DodgeForum.com - Neon vs. Hemi part 2

First off, no video....sorry yall.

If you read the first post, you know that my buddy's brother has a Hemi that he wants to make fast. Well, we raced again last night. Never side by side, but we both had crappy results.

Hemi- 15.38 from a previous best of 15.55. What makes this so bad is he just spent $2000 on a fiberglass functional ram air hood, exhaust, and 4.56 gears. I thought for sure he would drop about a half second, but nope, 2 tenths. Needless to say he's pissed and baffled. We are hoping he just needs to pick up a programmer when they come out for the new Hemi's. (No he has not installed his Nitrous ....yet, but it's setting at his house ready to go on)

Neon- 14.16 from a previous best of 13.86. I just installed a new intake manifold and exhaust. I know the exhaust is good to go, so I'm thinking I might have lost a tad of power on the top end with the intake swap. My car feels stronger on the street (more low end torque) but I lost 3 tenths at the track. Now it was about 20 degrees cooler when I went my 13.86 and my car had a fresh tune up and clean K and N. So maybe I just need to get off my ass and tune her up and go back.

Either way it was fun as hell!! If you are ever in central Florida, come on down to Desoto Speedway!!

Rick

PS- there was a Viper RT-10 street car that went 10.05!!!!!!!! STREET CAR!!!! Also About 6 SRT-4's, and a whole bunch of know it all ricers in Hondas that were to fast and to furious[:-]!!