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nick120580 -> RE: evo8 vs. wrx (9/18/2005 3:57:34 PM)
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If you know the result then why did you ask?
I wasnt there and its probably the driver. But if you have read any car magazine, or watched any videos of evo vs sti. They are just about dead even.
this is from sport compact (both cars fully stock): http://www.sportcompactcarweb.com/features/0307scc_stievo/
The STi, we can report, is the king of this contest. Burnouts, powerslides, drifts, more burnouts--you name it. If it involves brute force and spinning tires, then it's in the STi's repertoire. Launching the car is easy; far easier, in fact, than launching the EVO. Dial in as many revs as you want and feed out the clutch. The result, at any engine speed above 3500 rpm, is spinning tires. Four spinning tires. More revs equal more wheelspin. And it's painfully fast. Zero to 60 in 4.9 seconds. Through the 1,320 in 13.1 seconds at 105 mph. That's .4 seconds quicker to 60 and .3 seconds quicker in the quarter mile than the EVO. Not only that, but the STi feels indestructible. The six-speed box notches solidly between gears with a more hard-edged, mechanical engagement than the EVO's cable-shifted box. This is good, since you'll be shifting more in the STi. What's more, the clutch can be modulated to produce launches which will punish brain cells on a level usually reserved for Naval aviators. And it will do it time after time. No wimpy clutch here, thank you very much
So I would say that it was in the driver in your friends case. But I would tell your friend to gently break that evo in before launching hard again. The clutch has been known to only last 40 good hard launches...
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