I saw the Neon at the light to my side making a right and I was at the other light going straight, and he was going that way too. I got the red and I saw him take off and suprisingly enough his tailights got pretty far away quickly. So my light goes green and I take off trying to catch the Neon but he was already at the red light. So I got behind him cause he was going the same way I was and the street opens up from the middle lane to a two lane corssing the intersection. The light goes green and he moves up and gets on the left side, I get on the right showing my good side, cause my passenger side is painted primer and yellow from the accident I was in. Well we were going about 30 in a 35 and he rolls up a little more and I do the same....I hear him downshift and I drop mine manually from overdrive to 2nd and scream past him and left him by about 7 cars and then let off...I was suprised cause he wasn't gaining any and I was still pulling on him.
Well what do the SXT Neon runs and the SRT Neons run???....AARON

 

Adam Corolla.




Good Job. Neons seem a bit on the girlish side. I can't take any of them seriously. Might as well be driving a Miata LOL.


MADD TV

 

I almost bought a Neon and became a *****. I have to agree that they aren't bad cars but they are no where near the performance of an F-Body. As far as the not getting laid part all the chicks I know dig the sport compact cars.

 

i think an sxt is around mid high 15, srt, driven well, is low 14,

you'd know...

 

Low 14s, are you sure? That sounds a bit optimistic.

 

SRT's lower than 14's or higher....the SXT whatever it was wasn't too impresive. I am in the 14's assuming in the 14.6-14.8 category...I G-Tec't at 14.4@ like 80+MPH.....AARON


p.s. when are the SRT's due out?

 

yes. dodge says it runs a 14.2, C&D ran a 14.2, and you know how slow they run... for comparison, they have a 2000 or 2001 z28 running a 13.8...

 

He means the Neon SRT-4, the new pos on the block. The SXT are good for 16.6's. They are a joke as almost all Neons are. I know what you mean, most of the girls like the Sunfires and Neons because they are "cute" and "fast", yet they have never ridden in a car that actually can bust 60 mph.

 

You think the new SRT's can go lower than 14's or are higher than 14.2? I know that on Car and Driver they just drop the hammer and let it stop spinning when it stops.....I mean they got 15.3's out of L98's!.....AARON

 

i dont care what it runs or how bad it may beat any of my cars.any Neon is strictly GAY.its a Neon people!!C'mon!! The name alone dictates thoughts of queerdom.k im done.
NEONS :nono: :nono: :nono:

 

My sister drives a neon...LOL they are good cars but they are definately chic cars...the SRT is supposed to be running 14s though, i mean that is what C&D said, whether you want to believe it or not, thats what it got

 

That neon is for ladies that want their neon to be a little quicker. No big guys should be driving those cars. Same thing goes with Caveliers and Sunfires. I am excluding the old school Z24s Cavs.


I can understand if you were given a neon or that was the only car you could drive, but to actually go out and buy one seems a bit __________________ to me.

 

hahahahah thats the funniest!
I saw that one!

 

I didn't get a chance to tape that skit and I don't know what the name of it was so I couldn't download it using my Kaaza. That was a funny skit LOL. I still laugh about it.

 

14s for a neon is real good, but i would not want one either!!

 

Yeah, I would be embarrased to run 14s in a neon, even those are good times.

 

hey I like the miata

 

Sorry. It's just that they are so small, its not like having an MG or a Triumph.

 

sunfires arent that slow. my friend had a 96 sunfire gt and i could keep up to my friend in his 86 iroc.if the sunfire woulda had some stuff done to it i bet i coulda beat him
i said it before and ill say it again tpi sucks

 

ttt

 

that statement doesnt make sense after you post something like this:
:sillylol:

 

hahahaha, dude sunfires are a cruel joke imposed on the car world by snickering engineers at GM. i bet they thought that was funny......well ya know what? that sh*t aint funny
lol

by the way, my girlfriend just dropped me off from dinner in her 98 neon sport.....its pretty gay. and yes its broken again which is a weekly occurence....i cant wait until the headgasket goes.

there is a strange grinding noise coming from under the car which you can feel through the floor.....thats weird, cause it feels like a u-joint but there arent any moving parts behind the firewall lol.
and the service engine light came on...i hope the motor blows up i hate that car. and ive said it before,

has anyone driven a neon and noticed the steering wheel is about 3 inches from the side window. i have really broad shoulders and i almost cant drive it with the window closed....i can have my arm all the way out the window and still be driving with that same arm....that car blows.

the neon is a very gay car but not nearly as gay as a miata, or the bug (it has a built i flower pot, come on people), and of course the flagship of the gay community...the VW jetta

 

I'm not a tall person and I still feel cramped in those Neons. Which bug are you talking about. I like the old skool bugs. I don't think they are gay at all. I wouldn't mind having one just for fun. They are slow, but I don't mind going slow in them. I love the fact that their design is so simple, everything from the body to the engine. Very easy to work on. I am not keen on the new bugs.

 

i was talkin about the new bugs. they are highly suspect.

 

id rather have a sunfire then a tpi camaro. now dont get me wrong or anything i love fbodys but tpi's suck azz. my friends was slower then crap. he even put a brand new crate motor in it and it was slow. i used to walk al lover him with my old tired smokin 305. maybe he just got a bad one or sumthin but it turned me off them from now on.

 

there aint anything wrong with TPI if you upgrade the factory stuff that makes it restrictive. check out the sledgehammer corvette....that was TPI hehehehe :rockon:

funny the sledgehammer vette seems to be the beat-all end-all answer to everything....weird :lala:

 

I'll take a TPI over a Sunfire anyday, as a matter of fact, I would rather have have another 2.8 MPFI thirdgen than any Sunfire. At least I have the option of swapping in a V8. Try to do that with a Sunfire.

 

ya dont need a v8 when it can keep up with a 305tpi iroc not bad a for a 4 cylinder.

 

your friend had a 86' right? thats like the WORST year for TPI. try driving a 87' - 92 5speed Z28 (or IROC). lets see a sunfire keep up with that. ill do you a favor and not mention all the TPI Vettes produced between 85 and 91. you cant base judgement on all TPI cars from one example. take a look at my sig, less than 1K in mods and i can beat LS1s. still think TPI sucks?

BTW, my girlfriend drives a sunfire, and i have raced her in my 84' LG4 Z28 (which is slower than ANY TPI V8). i kicked the crap out of that car. your friend in the IROC must suck a s s at driving

 

he dont suck at drivin. like i said maybe he got a bad one. but when i was keepin up with him in the sunfire he did have his old motor. if he woulda had the new motor i know i woulda beat him. cuz his new motor was slow. whats a LG4?

 

ok there are 3 possible explanations for this guy.....he's a window licker.....he's drunk....or hes a window licker.

looks like choice 1 and 3 to me

 

i just looked and the LG4 is a 305. if a LG4 is slower then a tpi tell me how i was able to beat my friend in his 86 iroc with a tpi 305?
i should have rephrased that comment about tpi sucks. only 305 tpi's suck. btw nice call on the bs you weret there so you dont know so keep your bs flag to yourself
k thanks for stoppin in have a good visit.

 

oh sorry man.....i dont know what i was thinkin about.

i messed up and lived in reality for a second, im better now though, and im on my way to the dealer for a new sunfire.

lol :lala:

 

i didnt say sunfires were the best cars n the world but they arent just for chicks.

 

actually....

If you were fortunate enough to get your hands on GM's marketing manual you probably would find that the target maket for which the sunfire is produced is women between the ages of 20-35.

---editorial

lol

 

your pals 86 IROC sounds like it was ****ed up...in any cae it's only 190 hp.

My old 87 TPI 305 5spd was a mid 14 second car--
how does that suck?

TPI in itself isn't the greatest design but pretty damn good for the 80's.

 

You can talk about Sunfires all you want, but you are not going to convince me or any other person here that it is a better car than a thirdgen or will beat a TPI that isnt't out of tune. Sunfires will most likely only beat my 2.8l Firebird, even then I bet I would not lose by more than half a car length.


I am usually the person who defends imports and sportcompacts, but I'm sorry, Sunfires just aren't one of them. It would have to be old skool for me to like it at all because I am an old skool kind of guy.

 

Three different magazines have gotten 14.2 with the new Neon. One..I think R&T got a 14.2@[B]101/B] ! I don't care what it is..a stock car for under $20,000 that runs low 14's at or over 100mph is damn fast. It is still a Neon but this car will EASILY be in the mid 13's with typical free mods with a good driver. The older Neons with the 2.0 DOHC are not that slow...hihg 15's stock and I've seen some bolt on cars in the 14's. Alot of the guys with Neons do 2.4 swaps and are running in the 13's ALL MOTOR with just typical bolt ons. That is pretty damn quick and would embarrass a lot of cars on the street and track. I don't like Neons but they can and are quick for the $$. BTW..my friend has a 95 Eclipse with the Neon 2.0 motor in it. With a low end rebuild and an HRC turbo kit it has ran 13.5@115.9 with only 11-12psi and a 100% stock head. This same turbo kit is available for the Neons and makes for a VERY fast car...so you if you see a big FMIC think twice before you think you'll kill it! My friend has destroyed 3 LS1's one was even modified with his Eclipse and a Neon would be faster since it weighs MUCH less. The engines are pretty good contrary to popular belief...

 

first you post this, and then this statement follows:
so which was it? did you win or lose?

youre contradicting yourself... im starting to think 383s BS flag was pretty accurate

 

CHEVY_EATER, just so you know, your frinds Eclipse does NOT have a Neon 2Litre.

They used a Mitsubishi 2L.

Dodges 2Litre is a terrible engine. Power is okay but it sounds like a Tractor/broken dishwasher

I'd like to see what the 2.4L sounds like, and how fast it is

 

I don't doubt the times and know that its fast for any car. If the Neon was a little larger and didn't look so girlish, I would give it more credit, despite being FWD.

 

son of a beoootch how many times do i have to say this b4 everyone understands it, neons suck, point blank. they may run 14's stock but the motor and car will not hold up to that much power, i guarntee it. if some1 wanted to go out and buy a cool new car that was fast and got good gas milage how about the new mazdaspeed protege, with just a front mount intercooler, boost controller, full exhaust and drag radial tires that thing will run at least mid 13's and thats not spending more than around 23grand for a brand new car! so everybody do yoursef and others a favor and dont use or think neons are good track cars cuz that never were and never will be better than 3rd gen fbodys!!! :lala: :lala: :lala:

 

i raced him in the sunfire and kept up to him. i raced him in my 84 camaro with a 305 auto with just a k&n filter on it. i walked all over him with my camaro.i looked and it said mine a was a LG4, so i guess when you said LG4's are slower then any tpi v8's you must have been just talkin about yours cuz that what i have and i beat him on a daily basis. so you know where you can stick your bs flag

 

do you know ANYTHING about thirdgens? heres some stats:

84' LG4 Camaro - 150hp/240 torque
86' TPI Camaro - 190hp/275 torque

so tell me again how your LG4 is faster?

your ignorance is hilarious :sillylol:

 

i dont care what the numbers say, i beat him. i was there, i was drivin. but i forgot you own a vette so you must know everything.

 

there are a few other LG4 owners on this board, and they have run mid 16s WITH mods. mine went 16.0 100% bone stock with no tuning. id say i have one of the fastest stock LG4s here. have you ever been to a dragstrip? go run yours and tell me how you did. id like to know what this TPI killing 150hp monster car of yours does in the quarter.

oh yeah, i forgot, you have a K&N, THATS where all your extra power comes from :sillylol:

 

i actuallly dont give rats azz if you believe me or not. dont know shlt about my car.

 

i do know its an LG4 wih a K&N filter. and that combo = slow.

any TPI Camaro in good tune would kill you. bottom line. either your friend absolutely CANNOT drive, or something is wrong with his car.

if you cant accept that, thats just sad

 

I can certainately see where this thread is going.

 

it wouldnt have turned this way if people werent such non believers. just because they havent seen it means it didnt happen and it cant so that makes them right.