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Old Jul 3, 2012 | 08:39 AM
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Legit wheels. Legit car. Very nice and clean man. With a little low this would look phenomenal. I understand thr ride height choice, i believe anyway. Keep it up man.
I would like to lower it another half inch to an inch, but its a daily driver and it already scrapes sometimes, so it's probably not the best idea.

Next up for the project is getting the front end repainted next week to get rid of 60k worth of rock chips. Mitsubishi paint never was the greatest.
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Looks bad ass man, I wish there would be a small Evo meet some place in Va!!
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There is a club called DCEvoClub if you're in northern virginia, but there isn't much elsewhere as far as I know.
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Got Curb Appeal in Harrisonburg to repaint the front bumper and hood to get rid of the nasty rock chips. They did an excellent job matching the paint.

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yet, anyone ive ever talked to whose owned one will say the exact opposite about them.
I will say that Subarus seem to have some issues. Like ringlands and spun bearings. My Subaru has 21000mi, stage 2, and no issues. I also don't dog my car. I would like having better internals so I can start to push my motor. I don't wanna get another short block to drive my car hard.

I've actually looked into getting an Evo X just for the internals reliability.

Also OP, very clean car. You gonna go pretty extreme with it the motor? or keep it subtle?
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I'm probably going to keep it fairly tame for now. Definitely won't be going over 400whp regardless of what I do. It's fast enough for now. Next up is a better gauge set up probably.

Exhaust video I took a while back:

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