This hemi won..... against a ford....

So I'm driving my daily driver, my SRT8 Charger, and I'm sitting at a left hand light to hop on the freeway. I'm on the inside or far left lane, it's a 2 lane left turn onto the freeway and up pulls a 4.6L mustang in the next lane, its a 95 to 98 version. He has a little lopey idle, lowered, after market wheels, all the basics... sounds good by the way....

so we take off and since I'm on the inside I just keep it in 1st and wait until we both get through the turn and are going straight.... he gets on the gas enough to get even with me and once he's there I nail it and so does he. Once I shift to 2nd...and chirp by the way...:TU: .... his front bumper is now about even with my front tire, so I had pulled a few feet. By the time I shift to 3rd, his bumber is about where my rear tire is.....:TU: .... I stay on it for another 2-3 seconds and continue to pull. Since we're merging onto a freeway and our 2 lanes merge to one.... I tap my brakes to say.... "hey, it's over for now and time to let off, the lane is thinning out and we have to merge on the freeway"..... So what does he do.... he goes around me on the shoulder and when he's driving by he gives me the "waver" of the hand.... no a "wave" like cool man.... No... he gives me the waver like you're telling someone "so-so"......:af: ......

WTF..... punk kid just got punked by a 4200lb 4-door sedan with 2 car seats in the back....empty of course......and a trunk that has softball gear... kickboxing gear and eight 20lb round stones becasue I'm making a walkway from our patio through my grass to another little patio.....

I just wanted to slap the kid and knock some sense into him.....

My 07 Charger has the simple basic mods...a CAI, a canned Diablo 91 octane California gas tune and I replaced the rear exhaust from axle back, the exhaust does little if anything for performance, it just sounds better.

I wish I was driving the GSX..... would have put a BEATING on that boy he would not forget for a long.... long..... time.

L8

 

Sweet! How do you like that charger? My roommate has an 08 V6. It's quick for a V6 but no match for my hemi ram!

 

it's a great car. Big, roomy, fast, and handles good. I had a CTS-V before this, the CTS-V handled better and was more predictable when driving it hard, but shifting the 6-speed every day got a little old.

The Charger is bigger also, more room for car seats and kid crap.

It makes 380RWHP~.... not bad

 

Damn, that's impressive

 

The wife has a black SRT8 Charger for a daily driver. She loves it. It was supposed to be a car we 'shared', but for some reason I never seem to get to drive it. Nice power and very comfortable, plus it sounds awesome when you get into it.

The brakes are probably the most impressive part of the car. Every car should come with brakes like it from the factory.

Only downfall is Iowa winters. She somehow gets around with it though. We got rid of the Goodyear F1 rubber (worn out in 15K miles) and put Yokohama Parada tires on it and it does much better in rain/snow.

At least once a week she has to tell me about some punk/ricer/wanna-be muscle car she had to shut down. Only car she claims to have lost to was 'some old Nova with a roll cage'.

 

At least once a week she has to tell me about some punk/ricer/wanna-be muscle car she had to shut down. Only car she claims to have lost to was 'some old Nova with a roll cage'.[/quote]

That's my kind of woman. I think she might be related to my wife. She used to take out my '52 Chevy "sleeper" & blow off some doors & raced her Dad's '55 when he wasn't around..

Thom