I guess u could say everything that rrm offers, but then again how far do u want to go with it. Are u staying N/A? How much money do u want to spend. All frustrating things to think about if u ask me. Idealy we all want to go turbo and think that its an atainable goal, but in my case, lets be real. I am in college haha

 

yes level 10 will service any torque converter, hell any torque converter rebuilding shop will, like TCI and a few others.

Not to burst your bubble but the LSD wont go into an Auto tranny. We run a transaxle and it just doesnt fit, it is for 5 speeds only.

 

All we got to do is get some smaller tires

 

i dont care if i am on 24" spinners as long as it isnt hubcaps. I forget who said it, but someone on here said that es stands for extremely stock. So true...

 

thats why i drive an es... lmao. Lighter than an oz.

 

well i chose the ES...cuz i found mine for 7500..yeah it had 33000 miles on it..but the other ES was black, didn't have the 'appearance' package...and had 12k miles and they wanted 11450 for it...so i chose the Thunder Gray ES with the Appearance Package...

that dealership at the time still wanted 18k for the 03 OZ's...and all 18 of them were AUTOS!!! i am thinkign about trading in my ES for a Manual.... seeing how i only paid 7.5k instead of 12-16k like some other people have...

HELL...i bought it...and thought about trading it into the other dealership that wanted 11k for there ES! lol..could of MADE some money off the car lol

 

the es is only 50 lbs lighter than the OZ

 

or if you have an auto ES there the same weight then. right?

 

yeh...only reason its heavier is cuz of the skirts and stuff added to it...imo.. STandard picks up pretty good if you know your impact points..u can out run an auto lancer at startup.. anything after that depends on how you shift..lol..

 

any1 here tried out and c what topspeed of lancer is? my lancer would do 120 but now does 110,wats wrong here???

 

I believe Vince (GuruDel) bought a manual for one reason only: so his wife could drive him home if he drinks too much beer

 

my auto es walked away form str8dvs OZ mine was stock he has cold air intake .This was on the freway . He kills me on the bottom end

 

well last week i ran against Fiesty, she has an Auto OZ and i have a 5-Spd, i am thinking the whole time, i got this on lockdown

well on the first run she takes off from me and keeps pulling and once she auto got into 5th i couldn't catch up

well about an hour later we ran again and this time i am off to a great start, 1st, 2nd and 3rd i keep ahead of her by 4-5 ft, once i am in 4th we are about nose to nose....i hit 5th and she pulls on me and she keeps going...

we're both completely stock, i just got my oz about 10 days ago, and that was the first time i tried running it competively...maybe still adjusting to this stick than my 98 dakota

plus the roads were soaking wet but i had new tires and she barely had any thread left on hers so that couldn't have been it.

this weekend we're meeting at the beach and i know i am not going home without spanking her silly...thats right Fiesty, your somebodies *****!

 

well dont shift into 5th, after all that is your overdrive gear. you should be able to hit like 110 in 4th so i dont think you should be racing higher than that.

remember the higher gear is not always better.

 

How to spank people at your level (well car level)

Shift faster than them:

i.You don't have to completly press in the clutch to shift gears... Sometimes I barely touch the clutch when I shift.

ii. 1-2 shifts are easy to do quickly... but quick 2-3 shifts are alot more trickier... Learn how to do that really quickly.

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Shift at the point where you'll land on either peak torque or near it... Because torque wins races... Not hp (but then agian, hp is a function of torque.. meh whatever... Just know where to shift)

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And finally... Feather you clutch when launching. Starting is key. <This is what I do to beat ferrari's.... For for the first second of the race lol.

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And answering this forum's question... if you loose to an automatic.. You know you suck.