#Motor sports evom trial#

Heck, I drove a '07 STI around town with a side pipe and no muffler all for the 'sake of winning'.

#Motor sports evom trial#

Project Kick-off - September 1, 2008: We asked ourselves, are we crazy? Surely this can't be done? But what if it could? What if you could daily drive your autocross car, your track day/time trial car, AND have it be spouse and family friendly? No, that is definitely crazy! I have changed this to a 'development thread', where we can cover current and future EVO X work. Now that is is 2018 we have worked on a number of other EVO X chassis cars here at Vorshlag over the last ten years. With upgrades to 18x10.5' wheels, 275mm tires, proper spring rates, real monotube adjustables, additional camber, more power and a few other tricks we transformed this car into a NASA Time Trial record setting car, an autocross winner, and it was still a great daily driver. The improvements we made to this '08 EVO X MR over the next 18 months were nothing short of miraculous.

We both felt like we were scraping the door handles in turns! In stock form Brian drove it at one NASA Time Trial (at ECR 2008, above left) and I autocrossed it like that once as well (above right). The stock suspension on the EVO X was very soft and the handling left a lot to be desired. We also used this car to develop a new Vorshlag camber plate and several AST coilover kits, and COBB used this car for the first EVO X they tuned for their AccesPort. We were sponsoring an EVO forum at the time and this build thread had a lot of followers that mimicked some of the solutions (cooling, wheels/tires, exhaust, and tune) we figured out. We had developed a lot of parts and even built a few AWD Subaru rally cars but this was our first EVO, and we learned a lot from this build. This EVO X was a brand new chassis at the time, and we were 'forging a new path' with the suspension as well as the completely untested Dual Sequential Clutch transaxle new in the EVO X MR. Right: Fair building a customer 3' exhaust Left: Hanchey doing some work on the trans cooler. The initial plan was to build around SCCA Solo's STU class for autocrossing, which is relatively harmless for warranty concerns. Being brand new it had a big fat warranty, too - which takes some of the 'risk' out of performance driving. This EVO X was Hanchey's answer to a multi-purpose daily driver/time trial/autocross car, with four doors to better fit his growing family. We both raced this car on track and in autocrossing over the course of two years, but strangely enough my wife Amy and I raced it more often than the car's owner, including at the 2009 SCCA Solo Nationals (below).Īs you read these first few posts, remember - 2008 was smack dab in the middle of the Great Recession, fuel costs were sky rocketing (double what they are in 2018 now), and attendance at motorsports events was suffering.Īt Vorshlag during this time we already had a wicked shop race car - the Alpha E36 LS1 (shown above left) - but it was a dedicated race car that had to be towed to events (getting 9 mpg using my truck), it could not be legally driven on the street, it was gutted inside, and it had relatively high expendable costs (tires, brakes, etc).

This first EVO X MR project was initially launched by my former business partner Brian Hanchey, with the EVO he purchased. New Introduction - January 16th, 2018: We kicked off our in-house EVO X project project in 2008, but I (Terry Fair) am going back to write the 'intro' to this thread ten years later, to better match the style of build threads we have written since that time.