
Well Evos are really not that suitable to be sleeper cars as you can hear them a mile away and that's worsened by the hordes of over stylized Evolutions and worse, 'riced up' base Lancers.
However, when I spotted this dusty, black, relatively stock exterior (no big gt wing, wild body kits) discreet example of an Evolution 8, something tells me that there is more than meets the eye.


Opening up the bonnet, things get interesting. Let's see, Custom ram air (4 inch diameter at the front tapering to 2.5 at the compressor opening for better response) intake system? Check. 4G63 chock full of Tomei internals? Check. Triple row aluminum radiator? Check. All hoses replaced with silicon and braided steel items. Check. What you can't see is a TD06 with a custom turbine housing, again for improved response.
All these translate to a dyno chart that looks like a large displacement NA race motor. HUGE power area under the curve, 440 bhp at 6000+ rpm (The owner, Iskandar showed me his chart but I forgot to take a photo).
Iskandar told me that he had a HKS GT3037 before and while he push over 500 bhp using the HKS, the car was laggy as hell. He track the car at Sepang regularly, posting timings in the very respectable 2'30"-ish range.



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