Tuned SHO as fast as SRT8?

[Kolk1]

Before I had catless downpipes, I ran a SRT8 Challenger several times on the highway, and who ever got the bump, won. We were going from about 70-130. Who ever jumped out first, would hold that gap the whole race.

From a dig, ive beaten several SRT8 Chargers, and one SRT8 300C.

 

[bykr]

I will never see 12s. Curse u mile high city.

You need to move to the low country!

A new mod…. automatic pressurized 28% oxygen delivery compensator running at 760 mmHG through a barometer reading! 

Would that require a huge volume even for one pass.

 

[bykr]

Before I had catless downpipes, I ran a SRT8 Challenger several times on the highway, and who ever got the bump, won. We were going from about 70-130. Who ever jumped out first, would hold that gap the whole race.

From a dig, ive beaten several SRT8 Chargers, and one SRT8 300C.

I talked to a guy this weekend at the track and his SRT8 Charger was going 12.80's bone stock.Looked like a brand new one.

 

[Kolk1]

Like other people said, on the street they can rarely hook. Ive beaten WAY faster cars than mine, because they cant hook on the street, and then I shut down before they catch up. Like if we are in a 50 mph zone, and going from a dig, ill shut down at 60. Because im a **** like that. lol

 

[BiGMaC]

I shut down before they catch up. Like if we are in a 50 mph zone..... ill shut down at 60. Because im a **** like that. lol

Why My daughter gave me this book...  :alkashi:

 

[Kolk1]

Im proud of who I am. Why should I change? Maybe everybody else should grow some balls. lol

 

[BiGMaC]

I keep trying to tell my family that!  LOL

 

[kbeck59]

Im proud of who I am. Why should I change? Maybe everybody else should grow some balls. lol

Damn skippy ... half the problem with the US any more is there are way too many people concerned with being PC and too damned scared to take a stand on anything ......    Rant over .....

 

[Night Hawk]

Unless there is a relatively good driver behind the wheel of a bone stock SRT on street tires, you are not going lose most of the time. I would say the tuned SHO wins 7 or 8 times out of 10.

            True story…

2010 SHO Taurus vs Jeep SRT-8 New England dragway 10/14/2012 vid 2

 

[jim1274]

Unless there is a relatively good driver behind the wheel of a bone stock SRT on street tires, you are not going lose most of the time. I would say the tuned SHO wins 7 or 8 times out of 10.

            True story…

2010 SHO Taurus vs Jeep SRT-8 New England dragway 10/14/2012 vid 2

Big difference in weight between an SRT8 in challenger or charger body suit than the jeep version at 5200(!) pounds.  I would expect a SHO at  800 pounds less to fare a lot better against that porky jeep than the more comparable weight class foes.  This popped up when I googled for the jeep srt8 weight--even the fat ass ran a 13.3 stock here:

http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/suvs/1108_2012_jeep_grand_cherokee_srt8_first_test/

The jeep certainly benefited by having AWD to get power to the pavement.

 

[kbeck59]

am I the only one who watched this :
he ate this SRT8 up ... even If its an old clip ! !

shoman04 eats SRT8

from hotlanta  http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bSRDzsnQGVI

 

[Night Hawk]

Unless there is a relatively good driver behind the wheel of a bone stock SRT on street tires, you are not going lose most of the time. I would say the tuned SHO wins 7 or 8 times out of 10.

            True story…

2010 SHO Taurus vs Jeep SRT-8 New England dragway 10/14/2012 vid 2

Big difference in weight between an SRT8 in challenger or charger body suit than the jeep version at 5200(!) pounds.  I would expect a SHO at  800 pounds less to fare a lot better against that porky jeep than the more comparable weight class foes.  This popped up when I googled for the jeep srt8 weight--even the fat ass ran a 13.3 stock here:

http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/suvs/1108_2012_jeep_grand_cherokee_srt8_first_test/

The jeep certainly benefited by having AWD to get power to the pavement.

  Pretty sure a 4500lb AWD 3.5 TT 4dr sedan  VS a 5200lb AWD 6.4 V8 4DR SUV is pretty evenly matched, yea AWD is a Huge benefit to the jeep compared to its RWD cousins, esp at the track.

 

[jim1274]

Unless there is a relatively good driver behind the wheel of a bone stock SRT on street tires, you are not going lose most of the time. I would say the tuned SHO wins 7 or 8 times out of 10.

            True story…

2010 SHO Taurus vs Jeep SRT-8 New England dragway 10/14/2012 vid 2

Big difference in weight between an SRT8 in challenger or charger body suit than the jeep version at 5200(!) pounds.  I would expect a SHO at  800 pounds less to fare a lot better against that porky jeep than the more comparable weight class foes.  This popped up when I googled for the jeep srt8 weight--even the fat ass ran a 13.3 stock here:

http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/suvs/1108_2012_jeep_grand_cherokee_srt8_first_test/

The jeep certainly benefited by having AWD to get power to the pavement.

  Pretty sure a 4500lb AWD 3.5 TT 4dr sedan  VS a 5200lb AWD 6.4 V8 4DR SUV is pretty evenly matched, yea AWD is a Huge benefit to the jeep compared to its RWD cousins, esp at the track.

I was only making the point of the jeep weight disadvantage compared to the lighter challenger and charger platforms others have compared to the SHO. 

 

[SRT82ECOBOOST]

Just off from about an hour and a half battle over at a Mopar site on the topic that the new Chryslers hot rods in a couple years may be downsizing engines and going the turbo route. I was very straightforward and came out admitting that I love V8's for all the reasons that they do but was quick to add that after owning the SHO, I can see how they can be replaced by turbo V6's. That opened the floodgates to a lot of bashing on me, but I held the course, remained respectful and delivered the facts. Some blockhead people are just so attached to V8's that they can not fathom the thought of going to a V6. They better get with the times as that is going to be the wave of the future.

 

[Night Hawk]

  Its def a great point about the weight jim, I wonder how much the AWD makes up for. I know its usually approx a tenth per 100lbs so the jeep would be giving up seven tenths right off the bat.

 

[SHOmanMike84]

Just off from about an hour and a half battle over at a Mopar site on the topic that the new Chryslers hot rods in a couple years may be downsizing engines and going the turbo route. I was very straightforward and came out admitting that I love V8's for all the reasons that they do but was quick to add that after owning the SHO, I can see how they can be replaced by turbo V6's. That opened the floodgates to a lot of bashing on me, but I held the course, remained respectful and delivered the facts. Some blockhead people are just so attached to V8's that they can not fathom the thought of going to a V6. They better get with the times as that is going to be the wave of the future.

Which Mopar forum?

I'd like to read what others had to say.

 

[panther427]

TT V8.  FTW

 

[noidster]

my best runs in my SRT is 12.1 at 108 spinning the tires and a 12.2 at 114 no spin. But it's not a 8.

 

[Txstrmhntr]

ive lined up against several srt8 chargers and challengers. And won most races, beat all chargers that have tried and only lost to a few challengers, no idea what any of them had so assuming they were all stock. It was a close race with just about any challenger srt8 and varied from close to bus lengths against the chargers. After talking with some of them they had a mopar car club thing and were surprised to find out my SHO was only running a tune. They all had traction issues even on the best of days at the tracks i've been to with them. Texas Raceway 1/8, Texas motorplex 1/4 and Northstar 1/8 (Kennedale, Ennis, and Denton TX). While nice cars until they mate that AWD system in the 300c to the SRT8 power train, im going to give the overall win to a Tuned SHO. Not to mention we get loads better MPG (maybe about even if you drive the srt8 like a nanny, but with spirited driving the mopars start guzzling fuel faster than Roseanne bar eating chocolate donuts)

 

[bpd1151]

I'm going to give the overall win to a Tuned SHO.

Not to mention we get loads better MPG....

(maybe about even if you drive the SRT8 like a nanny, but with spirited driving the Mopar's start guzzling fuel faster than Roseanne bar eating chocolate donuts)

I almost aspirated the donut I was downing when I read the Roseanne comment!

Now that was/is a flip'n hilarious analogy.

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