SRT-4 owners and fans look at this. http://www.caranddriver.com/article....&page_number=8 This modified SRT-4 was even able to beat a Lotus Elise and was able to do it at a very competitive price.

 

yea, i read that article. a few things that don't make sense at ALL however.

first off, how the hell do you put 15k into the motor? 5200 on a built block, 3600 on s3..... and where did the other 5k go? doesn't make a whole lot of sense. putting out a reported 452hp/476 tq is great and all, but then explain how it does a 13.4@111? now i know that traction sucks with street tires so that explains the 13.4, but a trap of 111? that's very low.

 

Only thing I can figure is that Gary was running the 1/4 in pit lane on top of a lot of debris (from what I hear) and that he had mad traction issues. The car should be capable of low to mid 11's, I agree.
Luckily the test wasn't about straightline performance, but balanced and efficient machines. A little better braking, and some launch traction and the car would have been not only by far the top fwd vehicle(which it already is), but up there with the top 4wd/rwd cars.

It was, note, the only fwd car that could have and should have been tested up to 140. They had to dumb it down to 130 for the fwd cars because of his competition. He was in a different class.

Other items to note: - on his 5th run he pulled a 12.17 quarter at 109.5 with a 0-60 of 5.26. 12.17 with a crappy 5.26 0-60 indicates that the car is capable of times in the 11's for sure. By the distances in braking, I would assume that the q-compound wildwood pads weren't up to operating temperature.

 

What was it that I heard they found out later that the pads were boxed wrong and were not the right compound?
15K and 13.4? ! ?

 

Careful guys... I got ripped to shreds for daring to question those numbers put up by the almighty Howell SRT.

https://dodgeforum.com/m_309122/tm.htm

 

they are just defending themselves. honestly howel has been very secrative about this car, not really telling anyone what's in it. MChat made some inncorrect assumptions also on that thread about the car (ex: how do you figure that 450 crank hp equates to 375 wheel, and 300 with no hom? that's way off) and howell defended himself against them.

my only comment is that even in a car putting down a reported 450 hp, a trap speed of 111 is insanley low. i get no traction either on badly prepped tracks, and even blowing vacuum lines i'm trapping higher than that. even with bad track prep and bad launching, and bad street tires, trap speeds should still be fairly high. that's why we see runs like a 12.5@124.

 

I couldn't get him to discuss his mods, either, which is weird if he's a vendor.

Gary, what are you continuing to hide?