Or i say if you really want to spend the money on a car and not the house, put it as a down payment on that evo youve always wanted

 

yea... the only thing about projector is that in my living room i have 2 windows, connected to my living room is my dining room where i have a full sized sliding glass door and even though i obviously have blinds, on a birght day i would never be able to see the projector.

 

well honestly i've ALWAYS wanted a GSX...... i wouldn't mind having an EVO IX but the car payment even if i put down the 15k i was plannin on would be like 300-400 a month plus insurance. with a mortgage and only being 20. . . i'd be eating ramen nootles to be able to afford gas and living lol i would be more satisifed with a 500-600whp GSX than evo.

 

i guess to each his own i guess. For the lighting thing, it really isnt as bad as you would think even with light. But the person mike was talking about hasone window, on porch large door entrance,and a kitchen entrance with a bump out window that brings in light also, and he just used drapes to cover the window and the door, and it looks really nice and blocks any lighting that would mess up the picture.

 

I put ZERO down on $22k for my Evo and I am paying $360 a month. you could get a used EVO these days for under $20k It is a better investment than dumping into a DSM at least the EVOs are still holding some high prices even 4 years later and high milage. Not to mention the reliablity and being able to make the 500HP mark without needing the bottom end touched

 

well if i were to get an evo it would be a IX MR... love the look and have to have the features lol if i'm payin this much for a car, i'm goin all out. i just duno... i can't find an IX MR for under 28k. . .if i were to get it, what i'd do is take 5k from my car sell and put it into it's own account, prolly take about 100 out of every check and put it into that account, and either in september (birthday) or december (xmas) i'd throw that money down on it. sept = apx 7400, dec = apx 9000 then prolly draw it out for 5-6 yrs, so lookin at about 300-325/month for the evo + insurance + mortgage + electricity/gas + water + cable + food + spending money etc etc... easly about 900 a month in bills. or i could have a paid off eclipse pushin close to 400 by then. so i just duno, i like the idea of an evo b/c 1 they are just sick nasty from the factory, built a lot better (but kind of not a factor b/c i'll be building the engine in which ever car i get anyways), 4dr so could have it long term.... geh, this sucks! had to go and throw the EVO back in the mix didn't you EMONZ, i hate you. why can't i make like 10k more a year? then i wouldn't even care!

 

Ok so then tell me what do you know about the IX MR or even the IX in general? You do understand the bilstein suspension is not for performence? and how bout the fact they make a non MR 6 spd I belive or vis versa. You can get a IX SE which is for lack of a better explaination a EVO 9.5 it is basically a base IX with MR options.

The MR is a waiste of $$$ IMO. think about it. New MR go from 35-42k and the regular goes from 28-34k just think about it. the regular model is just as fast for less money look exactly the same and in 2006 even shared more of the MR colors. The suspension is better for road racing. and after that you got around $1k-$6K or so you can spent elsewhere rather than NEEDING an MR. not to mention the MR 6 spd requires you to shift ALOT the gearing is very very short.


How cheap is you morgage to say all that stuff adds to like $900 a month. listen to this not sure what you make but I make $17.25 and get OT when I want it. ok My Evo payment is $360 my insurence is $150 my Rent is $600 my cable bill is $10 lol my phone bill is $100 all that on top of not driving the car that I pay $510 a month for lol and I still afford to pay it all early and mod the car as I want to.

so I pay a total of about $1220 a month for all my bill and I dont regret the Evo one minute even when money was tight it was worth every penny. I personally would never buy a 2G nor a DSM for that matter and if you figure in the money you would dump into a GSX it would still cost you ALOT in the end where teh Evo I garentee you will think is a FAST MONSTER even stock and you can mod slowly with huge gains out of basic stuff. youll be looking at 11s with bolt on and a tune easy. the GSX wont do that reliably with out Mucho dollars lol

My opinion though. I still say do the house the right way then figure out a car

 

Emonz, after reading what you had to say about EVO's, I went and looked at your photo gallery.
Man, i'm sold.
I think my truck might be on the chopping block.
What kinda mpg that sucker get?

 

all very valid points and you think the same way i do... my mortgage is 1100/month but i have 1 room mate and possiblya second moving in soon (i get bored w/ just one person here who NEVER gets off his computer lol) that's why it'd be so cheap. total i'm lookin at about
rent - 400 (i pay more than my minimum to pay off the principal faster)
cable - 28
electricity - 40
water - 15
insurance - apx 150
phone bill - 41
gas - 80
car payment - 350
= 1104 - throwing an extra 200 for whatever expenses puts me up to 1300/ month for bills/fun. that still leaves me about 700/ month for saving... i guess i could afford it! sell the eclipse for apx 8k, taxes 2100, puts me at 10k, put 4k into the house, leaves me w/ 6k. let that grow intrest and also put about 100-150 per week into that fund by september... 4800+my 6k... throwing 10,800 down on an EVO IX (by then hopefully price will be cheaper) btw, reason i wanted the mr is pretty dumb to be honest, only reason is the traction options... wet, asphault, gravel. i think that's the only difference. so lets say 10800 off of the 28k... lookin at an 18k evo. . . hmmm lol lookin good payments apx 300-350/month car payment. i could manage that! damn it, this sucks!!! lol

 

RCjr all Evos from 2005 to now had the ACD Tarmac,graval,snow standard.

And Joshewuhh The pics in my gallery are SOOOOOOOOO old to lol. the car has changed ALOT from those pics

here are Some kind of more recent pics

2003 Lancer Evolution VIII
~41k miles




































ONLY ONE PIC has the TEIN spring the rest are stock ride height. there a few older ones in the mix. you can see some engine bay shots with the stock IC pipes still and some without the UK trunk badge