finally got the neon into the tens!!!!!!!!

[1siksrt]

Here is what my tuner had to say about the day...:headbang


Hit the track today with srt4me18 car and after 5 passes on the new setup, it went 10.971@136.45 [1.74 60]
Today was most likely THE WORSE track prep I have ever experienced. I had to pull major power out of every car we had running today to get them through the 1-2 gears. Rickys car has some 10.5s with more seat time and full power down low.
Anyhow, we snagged the 10 and parked the car to concentrate on the other 5 cars we had at the track. I fully expect to see Ricky drop tenths off the time next time out.
Congrats Ricky, your my boy blue!
Video will be up tomorrow.

http://www.youtube.com/user/realtuned#p/a/u/1/D_UIXS-tUFA

[07ROUSHSTG3]

congrats!

[SSLEVO]

so your tunner drove the car? I'm confused.

[tommyt5078]

cant wait to see the video tomorrow!!!!!!

[juicedimpss]

congrats with that wrong wheel driver.

[Yeehaw]

damn good time....for a neon!!

[Irish]

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[forcefedss]

cant wait to see this thing in person.

[Waver]

that is awesome for the car, but I am with sslevo, did you run the time or did your tuner?

[Irish]

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[Waver]

I agree.........not saying otherwise

[Prince Valiant]

Congrats Ricky!

[MurphysLaw88GT]

good job Ricky. seems like you just got that thing yesterday

[-stew-]

damn good time....for any car!!

*Fix'd


Can't talk shit about a car in the tens.

[BAD LS1]

Congrats, thats quite a feat! But it begs the question, did it back it up?

[SSLEVO]

Hell yeah that is bookin, i'm not a fan of those owner/driver cars though. Why would you want to go through all of that time and money and not take the glory yourself? Not talking shit, just wondering what the deal is.

[STANMAN]

Aaron still has the car in Ohio, Ricky hasn't even had the chance to drive it yet. Trust me, Aaron's time in the car (or Ricky if he was driving, not as in 1sikSRT Ricky, as in the co-owner of RealTune Ricky) will be slow, he doesn't hammer on customers cars. If the car is a 10 second car in their possesion, Ricky (1siksrt, the owner of the car) won't have a problem getting it deeper into the 10's.


Like I said over the weekend, congrats buddy, give Aaron the stink finger for me when you see him to pick up the car:rolf

[STANMAN]

Just to clear things up, Ricky the co-owner of Realtune is who drove the car into the 10's this weekend, as the car itself is still in Ohio. Ricky (1siksrt) hasn't even had a chance to drive it yet. I don't know when he will have the car back, but when he does, don't worry, he will get better times than the guys at Realtune, as again, they don't "beat" on cars to get the best times, like the owner will.

[STANMAN]

Hell yeah that is bookin, i'm not a fan of those owner/driver cars though. Why would you want to go through all of that time and money and not take the glory yourself? Not talking shit, just wondering what the deal is.

It's not an owner/driver car. It just so happens that Realtune (The #1 SRT authority in my books) is in Ohio, and Ricky lives here. They built the car for him, tuned it, and took it to the track for some track tuning, but it's 100% Ricky's car.

[SSLEVO]

It's not an owner/driver car. It just so happens that Realtune (The #1 SRT authority in my books) is in Ohio, and Ricky lives here. They built the car for him, tuned it, and took it to the track for some track tuning, but it's 100% Ricky's car.

LOL, yes, your first two posts cleared that up. That makes sense then. I still would be pissed if someone other than me ran it past a milestone like that :goof

[STANMAN]

LOL, yes, your first two posts cleared that up. That makes sense then. I still would be pissed if someone other than me ran it past a milestone like that :goof

The more I read my 1st two responses, the more confused I got, lol. I thought the 3rd one was pretty clear, 3rd time was a charm:rolf


Don't worry, Ricky (the owner) will get it there with a quickness!!!:thumbsup

[Yooformula]

congrats! hopefully you get to beat on it yourself soon.

[sloLs1]

thata boy! :headbang



i dont know what it is about the magical numer "10sec" pass but it feels damn good to get there! sooner or later youll be pushin yourself to that 9sec pass!


goodluck. keep on keepin on!

[WhatsADSM]

Congrats! What was the 60' time?

[DR.FORD]

Congrats!!!!:thumbsup
Keep doin' what you are doin' and don't pay attention to any negativity-
because when you concentrate 100% on what YOU are doing and don't think about anybody elses junk is usually when great things happen:devil

[SSLEVO]

It must have 60'd ok given the trap speed. Usually when you see a fast FWD setup it has an insanely high trap. No negativity here, hell i still haven't ran an 11 yet, lol.

If I remember right you were changing your clutch setups due to snapping input shafts left and right. what did you end up going with?

[BAD LS1]

[1.74 60] Alot of ET left in the 60'

[SSLEVO]

[1.74 60] Alot of ET left in the 60'

Good call, reading owned us, lol. 1.74 is leaving ok for a FWD car i would think. I was spinning all 4 in the evo to my best of a 1.69. What do you think it could do?

[STANMAN]

[1.74 60] Alot of ET left in the 60'

For a RWD yes, for a FWD car, that's pretty good. I had A LOT more in suspension done to my SRT, and my 60's were in the mid 1.6's, which was considered awesome at the time.

[CobaltSSTuner]

a 1.74 is good for a fwd

[WhatsADSM]

Ahh... I didn't even look close enough at the first post.

Yea 1.74 is so-so for a FWDer. I'd bet ricky will likely have it down to low 1.6s, maybe even some high 1.5s on a great launch.

[Nix]

Congrats! :)

[BAD LS1]

Ahh... I didn't even look close enough at the first post.

Yea 1.74 is so-so for a FWDer. I'd bet ricky will likely have it down to low 1.6s, maybe even some high 1.5s on a great launch.

It will take that to get to the 10.50's they are after, or of course more power.

[Prince Valiant]

well, if the tuner/driver are accurate in stating they didn't beat too hard on it, they probably can get 60' down a bit and catch a little more mph w/ quicker shifts.

[1siksrt]

ok, here is the deal bob DID not really explain it well either...LOL Nick the mechanic at realtune drove the car... as most of you know i drove at at GLD to 11.01 twice in the same night with a shittier powerband/less power, different setup, super old school turbo, etc, etc. SO it wont be a problem for me to handle my business...

Also they had to pull a ton of power out of all six cars they had at the track, as you can see in the video the front half is sloooooowww.... They were having problems putting any power down in the front half... He only had 15 lbs of boost in the front half!!!! This car will go deep, deep tens next spring with no changes, but more boost and timing... And when they do this with customer cars the tunes have a bunch of power pulled...

Biggest reason i did not drive the car, is because i am good friends with both the owners Aaron/Rick and I still owe them some money on the build and really could not afford to go down to race it.. So the car will be trailered back in the winter, We all just wanted it to barely get into the tens and next season we can go ballz out(up boost/timing) with it :)


I have personally cut a 1.66 before and fully expect this car to cut a low 1.6 next season... Last time at norwalk with me driving when the car had issues i cut a 1.7 with the new setup and coasted thru the sixty beem never even hit second :) that would have been a 1.6x with ease...
that should clear up all questions...

******VIDEO ADDED TO FIRST POST******

[SSLEVO]

Awesome, what the new snail on there? Or is that hush hush, haha

[madmike]

so is ricky his suragate? or stunt double?

ok I am just joking he he....

[forcefedss]

another note. aaron and realtune have the fastest srts both calibers and neons. they were the first to have a caliber srt4 in the tens. they also have a few neon srt4s in the 9's.

o and whats up bob!

just happy for ya ricky! w/ all the unfourtunate shit that happened you were able to get into the tens this year which you wanted!

[STANMAN]

ok, here is the deal bob DID not really explain it well either...LOL Nick the mechanic at realtune drove the car... as most of you know i drove at at GLD to 11.01 twice in the same night with a shittier powerband/less power, different setup, super old school turbo, etc, etc. SO it wont be a problem for me to handle my business...

Also they had to pull a ton of power out of all six cars they had at the track, as you can see in the video the front half is sloooooowww.... They were having problems putting any power down in the front half... He only had 15 lbs of boost in the front half!!!! This car will go deep, deep tens next spring with no changes, but more boost and timing... And when they do this with customer cars the tunes have a bunch of power pulled...

Biggest reason i did not drive the car, is because i am good friends with both the owners Aaron/Rick and I still owe them some money on the build and really could not afford to go down to race it.. So the car will be trailered back in the winter, We all just wanted it to barely get into the tens and next season we can go ballz out(up boost/timing) with it :)


I have personally cut a 1.66 before and fully expect this car to cut a low 1.6 next season... Last time at norwalk with me driving when the car had issues i cut a 1.7 with the new setup and coasted thru the sixty beem never even hit second :) that would have been a 1.6x with ease...
that should clear up all questions...

******VIDEO ADDED TO FIRST POST******




Realtune has a new mechanic? Or did you mean Rick?

Did they ever use the drivetrain from my old car after it got wrecked??

[1siksrt]

Awesome, what the new snail on there? Or is that hush hush, haha

hta D60 journal bearing agp turbo:thumbsup

[1siksrt]

another note. aaron and realtune have the fastest srts both calibers and neons. they were the first to have a caliber srt4 in the tens. they also have a few neon srt4s in the 9's.

o and whats up bob!

just happy for ya ricky! w/ all the unfourtunate shit that happened you were able to get into the tens this year which you wanted!

The fastest caliber is in the 11's still... they only have one auto 9 second srt, and they own the fastest 5 speed car 10.08@152mph, and have six ten second cars total including mine

[That_Guy]

nice work ricky.. i knew it was only a matter of time.. now jordan is going to have to step up his game LOL

[OxmanWI]

Congrats!

[forcefedss]

The fastest caliber is in the 11's still... they only have one auto 9 second srt, and they own the fastest 5 speed car 10.08@152mph, and have six ten second cars total including mine


ah. my bad. i thought i seen their caliber in the high tens.

didnt they have erabbits in the 9's or 10 flat

[spindler27]

ah. my bad. i thought i seen their caliber in the high tens.

didnt they have erabbits in the 9's or 10 flat
thats the 10.08 hes talking about dummy, and to SSLEVO.......being a very close friend of rickys.......he is the MOST upset that he wasn't in the car when it went 10s, for a long time he would not let realtune drive it just because he himself said the time didn't mean anything to him unless he was in the car, but we all know ricky can drive it to a much faster time than it has gone, Ricky haz driver mod:D

[Waver]

he himself said the time didn't mean anything to him unless he was in the car

I agree with this statement the most....yeah the car can go 10's but can the driver?

[Beagle]

Doesnt matter who drove it into the tens it still went tens. Nice job Ricky!!! The hell with the haters.

[STANMAN]

The fastest caliber is in the 11's still... they only have one auto 9 second srt, and they own the fastest 5 speed car 10.08@152mph, and have six ten second cars total including mine

Yeah, the Caliber is not quiet as easy to mod as the Neon.



So, when do you go out to get it, or are they delivering? If they are delivering, we are all going out bishes!!!

[1siksrt]

I agree with this statement the most....yeah the car can go 10's but can the driver?

If i went 11.01@131mph with less power and shitty ten year old turbo... pretty sure i can get it done with the new setup:thumbsup:rolf

[1siksrt]

Yeah, the Caliber is not quiet as easy to mod as the Neon.



So, when do you go out to get it, or are they delivering? If they are delivering, we are all going out bishes!!!

negative, Im gonna take a truck and trailer down this winter.. probably like dec. or jan. No hurries as i cant race til spring anyways...

[1siksrt]

for those who dont know... Stock intake manifold(no porting or Sheet metal mani), log exh. manifold, stock trans(with billet selector), stock camshafts:wooo PLus i could easily shave another 70lbs or so by just getting rid of 50lb stock rim/tires and gettting skinnies for the back... there is so so so much i can do still...

Just on power it is capable of now it will go alot faster and there is still alot more i can do, including bigger turbo:headbang

thanks for the kind words guys :) to the haters I dont give a shit :)

[forcefedss]

what cams are you planning on going w/?

i got a set of 2.0's id sell ya real cheap

[HP ADDICT]

What does this car put down on the dyno? Very impressive and I am sure you will hit 10sec no problem!

[1siksrt]

What does this car put down on the dyno? Very impressive and I am sure you will hit 10sec no problem!

Ill just say somewhere north of 500+ whp and 500+ torque on high boost and high timing Not how it was ran :headbang:drool: Its up there on high boost, but thats my lil secret how far over those it is:devil

[1siksrt]

what cams are you planning on going w/?

i got a set of 2.0's id sell ya real cheap

hoping to throw some crane 16's in it next year,....

[1siksrt]

Realtune has a new mechanic? Or did you mean Rick?

Did they ever use the drivetrain from my old car after it got wrecked??

yes new mechanic, call aaron sometime:wow

[STANMAN]

yes new mechanic, call aaron sometime:wow

What does Rick do now, lol??

[spindler27]

I agree with this statement the most....yeah the car can go 10's but can the driver?
the driver definitely can in this case, the car would have gone a couple tenths faster with ricky driving actually, but like it was said, they just wanted to get the car in the 10s and call it a day