i know the awd folks dont like us comparing, but at the track we are also equally comparable with DR's so we can hook up the power to the ground, i've seen it happen a few times, they launch about a 2 cars off and then as soon as a fwd car hooks up their gone. AWD folks own the streets, light to light is their speciality but the open road is ours...

 

Until RWD comes in and eats everything for dinner.

I heard Mopar was asking customers about selling a RWD conversion for SRT's

 

Correction.. they have and AWD conversion already made but untested. its the complete drive train and tranny from a jeep liberty, if i had the 4-5 grand i would do it but we all know us military folk dont make any real money.

 

its not enough to compensate being so far away from my family (3000 miles, have seen my parents twice in 7 years) let alone what we do/put up with on a daily basis.

 

All this talk is making me really want to race an evo from a roll

 

dont get your hopes up. a modded evo is a hard car to toy with.

 

No way! Not a modded EVO, just a stock one, or one with about the same mods as me. Thats it though.

 

Does it make you as mad as it makes me that having a v8 almost doesnt even matter anymore?

 

No, not really at all. The way I like to look at it is if I had a supercharger on my car blowing 10-15 psi (average amount of most of the new turbo cars) in my engine, there wouldn't be a four cylinder around that could mess with me. A moderatly boosted 4 is comparable to a stock V8, thats what you have to remember. Its just two different ways of going fast. Another way to look at it as like a plateau. A four cylinder is going to hit a flatpoint where they can't make much more horsepower, where as a 8 cylinder is going to hit that plateau with a lot more horsepower under the hood. I guess thats the way I look at it. Not to mention, but a boosted anything with high pressure isn't going to last as long as a N/A engine.

 

True, but supporting mods for the goddamn V8 are so ridiculously expensive