neon times at track

showtime22 · #1 11-23-2003, 02:06 AM

i was wondering wat times people were running with there neons i went to the track recently and with just a home made cold air intake and a 4-1 hi end header i running consistant 15.8`s i beat 2 2003 beamers and i lost to a vet only by about 3 cars. the announcer at the track was amazed when i beat the first beamer that the second time he said over the loud speaker "there goes tommy rose puttin a wax job on the beamer" and i really did too i ran 5 times and won all but 1, i beat 2 beamers 1 crx SI, and a saturn with intake exhaust and header then lost to that vet buy 3 cars..... just wonderin wat everybody else is running? and i was witha neon r/t that ran nitrous and he was running high 13`s </P>

71RoadRunner · #2 11-23-2003, 03:55 AM

Mine is a mid-14 car. Unfortunately the last time I had it at the track I ran low-16. I couldn't understand why I lost 2 sec.+. I was babying it a little due to a slightly loose AC/power steering belt, but still not enough for low-16. The Neon R/T's ran at least high-15 dead stock and here mine was turning low-16. A week later I was cleaning the pedal covers I had made sure I put on before the show/drag race where I ran so slow. I pushed down on the gas and found my problem. The pedal cover on the gas pedal was too low and was hitting the console/exhaust hump and stopping the pedal from ever reaching full-throttle. I was pissed, I made sure they were on to look good at the show and I should have left it off. I have taken it off since I found that out and when I run it next year it should maybe be in the high-13 range, because I plan to do a little more to it.<img border="0" src=smileys/smiley2.gif border="0">

showtime22 · #3 11-27-2003, 03:39 PM

thats kinda funny but it sucks too...im still doin some work to mine then im hookin up my nitrous kit with a 60 shot then im doin some internal work and movin the shot up.anybody else...

71RoadRunner · #4 11-30-2003, 03:39 AM

There was a Mopar magazine article that I read on their rental and abuse of a 2.0L DOHC Neon. They eventually doubled the horsepower with a 150 hp nitrous shot and blew up the air box. It was a funny and informative article on how to rent, nitrous, blow-up and return the car.LOL

showtime22 · #5 12-05-2003, 03:01 AM

did they jsut slap the nos on or did they do some work first like cams fuel rail internals? the highest im goin on nitrous is 125 and thats witha lot of work!!

71RoadRunner · #6 12-05-2003, 05:01 AM

They just put it on a bone stock rental, no other mods.

HEMI TT · #7 12-06-2003, 04:24 AM

dang kinda like in cky2k with the rental car, bought the $9 insurance and lit the radio on fire and watched the car burn