Dodge Neon SRT-4: Rice for breakfast, lunch, and dinner
 

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750 Horsepower @ the Wheels
610 lb.-ft. of Torque @ the Wheels
1900 lbs. Total Weight(with Driver)
Mopar-Powered 2.4 Liter
Turbocharged 16 Valve DOHC 4-Cylinder
T-72 Ball Bearing/Forward Motion Turbocharger
OEM SRT-4 Block and Crankshaft with Forward Motion Aluminum Rods
JE Pistons
OEM SRT-4 Cylinder Head with the
Stock Inconel Valves and Mild Porting
Dual Crane Cams
Mopar Performance Parts Lash Adjusters
Mopar Gaskets and Seals, Including
Multi-Layer Steel Head Gasket
FAST Fuel, Air, Spark, Technology
Engine Management with Data Logging
Crane Ignition Driving on OEM Coil
OEM 3-Speed Automatic
Mopar Performance Parts Reverse Valvebody
Forward Motion Stall Converter
Carbon Fiber Front Doors, Hood, Front Bumper, and Decklid
Lightweight Strange Struts and Rear Brakes
Hensley Chromoly Roll Cage, Control Arms and Wheelie Bars
Lexan Windows
Aluminum Floor Pan From Rear of Drivers Seat Back
Stock 2003 SRT-4 Unibody Lightened and Strengthened by Team Phatridz Racing
WELD Alumastar Front and Rear Wheels
M/T ET Drag Front and Rear Tires
Stroud Parachute and Window Net
Crow Five Point Seat Belt
Team:


Series: NHRA/Summit Sport Compact
Class: Hot Rod (Front Wheel Drive Unibody, 4-Cylinder)
Former NHRA Sport Compact Record Holder (Hot Rod Class, 1998 Dodge Neon) - 9.07 et@157 mph 1/4 mile)

Owner:

PHATRIDZ
Location: Eden, NC

Year: 2003
Model: SRT-4
Engine: 2.4L DOHC
Transmission: 3 speed Automatic
Doors: 4 Door Sedan

Amount Invested: $60000+


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Nice little racer...

Yeah what a sleeper....
:D

Can't beat the 6 sec neons with the CNC machined 4L in line 4.

why does it need wheelie bars if it's front-wheel-drive?

To counter weight shift which would naturally lift the front wheels off the ground and make them lost more traction. The bars effectively hold the front of the car on the ground..

Where does it say "front wheel drive"?

You ain't gonna get it moving off the line well with 750 brake on a fwd car - it'll be rwd.

Ignore that last one - I see the FWD mention.

They'd get a lot further with RWD though. Muppets.

Thats one mean mopar machine.

There's another one that was featured in SuperStreet a little while ago, a lot better than this one...around 960 hp w/ a lot more invested...Could smoke the pants off this one anyday

EDIT: You can also tell its FWD by the front tires, Notice they're like, 12+Inch's thick, and the rear tires are skinnies (like, 6 inch's or less thick)

Mopar and Chevrolet have been doing some pretty amazing things with their "little" 4 cylinder engines. Last I heard the Ecotech 4 of Chevrolet's had been tuned to 2000hp with several enourmous turbos. Obviously nothing that is going to be a street car, but damned impressive none the less.

now that is sweet

hmmm what can i say ;]]] What a nice quatermiler :]

well, to comment on an above post, look at the wheels man. See the huge front wheels and tiny rears? If its not front drive, then somebody better shoot the guy who put the tires on wrong. Sorry, I'm a bastard, I know

impressive machine, but I wouldnt be caught dead in it =P

yeah looks like crap from the front, i mean, i thought, whoa, someone diced the new t-bird

dodge is just jealous of rice

poo, pure poo, albeit extremely fast poo

Import 2nr scene teh suck
the real import tuner scene PWNZ

its still a mopar

Wow you're really catching alot of shit...

...maybe 'cause you didn't say cheese in the photo.

...nice ride

its pretty sweet

It's a neon.

So it's really fast.

It's still a neon.

A lot like owning a J body, but...worse.

lol wtf

he forgot to learn english before learning how to buy a shitty import car and make it look even worse

Yep, its still a Fucking NEON...once toughted as the "Happy Car" if i recall, how ghey. they need a new car to replace this if they want to be "performance" the name NEON just doesnt work.

Im sure once you drive in all that wont matter.

Wait. What?

He did all that work and invested over $60 000 in an SRT-4 and didn't bother switching out the tranny? That's just... odd.

it's been discussed that it's quite inefficient to use manual for some of the newer racers because automatics can be adjusted at exact RPM points for shifting consistently.

I see. Thanks for enlightening me. 3-speed still screams "NO" at me though. I'm behind times. :(

I ave that same problem. I love manuals and I want to make a big hp v8 some day (800 or more). But by that hp range many people switch to autos. I still have a hard time with auto and preformance.

if anyone hasnt seen it: check out Http://www.buschurracing.com

7 second Talon, very cool car :)

But that neon is still a neon, i mean, sure i'd drive a new srt4, but i wouldnt be happy about it! That is, untill i beat a vette(after a few grand in mods)...then i would be grinning, but still....

If you're going to spend a fortune making a car fast, why not start with something that looks a little better?

Still, I can appreciate all the work that's obviously gone into that car.

Pretty cool.

bla bla imports suck bla bla.

Technology has made many imports as efficiently tunable as v8s.

Sure any mod you can put on a 4cyl can be put on a V8 and it will be better, but I doubt your v8 came from the factory with a turbo, Mine did.

The alure to the true import tuner scene, and Im not talking about the bling lights and wing "tuning", is the fact that people place low expectations on your "lil 4 cyl econobox". So much so that, when my AWD turbo grocery getter on all season tires pulls out a quicker ET than the big noisey v8 "muscle car" trailer queen, people either gasp or cheer for who they thought was the under dog.

Thats why we do it, we strive to violate your expectations of what you thought our cars were capable of.

See ya at the track.

Ken
95 Talon TSi AWD


Post note: Dave Bushur (in the link above) hit the wall in that 8 second talon last month so it is down for a lil while. Much more impressive than that is John Shepherd, whose 90 Talon runs a stock body and windows with somewhat of an interior. This past weekend he hit 9.05 @ 15X MPH at Norwalk raceway in northern ohio.

www.shepracing.com

Why does every one get down on the neon. I dive a 95 neon. It is a damned nice little car. Yeah it is not a v8, or fast. But it gets me to work and back with 40 mpg. The way every one talks about the neon I would swear that some one straped a 4 foot dildo to a neon and then analy raped Mother Terresa with it. As for DSM's they are fun, you just need a huge check book. My last car was a 91 TSI AWD. I loved it. But it was a drain on the wallet. When I wasn't fixing something I was buying some kind of upgrade for it. Also why do people get down on 4 bangers so much? Is it because of the ricer trend? I want to make a turbo neon when I get the funds. Why? For the fun of it. Same reason I am putting a motor on a couch, and a motorcycle engine in a golf cart.

I haven't got anything against the neon, I haven't even seen one in real life (they don't sell them over here). I think it looks alright though, a lot better than most japanese economy cars for certain.

For a performance car that I was going to pour that much money into, though, I would probably choose something flashier. :cool:

gah. still a neon. it's fast though.

Are you one of those guys who thinks that dude that put $10K into his honda four to get 500hp is cool? Because "gah. still a civic. it's fast though"

are you one of those guys who pigeonholes everyone for their comments?

personally, i just dislike neons.

** edited by Cynthetiq because I went a little overboard **
**in before teh.. er.. too late ** ;)

So bleet, why do you dislike Neons? every one has a right to their oppinion, but I was just wondering how you got your hatred for the Neon?