Srt-4 VS 05 Evo

[chexmixa]

All i can say is, best race of my life. I have been wanting to run an evo ever sence i got my car. I was finally able to run one.

I was on my way home from purchasing my Mopar Exhaust and STS. As i was getting off the freeway, thats when i noticed it. A nice clean blue EVO, i was in the far right lane and him in the left. There was no traffic so i decided to jet over to the left and see if i could score a run. I follow him for a lil waiting for the traffic to open up and it finally does. I pull up next to him and blow off a few times. That got his attention, he dropped a gear and ran. I was allready down in third so i just punched it. He had about a car on me and didn't move at all. We took it up to about 80 but there was traffic ahead so i shut down. I follow him a lil longer and notice him turn right down a street. I follow him and we stop at a red light.

Evo: Hey hows it goen?
Me: Nice Evo
Evo: Did you wanna run?
Me: Yeah
Evo: not right here there is a cop to our right
Me: OK

We take off on the light normal and go down the road a little bit. I pull up next to him.

Me:
Evo: right here?
Me:
Evo: Ok 3 honks

I slow down a lil and so does he, there were a few cars behind us and they seemed like they had no idea what was going on. We slowed down almost to a crawl. I was thinking omg this guy is crazy, We were at about 10 mph when i honk down. I honk down and we both gun it. i loose a lil traction in 1st gear and drop a 1/4 of a car. chirp it into secound and was dead even with him. Shift to 3rd and still dead even, Bring it to forth and niether of us have moved an inch. We shut down at about 100 mph because of traffic. We slow back down to 10 mph again, i dropped it into first and honked down. i didn't go WOT in first so that i wouldn't spin. I chirp it into secound and we are dead even. Bring it up to 3rd and we are dead even. Then i see ahead some grandma who wants to make a right in here huge cadilac devil and pulled way to far out. I hit the breaks and make a fast lane change. I feel my back end fly out, and i am assdragging for what seemed like 10 mins but was really more like 1-2 secounds. That Scared the crap outa me. I again pull up next to him.

Me: From a dig?
Him: Sure.

We stop in the midle of the Street. I am am yet again thinken to myself omfg this guy is fucken crazy. There is a lone truck behind us that saw our last 2 races given us a HUGE thumbs up. nothen but laughs and smiles. I Rev it up to 2.8k rpms and honk down. I got the Best launch of my life and pull a car on him. He bogged the launch hard but recovered quickly. Same results as the passed to 2 races niether of us pulled an inch. We pull up at a light.

Evo: Damn dood what have you done to that.
Me: Stock
Evo: Bullshit i heard your BOV
Me: BOV is it man and i am not getten any gains from it.
Me: lets pull over i'll show you.
Me: I'll follow you.

We pull of to the side road. I pop the hood and show him i am stock except for the BOV. I have him pop the hood and he tells me what he had. He has a boost controller set at 20 psi (stock is 20.5) He has it so that his boost doesn't fall off at higher rpms and so he doesn't spike. He also has a reflashed ECU or something like that and he is tuned for 100 octane but only runnen 91 cause AZ gas prices suck a fat one right now. We bull shit a lil more and exchange numbers. I l8er meet him at the Pavillions (car show ever saturday at the huge parkinglot) where him and all his EVO buddies are amazed that an SRT-4 kept up with an evo. Now all of them have my number and want to run me some time.

So overall my night friggen rocked. Finally got to race an Evo and got to meet a whole bunch of other Evo owners that want to race me.

[TatII]

sounds like a great night. a SRT-4's top end is definitly about hte same as a EVO's. but damn too bad he didnt' launch good casue he should've gotten you by 3 cars right off the bat and would've pulled another 2 by the time you hit 60mph. oh wellz. great run though, sounds like you really know how to drive your car.

[chexmixa]

Originally Posted by TatII

sounds like a great night. a SRT-4's top end is definitly about hte same as a EVO's. but damn too bad he didnt' launch good casue he should've gotten you by 3 cars right off the bat and would've pulled another 2 by the time you hit 60mph. oh wellz. great run though, sounds like you really know how to drive your car.

Yeah i consider myself better then your average driver, i def don think i am god's gift to this earth. My dad taught me everything i know. He used to be a big draggster back in the day so he knows all the neat tricks. I also used to race shifter carts back in the day so i learned a lil with that. I think if the evo driver was a lil better he prolly woulda pulled on me. He did show me a timeslip though of him runnen a 13.1 at the track so i know he can drive decently.

[ricesucks]

Your very lucky he did not launch good, you would have been toast. Anyways, good race.

[Right_LiRrr]

You must be able to drive REALLY well, cos as far as I know, the SRT-4 is about as good or a bit better than a WRX. And an evo walks all over the rex. Then again he was running on 91 RON

Sounds like fun though. Don't get to see many evo's around here. But I hear the evo 9 is gonna be a mass production model here i.e. no more importing YAY!

[90redgt]

cool race, can't wait till i can race again. oh yeah, i can get to a computer pretty much on a regular basis now so you guys will be hearing from me much more! woohoo.

(i'm in iraq for those who don't know) but back on track. your srt sounds pretty quick get some time slips so see where ur at.

[TurboSpecV57]

hey man great run, its good to prove those AWD guys that we can run with em from a dig and a roll, me im worthless from a dig, 1st and 2nd gear are worthless

[-Jayson-]

sweet race man

[93rollaracer]

Damn...very nice. Never heard of anybody going from a dig anywhere other than a stoplight, but hey...whatever works. Good job.

[Drifty]

Good Show Chex.

[chexmixa]

Heh thanks.

An Srt-4 is actually quite a bit faster then a WRX stock for stock. A WRX stock puts down 170 to the wheels while a Srt-4 puts down 220-230 to the wheels. Its closest competitor from a roll is an evo. Stock those things put down 225-230 to the wheels cause of drivetrain loss. I was also running 91 octane but it doesn't really make any more then a 5-10 hp diff at higher rpms when i run 100 octane.

[Igovert500]

Ok, first off great races...but i want to clarify two things

1) The stock evo runs 20psi??? Are you sure on that one?

2) You don't gain hp from running higher octane...you run higher octane to retard knock..this allows you to run higher boost. If you are running the same boost levels safely on 91, and then throw in 100octane, you wont gain ANYTHING, and you may even lose power.

[chexmixa]

Originally Posted by Igovert500

Ok, first off great races...but i want to clarify two things

1) The stock evo runs 20psi??? Are you sure on that one?

2) You don't gain hp from running higher octane...you run higher octane to retard knock..this allows you to run higher boost. If you are running the same boost levels safely on 91, and then throw in 100octane, you wont gain ANYTHING, and you may even lose power.

with higher octane my Boost doesn't drop off as much at higher rpms so essentially thats a 5-10 hp gain. I even stated that it was a gain at higher rpms. If you check out a dyno of an Srt-4 you will see his HP drop dramatically past 5500 rpms. With higher octane you don't drop as hard. you fall to 14 pounds of boost rather then 12-13.And secound i am positive that they run 20.5 pounds of boost stock. I was talking to several knowledgeable EVO owners last night, and they all said the same thing.

[2000LS1Z28]

Good runs. Evo's suck from a roll. The driver doesn't sound to competent from a dig, cause I know i'd outlaunch you in my former Evo (Ask Danno, I use to blow him away with him on drag radials).

[chexmixa]

Originally Posted by 2000LS1Z28

Good runs. Evo's suck from a roll. The driver doesn't sound to competent from a dig, cause I know i'd outlaunch you in my former Evo (Ask Danno, I use to blow him away with him on drag radials).

I know that he can but i think he might of been a lil to excited. Evo's would easily have 5-6 carlengths on me by 60 mph. The is no doubt in my mind i would get rocked hard from a stand still with a compitent driver. That is where the evo really shines.