lancers are not slow cars at all not even one bit

 

Id trust him.

 

you get what you pay for

 

Omar definately did get what he paid for.

 

That is not a rule. Those letters could mean anything and nothing. You can't apply them from one brand to another. "ES" for Chrysler/Dodge products is their top of the line on some of their cars, not their economy packages.

 

i guess some eve owners get dumb.. its like comparin a civic to an NSX.. we know that our lancers is in the "econo" car level.. we are not even close to an evo.. but hey.. i think lancers are actually better than regular civics.. some civic owners get cocky to because they have B-series engines, which is a totally different story again.. but civic 4door versus a lancer 4door, i would take the lancer... i guess you just have high standards.. the lancer is an alright econo car.. and if were talkin about cars in its class.. the lancer isnt actually THAT slow..

 

i only skimmed and scanned the first 2 pages and it doesn't seem like it was mentioned more than once -->pistons....weak as hell.

 

yeah pistons on the lancer dont hold well under boost, i guess the rods dont either? in anycase, that is a definite change needed when u push boost past 7 or 8 psi

 

well i think is a fun car to drive, specially when turning, it accelerates the most, at stock is a cow, but if u modd it, ull get way better than stock thats for sure!, and also if u think about it civics all got vtec we have mivec ,but our engines dont have vavle timing ,so can this hurt us ,is this why our cars are so slow?

 

the pistons will go before the rods will on the lancer...but yes, the rods are weak as well.

 

Only ralliarts and evos have mivec, base lancers get nothing.

 

Up until this current new body style, base Civics didn't get VTEC either. Only the EX and Si.

 

That's hilarious!

 

I can't remember who posted this and i'm not entirely sure what it entails, but i heard that our gearing ratios in the lancer put us in the ranking of other cars rated with 20 or 30 more horsepower at the crank. so basically some civics and proteges and what not

 

You can't really compare a Civic to a Lancer- and I'm sure when people think racing and Civic they think CRX or at least the 2 door Civics. Civics are lighter and the engine responds better to basic mods (from what I've been told, never owned one). Now if the 4G94 engine was dropped into a Mirage coupe, kept the G93 IM and had the same gearing (which I like overall) and OZ suspension, you'd have a respectable little car... and that DIDN'T get compared to the fricking evo at every opportunity. Shizz everytime I go racing they say "there's the baby evo on track"

As for the list of weakness I'd say weight (but what're you gonna do, it's a sedan), then intake restrictions, restrictive cam, 2 cats, crimped exhaust and the name "Lancer" they really should have stuck with "Mirage" but Mitsu wanted to pre-hype the Evo- That's all stuff that could have been designed out of the car before they went to production. Weak pistons are only an issue for boosting or really messing an NA tune