Thought I would put a thread up on my Evo seeing as so many users of this forum love Jap cars!!!

This was my first Evo,a V which was in great condition,from the outside.



I used it for 6 months over summer then decided to do a winter tidy up on the underside as Evos are not undersealed/seam sealed for winter use as standard as they are JDM.
Once I started stripping it down I soon realised how hard a life the UK winters had gave it
The first warning sign was a fresh patch of underseal on the rear chassis between the diff mount and rear cross member mount,scraped off the underseal and found a plate stuck over a rotten hole in the chassis with silicone
(The car had 11 months MOT when I bought it)
Levered the plate off and lots of rusty metal dropped out of the chassis.
So after removing the rear suspension/diff/x-member etc this how it looked



No wonder it smelt of petrol when I filled up!!!!!The rotten pipe in pic is the fuel filler pipe.









So I thought bugger it,break it up.

Bye.

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Red GTB1756 powered Fabia VRS daily driver,LBSC Gti6 eater........

Mac1 ZR R1 kit car build in progress.

Minimal surface rust on the chassis where these Evos really rot behind the rear x-member

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Red GTB1756 powered Fabia VRS daily driver,LBSC Gti6 eater........

Mac1 ZR R1 kit car build in progress.

Never seen that much rust on an evo.

Was the old shell beyond salvage ???

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Ph1 Cossack 6

You have far too much money

So after removing the sticky wax oyl I hit it with paint stripper/rust removal discs/wire wheels etc
After abit of work I discovered the Mitsi paint was hiding some surface rust which was not visible until the paint was removed,so then made the BIG decision to take it back to bare metal on the whole underside!
The pic below was how the majority of the underside looked,pretty well covered with waxoyl,but once removed its just covering surface rust.

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Red GTB1756 powered Fabia VRS daily driver,LBSC Gti6 eater........

Mac1 ZR R1 kit car build in progress.

You can see the how the rust is spreading from the unsealed seams below

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Red GTB1756 powered Fabia VRS daily driver,LBSC Gti6 eater........

Mac1 ZR R1 kit car build in progress.

Once the rust bullet was cured I sealed all the seams with Tiger Seal and applied the white top coat

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Red GTB1756 powered Fabia VRS daily driver,LBSC Gti6 eater........

Mac1 ZR R1 kit car build in progress.

Then started on the under bonnet area,rubbed down any surface rust and etch primed,sealed all the seams up.







And thats how its sitting at the minute

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Red GTB1756 powered Fabia VRS daily driver,LBSC Gti6 eater........

Mac1 ZR R1 kit car build in progress.

wow i cant belive how much rust was on that evo,inever seen that much before. this is going to be an awsome evo when finished,is there any engine mods on this one then?
keep up the good work

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Hate seeing threads like this, always feel like I have to go and strip the underneath of mine after reading them lol

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danposs86's GTi-6

Yeah but even so, the gritters aren't out that many times over the winter (in the south at least).

Just rainfall alone will end up causing bad rust over the course of a decade or two I would have thought (on a badly sealed car). I'm sure they receive a decent amount of rain in parts of Japan. Odd.

had the same issue with mine, ended up joining them in cleaning all the rust from underneath my rallye

nice work, its always more than you expect looking very clean

not any rust on the inside of the car?

Another ex gti6 member on here... Dave sold his six and bought an Evo from a garage. Turned out to be a total dog, subframe was total rotten and shouldnt of passed an mot he did get it sorted eventually

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