My Evo 4

[McFall1984]

my daily for a year, then i said i'll fit gauges and a 7 spoiler
but naw couldn stop there lol

 

[Evo8Frankie]

Great work mate, im sure it will be looking smart when you have finished. i once got one of them manifolds and was told that there not too great and dont last very long. id just keep your eye on it

 

[McFall1984]

Yea was told the same,
Cheers matey I'll keep an eye

 

[McFall1984]

Was offered these at an absolute steal earlier so i made the wee trip down to collect
came off an Evo 6 on wednesday as the fella wanted yellow calipers, so the fella who done the swap had these an had no use for them

i will easily make use for them for my 4 as brakes are terrible

 

[McFall1984]

Not much really happening with the car
got the engine and turbo all built back up an primed the turbo with oil an turned 1st turn

got a few bits back that were away gettin bits of work

Ordered a short shifter


My plasma dials fitted and again lit up



and my centre console parts

 

[McFall1984]

So remember i bought an Evo 7 spoiler?
i also bought an Evo 5 bootlid without the spoiler

so got the holes filled up, spoiler an bootlid left off with my painter and

 

[McFall1984]

My Rota's all painted up


My new carbon vortex generator




My new radio to replace my old headunit


Shouldn be to long till its up for MOT

 

[McFall1984]

So the Rota's were to big
i had 215-35-18 bought an fitted them as i knew they fit easily, had 2 old 225-40-18 tyres sitting here so put them on to see if they didn rub or cause problems, but they did, even the 215-35 rubbed so that was that, 8.5's were to big


after mot, front windows back to a light tint now

So Rota's had to go and bought another set of rota's last night


These sit nice an are 7.5" wide i think, not marked anywere on the rims but not sticking out past the arch like the GTR's were

An finally got my 3 centre gauges fitted an working


Leaves the 2 pillar gauges to get set right and fit the new turbo timer, headunit extra's that i said i'd leave until i was doing the shirt shift gear linkage

 

[McFall1984]

Been sorting the car this last week

1st up was the short shift
Old 1 in hand an short shift fitted

Fitted and all

New bushings fitted round the selector


Old rad started to leak so new 52mm alloy rad was purchased





2nd bit was a polished rocker cover




Finally the 7 spoiler




That's it for now. Still a lot to do but should have updates tomorrow

 

[mart1983]

how hard was it to fit the shifter? thinking of doing it on mine, seen the same shifter on ebay…

 

[McFall1984]

It took me about 20 minutes to fully finish. But I had to get a new gear knob as the IV is a deep heavy brute of a gear knob. So I bought a tegiwa gear knob from ebay

 

[McFall1984]

Yea Barry
As it sits now

 

[McFall1984]

So the day i wanted to add a pair of side skirt extensions, again like the 7 spoiler, this is just another mod thats not available for 4's

but before that yesterday i changed my rocker cover for a polished one

old cover ( old pic but the same cover i've had on )


Old cover removed


new 1 fitted



and the side skirt extensions

before fitting



an fitted

 

[McFall1984]

Have more done but ill get pictures an update later

 

[ElDopesta]

Great write up indeed!

It's nice to see members tinkering away on their own steam.

I'm not a big fan of the IV's, everyone knows that, that said, yours is probably one of the best I've seen to date, no exaggeration.

 

[McFall1984]

yea well its changed quite a bit from that picture lol

front an rear splitters have been removed
evo 7 spoiler blade removed
side skirt extensions removed
naca duct removed
+
stubby mirrors purchased

all of the above have been sent to a carbon dipping company over here in N.Ireland

so i'll get them all home dipped in nice carbon
got a new set of 18" alloys also

 

[DDS789]

Keep it updated buddy, plenty more pics of it please

It's looking great, bet the dipped parts will be

 

[McFall1984]

Keep it updated buddy, plenty more pics of it please

It's looking great, bet the dipped parts will be

yea they will be..............really expensive

 

[ElDopesta]

How about a few shots of it in its current state then.....

 

[McFall1984]

kinda rough looking but i'll take some in the morning with my new motor