#1 mod for more power
Jul 17, 2003, 10:28 PM
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#1 mod for more power
you guys may hate me for this, but from your experience, what would be a good mod to start with to give my 02 oz lancer a little more power. hopefully within a tight budget. thanks
it's an automatic if that makes any difference.
it's an automatic if that makes any difference.
Jul 17, 2003, 10:42 PM
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I started out with most easiest thing to start with, a CAI, when I replaced all the stock crap with this, I noticed a big difference, but i'm not sure if the CAI fits on auto's or not
Jul 17, 2003, 10:44 PM
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I have an automatic, too. The first thing i did, that costed me absolutely nothing, was tear out most of my air box, and there you go... A bootleg intake!Since we have that honeycomb filter-like thing in the back part of our airbox, nothing can get in. At least nothing all that harmful. People will probably be bashing me for this, but I've yet to have any problems as a result of this, and it does leave you with a noticible power gain. Not to mention it sounds nice as hell!!!
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Jul 17, 2003, 11:08 PM
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RMR has a short ram for 165 and RRM has one for 150? i cant remember exactly check these 3 websites for the most cost effective short ram intakes:
www.RMRProducts.com
www.RoadRaceMotorsports.com (i highly recommend them)
www.BuschurRacing.com
www.RMRProducts.com
www.RoadRaceMotorsports.com (i highly recommend them)
www.BuschurRacing.com
Jul 17, 2003, 11:11 PM
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Nope, no filter! Just suckin in a lot of air. My best friend had an 89 RX-7 that didn't have a filter, and he drove it like that for a year and it never caused any problems, so I'm confident my Lancer will be ok
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u do know that it's not only the large thing that'll mess up your engine..dirt and other **** in the air is kinda bad for the engine in the long run if im not mistaken..bud do whatever u want, i dont care 
it's your car so whatever
it's your car so whatever
Jul 17, 2003, 11:24 PM
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yeah, don't go doing what lillancerboy did, not having any filter on your car is one of the worst things you can do.. mine as well just rip off the MAS and run straight TB... since you are already ruining your engine.... one thing you can do that is rather cheap is search this site for home made SRI or CAI.. you can pretty much make your own intake for the car for under 30bucks... nice and cheap and works just as well as most of the 100+ kits... course you cant beat some of the pre-fab kits because they have the #s to back up what they did, but you should still notice an increase in power and the sound above 3k rmp is awesome!
EDIT: a CAI (unless home/shop fabricated) won't fit an auto lancer
the transmissions is too large to fit the piping... goto home
depot and get some 3" dryer venting piping and make your
own pipes for a CAI.. lots of people have done it!
EDIT: a CAI (unless home/shop fabricated) won't fit an auto lancer
the transmissions is too large to fit the piping... goto home
depot and get some 3" dryer venting piping and make your
own pipes for a CAI.. lots of people have done it!
Last edited by psionic98; Jul 17, 2003 at 11:26 PM.