Charger SRT8
#1
04-23-2008, 11:54 AM
Charger SRT8
I was over at my friend's house getting some soldering advice seeing as I am soldering an injector processor unit together, and I mention that I've got my toy car with me. (04 2.0 SOHC Neon) He asks me if I want to run him. I ask him which car, seeing as he's got an autocross neon, a Charger SRT8, a hybrid Escape, and a Ram 2500. Naturally, he wants to play with the Charger. My eyes light up, with the car finally running decent.
We get out to the local bypass, me in front, and him behind. I gunned it a little bit to kinda gauge if I was gonna be in trouble with this thing or not, and he didn't fall back much.
So we got up to about 65mph, and were pacing each other. He jumped on it, and pulled about a half car ahead. I immediately jumped in front and by 125 or so, I was about 3 cars ahead.
We decided it would be fun times to run again, so we got out of the way of what little traffic was on the road, and paced each other again at about 70. This time, I hit the switch to make the boost controller open up to 21psi. He claims we were only going about 120, but my 120mph speedo was buried for quite a while, and I ran out of 4th gear, which is about 136mph and used a little bit of 5th. He was at least 10 cars back. Maybe 15.
I called him, and let him know that I didn't run higher boost the first run, and he was extermely surprised. He was confused that he could toast an SRT4 at 14psi with a 2.4L motor so easily, but I was faster than him with .4l less, and 4psi less. Proper tuning and power/weight ratios can turn an average car into a fast one apparently... And of course, I got the "Holy S***! That thing is retarded fast!" over the high boost run.
Now I really have to get this injector driver board installed so I can use the bigger injectors and run more boost. I really want to get it on the dyno and see what kind of track times it's making.
We get out to the local bypass, me in front, and him behind. I gunned it a little bit to kinda gauge if I was gonna be in trouble with this thing or not, and he didn't fall back much.
So we got up to about 65mph, and were pacing each other. He jumped on it, and pulled about a half car ahead. I immediately jumped in front and by 125 or so, I was about 3 cars ahead.
We decided it would be fun times to run again, so we got out of the way of what little traffic was on the road, and paced each other again at about 70. This time, I hit the switch to make the boost controller open up to 21psi. He claims we were only going about 120, but my 120mph speedo was buried for quite a while, and I ran out of 4th gear, which is about 136mph and used a little bit of 5th. He was at least 10 cars back. Maybe 15.
I called him, and let him know that I didn't run higher boost the first run, and he was extermely surprised. He was confused that he could toast an SRT4 at 14psi with a 2.4L motor so easily, but I was faster than him with .4l less, and 4psi less. Proper tuning and power/weight ratios can turn an average car into a fast one apparently... And of course, I got the "Holy S***! That thing is retarded fast!" over the high boost run.
Now I really have to get this injector driver board installed so I can use the bigger injectors and run more boost. I really want to get it on the dyno and see what kind of track times it's making.
#4
04-23-2008, 12:36 PM
RE: Charger SRT8
ORIGINAL: CamaroKid16
hell yea, neon or not, that's just damn impressive. More power to ya!
hell yea, neon or not, that's just damn impressive. More power to ya!
#6
04-23-2008, 02:16 PM
RE: Charger SRT8
you're calling bs on this guy, he's the guy that has the hp number match contest. IT's completely rebuilt and gutted. Fully believable!
