Car is going back under the knife next Wednesday at MAP.
Head is coming off, timing cover etc etc.
New headgasket (cosworth 90mm bore 1.3mm, went a bit thicker for a little more clearance and better sealing), new ARP 625+ headstuds (better than my standard ARP's), new beefier OEM mitsu timing chain and cleaning up my oil leak that is coming from the head.
They are going to do the remaining fluid changes I have as well while its there as its quick with the lift etc (rear diff and tcase).
It'll be nice to see if any det damage is present which I expect none and I like when a shop does the work as they sometimes spot other trouble stuff. So I am happy that I am getting close to a tip top shape running evo until something else breaks lol.
In other news I went WOT last night and the car felt awesome, but is running a bit lean. I wanted to test it out as I fixed a boost leak I found at MAP last week over my lunch break. At 25ish psi my UICP to IC coupler was leaking so I pulled the bumper off as its a PITA to try and do without doing that and reworked it. I think I got it.
So WOT my car was around 12.3 AFR's so its leaned out some from when Shane had it last. Not sure if its from fixing the boost leak, exhaust leak or just true E85 coming back but changes will need to be made for sure.
edit: I am also switching my double pumper, hopefully this weekend, to ECU controlled for my 2nd pump. Basically I am tapping into a stock relay for a trigger which will now energize a SPST relay near my 2nd pump. The relay is the low-high voltage trigger for the main pump (I believe). So in other words that same switch over point will now activate my second pump which will be wired right to the battery. ECUflash has a table for adjusting this point so it will be nice to be able to tune the point at which my second pump comes on and now I won't have this silly blaqbox controlling it which seems to just complicate things. This is essentially a hobbs switch through the ECU
A few guys are running this with success, one is a 650whp evo 10 so I figured why not. Just need to run two wires back to my pump from the engine bay, install a relay and rip out my old setup.