Went to a meet up with my buddy and brought my SS sedan. We pull up and there is a Scat Pack Charger, Hellcat Charger, a few 1LE cars, few Mustangs. Dude in the Hellcat as been wanting to run me but doesn’t know what I have because my buddy just tells him I’m just a exhaust car and doesn’t know anything about my car really
So I’m sitting there and Hellcat guy sends his buddy over and says “ nice SS, you want to run the Camaro?” And points to the 1LE I say “ I’m just hanging out not really interested in running anything here really” he goes “oh don’t think I’ll be a good match up?” I say “ well I think the Hellcat might have a chance but that’s about it” they all snicker and are saying “ Is this guy serious? He said the Hellcat might have a chance?”
So Hellcat guy comes over and is a pretty cool dude, says he doesn’t race from a dig because he has no traction (has drag radials on too) I say “ that’s cool man, I’m just here on regular tires so I understand” he says “ they say you think you’ll be a match for me?” I say “ well if you’re stock it should be a pretty good race if you have some mods, who knows” “ he says “ well let’s go find out when we leave” I say “ ok” and go back to the car.
So everyone leaves and the Hellcat follows me out. He pulls up to me and is smiling, I downshift and hit it real quick to make sure I don’t have any problems due to it being in the 40’s, the smile goes away when he lines back up because he thought I was just some bolt on car and a easy kill and now he is yelling to me 3 honks! I give him a thumbs up hold about 50 in 2nd and he does the honk thing and.....
I lost all respect for hellcats. I thought they were faster...
I had 5 cars on him by the time I got 130.
He follows me off the freeway and starts chatting it up, “ what do you have done? You must have 20k into that car!, is it on race gas? E85? How much boost?”
The look of dispair when I told him it’s a stock lsa blower, on 91 and a stick shift was priceless. He couldn’t believe how my car moved vs his intake/tune Hellcat.
Cool guy, but I was expecting more out of the Chargers. Don’t count us little LSA guys out, we can hang still(sometimes)
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