Edmunds.com/Insideline just tested the 6-speed '09 SRT8 Challenger and got a 0-60 of 5.5 seconds. I would have assumed a better time. Especially since MT often quotes our cars at 5 seconds. What is going on?
They don't like mopar, so they give poor reviews. It would help if they put a decent driver, not a 16 year old, behind the wheel. lol
...im not sure about the Challengers but the 300c SRT8 here run consistent 4.5-4.7 0-100 times here when tunes properly. You should rely on the in built timer as once my recorded a 4.18. Ive tried to get this time again but the best is 4.5. This time was recorded after a tune modification was performed by Steve @ RDP.
Since I have an '06 I dont have a timer Are those build in timers really that reliable? I assume car magazines and car TV shows use something else to meassure those times.
Not that great either as with the G-Timer you have to enter in exact weight and some other things that you have no way of knowing plus you can get a killer 0-60 by just sitting on wet pavement and flooring it (yes people cheat)
Yup, I can do 0-80 in 3.5 sec's..............:grin: http://s14.photobucket.com/albums/a346/drewsegal/Vids/?action=view¤t=March125.flv
i assume you mean 0 - 60....... 0 - 100 in less than 5 seconds would we DAAAAMN impressive for sure!!!
thanks for posting when cam loaned me the keys to his car and let me have some fun.............. :whistle:
The 0-60 timer should be very accurate (unless you're spinning the wheels when the speedometer crosses 60). 0-60 time is mph based. Our speedometers are very accurate and spot on. It starts the timer when the car first starts to move. It stops the timer when the speedometer reaches 60. Not very. In part because they use accelerometers (g-force sensor) and mainly because they're so hard to get setup and calibrated perfectly in your car. I think a really accurate accelerometer costs a lot more than those devices do. Then they're effected by uphill, downhill, and stuff like that. The DashHawk or any OBDII scanner that has that function should be just as accurate since it's using the same information from the PCM. The 1/4 mile timer is distance based. It's based on wheel rotations. If you spin the wheels it thinks you've covered more distance than you have actually traveled. It's not much but it will make a difference.
Why wouldn't it just take it from the odometer or does that measure mileage the same way? If so then my Mustang has waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more mileage on it than it actually shows, lol! Or why does it measure from the rear wheels and not the fronts, there'd be no prob with wheel spin that way??
Don't you think the 1/4 mile in-dash instrument measures front wheel speed and revolution? I mean why wouldn't they, takes the wheel spin variable out of the equation. Teh 0-60 timer uses the transmission output shaft per the SRT engineers.
Now I wish I had those timers Ok, if they come out with a 6.4L Challenger I might be willing to trade my Magnum in to get those timers
