My friend got hit by a drunk driver and it totaled his Mustang. He is now driving a Lancer as the loaner car. One of the other guys at work was telling me the Lancer would smoke my Protege so I said lets line up the beater and just see.


From a stop on a 3 count. I get a better launch (brake torqued). Got about a 1/3 of a car on him. Then it was even till 65 where we let off. Rolled up to the light and ran again from the light. I again got the launch and got a half a car then it was even till about 45 when I ever so slightly started to inch on him some more.

All in all I was happy with the outcome, but I would have thought the Protege would pull more on the Lancer

Lancer - 120HP 130 TQ Auto 2725lbs
Protege - 130hp 135TQ Auto 2835lbs

The only thing that was not even was I had 3/4 a tank of gas and I weigh 285. His was on empty and he weights only 160, so he did have a little bit more of an advantege.

I raced him the week before in a retal Malibu and smoke him by 4 cars to 70. I love racing the rentals.

 

Yeah i would think the lancer would be about even.. We just got a 2003 chevy cavalier 2 door as a rental i was very impressed with its power. I think its faster than my 1st gen protege but not sure it was a auto ...Jon

 

I've been wondering about those water-downed Americanized Lancers and how much power they had. I figured they would be slow. Good race though.

 

I had an opportunity to test drive one pretty hard last week. Pulls pretty good for a 120hp car. Especially in 5spd. I felt it drove better than the p5

 

I had the chance to drive the lancer it was an automatic and to be honest it was pretty quick. you mean to tell me that was the watered down version. I wonder how much they watered down the 350z before they bought over to america then.

 

Well Watered down compared to the 280hp AWD 2.0 dohc turbo intercooled lancer they get. But we will be getting it soon ...Jon

 

but that's not your garden variety Lancer, that's the vaunted LanEVO!!!!!!

not everybody in Japan drives LanEvos you know

 

Yup, he sure did

How tall are you by the way?

 

Yeah there stocklancer prob beats ares too ..Jon

 

I am 6'4" and 285. When I graduated HS I was 305 and was only 5'11".

Late growth spurts run in the family.

I dropped my bady fat % in half too.

Just got my bench to over 400 in the last 6months. Its been a long hard road.

 

Just 400 i do 1300