SuperTrooper169's 2009 Dodge Charger R/T R&T Thread
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My 6 y/o son likes to talk back and do exactly what I ask him not to do one additional time before stopping just to f with me. My 4 y/o daughter just likes to talk about poop. But damn I love those little buggers!
Nothing much new here other than I put a new battery in last week. Went with a Walmart brand battery after reading it's made by the same company that makes Duralast Gold batteries which I've had good luck with. For $139 and a 5 year warranty I figured it'd be worth a shot. For those with a battery in the trunk you're probably aware of this, but being its my first car with one not in the engine compartment, I had no idea it has a vent tube and plug. I didn't even know these things existed until looking at the DIYs online. Pretty interesting stuff.
Nothing much new here other than I put a new battery in last week. Went with a Walmart brand battery after reading it's made by the same company that makes Duralast Gold batteries which I've had good luck with. For $139 and a 5 year warranty I figured it'd be worth a shot. For those with a battery in the trunk you're probably aware of this, but being its my first car with one not in the engine compartment, I had no idea it has a vent tube and plug. I didn't even know these things existed until looking at the DIYs online. Pretty interesting stuff.
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Thought this was a pretty cool shot. Kind of a weird spot to take a photo being I was walking out of my daughters preschool, but when a photo opportunity presents itself you have to take it.
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Yikes been 3+ months since I've been on AZine (that's an unfortunate record for me) but I remembered to come back (a few days late) to share what I did for Sapphire's 5 years of ownership anniversary. I was tinkering with the idea of moving on from Sapphire and getting into a Scat Pack or or 14ish Charger SRT or 12-13 300 SRT, but instead I decided I was being dumb since there's nothing technically wrong with Sapphire and decided to keep her for the long haul. I started thinking big picture, which went from having a custom grind cam installed to saying f it I'm going to get a Magnuson supercharger... it started getting way out of control. As much as I wanted to do something big, I also didn't think sinking $5,000 to $10,000 into her was a wise financial move. Sad but I just can't justify it. Instead I made the decision to stuff the fattest rubber under the rear of her I could so when I install my gears (it's been over a year since I bought them) I'll actually have a fighting chance of getting traction off the line. That's the whole point of gears after all. So I went with Demon replica wheels. 20x10.5 in the arse end, 20x9 in the front. I reused my 245/45-R20 Nitto Motivos for the front and got 305/35-R20 Nitto NT555 G2s for the rear. These things are monsters and the new look from the rear alone is worth their weight in gold. And they hook like a motha, so once the gears go in hopefully I'll see some much improved 60ft times at the track. For appearance reasons I took off the rear "hip stripes" since there was just too much black (racist) going on and I wanted to showcase the blue as much as possible with black (racist) wheels. I like the more necked look now. (Sorry for the poor photo quality, one is a screen grab from a video and the other is a shot I took last night in a Wally World parking lot.)
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More pictures!
Looks great!
Looks great!
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More photos as requested. I'm still getting used to the new look. Some days I love it, other days I wish I had kept my old wheels. It's a sickness. As you scroll to the bottom you'll see I finally got around to installing my SRT diff with the 3.23 gears. I'm still working out some kinks - a slight vibration in the drive line at 35-45 mph - so I haven't launched really hard on it yet but first and second gear are so short now I can't imagine it not helping my 60ft times especially with the new wider rubber. Now that the RPMs are raised at highway cruising speeds the Corsa Xtreme is a little too extreme for my ears so I may be looking into a different catback at some point. It's not something I need to do immediately since I've been doing mostly around town driving lately with very little highway driving.
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She looks great, almost has an unmarked LE look to it in profile.
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Til you mash the skinny pedal & roar by
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Really like the new wheels. Missed the first update post with them. Would it be possible to do a custom build in the gears with a better final drive gear for highway cruising that could tame the exhaust.
Now you need 1 more inch of drop though with those new wheels
Now you need 1 more inch of drop though with those new wheels
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Great update, looks fantastic. The wheels are great!
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I dig the wheels!
What 60ft / times / trap speeds are you shooting for in the 1/4?
What 60ft / times / trap speeds are you shooting for in the 1/4?
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Really like the new wheels. Missed the first update post with them. Would it be possible to do a custom build in the gears with a better final drive gear for highway cruising that could tame the exhaust.
Now you need 1 more inch of drop though with those new wheels
Now you need 1 more inch of drop though with those new wheels
Thanks! That's the nicest thing you've ever said to me.
Thanks bruh! My goal is sub-2.0 60ft since that's the best I could get before the tires/gears. I'd love a 1.8xx but I don't want to get my hopes up too much. I should trap around 104-105 and hoping for low 13s to high 12s.
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If only there was some smoke coming off those tires in your avi