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Old Jan 3, 2008, 09:23 PM
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how to get more torque

with the mods i've got plus adding adjustable cam gear 99 mirage cam RRM throttle body, is there any other way to get more torque out of our lancer
Old Jan 3, 2008, 09:31 PM
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Nitrous.
Old Jan 3, 2008, 09:34 PM
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Read the FAQ in my sig. You have a lot of possibilities like turbo, supercharger, ported head, high compression pistons, more aggressive cam, professional tuning or like colo evo said, nitrous.
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your losing torque with some of your mods!!
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Old Jan 3, 2008, 10:18 PM
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Originally Posted by sa town ridah
your losing torque with some of your mods!!
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yea i know, but i want to gain some of those torque but i dont wanna remove any of my mods
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Realistically you're probably close to stock in terms of power right now. You will have traded horsepower for torque though (at least that's what happened to me). If you want gobs of torque, buy a different car or turbo the lancer. NA mods won't turn it into a beast.
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or throw some insane light wheels and do a big weight reduction and make it seem like it has more power!!
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Originally Posted by sa town ridah
or throw some insane light wheels and do a big weight reduction and make it seem like it has more power!!
i got 16'' lightweight rims, i was thinking about throw away all 4 doors trunk.
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? You plan on taking off the doors and the trunk? If you want to be as fast as possible, you should change to 15" rims, spend thousands on the CF doors from Seibon and completely rip out the interior. Realistically I doubt that's an option if this is your daily driver, and more importantly, it won't make a 17 second car a 13 second car.
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Originally Posted by Noe18
i got 16'' lightweight rims, i was thinking about throw away all 4 doors trunk.
i dought there as light as they say
my 17s are considered light weight wheels and yet they weight 21 lbs
im saying some jdm wheels like bbs that weight around 7 lbs
and wtf doors ? if you really wanna make it light throw cf hood , trunk , remove carpet remove seats and only leave drover seat (bride seat)
but then yet im thinking your only going to be running low 16s maybe maybe even 15 's if its 5 speed and u know how to drive it good
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My car broke 15's even before it was turbo'd. I removed all the seats except driver seat, removed all panels, ran short short ram intake and open DP lol, umm...jacked up my rear end and slammed the front, and my trunk was emptied to the bare metal lol. I already had the CF hood at the time. I'm forgetting some other things I did but with a good launch and decent shifting, it hit high 15's believe it or not lol. But it took all that just to break high 15's which is kinda sad when stock NA Hondas can do them all day without any weight reduction what-so-ever. Oh and minor bolt-ons.

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Originally Posted by ihearthondas
My car broke 15's even before it was turbo'd. I removed all the seats except driver seat, removed all panels, ran short short ram intake and open DP lol, umm...jacked up my rear end and slammed the front, and my trunk was emptied to the bare metal lol. I already had the CF hood at the time. I'm forgetting some other things I did but with a good launch and decent shifting, it hit high 15's believe it or not lol. But it took all that just to break high 15's which is kinda sad when stock NA Hondas can do them all day without any weight reduction what-so-ever. Oh and minor bolt-ons.
yea but hondas do that when swapped or a sports edition like si but i dought a stock d16 in a ek will run a 15 , more like around 17

a si would run about a 15

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^^lol of course. I was referring to more along the lines of the "sporty-er" Hondas such as ITR/GSR Integras, RSX's, Civic SI's, and maybe Preludes. An OZ is considered as the "sporty" Lancer but it goes nowhere near 15's stock. You are right about the lower end trims, though. I do know for a fact that an unswapped EF with its original D-Series motor is in the 20's because my friend ran his haha
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I helped him out with the rims...they're 15" Konig feathers @ about 11.7ish lbs per.
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Pretty good but lightening the car doesn't make torque (obviously). The best option by far is to turbo the car, that'll make plenty of torque and open you up to more potential mods if you want more power.


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