It's got a hemi bro! Must be fast!

[-The Stig-]

Oh, sorry for the long post... it's been awhile since I've posted anything worth while. So please bear with me.

So, I call up a friend. It's early evening, been sitting around all day being lazy. Ate two bowls of cereal and watched some TV... yeah, it was a real productive day for me.

And I was ready to get out of the house. I head over to his place, we decide to take on a plan we'd concieved.

Take a local street, and drive it all the way to wherever it goes. This particular street goes on for miles... starting from the coast and goes north right into the Mountains.

For those in SoCal, I'm talking about Hwy 39 or simply known as Beach Blvd.

Anywho, we start our cruise by getting the assorted road trip goodies like Sodas and Candies.

This Asian guy in a BMW 330i comes up next to us and guns it. We look at each other and at first we both thought it was a '99 Civic Si. It being a coupe and all we didn't pay much attention to it at first... I pulled up next to him and put the clutch in and gave him a fat rev. Letting him know I'm game.

He declined, we were disappointed. He then shot onto the freeway that was coming up. Fucker.

Skip forward a few, we meet up with a White 350z. Taking off from a light I'm cruising along and the 350z is kinda lingering behind. Then as we get next to him he guns it. We both are kinda like, What the hell is his problem?

Wondering why he waited for us to get near to gun it. He didn't go very far. I downshift to 4th and give her a little gas to catch up. Pacing him, he doesn't bite.

Soon the road makes a split, and we go to follow the 350z. The 350z makes a sharp right hand turn where the road T's off. I follow, he takes the turn fast so I figure he's game to play.

Now, Normally this type of fast right hand turn wouldn't be too much a problem in the Camaro. It doesn't handle very well, but if you use body roll and understeer to your advantage the soon-to-come over steer following the turn wouldn't be a problem. Here in lies the problem of the car design, not so much the drivetrain. But the interior design.

Who the fuck puts a cup holder right behind the shifter of a stickshift car? Automatics, sure Ok. You don't touch the shifter all that much. But to put a cup holder directly behind the shifter severly inhibits ones ability to manuever the vehicle.

So as I go to downshift to 2nd gear for the turn my arm/elbow get all stuck on my 20oz bottle of Coke which I jammed into the cup holder to keep it from flopping around as I drove. Since it was jammed in to the holder it didn't really budge when I shifted which caused the car to bobble and take the turn with the grace of a dieing elephant.

In what should of been a text book turn in with a hint of over steer right hand turn. Looked like joke.

Needless to say I tossed my coke into the back of the car to keep it from messing me up further. But, as fate would have it... the 350z didn't want to play at all. So in frustration as he turned into a neighborhood I gave him a nasty rev.

Continuing our drive, my friend got the bright idea of stopping by a local shop. Some of you may of heard of the place. http://www.rbmotoring.com/

Turns out at 10:30 at night, there were folks there. We come in and start talking to one of the guys my friend knows there. This is also the home of Igor's GT-R race car. Which was there, and I got to see in person for the first time. It is very much a race car, and shows it. Overall the car is rough, but it's all business. Which is cool.

Although, there was a R34 Skyline GTR sitting right behind it that was a show car. So, I got to see both Show and Go Skylines five feet from each other.

We spent about 45 minutes there bullshitting all things JDM.

On with our drive!

At this point, being in the presences of all those Skylines, including the yellow R33 Skyline (aka Big Bird) from the first Fast n Furious movie. Which maybe in the third movie. It currently has no motor or interior, it has one of those dealer stickers on the windshield that says "Gas Saver" as a joke.

We decided to hit the freeway and head home, getting onto the freeway. We get cut off by two latinaa chicks in a Toyota Corolla. We pull along side and they're eyeing us like candy. So, being assholes we decide to have some fun too, as they repeatedly cut us off by getting ahead and getting in front of us. We would get around and pull along side, which wasn't hard to do me being in a Z28 and them in a Corolla.

My friend would wave to them, or do the hand motions of 'banging' with one hand in a circle with the other hand banging it with a finger. The look on their faces was priceless. Afterall, they started it... give us those looks of "heyyy pappii"

While playing with the girls, a 2005 Dodge Charger R/T goes by in the fast lane with some form of exhaust. Sounded good, after maybe another 5 minutes of foolin around with the girls they go to get off. I decide to hop in the car pool lane and play catch up.

I've had my eyes on these Chargers for a while now, wanting to see what they'll do in the 'real world'. I hit 85-90mph in the carpool, cruising at sub century mark speeds we catch him in roughly 2-3 minutes.

I slow down, and as I pass I give him a nice fat Rev. Traffic kept us from doing much of anything. We stay near the Charger through traffic manuevering around him checking out the car. Traffic starts to lighten up and now we're behind him we hear this loud exhaust just get on it.

We exchange looks, I point forward with a quizicle look and my friend completes my thought. "Is that him?"

We're confused, cause this exhaust was now loud and you can hear it trying it's best to move the car it's attached to. But it just wasn't going anywhere.

We have our fair share of laughs, and he now gets 'serious' as he starts to move around a few cars for the open freeway ahead.

I follow in 5th gear cruisin along at about 75-80mph. We keep hearing the guy hamming the gas, but the damn thing just isn't going anywhere. At one point I had to let off the gas to keep from rear ending him.

I move over to the carpool lane again, he moves over to the far right lane and we're pacing him as we hear his "Hemi bro!" going for all she's worth. Finally he starts to get closer by moving over in the lanes towards us. At this point I'm maybe 3-4 car lengths ahead with my hand on the shifter ready to go to 4th gear incase he decided he wanted to go again. We had a clear freeway for about 3 miles.

He stayed back...

Which was really disappointing... I didn't think those Chargers were that slow. Honestly, it was childs play. Made all sorts of noise, but didn't go anywhere.

Although, my friend and I did agree it sounded cool... but that's about it.

To quote my other friend about the new Mopars, who's a big Mopar fan of the old days:

"Mopar is like a bad handjob that you don't get to nut to... it's just a waste of time."

Amen to that.

I'm so over the hype of the new Hemi motor, 345hp isn't all that impressive these days. GM was making those numbers 6 years before the "Hemi dude!" with the LS1 in 1997.

Somebody dyno'd their Charger R/T to 276hp and 311tq. That's a 69hp drop from the manufacturer 345hp... either the new Dodges are highly inefficient in their drivetrain or they don't make the power.
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I'm over it. Are you?

[Mr. Luos]

I hate my cupholder as well.

I just don't take drinks. Although, the girl has mastered using the space in the door right by the speaker for a drink.

[chevytrucks92]

Sounds like a fun night. And I've been saying those Hemi's are overrated for awhile now. And apparently, they are, because 276 rwhp would only be about what, 310 at the flywheel?

[CBFryman]

eh, the truck got waxed by a Tiburon...why wouldnt the only slighly lighter wagon get waxed by an LS1?
Nice story, good to see you arent getting all grown up...
Chevy isnt the only one, Nissan puts theirs so that if you have a bottle of any height you jsut about hit your funny bone on a hard shift from 5th to 4th in my moms truck....not that you do much hard downshifting in that boat...

[-Josh-]

eXceLLEnt! Were gonna have an AF meet some day, and were all gonna sit around a campfire and listen to matty's stories as he wows us with his expertise story telling skills like a true skrillah!!

Nice

JJ

[-The Stig-]

Originally Posted by CBFryman

eh, the truck got waxed by a Tiburon...why wouldnt the only slighly lighter wagon get waxed by an LS1?
Nice story, good to see you arent getting all grown up...
Chevy isnt the only one, Nissan puts theirs so that if you have a bottle of any height you jsut about hit your funny bone on a hard shift from 5th to 4th in my moms truck....not that you do much hard downshifting in that boat...

You're thinking of the Dodge Magnum, that's the Wagon... The Charger is a 4 door sedan like the Chrysler 300C.

[speedthrill]

wow, what a write up. One hell of a night or should i call it a mini road trip.

Looked like you had lots of fun.

[2000LS1Z28]

Good kill Matty. I think everyone knows that Dodge overrated the Hemi. 340 horsepower, my ass. Those cars run low 14's, when they should be running high 13's. I believe some dude dynoed a Dodge truck w/ the hemi to the tune of 260+whp, what a joke. The commercials really got all the mopar guys in an uproar to buy the hype. Too bad too, cause now Dodge is killing off the SRT-4, with it sick ass motor, so that they can sell that pathetic P.O.S. "Hemi" motor. Oh well

[RaidenKing]

haha dodge is killing off the srt4 while nissan is reintroducing the 240sx and toyota is bringing the supra back.

[CassiesMan]

Originally Posted by RaidenKing

nissan is reintroducing the 240sx

Are they redoing it, or did it ever disapear in Japan?

and toyota is bringing the supra back.

Meh, its gonna be a lexus, not called a Supra, and have a V10 in it...Dont forget about teh RX-7. I've been heraing that its gonna come with a 3 rotor FI from teh factory.

[nissanfanatic]

I don't have cupholders....


And I FUCKING love IT!!!!

Nice story Matt! Lots of funnies! Too bad you didn't get any decent races... Sucks when people rev at you and then don't race....

[TheStang00]

i thought i heard about a magnum that dynoed at 255rwhp... the charger is basically a two door chrysler 300 tho... im not a big fan either. i got a similar cup holder issue too but i have two so i can still fit a tall cup in the rear one. i wonder how bad a charger would beat me, it would probably be bad tho...

[Sticky]

Originally Posted by TheStang00

i thought i heard about a magnum that dynoed at 255rwhp... the charger is basically a two door chrysler 300 tho... im not a big fan either. i got a similar cup holder issue too but i have two so i can still fit a tall cup in the rear one. i wonder how bad a charger would beat me, it would probably be bad tho...

The charger is a 4 door.

I've heard the 6.1 (?) L hemi puts out 425 though. It still weighs 4000 pounds though.

[TheStang00]

Originally Posted by Sticky

The charger is a 4 door.

true... i was tired give me a break.

[-Josh-]

Originally Posted by TheStang00

true... i was tired give me a break.

There are no breaks here