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The 2003 Vivid Racing EVO VIII is now up for sale (10/7/04) and being retired from the VR Family of project cars. With 5 magazine features (1 in Japan) , numerous trophies, awards, and race results... this 420 wheel horsepower monster is now ready to be honored and go down in history like the re

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The turbo kit was installed. The wide fenders had been completed. The UTEC was ready to rock. The time had officially come. The Vivid Racing Project EVO VIII needed to prove itself. With all the bolts on complete, the fuel ready, we needed to see what this could do. We called up our local all whe

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When thinking of the next step in what to do to the Vivid Project EVO VIII, it was a long and hard meeting. Logarithyms, analysis, and readings from great prophets all were in involved. But after the first 3 beers we knew it had to be only one thing. We go wide! Since we love the CyberEvo race c

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In the ever ending quest for horsepower, the only way to truly make it happen on the EVO VIII is by adding a turbo kit. The factory turbo is capable of 300 wheel horsepower, but at its limits, it barely exceeds that point. After having our fully tuned EVO VIII on a Dyno Dynamics dyno putting do

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Getting tested is no joking matter. In fact we recommend it once every 6 months. Because that is the time it takes for you to mod your car and see the difference. Right guys...Guys...Right? Anyways after tons of work, tuning, and messing with stuff we decided to get our Project EVO VIII dynoe

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The time has come to beef up project EVO. With every know bolt on available from Japan's greatest resources, we need to get more POWER! After digging in our closet of toys we decided it was necessary to put on some new HKS cam shafts and cam gears. The HKS cam shafts are available in 264 and 2

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The easiest modification of them all, next to the gauge cluster, is definitely the fuel pump replacement. Why change your fuel pump? Well being able to delivery more fuel, faster, and efficiently is what will get you that extra power and keep it coming all the way to redline. Walbro's fuel pu

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Check out these cool night shots of the Vivid Car on the street assault. More coming soon too! (Click on the thumbnail to view mo

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Project EVO VIII has been the first of the EVO project cars by companies that has given results, shown its power, and received its 15 minutes of fame. No joke, ever since we brought out our first WRX we have been killing the competition. In fact, we can count 2 USA magazines, 1 Japanese magazin

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Don't be alarmed by the title of the story, this mod was definitely not a Cluster F***! The simplest coolest thing you can do to your car is the meter switch by Ralliart. This part is the sickest JDM thing you can get. The meter pulls out and the new one goes in with in 15 minutes.

The Rallia

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I have been running Tein Flex Coilovers with EDFC on all 3 of my cars now. The famous Vivid WRX I, Vivid WRX II, and now the EVO VIII. I mean how cool is it that you can adjust the dampening from inside the car, have adjustable height, and camber for all under $1800. Easily...quality, design, a

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A Knock Who? Thats right! Knock Sensors are probably pretty new to the EVO community here in the USA. Link Electro of New Zealand has developed this important tool called the Knock Link. The knock link, as you see in the picture, is a basic black box with a multiple of LED's on it. The box uses

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Kansai Service of Japan has some very strong ties in the tuning community. As known as some of the best in the EVO market, HKS Kansai Service has this bitchin full carbon air box for the EVO. You might have seen Vivid Racing confused about many things. First we started out with a Monster Sport Fl

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I think the sickest thing about the EVO is the styling and lines of the body. The EVO VIII front end never really appealled to me. One year ago we were in Japan looking at EVO VII cruising the streets and thought about importing one. Circumstances did not allow that and the next thing you know

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Want a quick way to dress up your engine, make yourself feel different, and keep that hot coolant in a cool place? Then you need a Pruven Performance Coolant Catch Can. Say that 5 times fast. This mod takes about 15 minutes and requires a simple wrench.

Pruven Performance manufactures th

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At one point in time, I thought I was a short shift wizard when it came to installing them. The WRX kits would pop in and out in the matter of 15 minutes. Any longer then that, you should be shoveling yellow snow. I met my match. The B&M Short Shifter install on Project EVO. Like many cars t

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It's been about a month since our last mod. No we are not slowing down at all. We have been so busy building a new site, obtaining awesome products, and starting to move to a huge building. Our EVO will, still, and destroy everyone else's guaranteed! We have so much more planned. Bigg

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Bob from Stop Tech called me and said, "Hey we have a new brake kit for the EVO." Obviously I was like, really? So after talking and explaining what we were doing to the car, we decided on one thing, this was magazine material. Our new project was about to start to make our EVO really stand out

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Keeping with Vivid standards, we could only put an exclusive Japanese seat in our JDM EVO VIII. What other then Bride could we use. Our Red Bride reclinables arrived with EVO brackets for easy fitment and fun to begin.

The installation was very easy. The stock seats come out with 2 bolts up fro

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Vivid Racing has one main trade mark, the best JDM cars you will find! So of course we had to put on the old Monster Sport Carbon Trunk. Monster has a huge name on our vehicle and our previous cars. The carbon trunk is a piece of work, show style, and quality. We needed to be set aside fr

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Being the JDM parts snobs we are, no Vivid car goes without a set of Ganador mirrors. Carbon of course! Ganador mirrors are full electric mirrors that plug into your stock harness and work with your control system.

Ganadors are not for everyone. Being they are made for right hand drive cars

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I can honestly start by apologize for the gap in Project EVO. While I was on the Gumball 3000 90% of our parts from Japan arrived for the EVO. The Vivid Crew was instructed that the car must be done by the 24th so we could take it to the International Auto Salon representing BF Goodridge in the

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So you got your dream car finally. Congratulations!!! But wait, it has altezza lights? "Sigh". Don't worry, if altezza tailights are not your thing then there is an answer! JDM EVO VII tailight fit on without any modification, take about 30 minutes to do, and have a cleaner look to the

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One of the most restrictive parts for air flow on the car next to the exhaust is the intercooler piping. With flex material, small diameter, and non-smooth bends, the stock piping is restrictive and holding back much needed horsepower. As I was away at the Gumball 3000 for this install, what I c

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As much as I want to insist that I am a racer, I have to remember that in my business, it is sometimes how good you look, not how fast you go. So with that being said the EVO VIII needed to get a little boom in its interior. With the help of our friends at Rockford Fosgate/MB Quart, we were abo

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Racing around the town, showing off your car, or hitting the track, it is mandatory that you have racing harness'. Not only do harness' look cool, they are functional! Big points for shows, and help you control your car on the track. The only name the Vivid Racing uses is Takata! Takata harnes

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You have been tooling around town, beating up Civics, Corvettes, and all those other hot rodders. You get home and remember something you read online about needing to let your turbo charged car cool down. "Is this true, did I read it wrong, does it matter." After you have finishing saying the

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How do I make power? The question of every person with a car. Well it is easy with a turbo charged car, just turn up the boost, right? Wrong. Boost alone does not make power. Proper tuning of the fuel, ecu, timing, and boost help in achieving maximum power. Since the EVO VIII is new the ECU

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Function 7 - Virgin photoshoot. Checkout this slide show. Large File.