this running 31 psi which is pretty
conservative for a big power Evo build
but that's why it's another reason why
you have the 85
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it's very interesting to to feel like
the comparative nature of like the
shifting field being very tough like for
a four-cylinder you think it's gonna be
all light and like dainty and stuff no
absolutely not this is like closer to
shifting a Dodge Viper than it is I
don't know a Civic or something like
that or are you gonna mustang for that
matter like a stock mustang very robust
the clutch weight kind of matches the
shifter weight and then the steering is
honestly it's a little bit light for my
liking but you know it makes up for it
the the direct nature of it it's so
incredibly direct which makes turn in
the confidence of your turn in
incredibly high
transmission is out of an Evo six
basically waiting to see how much power
it can actually handle until something
goes wrong but again these guys are very
robust from the factory and that cannot
be said about a lot of cars that are not
paired very well for the transmission
so that is why honestly one of the
reasons why Evo's make such good
platforms to start from
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yeah honestly as far as tuning goes I've
driven a lot more SDI's and Evo's that
have liked what we're doing right now
partial throttle kind of city driving
that are way worse like this is if I if
I had to guess and I didn't nobody told
me this had a lot of power didn't have
the gauges or anything and I was driving
around like this stock I would be like
okay this car is completely stock that's
a testament to the tuner its parts and
the tuner mainly the tuning right and
sure you can do wide open throttle pulls
on a dyno all day long and get that peak
power number but the cars useless if you
don't have partial throttle daily
driving capabilities and there are not a
lot of cars I can actually successfully
pull that off this is definitely one of
them
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all right second year
very fast the ratios are incredibly
close to like sure that it's a sixty
millimeter turbo but you're constantly
in power constantly in power that's why
these cars are so involved it's like you
always going to work out while driving
them because they're constantly shifting
gears when you're in and out of boost
and then you get rewarded with the pops
and the flames from the exhaust and like
the turbo spool it's a lot of fun let me
tell you it's a lot it's a lot of fun
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there was definitely a time into place
for lots of boost
I love NA cars in the right set and
setting
but overall I'm going to be honest you
guys I I prefer
turbocharged cars and I'm not talking
modern turbocharged cars that are
turbocharged for the reason of being or
for the sake of being efficient Japanese
cars from the 90s and early 2000s like
this were turbocharged to make big power
and to make more power and the
efficiency was just a side effect of
that which is something I absolutely
love so every time I get out of an Evo
eight or even nine with a big single
turbo and this amount of power I cannot
help but think to myself these are some
of the most insane 4-door sedans with a
manual transmission the money can buy
and this build is absolutely no
exception that raspberry blue rap has
been done by Diamond Auto glass in
Richmond as far as the engine work that
was done by the guys over at evolution
auto in Burnaby the car was built and
tuned by Suraj and Alon over there and
they put a lot of work into making this
build where it is today not a lot of
Evo's can stand the test of time with
this amount of power to the wheels but
this is one of those outliers and it
really was a pleasure to drive so thank
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