I went to the Texas Motorplex with the Texas Muscle Car Club Challenge today to score some points for my club and try the SRT on the 1/4 for the first time.
The day started out pretty good. The temps were in the low 60s and the air was good.
I drove the car to the track with 1/4 tank of 93 octane and ran it in street trim. The car is bone stock with 8,100 miles on the clock.
Here's the best pass of the day (I'm car 529L):
I think that's pretty good for this little guy. An SRT-8 Charger and SRT-8 300C were both in attendance and ran 13.40s. The Crossfire was loving the cool air.
Quite frankly, I am amazed that I was able to hook the Continental Touring Contact turds. They don't hook on the street but pulled the wee beastie off the line nicely. It did have a tendency to wiggle the rear through second gear so I think it's spinning after the gear change.
The 1/8th is fairly soft but this little guy is pouring on the coals afterwards.
I really got a kick out of the track announcer talking about "that Crossfire". Every time I went to the line he'd start talking about the car, wondering aloud what I'd done to make it so quick and cheering me on while I ran down the slower '05 Mustang GT (see above slip).
Picking up 24 mph in the top half of the track isn't too shabby for a bone stock car.
Here's a picture of the car at Redline Raceway. It's an 1/8th mile track east of Dallas. Temps were in the 90s and the car couldn't break out of the 8.80s.
Here's one of me putting the hurt on the same 300C SRT-8 at the same track.
Sorry, no pics from today.