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Drove a 2010 Challenger rental car

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The 5.7L RT is no slouch either.

I have a 3.5L 300; with a tune it is fine most of the time.

If I recall, the Challenger only has the 3.5L as the V6. The 300/Charger/Magnum has a 2.7L. My friend had a rental 2.7L and he was amazed at how the car could even move.
 
LTC8K6 said:
3.6L Pentastar V6, currently in the 2011 grand Cherokee.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Pentastar_engine

http://www.wk2jeeps.com/wk2_engines.htm
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Ah I see. Shame it doesn't quite keep up with the Ford and GM v6's. Link does say it's going into the 2011 model though, so should help give it some needed umph.


LTC8K6 said:
The Pentastar should be a great help to the Wrangler in place of the awful 3.8L...
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3.8l is pretty bad. Drove one in a new Chrysler t&c, and while it moved fine it just sounded tired as if it had already done 100 thousand hard miles. I was a little worried if 200hp would be enough for a 4400lb vehicle, but surprisingly it was fairly adequate and didn't feel dangerously slow. 290hp would have been a lot more awesome though...with better tires of course. 😀
 
Throckmorton said:
You neutral dropped a rental car? People like you are the reason I'd never buy a former rental car.
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Actually buying former rental cars is fine. People are scared about them for no good reason IF it's a car like a minivan or an Impala or something, but something people are paying a premium for because it's "sporty" like a rental camaro or challenger, yeah, stay far, far away.
 
Demon-Xanth said:
You can get a 6 speed manual on the R/T and SRT8 Challengers.
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It is really weird how they did it with the R/T. You can get the manual but it is a different engine or something and does not have the valve shutoff that the newer R/T engines have.

I test drove a manual R/T challenger, it was pretty nice but I went with the SRT8 charger for various reasons.
 
Skoorb said:
First time I didn't floor it up to redline and go for it, I wanted to get a feel and found after a couple of tries that it simply would refuse it, so in fact I think a neutral drop in this car is no more damaging than just flooring it!
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You're a fucking moron and the exact reason why rental rates are so goddamned high.

So you think it's perfectly acceptable to try and tear someone else's property up? Just as the other poster asked...if you had damaged it in some way performing your "tests", what would you have done? Let me guess...lied your way out of it? I bet, at the very least not accepted responsibility in any way.
 
MetalMat said:
It is really weird how they did it with the R/T. You can get the manual but it is a different engine or something and does not have the valve shutoff that the newer R/T engines have.

I test drove a manual R/T challenger, it was pretty nice but I went with the SRT8 charger for various reasons.
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I believe it was a situation where the automatic decouples enough shock/vibration that the computer can tell a knock good enough, but the manual's clutch would cause problems. The SRT's cam is just too aggressive to make it work.
 
Skoorb said:
Actually buying former rental cars is fine. People are scared about them for no good reason IF it's a car like a minivan or an Impala or something, but something people are paying a premium for because it's "sporty" like a rental camaro or challenger, yeah, stay far, far away.
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They'd all be fine if people weren't doing neutral drops
 
TheFamilyMan said:
You're a fucking moron and the exact reason why rental rates are so goddamned high.

So you think it's perfectly acceptable to try and tear someone else's property up? Just as the other poster asked...if you had damaged it in some way performing your "tests", what would you have done? Let me guess...lied your way out of it? I bet, at the very least not accepted responsibility in any way.
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try to lie his way out but without success I would imagine. My buddy had a Chevelle 396 and one day pulling out from work he maxe'd his RPM's and just sidestepped the clutch, snapped the drive shaft off right at the yolk. How could you explain anything that would cause such a thing to happen?, good luck..
 
TheFamilyMan said:
You're a fucking moron and the exact reason why rental rates are so goddamned high.

So you think it's perfectly acceptable to try and tear someone else's property up? Just as the other poster asked...if you had damaged it in some way performing your "tests", what would you have done? Let me guess...lied your way out of it? I bet, at the very least not accepted responsibility in any way.
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I feel like Miles Dyson in Terminator 2 after being lambasted by Sarah Connor

How are you supposed to know? F**king men like you built the hydrogen bomb. Men like you thought it up. You think you're so creative. You don't know what it's like to really create something; to create a life; to feel it growing inside you. All you know how to create is death...
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I was dismayed to hear that I was apparently the sole reason rental rates are so high. This is quite unexpected.

I was not "trying" to tear up someone else's property. And what I would have done if I had damaged it, heck what would I do if tomorrow I go outside and it's actually raining frogs from the sky? Like I said, I had floored it several times before trying any neutral drop and had a feel for how much power it had. If this thing was lighting up the tires all the way through first without even trying I wouldn't have even thought of trying a drop and I did not run the revs up all the way in any case.
 
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try to lie his way out but without success I would imagine. My buddy had a Chevelle 396 and one day pulling out from work he maxe'd his RPM's and just sidestepped the clutch, snapped the drive shaft off right at the yolk. How could you explain anything that would cause such a thing to happen?, good luck..
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That is unfortunate that his car would do that. I have done and seen done on many cars with a manual transmission that move and no such results.
 
Skoorb said:
That is unfortunate that his car would do that. I have done and seen done on many cars with a manual transmission that move and no such results.
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His had some work done to the motor, 3/4 cam, headers, intake, it was putting out a lot more than a stock 396, guess if your gonna do that do a motor might be a god idea to beef up the rest of the drive train as well..
 
Skoorb said:
star-wars-emperor1.jpg

I feel like Miles Dyson in Terminator 2 after being lambasted by Sarah Connor



I was dismayed to hear that I was apparently the sole reason rental rates are so high. This is quite unexpected.

I was not "trying" to tear up someone else's property. And what I would have done if I had damaged it, heck what would I do if tomorrow I go outside and it's actually raining frogs from the sky? Like I said, I had floored it several times before trying any neutral drop and had a feel for how much power it had. If this thing was lighting up the tires all the way through first without even trying I wouldn't have even thought of trying a drop and I did not run the revs up all the way in any case.
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I don't think you get it. Neutral drops are hard on the transmission because it's not made for that. Power and lighting up the tires has nothing to do with it. You did something that can and does damage cars, to a car that belongs to someone else, apparently without remorse.

What if I steal your Prius and drive it through a house and then say "But it only has 80hp"?
 
Throckmorton said:
I don't think you get it. Neutral drops are hard on the transmission because it's not made for that. Power and lighting up the tires has nothing to do with it.
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Power/lighting up tires gives indication of how much power there is in the car so I had a reasonable expectation of what it would do. I have neutral dropped cars before (dozens of times in a subaru justy and several in an Access, though this was as a teenager).
You did something that can and does damage cars, to a car that belongs to someone else, apparently without remorse.
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For realz? Remorse over what, finding out that it's impossible to neutral drop a V6 Challenger and sharing that information? I didn't cause any damage to the car, the umbrage in this thread is really epic, you guys are just too much.
What if I steal your Prius and drive it through a house and then say "But it only has 80hp"?
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Better yet, why not take it and try and neutral drop it? Like the Challenger it's impossible to neutral drop and thus no damage will occur although if you want to feel monumental, soul-crushing levels of guilt and remorse afterward I will not stop you.
 
Well I won't be so hard on Skoorb as others, but it wasn't the smartest thing, you would have been faced with the hefty repair bill if there were damage, a mechanic is gonna quickly realize what happened and how..
 
The V6 challenger is a cruiser meant for comfort and good looks, it isn't fast. Really renting one of the heaviest cars in its class in a V6 version and trying to get it to get up and go or spin the tires...doesn't make a ton of sense.

The V8 challenger is a pretty sweet car.
 
Skoorb said:
Power/lighting up tires gives indication of how much power there is in the car so I had a reasonable expectation of what it would do. I have neutral dropped cars before (dozens of times in a subaru justy
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Last car sold in the states with a carburetor
 
BUTCH1 said:
try to lie his way out but without success I would imagine. My buddy had a Chevelle 396 and one day pulling out from work he maxe'd his RPM's and just sidestepped the clutch, snapped the drive shaft off right at the yolk. How could you explain anything that would cause such a thing to happen?, good luck..
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foot slipped... 😀


as for neutral drops, i recall my friends 75 monte carlo not engaging until just under 3k rpm as well. his dad (an old hot rod builder) told me they changed the transmissions to not allow that on a lot of models back in the 50s or 60s. its not a new thing. we just figured out how to maximize our take offs with practice, it wasnt too hard to get it to just under 3k and dump to first. we used to do this regularly on a private air strip out in chandler, before it was surrounded by corporate builders and warehouses. doing the 2900 neutral drop was the only way to really get a good edge on a talented driver in a manual trans car.


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BUTCH1 said:
His had some work done to the motor, 3/4 cam, headers, intake, it was putting out a lot more than a stock 396, guess if your gonna do that do a motor might be a god idea to beef up the rest of the drive train as well..
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i had an idiot of a friend that decided his 4X4 toyota was a good place to squeeze a 327 chevy. it was great, but he didnt take our advice and beef up the train. first time he tried to roast all 4 tires he twisted the rear drive shaft and snapped the front unis. was pretty epic at the time, hehe. we had to go search for new unis to get the beast home. he thought that since he had custom shafts made to accommodate his lift they would be strong enough, apparently he was wrong.
 
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Skoorb said:
Power/lighting up tires gives indication of how much power there is in the car so I had a reasonable expectation of what it would do. I have neutral dropped cars before (dozens of times in a subaru justy and several in an Access, though this was as a teenager).
For realz? Remorse over what, finding out that it's impossible to neutral drop a V6 Challenger and sharing that information? I didn't cause any damage to the car, the umbrage in this thread is really epic, you guys are just too much.Better yet, why not take it and try and neutral drop it? Like the Challenger it's impossible to neutral drop and thus no damage will occur although if you want to feel monumental, soul-crushing levels of guilt and remorse afterward I will not stop you.
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IF it was possible, it would have been damaged. The computer being smart enough to stop your dumb ass from damaging someone else's car isn't a defense.
 
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