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THE HULK INSIDE... FEATURES // MOTORSPORT // CHAT // TECH // NEWS // LIFE Issue 25 // £4.95 Issue 25 // Contents 06 News 08 News 09 Events Calendar 10 The Hulk 24 EVO & Mod Preview 30 English Lessons 40 Rally Car Exhibition 44 Tsukuba Hyper Meeting 48 English Homework 55 Tech: Intercoolers 58 MOD USA 62 Time Attack Preview 68 SLS Series Preview 72 Evolution Life evolutionmagazine.co.uk PUBLISHER ADVERTISING © Copyright: Evolution Magazine. All rights reserved. No part of evolution magazine Darin Frow this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or [email protected] by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, EDITOR recording or information storage retrieval system without prior Darin Frow GENERAL ENQUIRIES: written permission from the publisher. ART EDITOR 01983 529932 Mike Tubb [email protected] 4 Intro With the winter now firmly a thing of the past, a cracker... 2018 will be even better! albeit only just as the last of the snow has finally Issue 25 isn’t all about shows though – there’s disappeared, our focus is now on all the Ss... another exceptional trio of Evos; from Pani summer, sunshine and shows! Pastou’s latest muscle-bound Hulk, and not one 2018 feels like it’s going to be the biggest show but a pair of English Racing’s finest & fastest. season of all time with a host of events everywhere Anthony Cox has been travelling around the land kicking off with Japfest at Silverstone in April and of the rising sun and brings us two features from winding up a whole 5 months later at Rallyday at Tsukuba, the home of Time Attack, and (wait for it) Castle Combe in September – with the highlight the Toyota Museum! being the best kept secret this year; the 2018 MOD With previews from Time Attack and Super Lap & Evo Festival at Cadwell Park in August!! Scotland, the next in the series of Andy Fox’s Tech It’s no secret now though, so for more info jump features, the cars that starred at MOD USA, and a headlong into this issue for the all important handful of regional articles from our guys around dates, what to look forward to and how you can be the UK, that’s wraps up your Issue 25. involved. The first MOD & Evo Festival in 2017 was Enjoy, drive safe and see you in 2018! Darin Editor PHOTOGRapHERS CONTRIBUTORS Viktor Benyi Dan Atkins Pani Pastou Dan Holman Simon Brown Steve Jackman Simon Brown English Racing Andy Fox Mike Hendy Jarlath Keary Mike Hendy Rob Scott Ian Grainger William Desmond Jonathan Moore Will Desmond Jarlath Keary Dan Atkins Ian Grainger 5 Evolution News evo FestIval The UK’s MOD (Mitsubishi Owners Day) and Evo Festival event is a unique mix of car show, parades, track day, returns to Cadwell Park over 11/12 August 2018. sprint and evening entertainment –for Mitsubishis of all Supported by RossSport and Mitsubishi Motors UK, the ages and types. Full details else where in this issue! New sumo Power websIte & more! Since 2014 Sumo Power has been growing like a phoenix aftermarket performance parts business and needed from the flames and under the new ownership of Ross to bring itself into the 21st century with a website that Walker (Ross Sport) the company has grown from represents the products and experience that it can offer strength to strength. Gathering more and more pace the end user. Alongside the website they have an ever each year, building relationships with customers and growing Ebay store, sales team to answer any questions suppliers old and new across Europe. Sumo Power’s aim and facility in Cambridgeshire for people to visit for any is purely to offer the best brands possible for the best of their performance parts needs. prices backed up by a professional service. Current plans are to have the new website live in Over the past 12 months even more changes have April 2018 but continue to develop and grow daily with been in the pipework with a completely new website the latest products. This will be linked with promotions containing thousands of products. The aim with the through Sumo Power’s mailing list, social media, forums new site is to bring the full stable of offerings to the and other marketing outlets. public eye with an easy to navigate system which Sumo Power will integrate into their marketing plans with www.sumopower.com promotions and offers to all. [email protected] Sumo Power has always been a big player in the +44(0) 1945 479125 6 EVOLUTION LIfE // NEws bILSTEIN CoILOVERS FOR EVO X If you’re looking to refresh the suspension on your Evo X and possibly enhance its stance at the same time by bringing it closer to the tarmac, Bilstein’s B16 coilovers may be the answer! Bilstein are one of the world’s best known suspension manufacturer and all their units are all produced in-house in thir German production facility. The B16 coilovers feature a monotube design finished in Bilstein’s corrosion resistant Triple-C’ surface technology, and come with high quality sport springs, and precision aluminium alloy manufactured spring plates and locknuts. Each kit comes with full TUV approval and a 12 month warranty. RRP is a cool £2716.80 but contact the MLR Traders for MLR member prices! www.bilstein.com FIDaNZa CAM PULLEYs FOR EVO vIII & IX There’s nothing nicer than great looking parts which can also improve performance, so these 6061 T6 aluminium precision CNC machined cam pulleys from Fidanza tick all the boxes for modified Evo VIII & IX owners looking for the greater timing adjustment. Designed to tighter tolerances than the OEM pulleys, with bevelled outer gear teeth which offer longer cam belt life, hard anodised finish in red blue or silver, with laser etched adjustment allowing for 12 degrees advance or retard, and stainless steel fittings throughout. RRP price is just £114 too! www.fidanza.com SpeC-r OEM rePlaCemeNt INterCoolers Spec-R Mitsubishi Evo 7,8,9 OEM Intercooler is rated to 600BHP and is a top quality Garrett 3’’ core of a bar and plate design and requires no modification to your car to fit. It will mount to the original OEM pipework and is a great update for your tired looking and leaking original one! Spec-R intercoolers are well known to be the best in the industry and their quality is second to none. All OEM Intercoolers come complete with all fittings and can be supplied plain for that OEM look or satin black with Spec-R logo (please specify when ordering) As fitted by Mark Shead at M.A Developments. Contact Spec-R direct for full details. www.spec-r.co.uk [email protected] +44 (0)1380 724518 7 News from in Japan Hope you all enjoyed our articles in the last couple of of insects/bugs on the ships which came from the cars. issues of evolution on importing a car from Japan and The insects were hibernating for the winter inside cars the steps involved. We have been busy the last few and posed a great threat to the agricultural industries months since then, with sourcing cars for customers in New Zealand and other countries. This has cost and also preparing to move to our new bigger shipping companies millions of pounds, and so they workshop facility. have really clamped down on anything being left inside We ship cars all over the world for our clients, but cars posing a risk for them. recently most of the shipping companies have banned all With this in mind we see many of our clients want inner cargo in cars, so now we must remove any parts different items on their car than it has when we buy such as wheels, seats etc that may have come with our at auction. Our new workshop facility will give us the auction purchases. There are 2 reasons for this; chance to offer our clients various services to add or Firstly some parts have always had a habit of change parts before we even ship the car, saving a lot of disappearing when cars arrived in certain ports due to money on shipping parts separately. lack of security, and shipping companies were having Whether it be different wheels,suspension setups, to deal with this and sometimes refund customers for seats, or aero parts, we can order all the major their losses, footing a hefty bill. Japanese brand parts as well as all OEM available parts Secondly, early this year four ships were prevented and fit as required. This will give all our customers even from docking in New Zealand because of the presence more choice when buying their car through us. 8 EVOLUTION LIFE // EVENT calendar 2018 mlr NatIoNal eveNt CaleNDar 2018 For full details of all the following events, please visit the relevant sections on the MLR forum. There’s a good chance that MLR Regional Organisers will be arranging meets at a number of these events too, so keep an eye on the Regional Meets section of the forum. MAY • sun 6 may // Japfest // Silverstone* • sun 6 may // Time Attack // Cadwell Park (Round 1) • mon 7 may // Time Attack // Cadwell Park (Round 2) JuNe • sat 2 // JDM Combe // Castle Combe* • sun 10 // Japshow // Santa Pod • sun 17 // All Wheel Drive Show & SLS // Knockhill* (Round 3) • sun 24 // Time Attack // Brands Hatch (Round 3) • sun 30 // Japfest // Donington Park* July • mon 16 // MLR Spa Trackday • tue 17 // MLR Spa Trackday • sun 22 // Japanese Car Show & SLS // Knockhill (Round 5) • sat 28 // Time Attack // Oulton Park (Round 4) • sat 28 // TOTB // Elvington • sun 29 // TOTB // Elvington august • sat 11 // Evo Festival // Cadwell Park • sat 11 // MLR Trackday // Cadwell Park • sun 12 // Evo Festival // Cadwell Park • sun 12 // Mitsubishi v The World Sprint // Cadwell Park • sat 18 // Time Attack // Pembrey (Round 5) • sun 19 // Time Attack // Pembrey (Round 6) sePtember • sat 8 // Forge Action Day // Castle Combe* • sat 15 // Time Attack // Snetterton (Round 7) • sun 16 // Time Attack // Snetterton (Round 8) • sat 22 // Rallyday // Castle Combe* • sun 23 // Japshow Finale // Santa Pod oCtober • sun 14 // Time Attack // Rockingham (Round 9) tickets available at www.evoshop.co.uk.