Made an ~8 hour round trip not long ago with my dad to pick up his new-to-him 2014 Raptor. We decided to take the GT350 and managed to find a fun run on the way back. We ran into a black hellcat challenger in stop and go traffic but it was impossible to get any action in at that point. Well a detour and 2 hours later, I see some familiar HID's quickly approaching me. My dad, following in the raptor, flashed his brights to signal what was coming but I already had a good guess at this point. Remembering the plates, it was the same hellcat lol.
***GT350 has cat delete/E85 tune, hellcat was an auto and likely stock. It sounded very throaty like it could have at least had exhaust, but I'm not sure how they sound stock with the exhaust open.***
After some playful back and forth pulls, we finally got in front of traffic enough to safely line up. I look over to notice his window half down and his wife/girlfriend in the passenger seat with her phone sideways. At this point, I knew he was ready for a clean run so I went ahead and honked it off from about a 60 (too much traffic behind to slow it down). Had to start in 3rd which isn't optimal at that speed, but I got out about half a car on him and held it for a while. When I went to 4th, he finally started to pull back. We were coming up on traffic but managed to stretch it to 135 or so, not quite the top of 4th. He had 1/4-1/2 of a car length on me when we shut down.
I was pretty pleased with this outcome, because going into it I was accepting of an ass dragging, especially since a lot of HC's you encounter at least have pulley/tune. And the exhaust was in his ear for all of 3rd gear so he at least had to hear a voodoo at 8k rpm lmao.
***GT350 has cat delete/E85 tune, hellcat was an auto and likely stock. It sounded very throaty like it could have at least had exhaust, but I'm not sure how they sound stock with the exhaust open.***
After some playful back and forth pulls, we finally got in front of traffic enough to safely line up. I look over to notice his window half down and his wife/girlfriend in the passenger seat with her phone sideways. At this point, I knew he was ready for a clean run so I went ahead and honked it off from about a 60 (too much traffic behind to slow it down). Had to start in 3rd which isn't optimal at that speed, but I got out about half a car on him and held it for a while. When I went to 4th, he finally started to pull back. We were coming up on traffic but managed to stretch it to 135 or so, not quite the top of 4th. He had 1/4-1/2 of a car length on me when we shut down.
I was pretty pleased with this outcome, because going into it I was accepting of an ass dragging, especially since a lot of HC's you encounter at least have pulley/tune. And the exhaust was in his ear for all of 3rd gear so he at least had to hear a voodoo at 8k rpm lmao.