Srt-4 Ftl!

[evan938]

i dont post a lot of the good stuff i get from our local racing board, but i thought this would be worth it...copy/pasted

I went to the Mopar Nationals evening event last Saturday night. Every year, the Mopar guys stay on Brice road and every year it gets rowdy. They have burn out boxes in the hotel parking lot, in restaurant parking lots... and last night... in the parking lot of a bank. It is really crazy stuff.
I never bring any of my cars out due to the number of drunk people and reckless driving... but I like to go watch the chaos.

Anyhow... last night... a kid pulls into the waterbox with his BRAND NEW SRT-4. It was that Copper/Orange metallic color... pretty nice looking car. I think they call it Orange Blast or something like that.

He pulls the E-brake to hold the car.... then brings up the revs and dumps the clutch.....the motor is just screaming, but the passenger side tire isn't turning. I'm thinking to myself that these things all have positraction and somthing isn't right.... it has to be the clutch slipping.

By the time I process what is happening (a few seconds) and I get moving towards the car yelling STOP STOP STOP... it's too late. The clutch and pressureplate explode into 8-10 pieces and scrapnel files out from under the car... along with sparks, oil, and antifreeze. Luckily no one got hurt.

I got to survey the damage afterward... and it wasn't pretty. A section of the pressure plate shattered the bellhousing, came out and hit the intake manifold, CRACKING IT IN HALF, then hitting the radiator and crushing it.

At a bare minimum the kid is going to need a new transmission, bellhousing, flywheel, clutch, pressure plate, linkage, intake manifold, throttle body, radiator, condenser, A/C lines, and engine wiring harness. This is the stuff that I saw that was ruined. There is probably going to be more....

Here are a few photos from a fellow LGT'er....

A couple pics:

Oh... and in the 3rd picture... you can see me on the far right... in the black shirt. :lol:

http://www.hometown.aol.com/aasearles/SRT1.jpg

http://www.hometown.aol.com/aasearles/SRT2.jpg

http://www.hometown.aol.com/aasearles/SRT3.jpg

http://www.hometown.aol.com/aasearles/SRT4.jpg

http://www.hometown.aol.com/aasearles/SRT5.jpg

http://www.hometown.aol.com/aasearles/SRT6.jpg

Some more......

http://www.hometown.aol.com/aasearles/SRT7.jpg

http://www.hometown.aol.com/aasearles/SRT8.jpg

http://www.hometown.aol.com/aasearles/SRT9.jpg

http://www.hometown.aol.com/aasearles/SRT10.jpg

http://www.hometown.aol.com/aasearles/SRT11.jpg

http://img.betchuk.com/thumbnails.php?album=24

http://img.betchuk.com/thumbnails.php?album=24

[toymachine566]

bwahahahahahaha........thats freaking hilarious.

sucks for the dude, but i guess thats the price he's gotta pay to be cool :cool:

good post

kind of looks like he's smiling in the one pic, could be the angle though

[Cypher]

hahaha at dodge!!!

[soullesselantra]

Lmfgdao!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[toymachine566]

so much for the warranty..........

"uhm, yeah i wasn't doing this sick-crazy-phat burnout or anything, actually i was on my way disney land"

ya win some, ya lose some

[punkrocker3_00]

That would have been the Chrysler Classic, not Mopar Nationals (that is in August). Anyway, he is the dumb one for trying to do something the right way and damaging his car. The tranny they put with the SRT-4 is a very strong transmission. But even the strongest parts can break when dumb people do dumb things.

[only1db]

i guess it wasnt a new one...it didnt have the quaife unit in it...it would have spun both wheels.

that sucks though...o well...

and lets not forget that the intake manifold is only plastic.

[punkrocker3_00]

i guess it wasnt a new one...it didnt have the quaife unit in it...it would have spun both wheels.

You know I was thinking the same thing, but that actually would be an '04 or '05. The Orange Blast color was not available in the first production year which was the year the SRT-4 didn't come with the LSD. I mean I guess he could have painted it factory Orange Blast, but who knows. More of the guys know this kid from the local forum Evan and I are on. Let me ask there. But of course if the clutch is slipping...BOOM

[evan938]

ha. you know, i thought i saw your s/n on there a few days ago...i looked at the cars and didnt see the elantra listed so i thought it was just a close s/n

[Tx_boy]

Damn I did one of those burnouts in my 05 GT and all it did was just wear out the clutch. It must of already been jacked up and that just put it over the edge by doing that.

[seguin22]

Plastic manifold SRTs do not have plastic manifolds only the base neons do!

[03SilverBullet]

I laugh at that idiot.

[txdproject]

yup its a dogde ...fix it everyday or else it will fix you a first class walk. Anyway thats what he gets for showing off like an a** ; seriously if he had never did that stupid *** burn out his car would be ok for a few more days. Atleast if that had not blown up something else would have

[WytchDctr]

Service manager was telling me about some local guy that did something like that to an accent and wanted it fixed under warrenty.

[KeWLKaT]

man. that is sever self pwnage

[ricerrx7]

i guess it wasnt a new one...it didnt have the quaife unit in it...it would have spun both wheels.

I think you misunderstood what was said. It wasn't spinning either wheel. He realized there was a problem when the one wheel wasn't spinning, because both should be. That's when he realized that the clutch was ****ing up.

[yamaha]

And this is why I drive my ****ty J2.

[KeWLKaT]

Hah, Sean, you crack me up.

http://guuzu.com/kewlkat/image/2527/large.jpg

[PSUsouthpaw]

I saw this posted over on penn state's car club board, and someone on there mentioned that it was actually his Dad's car. I'm not sure if this is truth or not, but if it is...than I'm going to be on the floor laughing for a loooong time.

[yamaha]

Hah, Sean, you crack me up.

http://guuzu.com/kewlkat/image/2527/large.jpg

lol, too funny.

[evan938]

ah, you guys are cocks. ****ing drunk pics

and yes, thats how red i really was after the day at the airport

[yamaha]

And yet you post pictures mooning me that I don't even remember?

[evan938]

...you fell asleep 1st...you deserved it :)

[punkrocker3_00]

ha. you know, i thought i saw your s/n on there a few days ago...i looked at the cars and didnt see the elantra listed so i thought it was just a close s/n

Yeah that is me. I don't have the Elantra on my list...hmm must have forgot.

[2001GLS]

I bet he won't do that again once he gets the repair bill! He must be crying now....