Drove an SRT-4 the other day...
 

So I go to my friends house and I see a brand new neon blue SRT-4 with black leather interior sitting there. It was one of her friends cars and he got it a month ago (only has 3,000 miles on it). That was the first one I have ever been in and I actually thought it looked pretty sweet being stock. I got a chance to race him from a dead stop, but I had my all season tires on so it was kinda poinless for me, I would catch up pretty fast, once I finally got traction in 3rd gear. I would have really liked to race him from a dead stop with my drag radials though.

Anyways, we all end up going out to eat at red robin and him and I talked about cars and what not, well when we got back he is like... "you want to take it for a drive?" and I am like... "hell yeah!". So I get in the car and adjust the seat since I am a short bastard. We drive to a nice spot and I start ripping on it, it really felt nothing like my civic at all and it actuall felt a lot slower. The power was almost instant when you hit the gas and it was more like a smooth acceleration instead of a kick in the ass like my turbo civic. I didn't really like the small turbo it had, but I think if you slapped a big fatty turbo on it that thing would rip pretty good. I don't really know much about the SRT-4 or how much power the stock engine can hold, but I am guessing with a few upgrades (turbo being the main one) you could have a really nice looking car that is also pretty fast.

Pat

Re:Drove an SRT-4 the other day...
 

Random, please insert countless specs on this car in a holy quadnie post. Thank you. :D

Re:Drove an SRT-4 the other day...
 

I'll be the first one to say it......


















It's still a Neon! :P
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Re:Drove an SRT-4 the other day...
 

werd still is a neon, but is a pretty damn fast neon. Maybe a flitch or someting or just a really good driver or maybe a typo, but in a magizine I read they were comparing cars (s2k, NEON srt-4, RSX, nsx i think, well a variety) and they put up that the Neon did the quarter in 11.9. I know they are pretty quick out of the box, but is it really that fast?

Re:Drove an SRT-4 the other day...
 

who cares..its still nice looking....

Re:Drove an SRT-4 the other day...
 

Well I dunno about all the specs, but last dyno event I went to I was right in between two SRT-4's at 230whp.

Re:Drove an SRT-4 the other day...
 

I test drove one about 3 months ago, and i have to admit, for a $20,000 out of the box turbo car, i was pretty impressed. it handled and braked well (both very important to me) the seats we comfortable, and i thought the power was there. its a very good power plant to start with if you ask me. theres a guy at the track with just the "factory stage 3 upgrade kit" running like 13 something on factory tires.....
im not gonna lie...
i am considering it for my next car.


edit
and everyone is saying, its a neon, but i would drive the neon. i would spend 20K on one. and who gives a ---- if my turbo honda is faster, its not a brand new car. my $.02

Re:Drove an SRT-4 the other day...
 

yeah ---- a neon and it feels slower than your car too? pshh i bet your civic can take that anyday

Re:Drove an SRT-4 the other day...
 

Yeah I just check the dyno list and there were 3 SRT-4's that dynoed when I did. The 2003 was at 245whp, another 2004 was at 232whp, the last 2004 was at 225whp. I'm not really sure if any of those had mods or were stock though.

Yeah I don't think I would have any problem beating an SRT-4. When we raced I caught up pretty fast, but we had to let off since we ran out of room. The one I raced was brand new and completely stock. The boost goes to 15 psi and kinda tappers down to like 10 psi though, not sure what that's about.

Re:Drove an SRT-4 the other day...
 

If you turn the AC on it ups the boost 2lbs and if you have it really cold it adds 3 psi

lol...

atleast htat is what the kid around here with the srt4 tells me



it is still a neon