Power differences between Series 1 and 2 VR4s

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I've been hunting around on the net looking for info on the differences power wise between the Pre face-lift and face-lift models, no where i have found say's there is major differences in the motors but i came accross these two sites tho, they have information on all the models by production month/year. It seems to me that the 96 models with an auto were 260hp but the manuals were 280hp and after that both the manuals and autos are 280hp???

Have a look i'm intrested in know what other people get out of this info i would of thought the autos would produce less power because the motor has to run the auto box tourque convertor etc but i'm no mechanic


http://english.auto.vl.ru/catalog/mitsubishi/legnum/
http://www.cars-directory.net/specs/mitsubishi/legnum/

Prefacelift Auto = 260hp (incl Super VR-4)
Prefacelift Manual = 280hp

Facelift Auto = 280hp
Facelift Manual = 280hp