Another Mopar Off My Bucket List

Another Mopar Off My Bucket List - Barracuda Fastback

SNKEBIT said

Try the boosted Viper world!!!! 1000 hp to the wheels is the norm. After you drive a bunch of them, the 500 hp stockers seem like turds. Then you get in the daily driver, omg!!! It's never enough. After a while, you get used to it. You're buddy you're giving a ride to is scared shitless. You are just on a Sunday cruise. lol

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SNKEBIT said
John, it's well worth the few hundred bucks to have somebody tune over the phone/internet. Couple-three hours you're done. If the tuner has a lot of experience, that's a piece of mind. Blown up a few thought I could do. It is soooo easy to do, one minor mis-calculation...... oh well, pull engine, start over. Get sick of that scenario after a while. :burnout: Add to that the occasional bad gas scenario, just magnifies the "mis-tune" problem. Before you know it, you have some other issues that pop up and chase your tail trying to find an issue that should have never been there cuz you thought you could tune it yourself.................
Just words of wisdom here. I can build it, take it apart, transform it, but leave the tuning to the experts. That's their specialty. :glasses7:

My original Roadrunner was rated at 335 HP. After tweaking it when I was young I might have had it closer to 400 HP. The Duster puts out 517 HP, - the Barracuda -520. The numbers have always crept higher. WHEN WILL THIS MADNESS END??

I didn't realize you were pushing that much power with your Viper. I know Spence's Challenger is supposed to ave 425 but it's such a comfy SOB that you don't get the same sensation of speed that you do in the old cars. When I see pictures of some of the old altereds it looks like they'd be a handful without the big power.

As far as the tuner goes, I haven't ruled it out. - But I'd like to think that if someone else can figure this stuff out, we should be able to too. That last tuner guy we went to didn't seem to be the sharpest knife in the drawer, - and he makes a living doing it. I don't think we'll be going back to him. FASTMAN sounds like a better option.

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