Yes, that’s right. I know it’s been a while since I posted, but my Evo (and this site) is not dead. Both are quietly being reconstructed for a new, better purpose.

I made the decision late last year to finally suck it up and use my Evo IX for what I really wanted [...]

With my race weekend cut short by the continuing problems I’m having with excessive crank case pressure, I decided to try to salvage the weekend by installing a bunch of exterior goodies that I’ve picked up over the last couple of months.
First up were some parts from Rexspeed. These guys have some really nice carbon [...]

I know I’ve been radio silent for quite a while, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been racing. Well, I’ve been trying to race, but unfortunately I have been having nothing but problems with my new motor. My motor was finished back in March, but over the past 3 months I have been to 4 [...]

I know this blog has been quiet for a while (and more posts on my stupid little tweaks to the X5 don’t count), but after the debacle of having a mechanical failure at Targa for the second time in as many years, I wasn’t really feeling the love for the Evo.
In fact, my car came [...]

As I write this, it is less than a week until I leave California for St John’s and the start of Targa Newfoundland 2008. I know it’s been quite a while since I last posted to the blog, but the reason for that has been the fact that my car has been undergoing it’s final [...]

The Seibon fiberglass doors and lexan windows that I talked about some time ago have finally been installed on the Evo. There was a significant weight savings, the parts look very close to stock now that they’re installed, and I am very happy with the overall results.
The total weight savings appears to have been ~150lbs [...]

I just picked up my Seibon FRP doors from the painter.  They are ready for installation!
As I mentioned in a previous post, these doors should cut significant weight out of what is a very, very heavy car. My friend Navid Kahangi (former owner of Extreme Performance in San Jose, and now working with the guys [...]

My Evo IX RS, despite being stripped down to the bare essentials, is a total pig.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s not like I don’t like my car, but it is very, very heavy. It’s currently sitting about 3200lbs without driver or co-driver, meaning that in race trim at Targa Newfoundland, the thing is clocking in [...]

If you are racing today and are not using a HANS Device, there really is something wrong with you. The HANS has been proven to save lives again and again, in both scientific testing and in real world experiences. It’s an advance in auto racing safety right up there with fuel cells.
That said, I know [...]

I’m a pretty big fan of the parts coming out of the Perrin Performance crew up in Portland, Oregon. I don’t know if it’s just a soft spot for my former town (I lived there from 1997 to 2000) or just a fetish for well-made billet aluminum parts, but either way I have ended up [...]