yea ive had quite a few kids tell me that and they all drive honda's lol...so when they say "its still a neon" i tell them "how does it feel to get beat by a neon?" and then they shut their mouths lol
There is a guy who I work with who always give me shit for it. But then he will talk about how badass the SHO was. Wait wasn't that a toreass?
and that first gen SHO torus, stock, can run circles around a stock SRT. it was a yamaha built V6.
yeah thoise 15+ second yamaha sho's were nearly unbeatable, seeing that they were pretty heavy and probably cranked out less horsepower at the flywheel than a stock srt puts to the wheels.
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When people ask what I drive, I say "a SRT-4," and 99.9% of the time they don't know what it is... so then I say that it's a sporty car based on the Neon. Everyone and their ugly mother gives me shit for driving some "POS cheap small car" at work though, even though I easily have the fastest car in the office.
I was surprised once when my real estate agent (a 50-something year old conservative woman who drives a convertible Solara) asked me what I drove, and I said "SRT-4," expecting to get the "What's that??" question... Instead, she said, "oh yea, that dodge performance small car with the twin muffler-less exhaust, right? Those things are fast..."
I looked at her like and I've been listening to every bit of real estate advice she's given since, haha.
There is a guy who I work with who always give me shit for it. But then he will talk about how badass the SHO was. Wait wasn't that a toreass?
and that first gen SHO torus, stock, can run circles around a stock SRT. it was a yamaha built V6.
yeah thoise 15+ second yamaha sho's were nearly unbeatable, seeing that they were pretty heavy and probably cranked out less horsepower at the flywheel than a stock srt puts to the wheels.
dragtimes showed a guy run a high 14 and a low 15 and he described what he had done and with and without interior.
I have to say though running a 15.2 in 1989 stock was fast considering a z28 or v8 firebird ran 15.8's. Hell vettes ran low 15's back then with their cross fire crap. Imagine in 1987 when the grand national came out running 13's bone stock it was called the fastest production car in America. 91-93 the Syclone and Typhoon were running mid high 13's and were faster than same year vettes. Love the american turbo's they seem to do em right and run just as good if not better than imports. Look at the syty being trucks and suv's ran the same 1/4 miles as the awd 4wheel steer vr4 turbo 3000gt's.
Not to mention the glhs and shelby turbo cars that for their class were quiet fast. Hell a stock glhs is still a honda squasher.
I had a guy with a turbo shelby tell me that the srt-4 turbo is the same turbo they put on those cars back in the day? Any truth too that. He said he bolted the srt-4 turbo right upto his manifold and it worked no problems.
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The SHO was DETUNED from the factory. You can't have a Taurus beating the snot out of the Mustang GT's of the late 80's early 90's can you? Hell, I would easily hang with my dads Mustang GT and start to walk it past 100mph! The SHO might have only had 220hp but above 4K RPM's, it would sing. Plus, if I stayed out of the secondary intake runners, the bitch would get 28mpg.
BTW, the car now has 235K miles on the original motor
No, different turbo. Flange might be the same, so they could bolt up, but different turbo.
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There is a guy who I work with who always give me shit for it. But then he will talk about how badass the SHO was. Wait wasn't that a toreass?
and that first gen SHO torus, stock, can run circles around a stock SRT. it was a yamaha built V6.
yeah thoise 15+ second yamaha sho's were nearly unbeatable, seeing that they were pretty heavy and probably cranked out less horsepower at the flywheel than a stock srt puts to the wheels.
dragtimes showed a guy run a high 14 and a low 15 and he described what he had done and with and without interior.
I have to say though running a 15.2 in 1989 stock was fast considering a z28 or v8 firebird ran 15.8's. Hell vettes ran low 15's back then with their cross fire crap. Imagine in 1987 when the grand national came out running 13's bone stock it was called the fastest production car in America. 91-93 the Syclone and Typhoon were running mid high 13's and were faster than same year vettes. Love the american turbo's they seem to do em right and run just as good if not better than imports. Look at the syty being trucks and suv's ran the same 1/4 miles as the awd 4wheel steer vr4 turbo 3000gt's.
Not to mention the glhs and shelby turbo cars that for their class were quiet fast. Hell a stock glhs is still a honda squasher.
I had a guy with a turbo shelby tell me that the srt-4 turbo is the same turbo they put on those cars back in the day? Any truth too that. He said he bolted the srt-4 turbo right upto his manifold and it worked no problems.
i really dont care what it is...its stilll quick....the srt-4 just came out of nowhere and scared a few people when b4 it was just a neon...its like saying an EVO is just a lancer.....it just gets more respect because of the history behind it.....i honestly dont care and if anyone says anything i laugh right back at them which pisses them off even more. for example they drive a v8....in my opinion a v8 is a POS why??...cuz their FUGLY...and they are slow stock, usually....throw all the info and opinions u want at me about a v8 and ill still think the same of it.....
i never try to be defensive right away but try to figure a way to talk to the people and that is what scares them the most....thats just how i look at it
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and i love her just the same. 
and I've been listening to every bit of real estate advice she's given since, haha.
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