id say get some nice rims, some tint, maybe a rrm intake so it sounds sorta nice lol, front lip kit maybe.

i bought mine as a es and if you click the pic I bought gts rims from a guy on here for 350 shipped and my fiance bought me a gts wing. good luck

 

thanks everyone i have the spoiler i got tints and hids...i was thinking about buying rims but winter is coming now so it would be kinda pointless they would just sit for months so im thinking about dropping it first.

 

if winter is coming why would you want a drop first? :P

 

coilovers will actually give you the best bang for the buck if your goal is to make your car faster.

 

Not necessarily, coilovers simply give the illusion of being faster since they lower the car and stiffen up the ride. I've yet to see someone actually post back to back tests at a track proving that the cheap coilovers offered for the Lancer improve performance.

 

You might be right about cheap coilovers. However considering the body roll on a lancer ES, I think that even cheap coilovers with a proper alignment would help. It would need to be set up to understeer less which is the number 1 problem.

 

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Body roll is not always the problem and surprisingly, you can actually increase body roll when you lower a car. Understeer is a completely different issue that can be addressed in a cheaper way, get a rear sway bar and an alignment. There's no need to run out and spend 1000$ on a set of crappy coilovers (and unfortunately the current offering are crappy).

 

Lets see what Tein comes up with. I'm hoping their coilovers will be decent for the price. A friend of mine has a wrx with Megan coilovers and that thing breaks your back on long trips.

 

yeah just save up for an evo. There are some lancer guys on here that have their lancers in the 13's and even 12's. And yeah the little money you make over the summer wont cut it. Join the army, become a combat engineer, and maybe you will be lucky to have me as your drill sergeant. Once you graduate you can work on that evo lol

 

The problem with Tein is that you need to buy their higher end coilovers to get a decent setup. Their Basic and Super Street systems are still cheap and come with a lot of trade offs. There's no way in hell I would use them on a daily driver. I'm against coilovers in general on a daily driver because they're unnecessary for the most part, I don't know of anyone that uses the height adjustment on regular basis, most just set it and forget it.

 

coilovers are good to adjust the height twice a year: before winter and after winter.

 

Most people don't seem to bother, they just run the same height year round. With the lower-end coilovers, you also run the risk of having the perches seize making adjustments impossible.

 

ambystom01 is this info your coming up with just a theory....not to mean but your shooting down everything anyone says on here.

 

Do you mean the info regarding coilovers as being stiff, etc? That's based on manufacturer supplied spring rates and published shock dynos. Read any magazine test, the japanese manufacturers are also the stiffest with the roughest ride. As far as quality is concerned, you can check how often they break or need servicing, it's not good.