hi ppl well i got my headers and went to the drags and i was clocking 18.5 so so but i dont undersatnd why i got headers, with a straight flow exhust, a cold air intake and the ligth crank pully. and yea im auto but still i felt slow at the track but at the street i feel fast any one got a good idea for me where and what i could do to fix my problem cuz there was this one guy that was there same aas me but no cold air nor pully and he was beattting me but he was mt. so some one could help me on what i could do

 

Sri.

 

Are you running with no cats? What size piping are you using?

 

Probably no low end torque due to no cats and/or too big exhaust and/or headers.

 

I'm sorry, but mod for mod a MT will take the AT to school. And yes to the loss of backpressure issue...

 

All exhaust mods=no torque. CAI isn't enough to overcome those exhaust mods. Lancer needs backpressure

 

you can only make a lancer especially an auto if you go turbo even with turbo still not fast enough imo

 

its a lancer

 

The AT issue is the shiftpoints- they're way too soon. So that'll slow you down right there. Then there's the issue I've been preaching for years: backpressure. People don't freaking believe me when I say a small engine needs at least the cat and no bigger than 2.25" piping (and for basic mods this only helps way up in the RPM range, but you don't really get that because your AT is shifting early). Sorry, that's a hotbutton issue for yours truly

If you removed the 2nd cat (tht is, if you're running a "test pipe"), put ithe cat back where it was. Get some intake-side and fuel management mods: Throttle body, IM, piggyback of some sort. Got to a SRI with a ram air duct from the front fender. Are you removing the trunk liner, tools and spare? Did you take the two heavy roller thingys off the front bumper? Do all that and you just saved like 60#. You'll still be slower than most MTs but at least you'll be a little faster on the drag strip.

 

What exact;y are those roller things? what do they do?

 

Last I heard they were an engine vibration damper. I have had mine off for over a year and haven't noticed any negative results.

 

the roller things behind the bumpers? I thought those were crash gaurd things, helping somehow if you crash. But BTW how did you manage to get a cold air intake on an auto? cutom piping? But you will get better low end with a short ram. for a lancer with anything short of a turbo, you definately dont need any more than a nice muffler to open it up a bit and get a good sound, any more than that doesnt really help (aside from headers or DP).

 

That's the other guess, but we couldn't figure out how they'd help in a crash. I guess I should maybe check the service manual when I get home I can't see them being mandatory and I haven't seen them on any other car I've crawled under.... but I could be wrong- DEAD WRONG!!!! <cue cheesey horror music>

 

I run 2.5 and my car pulls perfectly fine.

 

What are your 1/4 mile times? Because that's the orig poster's issue; it feels fine on the street but his stip numbers are leaving a lot to be desired.