'41 Willy's has sex with an EVO8
Here's Dan Buschur's latest project, completed. He's been working on it for about a year. Him and his brother-in-law, Randy. Randy is an expert paint and body man, as you will soon see.
Dan bought a wrecked/rolled over EVO8 and him and Randy cut the core support out of it, then proceeded to cut the car over the front shock towers, leaving the firewall, down the firewall, across the tops of the rockers, up and over the rear shock towers and flat across the top of the trunk floor. So what was left was a just the "frame" of the EVO sitting on the full suspension.
They then started the hard work of putting a fiberglass '41 Willy's body on it. The front end was stretched and made wider. The body was bolted and glassed to the factory EVO chassis. The car was then sent out for a roll cage to be installed to tie it all together. I'd say that the finished product is as rigid as the stock EVO chassis was.
You have to see it in person, it's bad ass. It's going to be even more bad ass when this OLD looking car can kick ass in the corners, braking and everywhere else!
Here's the details on the engine:
BR Stage 3 shortblock, 2 liter. Dan built this one himself.
BR Stage 3 head
Old school, rumpity-idle Revolver cams, just right for a street rod!
BR ported stock exhaust manifold
BR SS 02 housing
STOCK EVO9 turbo
BR ported JDM stock intake
BR 65 mm throttle body
BR 3" turbo back (normal EVO8 system) with small Magnaflow in the middle and SD in the rear.
Exedy Twin HD cerametalic clutch
Garrett I/C core, a little small compared to the Race FMIC which is what Dan would have liked to run but it's all that would fit.
Custom built Fluidyne radiator
Bushwacker Stage 1 trans
I tuned the car on just 93 octane, ran it to a peak of 30 psi. The mix of the Revolver cam and the small intercooler kept it from making 400/400 which is what Dan wanted, like his beater EVO. The AIT's climbed in 4th and the Revolvers are great at making torque but not so great on the top end.
Without further babble, the car made 354 whp and 376 ft lbs of torque.
Here's the dyno sheet:
Jarrod snapped some pictures today.
Jarrod put together a short video of the build and the dyno runs.
Enjoy:
DANIEL BUSCHUR'S WILLYS EVO *click*
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Originally Posted by mullen
