I have a stock thunder grey automatic lancer. Now i have alot of friends with crappy cars that i know i can beat. I wanna beat them the right way( not just hitting the gas) can someone with more experience explain how to race the automatic? Please step by step thx.

 

Just start in L and shift through at red line. Really nothing to it....if you want to get a jump off the line though, you'll need to put some serious abuse on the tranny to achive anything substantial.

 

You don't

 

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Put the car in first, drop the clutch at a few thousand RPMs, look in the rearview at the auto Lancer.

Seriously, there are 4-5 threads on this already. I'm moving this to the newbie forum. Please take the time to look for the other ones because we've got a ton of duplicate threads as is.

 

no good way to race. i race mine by putting it in D and stepping on it when the time comes.

Jeff: Redline might be too high to shift as power starts to drop off after 5800 or so. so maybe shift just before.

 

eh.. :-\ some people mash the break down... hit the accel right before you go (with the break down) -- get it up to 2000rpm ... then release the break and floor the accel -- but who knows..

- rob

 

1)put it in D
2)put hand brake on
3)punch it and spin the tires
4)realease hand brake
5)say goodbye to the other lancer behind you

=)

 

Vince, power USED to drop at 5800, cam keeps making power past redline.

 

you sell it and get a manual

 

well fine then, laaa te da...


not all of us (or anyone else really) has that luxury heheh

 

i had a AT 97 prelude b4 i got the lancer what i did was:
1)put at neutral holdin brakes
2)rev up to 3/3500rpm
3)let go of brake and pull shifter to L (flooring it)
Note: do this at ur own risk. Tranny may start to slip if this method is used continuously.

 

Also i forgot to mention if u do not want to do a "neutral drop," u can always what i call "griping." what you do is start on the D and cruise normally until 3000rpm and then push to neutral and floor it up to 5/5500RPM, pull it back to D and ur set the whole way.(Again do this at ur own risk) this method is like double clutching except without a cluth and only do this ONCE in the beginning of the race. this method believe it or not will go alil over redline if u do this correclty.(6,300 or more RPM)

 

You don't.

 

anopther thing im not fimiler with the auto lancer dose it have a eltric over drive if it dose you can gain a few ponys by turing it off