Teardown and Inspection of the 5-Engine Evo

As we began the teardown process, it was clear that this engine would present some unique challenges. The small differences between the various engines were apparent, but most of these differences could be resolved by simply swapping components from one engine to another. This simplification allowed us to focus on the bigger picture and tackle the more significant issues.

Upon removing the timing cover, a multitude of small pieces fell out onto the workbench. Among these was a portion of the balance shaft pulley, which had become severely damaged due to its proximity to the timing belt. It was clear that this damage had caused significant stress on the engine, leading to a seized-up balance shaft and lost oil pressure.

The discovery of the damage led us to consider alternative explanations for the problem. Although it was possible that the balance shaft had simply broken, another theory suggested that the rotor piston had also been compromised. The extent of the damage remained unclear, and we decided to proceed with caution as we continued to disassemble the engine.

As we delved deeper into the engine, we came across a significant challenge: the injectors. These were in dire need of cleaning, and it was clear that they would not function properly without a thorough cleansing process. We utilized an injector cleaner to remove any debris or contaminants that may have been accumulated over time.

Justin, our friend and collaborator, kindly offered us his own injector cleaner, which proved to be a convenient solution. It's worth noting that this tool can also provide valuable flow testing data, although we found it to be largely useless in this particular instance.

With the injectors out of the way, we began the laborious process of disassembling and reassembling the engine components. This was not an exciting task, but one that was necessary to bring the car back to life. As we worked on the engine, it became clear that it would require a significant amount of TLC before it could be returned to its former glory.

One aspect of our plan for this Evo remains unchanged: we will be retaining the stock Eagle nine turbo setup. While we may consider upgrading to a Garrett G25 turbo in the future, our primary focus is on keeping the engine simple and reliable. We are excited to see how the engine performs with this setup and can't wait to get it back on the track.

As we near the end of our teardown process, we are eager to begin final assembly and bring the car back to life. With a new location for Justin's shop and a renewed enthusiasm for the project, we're more excited than ever to see this Evo take shape. We'll be working closely with Justin to ensure that every aspect of the build is completed to our high standards.

We've also been experimenting with different boost settings in the engine, pushing it up to 50 psi. Unfortunately, multiple instances have seen lineages melting under the pressure, but we're determined to push through and achieve the desired results. With a new set of tires and a fresh coat of paint, this Evo is sure to be a force to be reckoned with on the track.

As we near completion, we'd like to extend a shout-out to our friend Justin, who has been an invaluable source of support throughout this project. His expertise and willingness to lend a hand have made all the difference in bringing this car back to life. We're grateful for his help and enthusiasm, and we look forward to seeing what the future holds for both of us.

Finally, as I prepare to part ways with this Evo, I must admit that I'm feeling a twinge of sadness. It's been a long journey, but one that has ultimately led to this car being returned to its former glory. As I take it for a spin on the track, I know that there will be plenty more adventures ahead – and I couldn't ask for anything more.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up guys a little bit of a dark note to start the video on but I feel I get something I ought to say if you ever see me cruising on the highway or something you want to get my attention you want to say hi it's totally cool of your wave or whatever but please don't go like racing and flying by swerving through traffic thinking that I think it's cool I wouldn't hate nothing more than to see one of you guys smash into another car like kill yourself or hurt someone else or ruin your car trying to get my attention so I just want to put that out there I don't think that's cool but like a wave and stuff is cool but like flying by and swerving through traffic like you're in a fast and furious movie don't do that don't do that as you can see we are driving the skyline pack deep with things and wheels and stuff I got some grip of your tires and I'm about to this thing to see if I can get a duplicate three at hopefully maybe even second which would be absolutely bonkers so rather than making the wise decision to taking the truck or one of the other vehicles that isn't on ignite read that I don't have that much more left up up here I thought it was a ride on take the skyline you know I have a truck that I can feel the wheels and tires in much easier so we're going out over the Wallingford you're gonna check in more fat on the Evo because I believe we up the new budget today show you guys that yeah okay just so no one mentions this without me mentioning it first if you can see it a little wobble your boy LZ needs a new outer tie rod so I probably replace that tomorrow oh I also found that cool leak on this thing - and it's not free smoke which is tight it's actually from those ITV adapters apparently I needed to wet send them before sealing them all off didn't know that so we got to take that ball back apart but that's gonna be like a big little job just cuz it's like Tetris and then it makes everything so tight so to be continued but it doesn't really consume much water it maybe drips out a sixteenth of a water bottle every time I Drive the car so I really acknowledge it of waiting on videos much but Tommy shop where I'm all the time that's like a 30-minute drive from where I stay at my dad's Jimmy's shop that's almost an hour drive from where I am in Connecticut but I never really think of it being a long drive I never really complain about it Florida for whatever reason driving any more than like for 15 minutes I'm miserable here it's just like cruising I think it uses the changes of scenery and the nostalgia I don't know I don't know I just don't mind it it's weird it's like I'm happy thing my timing was literally perfect I see a truck at more fab right now oh boy you got an engine in there yes that's good timing so I know this might be the first time in our 32s ever met the Evo it's kind of funny so we pull up to more fav in today's video is full of lots of exciting stuff to start off I come in here and Justins already playing around with the new LSD I got so this is a cause LSD that I ordered off right-hand-drive Japan they had like some sale during Black Friday and I knew I wanted a front LSD for the car but tell me what you were just telling me about this thing that I didn't even know also eliminates the viscous coupler to the rear so now you're gonna have a perfect 50/50 split between the front of the rear so no more slippage Oh in the rear yeah no you have no right yeah okay so I didn't realize I thought the car was 50/50 the whole time I didn't realize all viscous coupler thing do you have it there so what does that basically do just kind of a lot of slippage to the rear we're now obviously just gonna be locked this right here is the factory did okay which is the torque vectoring there we go the torque vectoring did for the later fives in the 6th 7th and 8th mm-hmm so a little bit better than the open diff but still Oh a.m. and then this guy right here if you see the splines inside yep this is actually a viscous coupler so this drives the rear wheels this coupler inside here will slip depending on how much wheel speed you have in the front so we are eliminated so the more variously so the cars going a little bit more over steering now a little more oversteer yet occasionally when you're on the throttle it'll probably hook better right yeah but I got to be careful lawn champ you got to be careful launching it and you get it kind of figure out how you're gonna use power through the corners it's gonna be a lot different now got it well that's exciting yeah I'm probably just not gonna show you guys that did until end of the video because there's so much other cool stuff to show you how much guy there's like one more thing so another thing I am pull spot on right hand drive Japan on Black Friday which I haven't really seen a purpose to put in because it was kind of a pain but since the engines out a great time for some new engine mounts so I got some Cuzco engine mounts oh pretty right a little set up another thing since I do plan on tracking this car is I beat that crap out of it on back roads that I thought would be important upgrade would be a nice new radiator so I was really happy with the Koyo that we put in the giveaway car that r33 the quality was really really nice on it and it stayed very cool so I'm gonna open this one up and check it out compared to the stock one that I had before cool thing about Koyo 2 is they make direct fit radiators for a lot of the like rare not rare but a lot of gdm stuff that I have so I have a direct fit G zx100 radiator as well chill another warehouse that haven't had time to put in yet but that's pretty rad where all the OEM stuff just bolts right up oh there's my coffee soft and it's pathetic always gotta check the lift whenever I lose anything it's always on the lift that's funny so in addition to the fact that we're ditching a 20 plus year old radiator some of the biggest advantages you'll get out of upgrading the radiator instead of having these plastic end tanks that can crack and break and then leave you with a very bad time all aluminum so you don't really have to worry about that and it'll cool a lot better and it looks sick so there we go I don't know what it is about Connecticut it's always a struggle someone amount tires RJ hooked it up over at the Chevy Cadillac dealership but there's literally no places around here that'll mount tires and if they do they charge bajillion dollars it's the weirdest thing not gonna lie I'm enjoying ripping this thing stop by the new Jimmy O headquarters I've come to rob an engine stand from you you got one this place is huge RJ said if we need one we could throw his engine on the ground and he'd be okay with it whatever side you want guy doesn't matter Jimmy's been complaining about who just can't get enough meat and I said guy you need wheels that are high offset so Jimmy Jimmy wanted to do drop knuckles because he was too lazy figured a wheel that was high offset way less work this way Mary Kate told me drop my old friend I mean you should do both look at this what is this a 205 is it 195 gosh my hairdresser is wider tires in these and she drives a Miata her name is r.j. cool fit with your quarters because you haven't rolled a decent amount but I was only ever able to fit 235 on my ass 13 but I probably a more positive camber than you let's compare the meat you're preparing me meat the meat right now I mean it's not that huge of a difference but you can feel it so what you feel the most with the bigger tires is your sidewall starts getting less thin so you can like get a little bit more little bite you know like you want your meat to have that bite guy all right let's see too much girth or no I think I think it'd be good so my ex-wife used to mount tires yeah all right so the consensus is it fits but Jimmy is beetle calipers yeah if I mean yeah I don't know that's that's a little weird but at least you know you can fit the meet you just know you gonna buy rims that fit I mean you can really put a 5 mil on there and be ok alright so the special delivery is in this box right here alright I don't even know what to say yeah that was probably just open it off alright we'll do that this is probably the closest I'll ever be to pushing my baby in the stroller for a very long time is that a bad joke is it funny you didn't laugh I think he's just saying that so I'm not too sure if the title gave this away or not but as a lot of you guys expected would happen we wound up doing a fully forged bottom and basically a fully built 4g63 for the Evo so I kind of have an explanation for you guys how this kind of came about I already explained to you how we kind of had the mishap with evo 5 engine it was trying to bring in from Australia and I was kind of left at a dead-end where I didn't know what I wanted to do Tommy wanted so much money for his stock to the wave engine but at that point I was like well I might as well build it but the problem is you know I've kind of made a lot of friends in the Nissan world and all the engine builders and people that I know down in Florida but with the 4g63 world I didn't know that many people so I reached out to a friend of mine Matt used to work at psi back when I did my 335 there and he now works at a place called ma performance that specializes in Evo's Subarus and a bunch of other cars but the main thing is I knew that they had a built short block that was in stock so Matt connected me to the guys over ma performance and we wound up being able to pull some strings and get a very quick turnaround on a fully built 4g63 bottom end and head so if you can't tell everything here looks brand new it's because this is a brand new OEM Mitsubishi block this is a brand new OEM head and the guys over there were kind enough to actually film some clips while they were assembling everything for me I mean you guys don't really understand the timeline and everything because you know you kind of heard some stuff haven't heard some stuff but this all came about in like a week so they have this short block on the shelf which is really cool too nine to one compression short block towards bottom end and they were able to get it assembled with a built head in about a week which is pretty incredible so I am very very thankful especially being able to trust someone that has a lot of experience with Evo engines but anyway I thought I would make a little montage with some of the clips they sent me of assembling it and there I would just list the specs for you rather than me just sounding like I'm reading some sort of spec sheet while I just talked to you guys I thought it'd be more interesting I'm super super thankful that managers neither got that mid-performance because they have been extremely helpful kind of like in juvey racing is to me with the drift stuff in the beginning when I really didn't know much about it they took all the time to explain everything to me to help make sure that order the right stuff and me perform it's the same thing and as you guys will see as we start to unbox everything they help me make sure that we have everything that we need to get this engine in my evo 5 so little details like modifying some of the lines on the back of ahead to make sure will match up till all the Evo 5 stuff helping me research to figure out if there is any other weird changes or differences and helping me make sure that I have all the gaskets and all the little accessories and stuff that we need to make basically the most rad 4G that we can so this setup will handle over 600 wheel but you guys remember this car is supposed to stay pretty simple I just wanted to be responsive and good for back roads and track I'm sure down the road we'll end up upgrading the turbo and make maybe closer to 500 wheel but I don't think that this car will ever get over that but the cool thing is the guys at MMA performance were really really excited to work with me on this engine and hopefully in the future on the engine for the yellow Evo because I do believe now that car is going to be built in the US I'm just kind of working out some of the details and stuff because it is kind of tricky to get cars from other countries in here you guys know that deal I'm not gonna get into that I'm definitely excited though they've been super super helpful like I said they're actually ridden in Minnesota so they're not too far obviously I'll put links and stuff down in the description I think they're also going to put something on their site with more specs on the long block that I have from them but I'm very very excited to get this thing in Justin what do you think about this yeah yeah especially they like have it so quick that's the thing that gets me because there are so many variables and the biggest thing and I was nervous about is bringing my stuff to a machine shop that I don't really know not that I don't trust them but like you know that I had so many variables so the Nissan stuff that we do is a lot I think a little more finicky especially the RB stuff with all the random little things you have to do to make it run well where the 4 G's I feel like as a country we have a little bit better knowledge on but to have a long block assembled by people that know exactly what they're doing to where we just need to basically both accessories on and stuff which you've done plenty yeah I'm sure you've probably built 4 G's haven't you yeah so we're in the right place guys so the Evo is getting a new heart and I'm very sited I know I like put the specs and everything on the sheet but I will say the head is actually very very similar to what I had in my evil already the same GSC 274 cams same Springs and retainers same zero tick lifters so the head it's pretty similar head gasket studs but now we got a built bottom mat which is rad and I believe we have the stuff to delete the balance shaft I think that's in that box so with these engines Justin was explaining to me and Albert has explained this to me too there's a balance shaft large counterweighted shaft that sits in this hole right here in this bore yeah you know small belt or whatever and it it tries to dampen the harmonics that are generated by the engine running but a lot of times they'll wear out the journals were wear out around them which will cause your oil pressure to drop pretty significantly and over time that can cause all sorts of other issues especially very easy way to ruin a very expensive very rad engine so we're gonna delete that and it might be a little bit more vibrating maybe a little bit more similar to an SR or something but that's kind of like one of the must dues as what I understand the four G's yeah once you get rid of it then you don't have to worry about failing it so this would be considered if you want to go by stages there stage to block and there stage one head so if you're curious that's what it is now we're having fun open and all the other goodies Christmas in July I know so what Justin's opening right now and the performance makes oil cooler kit specifically for Evo 8/9 but will work with my Evo very very important since I did suck up a bunch of metal into my oil to replace or clean the oil cooler so this thing looks sick because it comes with all that the a n fittings and it comes with all the adapters to adapt the factory oil filter housing into an AM set up six we don't have to do an aftermarket housing or you know Brad so as you can see we got a new water pump got a new oil pan got all the gaskets and everything that we can need is a fresh new front cover so they pretty much assembled as much as they could without it I guess we'll just have to throw everything else on and time it right true there could be some like other little random differences with the brackets and stuff on the five engine so it just kind of simplifies things to just swap stuff over but all the important stuff we've got new so that's rad so we found something interesting we see all this crap in here all right what do we have here so we pulled the timing cover and all these little pieces down on the bottom here just fell out you're gonna kill me this battery's dead - is it really will redo it again alright take three full battery this time take three full battery so we yanked the timing cover off and found all of these wonderful pieces came out of it now this is a portion of the balance shaft pulley that is the balance shaft bolt and it as you can see dug into the the actual timing belt it destroyed I can't oh no I can't spin the balance check so was gonna say I know that that's a pretty common thing to go bad maybe that that was the issue that ya balance shaft cause everything I can spin it huh she's spinning wait as if that seized up and it lost oil pressure yeah I mean that could have done it but then again it would have shot a bearing on the asset true weird so I think it broke a Rotter piston yeah we'll see as you guys see us doing all the time always a good idea especially with 85 to clean injectors or any sort of fuel stuff when it is sitting so just while it's on our mind Justin just took the injectors out yep ins have his own cleaner so that's convenient so does yours actually give you like good flow testing data I yeah calculate all by the flow rate okay yeah mine sucks mind just like leaks and back it cleans them but the data is useless so anyway now is the fun process of pulling stuff off this to put it on the other one it's not the most exciting stuff going on so today's mostly teardown tomorrow you said you're gonna clean up pretty much all the parts to starve you someone so I figure before I close this video out I haven't really gone over any of the specifics as to what I'm gonna do with that editing because it's a pretty crazy setup we could easily push over 600 wheel in it safely but like I said I want to keep this car stock simple and reliable so I'm gonna keep the stock Eagle nine turbo on it however in the future I might go to a slightly bigger turbo like a garrett g25 just to basically try to make the same another same power but like the same spool that I have of the Evo 9 turbo just a little bit newer turbo technology like the Garrett G series where I can flow it all the way out to redline so it won't really fall flat on its face and I can make some good torque maybe like 450 to 500 wheel after that you start breaking stuff left and right and then I can have maybe a couple different boost settings if that's too much for like backroads and stuff but I'm very excited for the next iteration of this Evo it should sound a little bit different email it's got the same turbo I'm doing ma performances tubular stock location manifold as well as that crazy Thai exhaust that Justin welded up so anyway the engines in great hands here are more fab and when we go in check in with him probably in a couple days should be final assembly time and then maybe thrown him in a car and then hopefully we'll have it running early next week so that's the goal there's no real crazy crunch of time to get it done by but he's trying to move shops to new location so he's trying to do as quick as he can and I'm trying to drive this Evo again so I want to get on the track with it got some fun but hope you guys are as excited to that I hope you guys are as excited as I am massive shout out to I make performance rot me out again like that that's crazy the biggest help that anyone can ever do to me to help me get stuff done a quick timeline because I do not have patience so waiting like three months for some random place to build an ending for me that I can't trust way way less cool than having a sick already built engine just show up at the door a week later so that's rad I've been over boosting the thing to like 50 psi which I just found out multiple times because they keep melting lines I'm just like I project but that but it's good it takes it this thing is rad I love it it's fun and fast in the new tires grip wall so anyway you guys enjoy it make sure you check out Justin's channel more fab he's been making little random videos throughout the process so definitely a rad dude rad shop Brad place and I think I'm gonna go kart by myself because I'm sad lonely okay byewhat's up guys a little bit of a dark note to start the video on but I feel I get something I ought to say if you ever see me cruising on the highway or something you want to get my attention you want to say hi it's totally cool of your wave or whatever but please don't go like racing and flying by swerving through traffic thinking that I think it's cool I wouldn't hate nothing more than to see one of you guys smash into another car like kill yourself or hurt someone else or ruin your car trying to get my attention so I just want to put that out there I don't think that's cool but like a wave and stuff is cool but like flying by and swerving through traffic like you're in a fast and furious movie don't do that don't do that as you can see we are driving the skyline pack deep with things and wheels and stuff I got some grip of your tires and I'm about to this thing to see if I can get a duplicate three at hopefully maybe even second which would be absolutely bonkers so rather than making the wise decision to taking the truck or one of the other vehicles that isn't on ignite read that I don't have that much more left up up here I thought it was a ride on take the skyline you know I have a truck that I can feel the wheels and tires in much easier so we're going out over the Wallingford you're gonna check in more fat on the Evo because I believe we up the new budget today show you guys that yeah okay just so no one mentions this without me mentioning it first if you can see it a little wobble your boy LZ needs a new outer tie rod so I probably replace that tomorrow oh I also found that cool leak on this thing - and it's not free smoke which is tight it's actually from those ITV adapters apparently I needed to wet send them before sealing them all off didn't know that so we got to take that ball back apart but that's gonna be like a big little job just cuz it's like Tetris and then it makes everything so tight so to be continued but it doesn't really consume much water it maybe drips out a sixteenth of a water bottle every time I Drive the car so I really acknowledge it of waiting on videos much but Tommy shop where I'm all the time that's like a 30-minute drive from where I stay at my dad's Jimmy's shop that's almost an hour drive from where I am in Connecticut but I never really think of it being a long drive I never really complain about it Florida for whatever reason driving any more than like for 15 minutes I'm miserable here it's just like cruising I think it uses the changes of scenery and the nostalgia I don't know I don't know I just don't mind it it's weird it's like I'm happy thing my timing was literally perfect I see a truck at more fab right now oh boy you got an engine in there yes that's good timing so I know this might be the first time in our 32s ever met the Evo it's kind of funny so we pull up to more fav in today's video is full of lots of exciting stuff to start off I come in here and Justins already playing around with the new LSD I got so this is a cause LSD that I ordered off right-hand-drive Japan they had like some sale during Black Friday and I knew I wanted a front LSD for the car but tell me what you were just telling me about this thing that I didn't even know also eliminates the viscous coupler to the rear so now you're gonna have a perfect 50/50 split between the front of the rear so no more slippage Oh in the rear yeah no you have no right yeah okay so I didn't realize I thought the car was 50/50 the whole time I didn't realize all viscous coupler thing do you have it there so what does that basically do just kind of a lot of slippage to the rear we're now obviously just gonna be locked this right here is the factory did okay which is the torque vectoring there we go the torque vectoring did for the later fives in the 6th 7th and 8th mm-hmm so a little bit better than the open diff but still Oh a.m. and then this guy right here if you see the splines inside yep this is actually a viscous coupler so this drives the rear wheels this coupler inside here will slip depending on how much wheel speed you have in the front so we are eliminated so the more variously so the cars going a little bit more over steering now a little more oversteer yet occasionally when you're on the throttle it'll probably hook better right yeah but I got to be careful lawn champ you got to be careful launching it and you get it kind of figure out how you're gonna use power through the corners it's gonna be a lot different now got it well that's exciting yeah I'm probably just not gonna show you guys that did until end of the video because there's so much other cool stuff to show you how much guy there's like one more thing so another thing I am pull spot on right hand drive Japan on Black Friday which I haven't really seen a purpose to put in because it was kind of a pain but since the engines out a great time for some new engine mounts so I got some Cuzco engine mounts oh pretty right a little set up another thing since I do plan on tracking this car is I beat that crap out of it on back roads that I thought would be important upgrade would be a nice new radiator so I was really happy with the Koyo that we put in the giveaway car that r33 the quality was really really nice on it and it stayed very cool so I'm gonna open this one up and check it out compared to the stock one that I had before cool thing about Koyo 2 is they make direct fit radiators for a lot of the like rare not rare but a lot of gdm stuff that I have so I have a direct fit G zx100 radiator as well chill another warehouse that haven't had time to put in yet but that's pretty rad where all the OEM stuff just bolts right up oh there's my coffee soft and it's pathetic always gotta check the lift whenever I lose anything it's always on the lift that's funny so in addition to the fact that we're ditching a 20 plus year old radiator some of the biggest advantages you'll get out of upgrading the radiator instead of having these plastic end tanks that can crack and break and then leave you with a very bad time all aluminum so you don't really have to worry about that and it'll cool a lot better and it looks sick so there we go I don't know what it is about Connecticut it's always a struggle someone amount tires RJ hooked it up over at the Chevy Cadillac dealership but there's literally no places around here that'll mount tires and if they do they charge bajillion dollars it's the weirdest thing not gonna lie I'm enjoying ripping this thing stop by the new Jimmy O headquarters I've come to rob an engine stand from you you got one this place is huge RJ said if we need one we could throw his engine on the ground and he'd be okay with it whatever side you want guy doesn't matter Jimmy's been complaining about who just can't get enough meat and I said guy you need wheels that are high offset so Jimmy Jimmy wanted to do drop knuckles because he was too lazy figured a wheel that was high offset way less work this way Mary Kate told me drop my old friend I mean you should do both look at this what is this a 205 is it 195 gosh my hairdresser is wider tires in these and she drives a Miata her name is r.j. cool fit with your quarters because you haven't rolled a decent amount but I was only ever able to fit 235 on my ass 13 but I probably a more positive camber than you let's compare the meat you're preparing me meat the meat right now I mean it's not that huge of a difference but you can feel it so what you feel the most with the bigger tires is your sidewall starts getting less thin so you can like get a little bit more little bite you know like you want your meat to have that bite guy all right let's see too much girth or no I think I think it'd be good so my ex-wife used to mount tires yeah all right so the consensus is it fits but Jimmy is beetle calipers yeah if I mean yeah I don't know that's that's a little weird but at least you know you can fit the meet you just know you gonna buy rims that fit I mean you can really put a 5 mil on there and be ok alright so the special delivery is in this box right here alright I don't even know what to say yeah that was probably just open it off alright we'll do that this is probably the closest I'll ever be to pushing my baby in the stroller for a very long time is that a bad joke is it funny you didn't laugh I think he's just saying that so I'm not too sure if the title gave this away or not but as a lot of you guys expected would happen we wound up doing a fully forged bottom and basically a fully built 4g63 for the Evo so I kind of have an explanation for you guys how this kind of came about I already explained to you how we kind of had the mishap with evo 5 engine it was trying to bring in from Australia and I was kind of left at a dead-end where I didn't know what I wanted to do Tommy wanted so much money for his stock to the wave engine but at that point I was like well I might as well build it but the problem is you know I've kind of made a lot of friends in the Nissan world and all the engine builders and people that I know down in Florida but with the 4g63 world I didn't know that many people so I reached out to a friend of mine Matt used to work at psi back when I did my 335 there and he now works at a place called ma performance that specializes in Evo's Subarus and a bunch of other cars but the main thing is I knew that they had a built short block that was in stock so Matt connected me to the guys over ma performance and we wound up being able to pull some strings and get a very quick turnaround on a fully built 4g63 bottom end and head so if you can't tell everything here looks brand new it's because this is a brand new OEM Mitsubishi block this is a brand new OEM head and the guys over there were kind enough to actually film some clips while they were assembling everything for me I mean you guys don't really understand the timeline and everything because you know you kind of heard some stuff haven't heard some stuff but this all came about in like a week so they have this short block on the shelf which is really cool too nine to one compression short block towards bottom end and they were able to get it assembled with a built head in about a week which is pretty incredible so I am very very thankful especially being able to trust someone that has a lot of experience with Evo engines but anyway I thought I would make a little montage with some of the clips they sent me of assembling it and there I would just list the specs for you rather than me just sounding like I'm reading some sort of spec sheet while I just talked to you guys I thought it'd be more interesting I'm super super thankful that managers neither got that mid-performance because they have been extremely helpful kind of like in juvey racing is to me with the drift stuff in the beginning when I really didn't know much about it they took all the time to explain everything to me to help make sure that order the right stuff and me perform it's the same thing and as you guys will see as we start to unbox everything they help me make sure that we have everything that we need to get this engine in my evo 5 so little details like modifying some of the lines on the back of ahead to make sure will match up till all the Evo 5 stuff helping me research to figure out if there is any other weird changes or differences and helping me make sure that I have all the gaskets and all the little accessories and stuff that we need to make basically the most rad 4G that we can so this setup will handle over 600 wheel but you guys remember this car is supposed to stay pretty simple I just wanted to be responsive and good for back roads and track I'm sure down the road we'll end up upgrading the turbo and make maybe closer to 500 wheel but I don't think that this car will ever get over that but the cool thing is the guys at MMA performance were really really excited to work with me on this engine and hopefully in the future on the engine for the yellow Evo because I do believe now that car is going to be built in the US I'm just kind of working out some of the details and stuff because it is kind of tricky to get cars from other countries in here you guys know that deal I'm not gonna get into that I'm definitely excited though they've been super super helpful like I said they're actually ridden in Minnesota so they're not too far obviously I'll put links and stuff down in the description I think they're also going to put something on their site with more specs on the long block that I have from them but I'm very very excited to get this thing in Justin what do you think about this yeah yeah especially they like have it so quick that's the thing that gets me because there are so many variables and the biggest thing and I was nervous about is bringing my stuff to a machine shop that I don't really know not that I don't trust them but like you know that I had so many variables so the Nissan stuff that we do is a lot I think a little more finicky especially the RB stuff with all the random little things you have to do to make it run well where the 4 G's I feel like as a country we have a little bit better knowledge on but to have a long block assembled by people that know exactly what they're doing to where we just need to basically both accessories on and stuff which you've done plenty yeah I'm sure you've probably built 4 G's haven't you yeah so we're in the right place guys so the Evo is getting a new heart and I'm very sited I know I like put the specs and everything on the sheet but I will say the head is actually very very similar to what I had in my evil already the same GSC 274 cams same Springs and retainers same zero tick lifters so the head it's pretty similar head gasket studs but now we got a built bottom mat which is rad and I believe we have the stuff to delete the balance shaft I think that's in that box so with these engines Justin was explaining to me and Albert has explained this to me too there's a balance shaft large counterweighted shaft that sits in this hole right here in this bore yeah you know small belt or whatever and it it tries to dampen the harmonics that are generated by the engine running but a lot of times they'll wear out the journals were wear out around them which will cause your oil pressure to drop pretty significantly and over time that can cause all sorts of other issues especially very easy way to ruin a very expensive very rad engine so we're gonna delete that and it might be a little bit more vibrating maybe a little bit more similar to an SR or something but that's kind of like one of the must dues as what I understand the four G's yeah once you get rid of it then you don't have to worry about failing it so this would be considered if you want to go by stages there stage to block and there stage one head so if you're curious that's what it is now we're having fun open and all the other goodies Christmas in July I know so what Justin's opening right now and the performance makes oil cooler kit specifically for Evo 8/9 but will work with my Evo very very important since I did suck up a bunch of metal into my oil to replace or clean the oil cooler so this thing looks sick because it comes with all that the a n fittings and it comes with all the adapters to adapt the factory oil filter housing into an AM set up six we don't have to do an aftermarket housing or you know Brad so as you can see we got a new water pump got a new oil pan got all the gaskets and everything that we can need is a fresh new front cover so they pretty much assembled as much as they could without it I guess we'll just have to throw everything else on and time it right true there could be some like other little random differences with the brackets and stuff on the five engine so it just kind of simplifies things to just swap stuff over but all the important stuff we've got new so that's rad so we found something interesting we see all this crap in here all right what do we have here so we pulled the timing cover and all these little pieces down on the bottom here just fell out you're gonna kill me this battery's dead - is it really will redo it again alright take three full battery this time take three full battery so we yanked the timing cover off and found all of these wonderful pieces came out of it now this is a portion of the balance shaft pulley that is the balance shaft bolt and it as you can see dug into the the actual timing belt it destroyed I can't oh no I can't spin the balance check so was gonna say I know that that's a pretty common thing to go bad maybe that that was the issue that ya balance shaft cause everything I can spin it huh she's spinning wait as if that seized up and it lost oil pressure yeah I mean that could have done it but then again it would have shot a bearing on the asset true weird so I think it broke a Rotter piston yeah we'll see as you guys see us doing all the time always a good idea especially with 85 to clean injectors or any sort of fuel stuff when it is sitting so just while it's on our mind Justin just took the injectors out yep ins have his own cleaner so that's convenient so does yours actually give you like good flow testing data I yeah calculate all by the flow rate okay yeah mine sucks mind just like leaks and back it cleans them but the data is useless so anyway now is the fun process of pulling stuff off this to put it on the other one it's not the most exciting stuff going on so today's mostly teardown tomorrow you said you're gonna clean up pretty much all the parts to starve you someone so I figure before I close this video out I haven't really gone over any of the specifics as to what I'm gonna do with that editing because it's a pretty crazy setup we could easily push over 600 wheel in it safely but like I said I want to keep this car stock simple and reliable so I'm gonna keep the stock Eagle nine turbo on it however in the future I might go to a slightly bigger turbo like a garrett g25 just to basically try to make the same another same power but like the same spool that I have of the Evo 9 turbo just a little bit newer turbo technology like the Garrett G series where I can flow it all the way out to redline so it won't really fall flat on its face and I can make some good torque maybe like 450 to 500 wheel after that you start breaking stuff left and right and then I can have maybe a couple different boost settings if that's too much for like backroads and stuff but I'm very excited for the next iteration of this Evo it should sound a little bit different email it's got the same turbo I'm doing ma performances tubular stock location manifold as well as that crazy Thai exhaust that Justin welded up so anyway the engines in great hands here are more fab and when we go in check in with him probably in a couple days should be final assembly time and then maybe thrown him in a car and then hopefully we'll have it running early next week so that's the goal there's no real crazy crunch of time to get it done by but he's trying to move shops to new location so he's trying to do as quick as he can and I'm trying to drive this Evo again so I want to get on the track with it got some fun but hope you guys are as excited to that I hope you guys are as excited as I am massive shout out to I make performance rot me out again like that that's crazy the biggest help that anyone can ever do to me to help me get stuff done a quick timeline because I do not have patience so waiting like three months for some random place to build an ending for me that I can't trust way way less cool than having a sick already built engine just show up at the door a week later so that's rad I've been over boosting the thing to like 50 psi which I just found out multiple times because they keep melting lines I'm just like I project but that but it's good it takes it this thing is rad I love it it's fun and fast in the new tires grip wall so anyway you guys enjoy it make sure you check out Justin's channel more fab he's been making little random videos throughout the process so definitely a rad dude rad shop Brad place and I think I'm gonna go kart by myself because I'm sad lonely okay bye\n"