Claiming you have the Lancer evolution engine that makes the most power will surely start a flame war on the internet where there are plenty of legitimately knowledgeable people but also keyboard warriors who don't know much except to disagree.
Understandably, the initial claims of Extreme Tuners in Greece were laughed at in some forums until the owner Spyros showed some impressive dyno charts and pictures of custom-made turbos made from billet aluminum with titanium wheels. And metal matrix connecting rods. Plus custom-machined cylinder heads sporting titanium valves and beryllium valve seats. All based on a billet aluminum engine block.
The particular Evo 8 pictured here had 1400 hp at the wheels at the time it was publicized, based on the horsepower calculations resulting from the dyno pulls. It made a 9.3 in the quarter-mile, which, while fast, is slow compared to what some Evos were already doing. But as Spyros points out, they are an engine building facility, so dialing in the car is not really their purview. And if one wants to be picky about it, there is no proper drag strip in Greece that allows drag cars on slicks to hook up properly.
It's a good thing to enthusiasts in general that tuners like Spyros have customers who can afford his wares. Even in a community that is well aware of the costs of modifying the Mitsubishi 4G63, using all this billet, custom-machined hardware undoubtedly costs a fortune. Unlike race engines built to class rules, extreme street cars follow no rules, so Spyros is free to explore the limits of design, materials and engineering. Already, he has developed 2500 horsepower kits for this type of engine and we should see more extreme feats of engineering from him in the future. More info on this post here.
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