Project Evolution IX

[RawrImAMonster]

I dont know a lot about EVOs, but is there the ability to upgrade the tranny/shifter bushings to shifter after-market ones or are you looking to not increase NVH?

Yep, I've already done that, both the bushings at the shifter cable to transmission mount, and the shifter base bushings. It's better, but it still doesn't shift well at low rpms. From what I've heard, this is just the norm with evos.

you'll get a better driveline with the STi, but that's about the only significant advantage it has over the Evo. its less razor sharp the the Evo without work, and make more torque down low, which you might want as a DD, but they don't handle the power mods nearly as easily.

Yeah I know, I did tons of research on both before getting an evo. Came to the conclusion I would be happy with either one and went with the first one I found a good deal on. Because of that my cars worth 3 or 4k more than what I paid for it still.

Either way, I'm not interested in making much more than 300whp in a daily driver, and the STi turbo and motor is very capable of dealing with that in the stock form.

Having said that, I'm not necessarily going to get an STi, just one of the options I'm considering. Any of the newer STi's scare me because of the ringland issues in 07 and up or I would probably be looking at those. I'm not going to be keeping whatever I get stock, so I don't want to have to worry about the motor going and not having a warranty to cover it.