Well I drove my moms car for the first time in a while tonight and it felt weird. It either doesn't have the pull it used to, IM just used to my car now, or there is 600 lbs in the trunk. It has about 50k miles on it and is stock. But it was really weird casue when i mashed it it didnt feel like the tq and hp it used to have when the turbo would spool. Just wonderining if anyone has any input of what kind of lack of maintenance changhes the performance that much or is it casue im used to my car now. And by the way shes 43 and deffinatley doesn't beat the car and my dad keeps up on the oil changes. Any input is aprrecaited..

 

you need to work on your grammar, and your car might be faster right? if you drive a fast car for example your lancer, and than you drive a evo for awhile and then go back to the lancer, your gonna feel like the lancer is sluggish because you're use to the speed

 

its like having decent sex, (which u thought was good)

then having great sex...with a girl named chastity

then going back to the first girl and suddenly its not too good.

i dunno, is ur lancer faster?

 

is my grammar really that bad, they must have messed up when they gave me my degree lol. im a lil tired but anyway i don't know how quick my car is as I really never dynoed it or lined it up against anything else. Just wondering if anybody has noticed this type of thing with any of their cars.

 

i almost sold my car for a 02 WRX fairly recently. i've been getting followed by the cops again lately and i feel like the only way out of it is to get a car they won't recognize....but anyway. my brother has an 04 WRX and it pulls pretty nice. recently he noticed a problem with the turbo not spooling as quickly. it was mainly attributed to a vacuum leak between the turbo housing and the BOV. it wasn't anything major, just replaced it with some new line....all i can say is just poke around and make sure everything looks kosher. i know it's a b**** to do on the boxer engines but change the spark plugs. otherwise, maybe you just got used to driving a boosted lancer so the difference isn't so noticable.

 

Yeah, I've noticed it.

It doesn't matter how fast your car is. When you get into a slower one, it feels slower.

I went from my '69 Camaro (weekend road trip) to my '02 Lancer (daily driver). I thought I tapped the gas, but I pegged the redline.

Just the differences between cars. If you drove the Lancer for a week, you'd be used to it again. And it would feel fine.

 

well said

 

it still probably needs a tune up...i dont think that has been done yet...but i appreciate the input...

 

^^ then give it the long deserved tune up and let us know if there is a difference. check out:

www.clubwrx.net

for any subaru questions along the way. they have some good info.

 

So you are saying the WRX feels slower after driving your lancer? If so something is definatly wrong, it should feel much faster. After flooring it in my G/F's lancer and then doing the same in mine, it feels faster, but after going in a friends STi mine feels like it is slow.

 

^^ he's turbo'd. WRX's tend to feel slow with the AWD (indeed an illusion cause you are accelerating quicker....it's just more stable).

 

People don't like to read.

A turbo Lancer running 7lbs of boost will more than keep up with a stock WRX. It should be faster every time given drivers of similar ability. The WRX may be a nicer car, but (like the Lancer, only to a lesser degree) it simply isn't very fast stock.

 

obvious if he has a turbo lancer @ 7 psi he is putting down more power to the wheels than a wrx. what stage 1 IC has about 200whp. which is about 220-230 crank hp. a stock wrx has about 227 crank hp count in 25% AWD train loss will put it well below the 200whp a turbo lancer has. from a dig you cannot beat a wrx, but from a 10 mph roll onward you can own any stock wrx in a stage 1 turbo lancer. i might even toss up a non IC stage 0 lancer could keep up with a wrx from a roll.

 

Actually a lot of the early turbo Lancers at least claimed to be beating stock WRX's. I don't really doubt it either. I don't think it's a "win by a mile" situation, but the stock WRX is a mid-high 14 sec car. That's nothing a turbo Lancer can't do.

 

i am not boosted yet so i didn't want to make any statements i couldn't back up. i've only driven in one boosted lancer and it isn't comparable to your average lancer being force fed.....remember Joe? (liquidlancer) heheeh