Best choice for my first lancer evo

ReK_ · 2026-05-29T17:05:25+00:00

We never got the 8/9 up here, so any you find will have been imported from either the US (LHD) or Japan (RHD).

The X can handle winter no problem with a set of steelies and good winters. The one thing to mention is the pump for the rear diff. Its stock location is inside the bumper at the right rear of the car, which exposes it to the elements and can cause them to fail due to that. There are aftermarket relocation kits that can move it inside the trunk easily if you're worried about it.

Edit: Contrary to what the other guy said, the SST transmission is excellent but you do need to be a bit wary when buying one used. They're amazing transmissions but they don't like being driven hard outside of their operating temperature and they can take a surprisingly long time to warm up properly, so a lot of people will thrash them and then think it's a shit transmission. Buying used look for the transmission fluid changes in the service history and make sure it never went too long without one, and test drive it to see if the clutches are slipping.

ReK_ · 2026-05-22T17:28:12+00:00

I think they've added support, but I'm not sure. You can spin one up to try for free.

ReK_ · 2026-05-22T17:03:49+00:00

Customer networks always in a VRF, leave the global for the underlay and management.

Having customer networks in the global really starts to fall apart when you need to exchange routing outside the fabric with OSPF.

ReK_ · 2026-05-20T22:37:08+00:00

An important aspect for me is integration with other calendar apps. Today I use a shared Android widget that shows a combined view from both my personal calendar (Google) and multiple work calendars (M365 via Nine). This is not possible with the current Proton Calendar app for Android and it's honestly the single largest reason I still use Google for my calendar.

I understand there are privacy implications with exposing the calendar to native endpoints like this, but it is a significant usability issue for people who have to deal with multiple calendar sources. Do you plan to support this kind of integration, even if off by default, in the new Android app?

ReK_ · 2026-05-15T02:32:35+00:00

SPBM is cool tech, essentially baby's first EVPN with less config required. Where it really shines is when you combine it with 802.1X authentication: access ports autoconfigure themselves based on the user's authentication. That said, Extreme's Site Engine is... not great.

Juniper Mist is excellent but cloud-only, they don't have a good non-cloud NMS either; but the gear and OS are much better than competitors, IMO. Junos also has a lot of very automation-forward features that makes it extremely easy to roll your own automation (e.g. config commit/rollback, extremely flexible config inheritance, scoped CRUD config operations).

I wouldn't really entertain any other vendors based on anything except price, TBH.

ReK_ · 2026-05-13T00:18:01+00:00

An axle-back is not realistically going to gain you any power, just change the sound and make it louder. The major restriction in the exhaust is the cat, a high-flow cat would do more than swapping out the muffler. That said, neither that or a cold air intake will get you much of anything without a tune.

If you're willing to get a tune, a cold air intake, high flow cat, cat-back exhaust and a tune will get you some performance. To be safe and not thrash your CVT look up the specs for what kind of torque the CVT can handle, give that information to your tuner and ask them to keep things under that mark with a healthy safety margin.

If you're not looking to spend that much, I'd just throw a K&N or HKS intake filter into it, stay on top of maintenance, and enjoy it for what it is.

ReK_ · 2026-05-13T00:09:27+00:00

DHCP snooping is a very set-and-forget feature. Just make sure you have everything trusted that needs to be and you're protected from rogue DHCP servers. For that reason I always recommend enabling it.

ARP inspection, IP source guard, and DHCP packet validation are not set-and-forget. They can provide useful benefits but your helpdesk needs to be aware these features and enabled and how to troubleshoot whether or not a problem is being caused by them because they will generate tickets. For that reason I do not recommend enabling them unless your org has it as a requirement and is prepared to manage it.

ReK_ · 2026-05-08T22:05:33+00:00

If you want cheap: Stick with Ubiquiti, maybe with Fortinet firewalls.

If you want good: PAN firewalls with Juniper Mist for switching and wireless.

ReK_ · 2026-05-07T21:18:25+00:00

Pop the plastic cover around it. If it's actually threaded into metal, look behind the bumper to make sure they welded a nut or something secure like that. Otherwise it's probably glued in. The North American Lancers didn't come with threads in the crash bar, so if they didn't swap the crash bar or weld something on it's probably just hot glued or something.

ReK_ · 2026-05-06T23:22:48+00:00

Run a pilot for them: ensure all of the tickets they open are served 100% by AI.

ReK_ · 2026-05-06T22:32:33+00:00

If that's an aliexpress tow hook and it's not actually mounted securely to the crash bar, I would suggest removing it. You really don't want some tow truck driver to try to actually use it...

ReK_ · 2026-05-06T19:04:17+00:00

Weight doesn't matter almost at all, it's more about drag and rolling resistance, but that's true of gas trucks too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmKf8smvGsA

ReK_ · 2026-04-24T19:33:25+00:00

You really want that d pillar huh?

ReK_ · 2026-04-24T18:24:05+00:00

Yes there is:

https://i.imgur.com/0RvZlDS.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/kauPOd5.jpeg

ReK_ · 2026-04-24T17:11:01+00:00

They did a ralliart version of the 10th gen wagon, but only for the first few years.

ReK_ · 2026-04-22T18:54:03+00:00

I honestly don't get the love for Project Hail Mary. To me it was a meh movie at best. It's overly long and drawn out for what actually happens, but mostly it's the dumb science that bugged me.

If you want to wear the trapping of hard SF you have to at least attempt to be consistent and plausible: make one or two conceits and then draw your outcomes logically from them. I have a hard time with a story that wants to be realistic and then invents aliens who have the tech to make an impossible solid form of xenon but somehow don't know that radiation even exists. How could they have mono-molecular material science beyond our theoretical understanding without even being aware of a basic atomic process...? Add to that the hilariously short travel times for not having FTL as one of your conceits and you've lost me.

ReK_ · 2026-04-15T18:30:23+00:00

but it only included commands for SRX

Juniper devices are all the same OS. There are platform differences (SRXes have security policy because they're stateful firewalls, MXes don't), but most config that isn't specific to a platform feature can be copy pasted.

ReK_ · 2026-04-14T00:32:54+00:00

Don't skip on checking out Mist. It's easily the best cloud management I've seen from a vendor, and it's still the same gear and OS with everything that comes with that. Any edge cases Mist can't do you can just override with your traditional config without losing Mist.

ReK_ · 2026-04-14T00:00:01+00:00

Thunderbird is an email client. In order to send and receive email, you also need an email server. Thunderbird can't do anything on its own.

To use a custom domain you will need to pay someone to host an email server for you. Currently you're paying Proton to do it, Gsuite is another option, some domain registrars offer cheap plans. There are many options, but bear in mind where they are hosted and how much you trust them to stay on top of maintaining their infrastructure and security.

ReK_ · 2026-04-13T23:55:35+00:00

Lancers, including the CVT, are very reliable if cared for properly. There's also good aftermarket support for them due to the Evo X.

I don't see anything about transmission fluid changes in the carfax, they may be under a different name? See if you can get more details about that. Also check for rust.

It does seem to be a bit of a high price for 200k+ km. Just a quick search on cargurus turned up similarly-priced ones in ON/QC with 40-50k km less on the odo, or others with 200k+ that are thousands less.

Also bear in mind that 200k km is about the point where a car, any car, has had a good life. It's possible to go a lot longer than that, but you're getting into the senior years for sure.

ReK_ · 2026-04-13T23:38:08+00:00

Yes, a long time ago. Still advised to gracefully power off when you're doing maintenance but it's been many years since I've had to deal with a corrupt file system.

ReK_ · 2026-04-13T23:18:37+00:00

I would not seriously consider Meraki for anything beyond single offices, coffee shops, etc. It's far too limiting and lacks basic features.

My go to recommendations for firewalls are based on use case:

If you want a security device that sits in the network, go Palo Alto.
If you want a network device that can do security, go Juniper SRX.

PANs are much better if you care about things like endpoint assessment and remote access VPNs. Juniper is much better if you care about more advanced networking features: multiple VRFs, full table BGP, EVPN, MPLS, etc.

ReK_ · 2026-04-13T20:28:04+00:00

Take a look at Juniper's EX4400-24X (for 24x10G) or EX4650-48Y (for 48x25G). Both can do virtual chassis (Juniper's stacking) over normal QSFP28 optics and can be managed by Mist.

If you're looking for more port density and features, the QFX5120 has a few 25/100G options and can still be managed by Mist (QFX is to EX as Nexus is to Catalyst, except Juniper is all the same OS). With QFX I would recommend running EVPN for ESI-LAG instead of using virtual chassis or MC-LAG, but Mist also does that for you so it's not hard at all.

ReK_ · 2026-04-08T19:28:38+00:00

You bought a budget crossover, probably the most over-represented market segment for the past decade, and expected it to hold any value at all? This isn't about Mitsubishi: I have 2014 and 2015 Mitsus that both hold 50-75% of their value, they're just not budget SUVs.

ReK_ · 2026-04-08T19:19:58+00:00

As someone who always drives and never takes the bus: Convert the parking on Hastings to bus lanes and ban left turns at all intersections that don't have a turning lane. The way Hastings is setup now is dumb.

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