Evo ownership has been awesome but I’ve owned the Evo for over 5 years now and it’s time to move on. I’ve done plenty to it in that time from simple maintenance to power upgrades. It’s slowly become better and better but now I’ve sort of run out of things I want to do to […]
I did a load of cavity waxing before but it was a bit awkward with the car on axle stands. Now I have much better access underneath I thought I’d go finding all the holes I could to fill with Noxudol 700 cavity wax. This is a messy job so I only took a few […]
The Evo has only ever let me down once before when the bottom aux belt pulley failed. Well this was the second time. The radiator sprung a leak! It’s either a total coincidence or is something to do with being drained and refilled when I did the timing belt and water pump. Either way it […]
A while back I spotted the lower rear ball joint boots were looking a bit tired and might not be far from splitting. Obviously not ideal especially with MOT time not far away so I bought some replacements. While I was doing that I figured I may as well replace the trailing arm bushes with […]
With the main construction of the garage finished, meaning the rest of the work was just down to us, we thought we’d have a late summer holiday. The few months of total lack of spare time and constant disruption meant we could really do with a break. We’d been invited to a wedding we’d have […]
On a couple of occasions I noticed the passenger side headlight not working. It was an intermittent problem so not a simple bulb failure. Eventually got round to looking at it properly and found the plug that fits onto the H4 bulb was not too great. It had clearly had a bad connection for some time […]
The Evo was due a change of all oils, that’s engine, gearbox, transfer box, differential and AYC. So I placed an order with Opie Oils as usual. They’ve certainly earned a few quid out of me over the years and this occasion was no different but it’s not worth being cheap when it comes to […]
When I bought the Evo it came with an HKS SSQV dump valve, fitted by a previous owner. Not something I would have chosen to fit myself as fully venting to atmosphere has it’s problems with the Evo using a MAF sensor. But they are a good dump valve mechanically, it didn’t leak, it made […]
(First posted on MLR forum in July 2016) Wing bolts always looked untidy so got some of these. Freshened up the inner wing paint with some of this. Bit of paint under the original washer to stop it rusting. More gold. Should help inlet temps a bit as both the pipes I’ve wrapped are the […]
(First posted on MLR forum in July 2016) Spotted a slight amount of play in the drivers side rod end at MOT time. Went to buy a replacement and buying a pair wasn’t much more than buying just the one so I got a pair. I figured it will mean needing to do the tracking […]