After umming and arring over what to change the meg for I settled on this... I looked at sensibleish cars like diesel BM 330's etc but thought I'd blow more cash and get a more wild car whilst my usual out goings are low. Picked it up today and loving it so far When you take into account transmision losses it hasn't got that much more power over my 300bhp meg it's still quicker according to a few passengers. From a drivers perspective it doesn't feel much faster but then it does it's thing with alot less drama than the fwd meg. You get chucked about in the meg in the damp while it torque steered but no drama at all in the evo. It pulls nicely too It's pretty flat untill about 3k rpm but then it roars into life and pulls hard to the redline. In fact, It's pretty civilised keeping it under 2.5k. I'm still not pushing it that hard due to the weather but even when trying to provoke a reaction It's stayed glued to the damp tarmac. Anyway, enough waffling. Some pics.
Nice one mate I've had evos and scoobys they're mint cars and feel quick but I never seem to keep them long, my last impreza I kept for 4 weeks before swapping it lol. Hope you enjoy it mate.
Car looks really good mate It's taken quite a long time for you to choose what model to go for, but i believe youve made the right choice with the 9, even though its more expensive. once youve tuned it to 400/400 youll be pretty happy with the power then. Lol
Awesome. Would love to upgrade to one of these but unfortunately I think the next car will be a downgrade to buy a house.
Cheers guys Loving it so far apart from putting in over £100 of V since Sunday. I am using it every evening for pointless blasts so im hoping once the novelty wears off it'll be abit cheaper. Driving it home off boost it was pretty good on fuel but that was only a 50 mile trip. it's bound to be expensive but it's a car I've always wanted so whilst im young, no commitments and most importantly no mortgage! Around town i was seeing low 20's in the meg so im hoping it won't be that much difference. Boost does drink but it's worth it i know Steven. im pretty fussy with my cars but this one is really tidy. the idea was 400/400 but it's effortlessly fast in standard form im not sure what my plan is atm. just enjoy it and keep feeding it's habit i guess
I'll take you for a blast when your up Naith. Passenger rides is all I seem to of done lately Took my mate round the horseshoe and he rekons it's a fair bit quicker than the meg
Just out of interest mj how much did you finally get insured for? I've been looking through ads of these again like a man possessed and it really does seem a mission to find a good one
840 i think Baz and that's with protected ncd. my current insurer wanted £3k! Yeah, they are bound to of been driven hard but it's an evo, that's what they do i looked at one before i bought this one. it was well specced but scruffy for the money imo. someone bought it right infront of me actually. The 8's are getting on now so it will be harder to find a cared for example. which model were you looking at?
Thanks Lemon I've thought recently it's not that fast, maybe I'm just used to the power now so I plan to get it on the dyno sometime. In the mean time I guess I'll find other ways of testing it on the road. Had a play with a C63 AMG tonight and I was suprised how quickly I closed in on it after he got the jump while I waited till I could actually see past the car infront. I looked it up online and even the basic model is 450bhp. They are fairly heavy but won't have the 4wd losses like the evo. Need to find more fast stuff willing to play Took delivery of the first mod the other day aswell. Well second actually but a performance pannel filter is hardly classed as a mod is it? I'm booked into have it checked over with a local specialist next week. MOT is due soon so I want to make sure it'll sail straight through aswell as them having more of an idea on what to look out for Then maybe a walbro 225, 3 port boost solonoid and map to see me around 400hp but we'll see
Looked at a fair few 7 and 8s. 9s would have ment I'd of had to sell the megane too. My problem is I live in West Yorkshire and the closest evo's are all in Bradford where the owners don't seem to look after them
The right car is worth traveling for Baz. This one was a couple of hours away but he was a mate and met me half way. I really wasn't sure what to go for Mr.T. 335d was high up on the list and I'm still looking at them but doubt I'll change. I was looking at scoobys first too as I couldn't afford a good condition 9 but when this came along I couldn't miss the chance to own it. I've considered selling it to make abit of profit but it would be stupid of me to sell a good one so soon into ownership. As you say, there's alot of dogs out there! I've been driving the meg recently as it's still not sold and it's a much easier car to drive day to day. The clutch is normal on it, You don't need to launch it to get a sharpish get away, you have power below 3k rpm etc etc. The amount of times I've pulled off needing to get away sharpish in the evo and forgotten it needs more revs to keep it on boost is annoying. I can't really blame the car for that but it's annoying having to rev it more and look like a typical boy racer and peaople thinking your just revving for the fun of it The megane really is a cracking car and can do the daily comute, take the B road home when you fancy a blast and is at home on the track. Driving it again hasn't made selling it any easier especially with a potential 1-2k profit if I got rid of the evo!!
Define drift People get a little shuffle on and think they're the next drift king I've had 4 wheel slides but wouldn't class it as a drift. The passengers get twitchy enough when I get a slide on lol I was having a play on a wet, open roundabout just getting to grips with the car when I first had it. I couldn't get the rear to slide round enough and the car was just understeering like a pig! I kept playing wth the diff settings etc but still couldn't get it to rotate! I thought I'd try a faster approach and a boot full of power... I then found out why it wasn't rotating them. It shot on boost and the rear came sliding round as planned... just a little too fast! As it only comes on boost at 3k I couldn't get enough speed to keep it buzzing in 2nd and 1st was too low. I took i for a blast in the rain today and it's so gooood Had a glof GTI trying to keep up.... puleese :rolleyes: The meg would really struggle in the wet but this loves the damp and you can cover ground at an awesome speed... just with more 4 wheel slides than the dry!
Nice mj ! Looks a mint motor chap ! Lemon I can't beleave u said that when I said I was looking at Evos u laffed at me !!!! Lol
I had an FQ 400,with over 600 BHP. Lovely car, very expensive to run. I now have an R26R.Did quite a few trackdays this year,and would not go back to an Evo.
I always find this odd, was it just the running costs that put you off in the end? I enjoy my 250 but it's inevitably wrong wheel drive and shows it a lot more than say the 200 due to the differences in power/torque. Dry roads/tracks it's sticks till the tyres give up, but put a bit of grease down and it gets a bit fidgety more than I guess an EVO gets.
When the roads get wet and greasy I tend o slow down and my R is never twitchy , just drive to the road conditions
The "problem" with 4wd is the perception of grip. Its always there until its too late. You are then going into a hedge at a high speed. FWD cars will wash wide earlier , and rwd will put there tails out. Not knocking it , just a comment
I get what you mean: they only have more grip at the same speeds as fwd/rwd. As a result people often imagine this makes it endless and will push it harder until it too gives up; at which point you are still going to crash but much faster. Which is why you see all too many chavs going from a 1.0 Corsa up to an old Scooby and ditching it at 100mph because it felt invincible in comparison. However if you can keep off the right foot (yeah, right) then it will ultimately be a much safer car to drive at normal speed.
Even driving to the conditions you should still be able to feel differences in grip levels and changes to how the car reacts over bumps (even more so on R888s) etc. I didn't intend to suggest this was happening at speeds beyond those sensible for the conditions.
I don't know Lemon. It doesn't have a trip computer - probably for the best really I want a scangauge so I can actually see what mpg it'll do. I know, I know I could work it out manually but I really CBA. Plus the fuel gauge isn't exactly accurate. Interesting talk about the 4wd vs 2wd... being able to feel the limit clearer etc. I disagree. I like to feel the limit, it's when we feel most alive Take wet roads first - the evo is at home on them. No scrambling for grip, no fwd understeer coming out of corners, just grip, grip and more grip. Yes if you push it enough you will feel it fidget like any car but it's never felt like it was about to chuck me into the hedge. A little shuffle which may require a dab of oppo but the majority of the time the fidget is just that, a fidget. Driving like a knob and provoking the car i've had big power on oversteer but It took some poking till the car obliged and I found out how it behaves when it lets go. Everyone drives a meg on here so I won't dwell too much but in the wet mine would scramble all over the place and you'd need to regulate the throttle or you'd have a fight on your hands. The tail on the meg is pretty planted in the wet but the front just washes wide. A crash is still a crash regardless of if you understeer, slide or oversteer into the hedge On a damp road the meg wouldn't see which way the evo went. Dry roads, the difference is less apparent and you don't really notice the 4wd as much. The evo obviously doesn't have the torque steer like my meg did so I'd rather be in that rather than have to fight torque steer. It's difficult to say what would be faster down a b road as my evo should have 100bhp more ATF than my meg did so obviously it'll be faster..
looks lovely ive just put my Evo 6 up for sale , still not sure had him 7 years now and its a good one, just spent a fortune on her on a few odd jobs im fancying a R32
I have done exactly the same. Had a few scooby's as well and never really kept them long as for me as soon as you got past the noise, speed factor they really are not as good as your modern hot hatches. The megane rs's dont feel much slower either. For me the megane rs is a fantastic all rounder and scooby's and evo's are great as a "MAN TOY" which is just for him.
Cheers mate. I hope you mean a skyline R32 oppossed to a golf! That's the thing tho Andy, why do you need to get past the noise and especially the speed factor? Car ownership is about the experiance and both those qualitys in a car add to the overall experiance. If the 225/R26 had the same pace as a type s civic I'd bet it wouldn't be as good as it is. I know I wouldn't of owned one as I wanted a faster car. Same for buying the evo. I fancied a change from a 300bhp meg and obviously wanted something faster. Combine the speed with a few other qualitys the evo fit the bill. I do see where you are coming from tho. It gets looks where ever i go, running costs are high etc etc. I was only dropping someone off yesterday a couple of miles away and ended up going for an hour and half blast and went through £30 of V The car is just so addictive and the harder you push it the better it gets. Feeling it power on 4 wheel drift round bends is an awesome feeling Combined with the speed, noise, acceleration ... Those japs knew what they were doing when they made this! I do think you need higher power in them to really get the evo experiance tho. I don't think a FQ300 or FQ320 etc would cut it.
