There are many sides in our combined world of interests. Off side for footballers, port side for sailors, good side for models, Dark side for Jedis and of course the sunny side for breakfast. For Evo maniacs, there's only one side that truly matters when it comes to spicing up their rides' showability: Veilside!

That is the overriding theme of this article. A display of how the customisation of even the most stereotypical of performance can be approached in a more creative mould. The norm for owners of Mitsubishi's rally-bred super saloon is to further increase all the strong points of the factory specced car. More torque, more grip, more response, more electronic trickeries, more aggression and simply more of everything.

And due to the nature of the car that unceasingly demands these kind of aftermarket enhancements, Evo owners (Malaysians at least) tend to promote a more functional albeit racer-ish look to their prized road warriors. Race car like decals and carbon fibre everything are favourites to make the Evo look even more pared down and ready to dish out its superlative performance.

Links Dyno Tune certainly knows all about these Evo types, having fettled with countless numbers of them from to diverse states of tune for their elite client base. Yet when Links' top man Kee made an Evo purchase, he went for the VII GT-A. We've actually done a first coverage on the car back in Vol. 40 when it was only lightly tuned up and painted in deep magenta. The state of tune has remained pretty much unchanged till today.

It was a significant footnote for us too, not for the car but because it was our guy Cimatt's first published feature article. But it did strike us a bit odd that Links had chosen the more muted automatic version. It turns out that the car was meant for daily use, running errands and other such mundane stuff and it was also to be the test mule for the development of Links' own Japanese sourced Grippen brake system.

(The rest of the article can be found in Hypertune Vol. 50)

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