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#Fast and furious 2 mitsubishi evo movie#
We don't know about you, but when we first heard that the third Fast and Furious movie was taking place in Japan, we immediately thought that all the cars would be covered in obscene amounts of kanji and have anime characters or samurai stickers plastered all over them. Adding just an extra touch of carbon fiber to the EVO's exterior is a set of APR carbon fiber mirrors, which were really just added to look cool. Some APR carbon fiber front canards help keep the nose of this EVO planted while a massive APR carbon fiber wing keeps the car's ass firmly on the ground. An APR wide body kit gives the EVO a more muscular look, while still managing to keep the car's lines looking pretty stock.
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Grabbing the attention of these movie cameras are a few APR aero pieces. But hey, the car is more-or-less a rocket in stock form, so we're guessing that it didn't need much of a power boost for it to perform well in front of some movie cameras. RMR supplied some basic bolt-ons for the 4G63 engine, which probably gives it a few extra ponies. YES NO RMR also handled the engine tuning duties, but to be honest, there's not much going on here. From what we hear, it's just as easy to convert the EVO back to its proper all-wheel drive self. Converting an EVO to rear wheel drive consists of simply disconnecting the differentials and things that send power to the front wheels and then capping off the holes. Though it sounds crazy, this drivetrain conversion actually isn't a radical modification. The first thing the RMR team did was convert the EVO to a rear-wheel drive car. So it makes sense that Millen's company, RMR (Rhys Millen Racing), was called upon to prep these movie's EVOs for drift duty. Not only did Rhys get a feel for the EVO on the world's gravel roads, he also piloted an all-wheel drive EVO to top honors at some of the early Drift Showoff events. What you may not know about him is that he got his start drifting an Evolution 7 around rally courses as a Mitsubishi-backed driver.
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You all know Rhys Millen, right? He's primarily known as the guy that drives the Pontiac GTO/Solstice in Formula D/D1. However, instead of going the "movie magic" route and putting the EVO on some kind of truck-controlled "skid" trailer, the EVO you see here will be doing its sliding under its own power. Yes, the subtitle of the movie is Tokyo Drift, and yes, this all-wheel drive EVO is going to drift in the movie. Perhaps the Mitsubishi tie-in deal is still in effect, but when "casting" cars for The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, the producers decided that one of the "hero" cars should be Mitsubishi's rally machine. Though it seems to be a more unlikely drift car than a RB-powered 1967 Mustang, the red Mitsubishi EVO you see here is a purpose-built drift machine.