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Great. Samurai swords and now this. Tim sure is boring.
It sounds good.
Tim Duncan's Hennessey Challenger HPE600 SC on the Chassis Dyno
http://www.motorator.com/videos/417
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Hennessey Performance recently built a supercharged Dodge Challenger for 2-time NBA MVP, Tim Duncan of the San Antonio Spurs. Here is his car on the dyno making nearly 500 rwhp
Great. Samurai swords and now this. Tim sure is boring.
does duncan really need to go that fast?
He bores me to tears.
Do that another 5 times and he'll need an oil change already.
Maybe, maybe not. But he's a boy with enough money to buy the toys.
The car:
Sweet colors.
I'm irked.
At the end of the clip, they thanked Tim of the San Antonio Suprs.
Unreal, don't people proof read anymore?
I'm amazed at how many errors get by. I hold myself back from correcting articles.
Hennessey also used a really old picture of him in their customer section. I guess it was put together fast.
6 liter?
I guess gas prices don't bother Timmy!
I've wanted one of those new challengers since they showed the concept. Gas prices be damned. Good choice Timmy.
nice ing car. those challenger are cool. 6.1 liter hemi....... .
but the camaros are going to be better.
Yes, I'm sure Tim Duncan is really worried about rising gas prices...
Did they take the back seat out so he can move the driver's seat back further?
Not a chance and I'm a Camaro guy. The Challenger is going to compete with the Vette and the Camaro will bury Chargers and Mustangs.
I had a chance to get up close with the new Hemi model and I can tell you first hand they nailed it right on the head. Its classic lines are pure musclecar perfection. The power will easily eclipse a typical vette and the Hemi will challenge the Z models.
Although I love the new Camaro they definitly take some older designs and bring it up to new styling standards where the Challenger is more classic in approach.
Both cars are going to ing rock but the Challenger will own a Camaro completely across the board. Performance wise. If you simply like the style of the Camaro then so be it you can't control personal preference but the real numbers won't compare.
The "non-Hemi" Challenger is a V6 that makes ~250 hp and might challenge my 20 year old bone-stock 5.0 Mustang.
The standard C6 Corvette has 5 more horses and weighs a thousand pounds less than the Challenger. The Z model weighs 100 lbs less than the standard 'vette and make 505 HP. The Challenger is a nice car, but even Timmy's car would probably be smoked by most 'vettes in anything but a straight line.
But isnt that what we are talking about when we talk about muscle cars anyway? No one really cares about how the Challenger corners...they just want to blow the tires off of it and run it straight down a quarter mile as fast as possible. But I will have to agree...overall the top of the line Vettes and Camaros will be faster.
The "non-Hemi" Challenger is a V6 that makes ~250 hp and might challenge my 20 year old bone-stock 5.0 Mustang.
The standard C6 Corvette has 5 more horses and weighs a thousand pounds less than the Challenger. The Z model weighs 100 lbs less than the standard 'vette and make 505 HP. The Challenger is a nice car, but even Timmy's car would probably be smoked by most 'vettes in anything but a straight line.
That being said...I feel like this car screams throwback muscle car more than any other one of the market. I only wish they could have called it the Plymouth Barracuda.
The actual SRT-8 engine expected for 2009 models may hit the mid-400s in horsepower. Right now they're saying 425 compared to 417 for the Camaro.
HP doesn't always mean faster trap times.
Its being speculated that the 1/4 time for the Camaro will be upper 13's to mid 13's.
6.1 Hemi is running low 13's and upper 12's.
The Vette has a 1/4 time of 11.7
I would suspect if the line is successful we'll times in the low 12's. Thats a lot closer to Vette than the Camaro will be.
Thats a Zo6 Vette trap time too. The Hemi numbers will line up with a run of the mill Vette any day. Which is who they are going after.
Not to mention being a 7 footer from the Virgin Islands that plays Dungeons & Dragons. Between purchasing swords, muscle cars and D & D most indication would show Tim smokes some mad reefers. Stoic temper, laughs on the bench a lot, the infamous afro ... I could be wrong.
I assume they did something, the seat has been adjusted in other cars he's owned. I haven't found those kinds of specifics yet for this one.
Agreed. The Camaro is lighter, and will run through a manual gearbox, which is typically more efficient than the triptronic auto that the Dodge has. I had a 2004 Mach 1 that had relatively low HP but I beat a lot of cars with more power at the track.
In the test I saw, the Challenger ran a 13.3, which is comparable with my 265 RWHP Mach. The 2008 Corvette coupe with the Z51 package ran a 12.5@115, which are C5 Z06 numbers. Again, Timmy's Challenger might come close, but the extra weight puts it at a huge disadvantage. The stock one would lose by several car lengths.
I think the Challenger and Camaro are both awesome cars, and as a Mustang guy I wish Ford was doing something remotely close with the Mustangs rather than putting outdated superchargers and a crook's name on them. I just don't buy into Hemi-hysteria. It's not sensible to blow those other cars up to something they clearly aren't, and what they aren't is in the same league as the Corvettes.
Usually all they have to do is move the seat brackets back. Some seat brackets have an extra set of holes from the factory to make them easier to move back for tall drivers.
Do you run your Mustang at the track?
I've been wanting to make another trip to Marion but haven't had the time. I'd like to put my Corvette on the track but I need steering and suspension before I toss it out there.
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