Evo 5Rs Resto-Mod

Mita · 18-06-2020, 20:53

Well its been 7 years of owning an Evo, loved every minute of owning it and loved every minute of the 50 mile drive back from the importers

Quick introduction, I've been in to Evo's since 98 when I laid my eyes on a Red 5, I had previously had a 3 door blue Impreza Sti from Japan, I imported it brand new at the time on an S reg, proper proper car. I still love them now, but I always had the hankering for the 5, lack of info and a baby on the way I never got to have one. That want never went away, I knew one day I would get one, lucky for me I sorted some money and started to look. I did as much research as possible, even back then they obviously had their rust issues etc, so I wanted a fresh import. I found myself looking at SVA's site all the time, they had a lot of nice examples in, I was aware of their lets say "colourful" reviews. However one particular car took my interest. I was never that fussed about mileage or even buying an RS, but it had to be a 5. Anyway, a 10,000 mile 5rs came up. Too good to be true, its been clocked, no way, were some of the comments. However, I went to take a look. In all honesty the mileage was a bonus, my feeling was it would be fresh underneath and easy to take to pieces

I had a BIMTA mileage check done for piece of mind, it came back pukka. It was probably 3 grand more than the average Evo back then, nowadays its nothing! But it was a fair chunk more than an equivalent 5rs there which had 80k, but I liked it, nice original base car.

So the deal was done, picked up the car and drove back to my house. Front end in to the garage and turned off the engine. Little did I know that would be the last time I would drive it

My original plan was just to own it, thats it. Sit it in the garage and drive it now and again, the problems started when I decided to have a look properly underneath. Now SVA were great, I had it on the ramps and all was great. They had used black waxy (not ****ty underseal) all over the bottom of it on import. Well before I had a look at it. So I decided to wet a rag with some petrol, you know, just to see what's underneath. Curiosity killed the cat, and all that

The problem was, the more I uncovered the more I just wanted to get it all off. So below is going to be a thread on what I have done, hindsight is a wonderful thing. There is a huge amount of things I should and shouldn't of done thats for sure. However, I think the most obvious was I should of reversed in the garage

Feel free to comment, take the ****, be a dick head or whatever. Its really not my thing doing a thread, I'm pretty private. However its hopefully good reading plus it may be an inspiration to some to do theirs or even for people to think **** that!! Its a massive amount of work and money what's to follow, and this is no big build. As the title suggests this is a rest mod, I'm not in to polishing or staring at a car, I want this to be better than factory and useable . Each to their own of course, but the last thing I would want is to make a car so clean I wouldn't want to use it, lets be honest 50 miles in 7 years is good to keep it low miles, but a bit of a shame

. I'm no master mechanic, and I have done most this work with second hand tools and random purchases. I love doing the work myself, thats how you learn.

I didn't even take pics of the car out in the open before I took it apart so apologies

but we all know what a 5rs looks like.

So first question, I'm uploaded to Flikr. Do I need to resize pics?

mlau1294 · 18-06-2020, 21:05

Looking forward to this thread Steve, and finally seeing her, albeit in pieces, but hopefully not for much longer!

Mita · 18-06-2020, 21:06

Nice one Matt, its been a while to get to this stage

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Originally Posted by mlau1294

Looking forward to this thread Steve, and finally seeing her, albeit in pieces, but hopefully not for much longer!

Mita · 18-06-2020, 21:24

Right I think I have it!

Ok couple of first pics. Car came with some Cusco coil overs. Hard as hell

You can see the black Waxoyl inside the arch. This was all over the whole underside !

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IMG_0456 by Steve Kershaw, on Flickr[/IMG]

Mita · 18-06-2020, 21:32

Little bit of Japanese mud for me

These are the only 2 pics I took before I took it apart

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IMG_0460 by Steve Kershaw, on Flickr[/IMG]

Mita · 18-06-2020, 21:43

So below are a few pics of the car with suspension out , arms etc . Also the black stuff is now mostly gone, its a real shame it wasn't that quick and easy in reality! There was no real easy was of doing it to be honest.

I started by jacking the car up with a really nice bit of kit from SGS Engineering. Its basically a truck jack, lifts to 650mm or something silly, so alongside that I purchased 4 stands for each corner of the Evo. These gave me approx 500mm under the car

so not much and I'm not exactly small!

Jacking this up while under the car in the freezing cold was not exactly safe or fun. I had to do a bit at a time front to back, not easy or quick!

The pictures of the tyre well make it look rusty, it was in fact the black paint the Japs randomly chuck over anything they don't like when it comes to service time!

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IMG_0531 by Steve Kershaw, on Flickr[/IMG]

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IMG_0532 by Steve Kershaw, on Flickr[/IMG]

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IMG_0534 by Steve Kershaw, on Flickr[/IMG]

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IMG_0570 by Steve Kershaw, on Flickr[/IMG]

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IMG_0571 by Steve Kershaw, on Flickr[/IMG]

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IMG_0615 by Steve Kershaw, on Flickr[/IMG]

Mita · 18-06-2020, 21:48

Few here of the arches , all the factory rubber coating was mint. No need to remove any of it. Just needed a good old clean up.......

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IMG_0642 by Steve Kershaw, on Flickr[/IMG]

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IMG_0643 by Steve Kershaw, on Flickr[/IMG]

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IMG_0654 by Steve Kershaw, on Flickr[/IMG]

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IMG_0655 by Steve Kershaw, on Flickr[/IMG]

On the last pic you can see that the factory paint has started to come off due to be so bloody thin

This later on became a bug bear .... For the eagle eyed there are some holes in the arch... Actually them holes were in both rear arches, half way down the floor pan and at the front.... Yep, it had a cage. Lets be honest, it had probably had some "fun" in Japan, no problem for me. However it wasn't for me so I removed it. That was not an easy task and I managed to pull my back a few times, not to mention hitting my head far too many times in doing so.

Mita · 18-06-2020, 21:57

Ok last few ones of the factory coating on the arches.. No rust just needed a huge clean. I was really impressed.

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IMG_1504 by Steve Kershaw, on Flickr[/IMG]

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IMG_1509 by Steve Kershaw, on Flickr[/IMG]

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IMG_1516 by Steve Kershaw, on Flickr[/IMG]

Ralliart Rous · 18-06-2020, 22:20

Looking forward to seeing more of this project

Great work so far !

VI_Shooter · 18-06-2020, 22:25

Nice to know the story of your car so far Steve.

It was great to meet you a few years back.

Stuff I bought off you and fitted to my car is still going well.

Tom Dick · 18-06-2020, 22:27

And there was me thinking your car was just a myth, a figment of your imagination

50 miles in 7 years though, fair play for keeping interested in it

Mita · 18-06-2020, 22:28

Thanks mate, looking forward to seeing yours also!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Red Rooster

Looking forward to seeing more of this project

Great work so far !

Thanks Ian, it was great to meet you a few years back. Hopefully will do again once all this is over and we can do some shows!

Glad to hear the bits are serving you well! I wanted them to go to a good home!

Quote:

Originally Posted by VI_Shooter

Nice to know the story of your car so far Steve.

It was great to meet you a few years back.

Stuff I bought off you and fitted to my car is still going well.

Mita · 18-06-2020, 22:29

You’re not the first to say that

Quote:

Originally Posted by Red Rooster

Looking forward to seeing more of this project

Great work so far !

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tom Dick

And there was me thinking your car was just a myth, a figment of your imagination

50 miles in 7 years though, fair play for keeping interested in it

Robbo777 · 18-06-2020, 23:36

I didn’t actually know that your 5 RS has 10k mileage, fair play Mita I’m looking forward to the thread.

Onions · 18-06-2020, 23:57

Can't wait to see the results of this!

18-06-2020, 20:53	#1
Mita Senior User Join Date: Jul 2013 Posts: 10,559	Evo 5Rs Resto-Mod Well its been 7 years of owning an Evo, loved every minute of owning it and loved every minute of the 50 mile drive back from the importers Quick introduction, I've been in to Evo's since 98 when I laid my eyes on a Red 5, I had previously had a 3 door blue Impreza Sti from Japan, I imported it brand new at the time on an S reg, proper proper car. I still love them now, but I always had the hankering for the 5, lack of info and a baby on the way I never got to have one. That want never went away, I knew one day I would get one, lucky for me I sorted some money and started to look. I did as much research as possible, even back then they obviously had their rust issues etc, so I wanted a fresh import. I found myself looking at SVA's site all the time, they had a lot of nice examples in, I was aware of their lets say "colourful" reviews. However one particular car took my interest. I was never that fussed about mileage or even buying an RS, but it had to be a 5. Anyway, a 10,000 mile 5rs came up. Too good to be true, its been clocked, no way, were some of the comments. However, I went to take a look. In all honesty the mileage was a bonus, my feeling was it would be fresh underneath and easy to take to pieces I had a BIMTA mileage check done for piece of mind, it came back pukka. It was probably 3 grand more than the average Evo back then, nowadays its nothing! But it was a fair chunk more than an equivalent 5rs there which had 80k, but I liked it, nice original base car. So the deal was done, picked up the car and drove back to my house. Front end in to the garage and turned off the engine. Little did I know that would be the last time I would drive it My original plan was just to own it, thats it. Sit it in the garage and drive it now and again, the problems started when I decided to have a look properly underneath. Now SVA were great, I had it on the ramps and all was great. They had used black waxy (not **ty underseal) all over the bottom of it on import. Well before I had a look at it. So I decided to wet a rag with some petrol, you know, just to see what's underneath. Curiosity killed the cat, and all that The problem was, the more I uncovered the more I just wanted to get it all off. So below is going to be a thread on what I have done, hindsight is a wonderful thing. There is a huge amount of things I should and shouldn't of done thats for sure. However, I think the most obvious was I should of reversed in the garage Feel free to comment, take the , be a dick head or whatever. Its really not my thing doing a thread, I'm pretty private. However its hopefully good reading plus it may be an inspiration to some to do theirs or even for people to think ** that!! Its a massive amount of work and money what's to follow, and this is no big build. As the title suggests this is a rest mod, I'm not in to polishing or staring at a car, I want this to be better than factory and useable . Each to their own of course, but the last thing I would want is to make a car so clean I wouldn't want to use it, lets be honest 50 miles in 7 years is good to keep it low miles, but a bit of a shame . I'm no master mechanic, and I have done most this work with second hand tools and random purchases. I love doing the work myself, thats how you learn. I didn't even take pics of the car out in the open before I took it apart so apologies but we all know what a 5rs looks like. So first question, I'm uploaded to Flikr. Do I need to resize pics? Last edited by Mita; 18-06-2020 at 21:05..

18-06-2020, 21:05	#2
mlau1294 Senior User Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Alsace Region, France Car: Blue Evo 9 (470/465), White 6RS (350/340) & Black Lancer GSR Ralliart Sportback (300/310) Posts: 2,933	Looking forward to this thread Steve, and finally seeing her, albeit in pieces, but hopefully not for much longer! __________________ Dynotech To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

18-06-2020, 21:24	#4
Mita Senior User Join Date: Jul 2013 Posts: 10,559	Right I think I have it! Ok couple of first pics. Car came with some Cusco coil overs. Hard as hell You can see the black Waxoyl inside the arch. This was all over the whole underside ! [IMG]IMG_0456 by Steve Kershaw, on Flickr[/IMG] Last edited by Mita; 22-07-2020 at 16:21..

18-06-2020, 21:32	#5
Mita Senior User Join Date: Jul 2013 Posts: 10,559	Little bit of Japanese mud for me These are the only 2 pics I took before I took it apart [IMG]IMG_0460 by Steve Kershaw, on Flickr[/IMG] Last edited by Mita; 22-07-2020 at 16:22..

18-06-2020, 21:43	#6
Mita Senior User Join Date: Jul 2013 Posts: 10,559	So below are a few pics of the car with suspension out , arms etc . Also the black stuff is now mostly gone, its a real shame it wasn't that quick and easy in reality! There was no real easy was of doing it to be honest. I started by jacking the car up with a really nice bit of kit from SGS Engineering. Its basically a truck jack, lifts to 650mm or something silly, so alongside that I purchased 4 stands for each corner of the Evo. These gave me approx 500mm under the car so not much and I'm not exactly small! Jacking this up while under the car in the freezing cold was not exactly safe or fun. I had to do a bit at a time front to back, not easy or quick! The pictures of the tyre well make it look rusty, it was in fact the black paint the Japs randomly chuck over anything they don't like when it comes to service time! [IMG]IMG_0531 by Steve Kershaw, on Flickr[/IMG] [IMG]IMG_0532 by Steve Kershaw, on Flickr[/IMG] [IMG]IMG_0534 by Steve Kershaw, on Flickr[/IMG] [IMG]IMG_0570 by Steve Kershaw, on Flickr[/IMG] [IMG]IMG_0571 by Steve Kershaw, on Flickr[/IMG] [IMG]IMG_0615 by Steve Kershaw, on Flickr[/IMG] Last edited by Mita; 22-07-2020 at 16:25..

18-06-2020, 21:48	#7
Mita Senior User Join Date: Jul 2013 Posts: 10,559	Few here of the arches , all the factory rubber coating was mint. No need to remove any of it. Just needed a good old clean up....... [IMG]IMG_0642 by Steve Kershaw, on Flickr[/IMG] [IMG]IMG_0643 by Steve Kershaw, on Flickr[/IMG] [IMG]IMG_0654 by Steve Kershaw, on Flickr[/IMG] [IMG]IMG_0655 by Steve Kershaw, on Flickr[/IMG] On the last pic you can see that the factory paint has started to come off due to be so bloody thin This later on became a bug bear .... For the eagle eyed there are some holes in the arch... Actually them holes were in both rear arches, half way down the floor pan and at the front.... Yep, it had a cage. Lets be honest, it had probably had some "fun" in Japan, no problem for me. However it wasn't for me so I removed it. That was not an easy task and I managed to pull my back a few times, not to mention hitting my head far too many times in doing so. Last edited by Mita; 22-07-2020 at 16:26..

18-06-2020, 21:57	#8
Mita Senior User Join Date: Jul 2013 Posts: 10,559	Ok last few ones of the factory coating on the arches.. No rust just needed a huge clean. I was really impressed. [IMG]IMG_1504 by Steve Kershaw, on Flickr[/IMG] [IMG]IMG_1509 by Steve Kershaw, on Flickr[/IMG] [IMG]IMG_1516 by Steve Kershaw, on Flickr[/IMG] Last edited by Mita; 22-07-2020 at 16:29..

18-06-2020, 22:20	#9
Ralliart Rous Senior User Join Date: May 2011 Location: Whaplode Car: In a million bits ! Posts: 669	Looking forward to seeing more of this project Great work so far !

18-06-2020, 22:25	#10
VI_Shooter Regional Organiser Join Date: May 2014 Location: Portsmouth Car: Stock Silver VI GSR from Nippon! Posts: 6,809	Nice to know the story of your car so far Steve. It was great to meet you a few years back. Stuff I bought off you and fitted to my car is still going well. __________________ To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. "Do not meddle in the affairs of Lancers, for they are rally and quick to 60"

18-06-2020, 22:27	#11
Tom Dick NR555 Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Lincolnshire Car: Evo VII, forged at NR with a 3076 Posts: 7,403	And there was me thinking your car was just a myth, a figment of your imagination 50 miles in 7 years though, fair play for keeping interested in it __________________ If your beliefs bring comfort to your heart, Then who am I to try and tear your world apart? I wish you well in your endeavours and your life, And I'll leave you to yours if you leave me to mine, It's not your place to impose religious law on the rest of us like so many have before, and it's equally not my place to say you're wrong I don't have to read your book and you don't have to like this song

18-06-2020, 23:36	#14
Robbo777 Senior User Join Date: Nov 2012 Posts: 388	I didn’t actually know that your 5 RS has 10k mileage, fair play Mita I’m looking forward to the thread.

18-06-2020, 23:57	#15
Onions Senior User Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Mid Wales Posts: 875	Can't wait to see the results of this!

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