callmedoc

Pretty funny encounter I had last week. I was pulling up to the far right lane of a 3 lane light and didn't really notice who was in the left lane as a big Super Duty truck was in the middle lane. When the light turned green, I took off at a normal pace, taking off quicker than the super duty next to me. All of a sudden, I hear the person in the far left lane get on it hard and I stayed on the throttle at a light pace. Looked over and it was 2 young looking kids starring at me with a cocky grin in what sounded to be a non-stock Silver 392 Challenger manual trans car as they ripped by me. I let them pass me and caught them at the next light. I had my convertible top down and the passenger rolled down his window when I got to the light. I told him to follow me to the abandoned highway extension road to get a run in and they were game. I asked the driver "what do you have done to that thing, and the answer I got was something I never heard someone tell me on a random encounter: "you'll find out" as they both grinned and looked like they were getting ready to jerk each other off.

Anyway, led them on to the abandoned highway extension in Mexico that eventually leads to a single lane poorly paved road after a few miles. Got them into a 50 mph roll and started in 2nd gear. I honked it off, and we both had a clean start, neither jumping on the other. I immediately took a 1/2 car lead off the hit, and never looked back from there. Shifting to 3rd at 74, I already was up over a car. Then went into 3rd gear, and I continued to pull away. By the end of 3rd at 110, I was already 4-5 cars up and pulling. I was going to stop there, but he was still on it trying to catch me, so I shifted hard into 4th and let her rip some more. By 140 mph, he was a good 8+ cars back. I immediately got on the brakes as we were reaching the end of the highway extension. He caught me, and I gave them a thumbs up over my windows and the driver returned the thumbs up (thought they were good sports after all despite being dusted with that "you'll find out" comment. However, once we got to the end of the extension to the unpaved gravel road, he proceeded to due something pretty dumb and rip it on the gravel causing rocks/debris to come up and likely chip his paint. Anyway, it was a fun experience and had to post, esp. after those comments

BTW, this was with my Full Bolt on LS2 C6 Z51 6-speed Vert' with the top down. 392 Challenger that was loud with "unknown" mods had one extra 140 lb soaking wet passenger. Thanks for reading.

Sticks n Stones

wow I woulda thought a SRT8 stock would have hung right with you... guess his vatozone superduper spark plugs and turbonator weren't up to snuff. lol

slowZZZ

Are stock 392's really that fast from a roll?

LS1rob00

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Good kill, random encounters like that are always fun.

I had something similar happen when I pulled up at a light with a 392 Challenger a while back. Dude said "Wanna see what that things got?", I proceeded to put a few cars on him and after he said "Guess I didn't have enough" lol.

hugger1975

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Good kill
Good story

odthetruth

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Its because he still had all his headlights in.

Everyone knows if you remove the driver's side headlight and put an intake there, you automatically become much faster.

redbird555

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Good kill stock 392's are quick cars ive seen them trap 112-114 stock but even with a couple bolt ons they're still heavy pigs so im not surprised by the outcome. can they effectively tune those cars yet last i heard a handheld was about as good as it got

NateLS1Mustang

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Encounters like this is what most car guys will live for lol. I think it's a disgrace when a young kid gets a fast car handed to them by daddy for their first car and they think that car is the fastest thing on the planet because they know no better (mainly because they don't do their research like most of us car guys). Then they find someone like you thinking they even had a chance... Smh.

Good kill OP. Let these no-knowledge-of-cars punks learn the hard way lmao.

Sticks n Stones

Yeah they are. Me and my friends surmised your setup at our local track would be a 12.3-12.6 @ 110-114mph setup (Pacific Raceways is a slow track). Same track were 392 SRT8's run 12.5-12.8 @113-115mph... Same track were no one has seen a stock C6Z ever break into the 11's though we heard it has happened once or twice in the last 8 years.

slowZZZ

I have a hard time believing a 392 is going to give a C6Z a run for it's money. From all I've read they trap 114 at best and the C6Z is a 120 car at worst. Are you sure you're not thinking about the C5Z? I'd like to run one, but I rarely see them. Sounds like bad driving C6Z owners frequent your local strip.

Sticks n Stones

Various drivers, various times and probably 15-20 occasions that my coworkers and I have seen the C6Z's on stock tires and decent driver ran best runs in the 12.0-12.2 and trapped in the 120-123mph range. The C6Z's just seem to have trouble getting out of the hole: drag radials and veteran driver puts them solidly in the mid 11's. Trust me when I say I don't like making blanket statements, especially about a car I love (and would own my head didn't hit the roof cuz I'm too damned tall) but that's just how it is up here.

OneSlowV

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6spd challengers are weak from a dig or roll. A5 is were its at how you know it was modded? Those cars are pretty loud from the factory.

willys srt8

It was a Z51 not a Z06. A SRT8 Challenger should have given him a close run.

OneSlowV

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A Z would push a 392 ' s **** in. Would be a great run against a hellcat though

islander033

Where are all the fast hellcat vids from the general public at?

OneSlowV

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I've been looking still haven't come across anything yet. Really wont to see what the car will do.

islander033

It's been out long enough that someone must have raced it at the track or skreet.

My guess is that the performance is worse than advertised from doge and the owners are skerred to post up results. Kinda like when the ZL1 first came out. lol

OneSlowV

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That could be the case but I hope its not true.

odthetruth

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Expect 12 second runs from the Hellcats in real life. Expect 10s on the internet.

NW-99SS

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This. The fact is the physics don't add up to the hype Dodge created for them.

The Mopar boys heads will really blow when they can't beat the new Z06. But, butt, butt, the interwebz says I should beat them