I was caravanning to Englishtown Raceway Park in NJ for Street wars 2/ Evo-vs-Wrx/ Mazda Zoom Zoom event... There was 1 Evo with 509 4whp a 2nd Evo with 550 4whp and a Neon SRT4 with 396 fwhp...

I knew these cars were tuned but did not find out to what extent till after we got to our destination... I thought I had the best chance against the Neon. So we lined up on 95 south NJTP for a third gear pull....

I was in 4th and dropped it in 3rd and floored it. At first I pulled ahead by a half a car, but as I was accellerating the Neon caught up and walked me strong. I threw 4th and he was a half a car ahead. By the middle of 4th he had a whole car length on me...

What a surprise!

He told me later he was running 20 psi on a Gt 35 60 Turbo... 396 fwhp...

I said to myself... It's still a Neon.... Plus we were parked together and everyone at the track was photographing my car and saying, "ooooh an RX7, LOOK!"... Nobody noticed his Neon.... Hahahaa....

Oh well.... I am going to have to sic my friends FD with the R85 Turbo on him to put him back in his place!

 

another neon hater, it may still be a neon but you can't denie their freaking fast when tuned. good death i also lost to one a long time ago when i was stock on my TII, the neon was pushing 282whp so he walk me lol.

 

dude, thats not a bad death at all! you only lost by 1 car length in your stock fd to a 396 whp neon?? i would have thought hed put 10 lengths on you. he doesnt weight much more than you with a 150whp advantage... somethng isnt adding up. that srt4 will lay down 120+mph in the 1/4... traction should not be an issue with a 3rd gear roll... how were you able to stay within 1 car?

 

+1 ^

 

The neon could have had 396 fwhp but it might have not had driver mod.

 

He and his passenger are fat as hell... I also held 3rd gear a bit longer than he did...

All jokes aside he seems like a cool person, even though they had jokes afterwards about the outcome.

 

ah aha ha. thats great! sucks that his weight could slow him that much! i acutally have seen this before. I raced a new R1 with a fat dude driving when i had my EVO (high 12s at this point w/ a launch)... looked like big pun on the motor scooter in that video. i barely won but still, that bike should have rocked me. the damn thing was sagging over the rear tire.

 

jokes should be on them... you held withing 1 car length of his that is making 150+more whp. if anything that says something about the fd....

 

Says something about the drivers too...

 

Thats my boy!

 

Damn Duane, I didn't know your car was stock! With those aftermarket wheels, you're probably actually running slower than a stock FD actually. Nice run man, you definitely made a nice showing, gave those guys something to think about

 

Since I'm an SRT-4 and FC owner I figured I would chime in.

There are a few cars on the road I actually would be excited about lining up against and an FD probably would be one of them. To this day I have only seen a handful of them on the road so I'm sure the SRT-4 owner was probably a little overexcited about the run.

Nice driving on your part to keep it close, because it sounds like it should have been a walk even with obese passengers.

 

Which stage was the Neon? Neon aren't that bad, I don't get why FWD's get bashed on so much? Understeer? Not race prepped? FWD pulls suck? No driveshaft?

 

 

He might have been just keeping enough space to prove his point and not acctually going all out.

 

I seriously doubt that. I take it you've never made any highway pulls before.......

 

I have and I rarely go more than I have to...It's all about the mental games. If someone sees me pull 10 cars on a car, they'll know not to mess with me, but if they see me pull 1-1.5 cars on a civic, then they think they're going to kick my ***.

 

???? personally i like the respect that another car owner gives by not wanting a race after they see me pull 10+ cars on an e36 M3 (this happened this weekend). go all out or dont go at all IMHO.

 

Rich:

I really think you are correct... If my car were truely stock, I would have walked him... lol

Dwayne

 

ok but if the fd was putting 396 whp it would be a different story against a 396 fwp neon.

 

winning a race in a neon is like winning a race in the special olympics.....

 

A 396 whp neon against a stock FD? You guys are dreaming to think the FD had any chance. You cant compare the two. Spend the $$ the neon guy did in mods to the FD and now we have something!!

 

yeah, that was my point at the beginning. i have noticed some peoples definaition of a car length is much more than an 'actualy car length.'

 

A C T U A L Y O N E C A R L E N G T H . . .

Are you the guy that owns the neon?

 

I dislike to those cars *but* something is going on here. A stock FD should not even come close to hanging with a 396 FWHP neon. Even with a fat *** passenger, unless the dude is 500+ lbs. He has enough HP to overcome any driver incapability especially from a third gear roll.

Good death but I say it was one of these scenarios:

1) The guy was not going all out
2) For some reason your stock FD is much, much, much faster than the typical.
3) The SRT-4 has something wrong with it
4) The SRT-4 wasn't putting the power to the ground
5) The guy was in fift gear the whole time
6) He lied about his mods and HP

I think its most likely #3

sorry man but seriously the numbers just don't add up. A healthy stock FD dynoes at around 225 RWHP so he had 175 more HP. I'm all for the 7 but I have to stay real.