[OTD]

So here is the deal.

I am an old school motorhead with a long history of Carb'ed V8 work.

I've been wanting to get my hands on a little tuner action for a while, but the biggest deal was "what if its not my thing"...I'll have a car with some money in it that I can't get back and I don't want...

I just scored a 04 Lancer with almost no miles on it and I thinking that, since it cost my almost nothing, I can make backa couple if I put it into it and don't like the result.

So the question is: 2 litre 4G94 Inline 4. What I have seen (and what it feels like behind the wheel) is that this puts out a stock 120 hp.

If I remove some junk and get its curb wieght to 2500 or so, and I can get its base horsepower to +175=-ish, than I have a pretty good power to wieght ratio. At least for a little, fat Mitsubishi.

Anyone out there have any expirence working with this motor?
I'm looking to do base upgrades and I don't want to spend more than 2500 if I don't have to. At least not yet. Like I said, I'm not in love with this 4 cyl tuning thing yet.

Any response would be awesome. Thanks.