MitsuTimes Josh: What's going on, guys? Welcome to another episode of the Mitsu Times podcast. My guest today is Mr. Devin Cronin. He is the owner and driver of a very cool Evo. How are you today, sir? Devon@STM: Living the dream, how are you? MitsuTimes Josh: I am great. Glad to hear from you. It's your car was doing so much at the end of last year. I felt like it was like P B after P B there for a minute. Devon@STM: Yeah, I had a couple track days I ended up going to. was doing a bit of everything. Ended up breaking the car at Watkins Glen International Roadcourse end of last year, I think November. MitsuTimes Josh: So this car does a little bit of everything. Devon@STM: Yeah, well last year it did. Well this year it won't be as set up for that. yeah, I did autocross road course, I did a couple events at Walkins Glen and then obviously a bunch of drag racing. MitsuTimes Josh: Yeah. Cool. Okay. Well, for anybody who's listening to this, they don't really know about you or the R S Junior Evo as you call it, why don't you introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about your car? Devon@STM: Yeah, I'm Devon. some guys might know me Devin from STM, one of the sales guys here. RS Jr. is a car a lot of people have probably seen. It used to be Emery, Emery Capril's car. it was the Texas two K car that we took down there. It was on thirteen twenty forever ago. And some guys might remember it, but I I ended up finally getting a hold of it. It was actually the car that I wanted to have for I I guess ever. I was always after that one. the last owner, Kyle Finkbeener, I saw him buy it like four years ago and I told him the day he bought it, to let me know when he was ready to sell it. And finally that day came around almost two years ago now. MitsuTimes Josh: Very nice. A dream come true. Devon@STM: Yeah, it was after that car for many years. I I tried to buy it before Kyle got it. I didn't have the availability to at the time. but yeah, it's always a car that I wanted to have. I was pretty young watching YouTube videos of that car on 1320 and Emma racing it. It was pretty awesome. MitsuTimes Josh: Kinda where it all got started w back when YouTube was becoming a thing and we could all watch these guys like become our heroes on the screen. Devon@STM: Yeah, Wittleback, so I'm actually the the Emory Caprel's actually my uncle. so I kind of grew up around that. Actually heard about the car when he was building it and just kind of became that that was the dream car from from then on, so MitsuTimes Josh: Super cool. So that that's kind of where your interest in Mitsubishi got started then from kind of seeing what Emory was doing? Devon@STM: Yeah. so I've always been around STM. It was like I grew up here a lot. My father actually had a silver O three when I was growing up, so he used to like wake us up middle of the night and go drifting around in the snow. drop me off at school in it. So one of my first my my first Evo was actually a silver, Apex Silver O three. so that was pretty cool full circle there. but yeah, I always grew up around STM and around Evo's. There's actually a picture of the old STM drag car, the the R S at the shootout and there's a little kid covering his ears and that's that's me in the background. So I'll have to send you that. MitsuTimes Josh: yeah. That's awesome. Devon@STM: That's that's how it all started. very young age kinda brought into it and then the Evo was just the the car I had to have. MitsuTimes Josh: Yeah. And s so it it just kinda made sense to to step into an Evo as as your platform of choice then. Devon@STM: Yep. Yeah, it actually was it ended up being my first car. so first ca car in high school. It was it was pretty awesome. started learning from there on. very soon after buying the first car it Broke immediately, you know, as they do. It just had to kinda figure it out and it was it's the first love ever since, I guess. MitsuTimes Josh: Almost a love hate sometimes. Devon@STM: yeah. You know, it it's cars, they break. that that's all part of it. That's I secretly like breaking stuff 'cause then I get to change it. I get to upgrade it or learn why something broke. MitsuTimes Josh: Yeah. Get your hands dirty. Well, you you know, being an employee of STM, I think most of us know where the R S Junior name came from that you gave your Evo, but why don't you explain it for the rest of the listeners of why you decided to name your Evo R S Junior? Devon@STM: Yeah, well the car was originally called R S Junior. There's a old Evo forum, which some guys might have seen. maybe we can link it here, but Sean and I used to post a lot on their shop updates and stuff. It's the same time we had the R S Emory built this car, the the streetcar or the guys here at the shop built it and it used to be called the R S Junior. so I just kinda stuck to the tradition of that car and kept the name on it and ordered a plate. MitsuTimes Josh: Very nice. I I Devon@STM: Nice MitsuTimes Josh: guess I w I didn't realize I knew the of the R S evo, obviously. I didn't realize it had a a little brother. Devon@STM: Yeah. we said that this the same car that so RS Jr. my car was on thirteen twenty at one point. It was the Texas two K car that Emory brought down there and did some roll racing stuff. and then it exchanged hands a couple of times, set up changed up a little bit over over the years, obviously. It doesn't have an FP super ninety nine on it anymore. but Yeah, kinda stuck with that. try to keep the history of it alive, I guess. MitsuTimes Josh: Yeah, for sure. So after it had kind of passed through a a couple of different people's hands, what was the condition like when you finally got it? Devon@STM: It was about the same as after Emery had gotten rid of it, condition wise. It it's I haven't changed too much on it yet. We're we're doing a new turbo kit and stuff, but I I think it got it was like max like five thousand miles driven on it since Emory had exchanged it. Or or Emory had gotten rid of it. there wasn't many miles on it. It still came to the shop every so often for some work. MitsuTimes Josh: And then after you got your hands on it, what was kind of the original goal? What was the direction that you wanted to take the build? Devon@STM: s when I got it from Kyle, Kyle and his girlfriend, it s had that FP red on it. We we ended up building a a two point one ma manually billet crank, turbo tuff I beam rods and then turbo tuff manually pistons. and it had the FP red and it was on the same tune. I just kind of drove it. took it down to like Tale of the Dragon, did that walk in Scone stuff and then ended up taking it to the track and got that I think ten four pass. but it was exact basically exactly as I got it. I changed some things around, like some interior stuff, just little things here and there. This year's kind of the bigger changes were still finished the car. It's just kinda been on the back burner, but doing a HP T six four, six, six with one of our turbo kits, new manifold design and so on. MitsuTimes Josh: So does that mean I I know I didn't prep you for this question, does that mean you're shooting for the street eliminator cup class then? Devon@STM: no, I think I was gonna go for the nine five class on that. we'll see. I plan on going to Wild in the Valley the week before the shootout. So hopefully nothing bad happens and I can make it to both. Yeah, but hoping we'll we'll run somewhere in the the nines. I don't know, I just kinda wanted to make more power. I don't have like an exact time goal in mind. maybe like a nine five would be nice. MitsuTimes Josh: I keep telling people if if I show up to the shootout without my car, just know that it didn't survive while it isn't about. Devon@STM: Yeah, we're I'm hoping. I've got some parts set aside. some some things I I think might happen. so I've got some parts set aside on what I plan to be ready to replace and fix. MitsuTimes Josh: Yeah, okay. Well, along with the six four six six, why don't you tell us a little bit about the the supporting mods? Devon@STM: Yeah, it's got I mean, just about everything from STM, obviously. I'm I'm here. so while I'm helping people build carts and answer tech questions, I'm I'm shopping myself. it's got just about everything STM. I it's all custom intercooler piping now. STM thousand horsepower intercooler. It's gonna have three and a half inch turboback exhaust. I'm doing a driven innovations intake manifold, which not so common anymore, very old school piece. car used to have one on it back in twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen, whenever it was. so I decided to kinda get another one of those and see what we can do. Just touch on that nostalgia again, kind of bring it back. MitsuTimes Josh: love, you know, trying something new because it it feels like when you go to the shootout, I mean obviously we know what parts approved and and stuff like that, but you pop the hood and everybody almost has like a copy and paste build. Devon@STM: Yeah. I mean there is a lot of variation. There's a lot of obviously aftermarket support. Everybody and their moms are making parts and developing for these cars still, which is very surprising. markets there. But it worked great for Emery back back when that car was had one on it and was making nine hundred here on our Dino. it worked awesome then and it's proven itself for us. so I I figured run it again and go from there. no reason to switch up on that I guess. MitsuTimes Josh: Yeah, love it. Devon@STM: Good looking piece too. It's all polished. That's That's what really got me to be honest. MitsuTimes Josh: Well, number one is Liverpool, right? Devon@STM: yeah. Un unfortunately. MitsuTimes Josh: Ha ha. Well, Devin, thinking back to you know, your experience with FP Red, we most people listening are familiar with the FP Red and and its potential and and kind of its power delivery, but I want to talk about you know, for maybe those who aren't listening or maybe thinking about stepping up from their sixteen G on their two G, one G, whatever, to FP Red. I want to talk about how well the power delivery is for the two point and and your all-wheel drive doing drag, autocross, and road courses like. Devon@STM: Yeah, it is hands down like the best turbo option for just about everything. stock block build motors, you're drag racing the car and y you want to run tens, it's it's gotta be the best. our opinion FP FP Red's the the best bolt on turbo. it spools J just as fast as you really want it to. upwards of five hundred plus horsepower on on ED5, it's it's a great piece. there's no reason to really go bigger in most cases. I think it's I think it's the best. My one of my goals is to have another Evo, one with an FP red on it at at all times. MitsuTimes Josh: One to just enjoy. Devon@STM: Yeah, just get in and drive. I I did I think total I've put almost ten thousand miles on that car. but last year alone I did seven thousand miles on the MitsuTimes Josh: Wow. Devon@STM: F P Red. my two trips to the Tale of the Dragon. I obviously a lot of street miles around here and around the shop and Walkins Glen a countless amount of passes down the strip. I I did blown a transmission last year, but It's awesome turbo, awesome setup. No complaints with the MitsuTimes Josh: it definitely proves it's can be a reliable turbo with the with the right combo. Devon@STM: Yeah, absolutely. I did end up selling it to a buddy here locally. we ended up sending it out to get rebuilt just 'cause that turbo since it's last rebuilt had ten to fifteen thousand miles on it. So safe better safe than sorry, but there was no issues with it. they're fantastic. It was a journal bearing as well. MitsuTimes Josh: So Devin, whenever you were on the FB Red, you were still on the stock ECU. Now that we've gone to the six four six six, is the plan still stock ECU? Devon@STM: I have an AEM series two set aside for it, that I just like have had for a while now. it's what Emery knows best. We are working on putting a Hall Tech in a one G that we have here at the shop, one of our shop cars. So we're working on doing that. So he's he's gonna learn Hultec here pretty soon. Once he does and plan is to put it in my car. He he just wants to start with something that's a little bit more stock, something to learn off of. but AEM series two might go in it, it might stay on stock ECU. Either one will do it and do it fairly safely. MitsuTimes Josh: The the options for the evil guys with the stock ECU is plentiful enough to where you got plenty of options. Devon@STM: Yeah, it's not from what I hear from Emory, I'm I don't tune the car. I mean always learning stuff, listening to and so on. But stock ECU is awesome and we we've made lots of power with them. Highest I've seen here personally was like seven fifty out of one of his personal cars a couple years ago. Somewhere in that range, seven hundreds. and it was awesome. MitsuTimes Josh: I lo I just love stuff like that. Devon@STM: Yes, IQ C is very, very capable. it's frowned upon by a lot of people unfortunately, which I don't completely understand. But I again I'm not not personally tuning cars. MitsuTimes Josh: I get you. Well, we talked about the the transmission kinda going out later in the year last year. What what what let's talk about the the current transmission, clutch, transfer case, axles, all that good stuff. Devon@STM: Yeah, everything drivetrain is stock, minus the transmission, I believe. Stock axles, yeah, they still have green cups on them. So stock axles, stock rear end, stock transfer case, as far as I know. the transmission has an HKS four eleven in it, and it was assembled by John at TRE. as much of a pain sometimes it is to get get in contact with him. I always recommend him. I I think he does awesome work and beautiful looking transmissions, which is always As you know, it's it's gotta look good. MitsuTimes Josh: What about the clutch? Devon@STM: yeah, clutch. It's got a quartermaster twin in it. Not MitsuTimes Josh: Right. Devon@STM: the most fun clutch to put ten thousand miles on in a year, but it it took every bit of it. I I had to have launched the car over fifty times. It's it's just about every time that I get in the car I'm I'm beating the hell out of it and shifting it like I'm on a world record pass. MitsuTimes Josh: I think it says a lot about that clutch, that setup where, you know, like you said, you're not just doing drag racing, you're doing, you know, a little bit of everything. So to for it to hold up and and do ever I mean, obviously drag racing's hard on clutches, but let's not pretend like other types of motorsports isn't hard on clutches as well. Devon@STM: absolutely. It's it was awesome. never really skipped a beat. I did when I had the transmission out, I looked at the discs and they were they were just about fine. it's probably got like 10,000 miles on it and the discs had plenty of life left in them. but it's definitely a v very proven clutch. Lots of people were using twins and even triples in the very, very fast cars out there. Quartermaster's heavily proven. MitsuTimes Josh: on here we talked to a lot of auto guys and but we also talked to a lot of manual guys who use things like the strain gauge and the clutch slippers and stuff like that. I I want to talk about how I I don't know if difficult is the right word, but how how it is being consistent when you're launching and shifting this Evo manually. Devon@STM: I wouldn't say I'm consistent yet. I don't have the most experience with drag racing. I'm still fairly new to it and I mean I'm always learning there if you're not learning something every day, you're doing something wrong. but I'm still always working on it. I haven't quite dialed it down. I think one of my best sixty foots was like one five, even on that ten four pass. so it's not great. There's definitely room for improvement. Raised the two step, but the four eleven final drive and then twenty six inch QTPs aren't very easy to get moving. can definitely be a little bit of a struggle, but Definitely working on that. hopefully I can get the car all finished and get to the track before Waddled in the Valley in the shootout and get a little bit of time on it. I don't wanna be testing and qualifying. MitsuTimes Josh: Right. I mean, you know, just looking Devon@STM: Party. MitsuTimes Josh: at place on the Mitsu Times list, Evan, I I'm you're two four with the ten four pass, but your sixty foot was one five like you just said, and everyone around you is like one six, one eight. So I I I think that I that shows a lot about your driving ability. I I know you're being a little modest. Devon@STM: I try and be a well a little hard on myself too. it's there's there's always room for improvement, which is something I'd definitely have grown from being around the shop here and kind of learned that there's always room for improvement. I think the car should be in the one fours and well or what was that one one five? MitsuTimes Josh: One five seven two. Devon@STM: Yeah. One five seven two. It should be a little bit lower in the one five range or in the one four almost. Preferably that's that's what I'd like to see and do that consistently or somewhat consistently, and then I'd be a little bit happier about it or a little bit more proud of it, I guess. MitsuTimes Josh: Also on the list you're surrounded by quite a lot bigger turbos, so that's pretty cool too to see. Devon@STM: Yeah, the FP Red is very stout. I mean I think we still hold an FP record, FP RED record. I don't remember if we hold that. I I know it's the stock block record, which stock block had the FP Red on it, and I think we did like nine six one forty eight or something. obviously that was like a dedicated drag car, so very light supporting mods for that. But One of the things I am changing up which should help with sixty foot and so on and taking a little bit more rotating mass out of it. I'm on the hunt for some lighter front rotors and like the gyro disc ultralights that they used to make. But I got some nice buddy club sixteen inch wheels. they're like fourteen pounds or something for the QT piece this year. So that should help. rotating mass is I'm always after that. looking for the next thing and trying to make it as light as possible. The car only weighs I think it was twenty nine flat last year with a full tank. W without me in it. MitsuTimes Josh: Good for an Evo. Devon@STM: Yeah, it's not bad. There's there's always something and w we're coming out with lots of lightweight parts and we're machining a lot a lot of stuff in house now if people don't know that yet. So we've come out with a bunch of different billet brackets here and there and like one of our rear transmission brackets is one pound lighter than factory. so just it's somewhere around there. I don't have an exact number in front of me, but I ended up putting that on when I had the transmission out last and always after every pound. MitsuTimes Josh: Adds up. Devon@STM: It does. It's severely overlooked, unfortunately. MitsuTimes Josh: So Devin with the six four six six, are you looking to use any form of like the no lift to shift or anything to keep the the boost up in between shifts? Devon@STM: no, it's still gonna be still gonna drive it with the clutch. still coming off the gas. Without the right stuff in place for like the no f shifting and stuff and just gonna tear up the transmission. So transmission bills aren't cheap. Try and keep that together. It's not fun. Then you gotta wait for too. MitsuTimes Josh: Yep. All those all those little parts that go in the transmission to make it all work together, all that. I it it they're getting harder and harder to find. Devon@STM: Yeah, it's Pretty bad. My transmission needed everything. It bent both input output shafts, spun bearings and basically ate up every every tooth. so it it was pretty hefty bell, as they are getting now, but luckily most of the parts are still available so you can get a get a hold of just about everything. MitsuTimes Josh: Well would you say that the car tends to be limited more by power traction or or maybe the time loss during changes to you know I I don't know what your ultimate goal is, but with the ten four was you when you had the FB Red was you looking for to go lower in the tens? Devon@STM: Yeah, I was hoping to go lower in the tens. I I'm set on obviously there might have been some power to be had. we did change up the tune a little bit at the track. how much it really made is probably very n negligible. I I think it's ma mainly limited by driver at this point. it's I I don't have that much practice at at the drag strip. So I always working on that whenever whenever I get a chance at the track. I think it was mainly limited on that. A little bit better, 60 foot and so on. I I think it could have gone ten, two, ten, one. Ten two, ten, one was like really where I'd I wanted to be with how the car was set up. MitsuTimes Josh: Well, you know, obviously being working at STM, you're around a lot of different cars. You've probably driven different types of performance cars. In your opinion, being behind the wheel of the EVO, what makes like a genuinely good manual Evo pass or even, you know, a good street pull different from you know a regular car? Devon@STM: it's just the way they drive. Evos are not really comparable to much, i if anything. I I've had plenty of cars myself and driven plenty of other I guess you could say somewhat comparable cars. And there's just nothing that compares to like I had like a twenty eleven WRX at at one point and it was just obviously interiors are very different. So it's a much more smooth car. Very, very different than an RS. but there's just nothing that drives like it. They they're super raw. the power delivery is awesome on most cars. Obviously there's variables to that. motor setups and so on. But they're not comparable in in any way. I think what makes them great is what makes them great is an FP RED. MitsuTimes Josh: Yeah. Well, I wanna go back to the Empire Dragway when you got this ten four pass. how did the pass feel? We we hear a lot of times on here, Devin, of guys pulling around to the ticket booth and they just felt like the pass was crap and then they get handed a ticket with their personal bus. Was it one of those or did you know it was gonna be a good pass? Devon@STM: no, it it felt slower than one before. I think I think right before that pass her in like a ten seven or something. I didn't feel like the sixty foot was great, which in my opinion it wasn't that great. But going from I think before that it was like a ten five or something. down to that ten four, it really it didn't feel crazy. It didn't feel like He was my personal best. MitsuTimes Josh: Mm-hmm. Devon@STM: So I I was pretty surprised. obviously I was after a little bit of the lower number, so I wasn't too e ecstatic or Happy about it. I wasn't doing backflips 'cause there's I just want more. That's the problem. MitsuTimes Josh: Completely understand that. So would whenever you got to Empire from this this was what, a month or two after the shootout, right? Devon@STM: Yeah, I think it was like a month or two after the shootout I ended up going back. Back to the track. It was decent weather out. I don't remember what exactly it was. It started to right after that pass, the sun really came out and it started to get really hot. I didn't really want to be outside and that heat at that time, so I I think that's mainly why I left left it at that ten four. But the car was still running. didn't have any issues and I had that Walkins Glen event coming up, so I didn't want to hurt anything. MitsuTimes Josh: Yeah, I gotcha. I I think people underestimate how fun it is to be in a fire suit in a car with no air conditioning with all the windows up. Devon@STM: Yeah, it's no, it's not fun. MitsuTimes Josh: Yeah. Devon@STM: and let alone crank windows, so I'm I'm hanging over the passenger seat trying to open that thing as fast as I can to get some air in into the car. MitsuTimes Josh: So from the shootout to this ev Empire Dragway, did you make any major changes or was it just kinda, you know you were you were getting the seat time in and and slowly getting better? Devon@STM: really just seat time. I think I think we might have changed up the two step a little bit. Like I might have turned it up like fifty or a hundred RPM. just try and get it to weave a little bit better. and then I I think we took a little bit of fuel out of it 'cause it was pretty rich, but it really wasn't anything major or Nothing no parts were changed. It was just exactly real basically how it was at the shootout. MitsuTimes Josh: Huh? I gotcha. And then, you know, now that we're on the six four six six, what what what's the goals for this year? Is it to be more consistent or do you have like a a number in mind? Devon@STM: Yeah, I'd really like to see like a ten five. that would be cool. but really just anything in the nines. I wanna be definitely wanna get more consistent. I want to be able to get better sixty foots back to back and not not not a hit or miss kind of thing. one of the biggest things I do have to work on is is leaving a pro light. I most of the experience I ha I've only I only did the ten five class once. At the shootout. So that was my first time on a pro light last year. Before that, I was I ran like max effort. So I think there was still a pro light, but reaction time had like nothing to do with it. So one of the things I definitely have to work on is is pro light stuff. I work on the reaction time. Leaving MitsuTimes Josh: Sure. Devon@STM: that in that's like probably the most important part of index racing. MitsuTimes Josh: Yeah. Shootout does love some pro tree lights. Devon@STM: Yeah, every time I go to Empire I I feel like they're never never running it. I I've actually think my first experience with the ProLite was like trying to leave at a ProLite was last year at in the ten five class and that was just I kinda set myself up for failure on that without going into that with zero experience, so MitsuTimes Josh: So the the transmission letting go, was that at a track event or was that just something, you know, driving back and forth to work? Devon@STM: No, I was going for a late night cruise. you know, just a Get out of your mind kinda kinda cruise and went filled up the car with the eighty five to prepare myself for the week or whatever. was driving home and one of my buddies ended up coming up behind me. he had a passenger and they stuck out the st stuck out the window, so it we kind of had a little street race. did a forty roll and slammed it in the third and it just it just let go. MitsuTimes Josh: Your time owning this Evo, that that's been the the worst, I guess, mechanical breakdown so far? Devon@STM: Yeah, that was the most major one. I don't remember when the last time that transmission was worked on or anything was done to it, but it took quite the beating from me. I mean that was right before the shootout, so I'd already went to the Tale of the Dragon twice on that. I had I think one or two walkins going events. so it definitely saw some heat. I was not nice to it. I've I've blown a couple of transmissions in my my Evo years. my last car before junior was on like transmission five or six, which unfortunately some of them were out of my control, but it's if you know me on somewhat of a personal level, you know it's I don't have the greatest experience with transmissions. MitsuTimes Josh: Achilles Hill. Devon@STM: Yeah, I've I grew up watching Emery run the R S down the track, so ever every time I'm driving the car I've that's when I'm envisioning. So it's yeah, I do it to myself. MitsuTimes Josh: So with all that being said though, Devin, like d is is there like a record that you're pursuing maybe the you know, Emory held once or the S C held once? Devon@STM: not exactly. I just kinda do it for my own fun. I I just wanna go fast. whatever fast really means. no records really in in mind. Just wanna do some racing and Have fun. MitsuTimes Josh: I think a lot of us relate to that. Devon@STM: Yeah, it's a little too late for most of these records. w one of my favorite types of records is stock block stuff. it just brings brings a lot out of people as far as little tricks here and there, which you'll find that in every record, but if there was one it was that, but you you're not really finding stock blocks anymore. And be pretty hard to come close to a A nine six. MitsuTimes Josh: it it's tough for you to trust everyone too when it's like, yeah, it's a stock block. okay. Well, I think it's a stock block. I I get that. Devon@STM: Yeah. Yeah, there's there's always that accusation thrown around whenever somebody has a stock block or they say they have a stock block. but it's That's an odd situation I don't wanna get too MitsuTimes Josh: Yeah. Devon@STM: far into. MitsuTimes Josh: No, I gotcha. Trust me, I I I deal with it once a week at least. Devon@STM: Yeah, I'm pretty sure I've read some stuff. when we posted it on Evolution and I think there was some people in there didn't believe it or whatnot. I mean it's a crazy number. I don't I don't think anybody ever beat it. I think we still hold that and then maybe stock. Evo 10 stock turbo record, stuff like that. MitsuTimes Josh: yeah. Devon@STM: That's always some of the coolest records is is doing the most with the with the least. MitsuTimes Josh: Absolutely. Devon@STM: which it's my favorite. It's less is more is one of Emery's famous lines. always something I try and keep in mind. MitsuTimes Josh: Yeah. Now stock mo stock turbo records, I I just love those. I I love seeing what people can do with, you know, a a sixteen G and a three hundred shot or something like that. Devon@STM: Yeah, it's awesome. It's just it it might not always be the most practical stuff or practical parts, but it it's awesome. seeing people do the the most with the least. MitsuTimes Josh: Devin, we talked about Wild the Valley and we talked about the shootout. Are there any other events that we could come out and see R S Junior in action this year? Devon@STM: I don't know if I have any plans for any other events. If something else pops up that's close it'd probably make the drive. really I'm gonna do a lot more practicing. I I signed up for these events 'cause I'm gonna be going anyway just to hang out with some buddies. but if the cars together I'd I I wanna race. I don't like I don't like watching people race too much. I don't I enjoy it, but it's Much rather be out there doing it, you know. MitsuTimes Josh: No doubt. It gets old real fast. Devon@STM: Yeah. I will definitely try and do well get a lot more C time. and then I'd like to try and go to bigger, different events further away and try and put some real effort into that. MitsuTimes Josh: I will say caveat to what I just said. The time it doesn't get old for me is World Cup Finals. Obviously I know I'm never gonna have a car there, so I'd love to just go and watch. Devon@STM: Yeah, I I've not been to World Cup final yet. It's definitely on my list. we'll see, maybe I can make it this year. One event I do want to run the car at, World Cup Finals or sorry, FL two K would be cool. that's mainly 'cause I just want a Florida trip with the car. another one that is kind of a l a little bit of a dream event is like like a sick week event. I don't think anybody's ever done it in a Nevo before. I think I know there's some DSMs. But that's definitely a really cool event that try and make it too with some car at some point. MitsuTimes Josh: Yeah, no doubt. I if if anyone's done it with Evo, I certainly haven't seen any pictures or videos of it, so that would that would Devon@STM: No, I haven't. I've had my eye out 'cause I'd if I see it I wanna like root for and It's it's awesome. Awesome event. I think it's cool with the guys are out there putting thousands of miles on their car that they're also running really fast times at. I think it's probably one of the hardest racing events w without a doubt. As far as drag racing goes for sure, but What the car has to go through through that week is insane. MitsuTimes Josh: Exactly. Not to not only make those hits like you're saying, but to drive hundreds of miles but you know, in in the Florida heat or or wherever it is to get to Devon@STM: Yeah. MitsuTimes Josh: the next track is it's crazy. Devon@STM: Yeah, what alone the heat. I I can only imagine what these how these guys' asses feel after that. Especially if they got like curkeys in their car. MitsuTimes Josh: I was about to say on on a curky. Yeah. Said on a position. Devon@STM: Okay. yeah. You gotta get one of those like in carton seats you just to see all the commercials for. You know. MitsuTimes Josh: Yeah. So, Devin, obviously you're around a lot of Evos, you you are given, you know, recommendations to customers and stuff like that. I wanna talk about from your perspective, what advice would you give someone if they're looking to just build a quick and I know I know that quick is subjective, H pattern Evo, you know, still shifting it, all that stuff without sacrificing street ability. Devon@STM: It's you just gotta put an FP red on it and be done. Or just leave it stock and drive the hell out of the car. the FP Red's definitely the the best like street streetcar setup. Like it's two liter with an FP Red, stock ECU, put some like ID 1300s in it, E eighty five, and obviously you get you some STM parts, exhaust, intercooler intake. but yeah make like five hundred you can you can make into the four hundreds with on ninety three is on our Mustang Dino and you can drive the car for practically forever. You can drive it anywhere. MitsuTimes Josh: Kind of a cheat code. Devon@STM: Yeah, it's proven time and time again there's so many cars out there that have F P reds and they they just drive MitsuTimes Josh: Well, Devin, l where can people find and follow you and and the car on social media so they can see some more of what you're doing with this thing? Devon@STM: Yeah, it's Devon at STM on Instagram or Devin Cronin on Facebook. Then the shop might post some stuff. So STM tuned on Instagram and Facebook. Hopefully we'll do some more racing. Maybe I can make it to the shootout land wild in the valley this year, as long as everything goes to plan. MitsuTimes Josh: Definitely hoping that comes to fruition 'cause obviously I love seeing the car in action. Devin at at the end I always give people a chance to give a thanks or a shout out to anybody who's helped get the car where it is, anybody who's helped get themselves where they are personally. Is there anybody that you want to give a thanks or a shout out to? Devon@STM: Yeah, absolutely. all the guys here at STM, Tim, he's been helping a lot with the fabrication stuff. Emery here at STM too. Obviously wouldn't have the drive if it wasn't for him or even work here. obviously I'm related to him, but stuff we've been a big inspiration and a lot of the reason I've done that stuff. Gotta sh gotta shout out the moms. You know, wouldn't be here for her. Wouldn't be here if it wasn't for. she supports all the the dumb Mitsubishi stuff and all the toys. Then just gonna call out Kidani. MitsuTimes Josh: Love it. Gotta call out. Devon@STM: Yeah. We've we've got a bet going. so he owes me a hundred bucks right now. He just doesn't know it yet. MitsuTimes Josh: Go ahead and pull that out of the bank. Devon@STM: Yeah, yeah, hold on. Need blue strips. MitsuTimes Josh: Make sure you check it for intensity. Devon@STM: Yeah, twenty seventeen or newer, nothing older. MitsuTimes Josh: All right, Devin. Well it's been an absolute pleasure, man. I I I thank you so much for coming on and and telling your story, telling the story of your car. I can't wait to see what else you do this year. I wish you the best of luck with this six four six setup. And yeah, thank you again. Devon@STM: Yeah, I appreciate it. It was awesome.