“I needed more power than the kit was making. “Shortly after buying it, Artisan Performance sponsored it back in 2009,” said McConnell. McConnell’s super-Evo didn’t have just a few hiccups: it had a fit, passed out, and didn’t wake up for a while, repeatedly. What is a project without a hiccup? When you are building a car, especially in a case like this, you’re expecting to run into a few troubles here and there that can be overcome and turned into little anecdotes you tell once you finally get to show it off. McConnell has built a car that isn’t only a bullet, bu t is comfy to sit in and can probably bust an ear drum or two. Usually though, when you build a car to be a thousand pony plus demon, you dump all of your money into the engine and dyno away until you’re happy (or broke). Matthew McConnell and his Mitsubishi Evo X are aiming to go above and beyond that figure to break the most horsepower squeezed out of an Evolution X, ever. A thousand horsepower is not only a ton, but it’s a pretty legendary and impressive figure in the automotive world. A thousand is a lot of anything a thousand pounds, a thousand dollars, a thousand people.
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