Killer Evo X Road Test… Almost

By John Coyle

Deputy Editor

Matt Farah from the Smoking Tire saw this murdered out Evo X at a recent Cars and Coffee—and its owner Russ actually invited him to drive it. In case you were wondering, good things happen when you have a camera crew. Anyway, the Evo was stock for a whole week before Russ took it to Road Race Engineering, who added some trick suspension bits and started tuning the motor. This black beauty is currently putting down almost twice the horsepower it was in factory form, so as you can imagine, it’s damn quick. But before Russ handed it over to Matt, he wanted to demonstrate just how quick by overtaking a a Porsche 996 Cup Car. And everything went exactly as planned. Yup, it was a totally textbook shoot…