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The Dodge Neon SRT-4 THREAD

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Originally posted by: bababooey
I love blowing the doors off these go karts and the ricers w/ their annoying fartcan mufflers...



But yours has been done pretty smooth I will give ya that....:cookie:
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the srt-4 doesnt have mufflers 😉

oh and i love blowing the doors off of v8 guys
 
Originally posted by: zerocool84
Originally posted by: bababooey
I love blowing the doors off these go karts and the ricers w/ their annoying fartcan mufflers...



But yours has been done pretty smooth I will give ya that....:cookie:
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the srt-4 doesnt have mufflers 😉

oh and i love blowing the doors off of v8 guys
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Dust many Z06 or Vipers of late?

😉
 
Originally posted by: Arkaign
Originally posted by: zerocool84
Originally posted by: bababooey
I love blowing the doors off these go karts and the ricers w/ their annoying fartcan mufflers...



But yours has been done pretty smooth I will give ya that....:cookie:
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the srt-4 doesnt have mufflers 😉

oh and i love blowing the doors off of v8 guys
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Dust many Z06 or Vipers of late?

😉
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in forza lol
 
Originally posted by: zerocool84
Originally posted by: batmang
Nice helpme. I plan to start auto crossing my srt-4 next year. But I've been so broke lately I havent really prepped the car for that. I need some nice light wheels and some good tires, a damn helmet, and lessons hah.
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Wider wheels are definitely a must since even for stock power/handling, the 6" wide wheels suck. Obviously lighter is great too. Getting some better sways help a lot with this car. I don't know about other people but getting some solid motor mounts help when exiting those turns while accelerating since they help with wheelhop and obviously coilovers.
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Yea, thats a problem we have. With the temps hitting around 30, the engine finnally has ~11 A/F ratio up to 5k rpm. While that may be well and good, we just get rubber from 3.5k rpm up in 1st, 2nd and 3rd gear 🙁. Bigger rubbing is in the forecast, along w/ an H bar (I saw it in SRT forums... don't remember who makes them). Already have motor mounts.

I see you have the ACR. What's diff between the 2004 (I think thats the year, the one w/ the LSD) and the ACR?
 
This factory competition version included:

Wider, light-weight 16x7 inch BBS RX racing wheels with 40 mm offset
Wider 225/45/16 BFG KDW2 tires
Lowered ride height by almost 2-inch (51 mm)es (1" through lower spring perches on strut and another .75" to 1" through smaller wheel/tire combo)
5-way adjustable performance Tokicko Illumina dampers (gas shocks)
Thicker rear sway bar (19 mm)
Stronger bushings in the rear tension struts
ACR embroidered, Viper-styled, racing seats with pass-throughs for a racing harness
ACR decals on the bottoms of the front doors
Light-weight spare tire
 
Originally posted by: helpme
This factory competition version included:

Wider, light-weight 16x7 inch BBS RX racing wheels with 40 mm offset
Wider 225/45/16 BFG KDW2 tires
Lowered ride height by almost 2-inch (51 mm)es (1" through lower spring perches on strut and another .75" to 1" through smaller wheel/tire combo)
5-way adjustable performance Tokicko Illumina dampers (gas shocks)
Thicker rear sway bar (19 mm)
Stronger bushings in the rear tension struts
ACR embroidered, Viper-styled, racing seats with pass-throughs for a racing harness
ACR decals on the bottoms of the front doors
Light-weight spare tire
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Replace the lightweight spare with full size spare with directional tire 😕 and you got it perfect. It handles pretty damn well for a stock suspension FWD car. I really like being able to adjust the shocks with a turn of a screwdriver to a softer setting when I go on dates, taxi the family, then on track day, adjust on the fly.
 
Heh, a directional spare... wtf. I guess you hope you get a flat on that side 😀

I just copied that from somewhere, I forget where...

Have you driven a non ACR on the track? I didn't like the amount of roll and floatyness that my 2003 had. I changed to the inverted BCs with 12kg/mm front and 10 kg/mm rear, which fixed the problem 😉
 
Originally posted by: helpme
Heh, a directional spare... wtf. I guess you hope you get a flat on that side 😀

I just copied that from somewhere, I forget where...

Have you driven a non ACR on the track? I didn't like the amount of roll and floatyness that my 2003 had. I changed to the inverted BCs with 12kg/mm front and 10 kg/mm rear, which fixed the problem 😉
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No I havent driven one around the track, just tossed around a stock 04 for a couple turns in a canyon, didn't feel as solid. I have taken my ACR to Willow Springs down here in Socal on stock tires. I have a lot to learn as I wish I could go more often.
 
Meh. My FWD 230hp SVX greatly annoys me with its torque steer. I'm not sure how you guys put up with it.
 
Isn't the SVX AWD?

The SRT-4 has equal length half shafts. The torque steer isn't that annoying when you are going straight. I don't have the LSD in mine, but but that might also contribute.
 
Originally posted by: helpme
Isn't the SVX AWD?

The SRT-4 has equal length half shafts. The torque steer isn't that annoying when you are going straight. I don't have the LSD in mine, but but that might also contribute.
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In 94-95 they made a FWD variant.
 
Originally posted by: mariok2006
Originally posted by: helpme
Isn't the SVX AWD?

The SRT-4 has equal length half shafts. The torque steer isn't that annoying when you are going straight. I don't have the LSD in mine, but but that might also contribute.
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In 94-95 they made a FWD variant.
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Or simply put the FWD fuse into the fusebox, converting the car from AWD to FWD (as I have done).
 
It's a nice little car for what it is. I posted a thread a short while back about the one that managed to beat my (nearly stock, headers + Corsa Sport exhaust) GTO on the freeway. Nice pics, OP.
 
Not my cup of tea, either in terms of styling, motor, or driven wheels, but the OP's car looks immaculate and very sharp :beer:
 
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