Originally Posted by ws6vert
A friend of mine is thinking of buying a Magnum SRT-8. After looking on the internet they seem to more rare than the SRT-6. Anyone know what these things run in the 1/4 mile? Any opinions?
Here's my take on em BUY ONE.
I bought my '06 Magsrt8 in July '05 and waited 4 months for it to be built.
Since Nov '05 I've put 30K miles on it, and it's still stock except for a K&N filter. Mixed city gets 16-17 all hwy gets 21 MPG. I weighed it on cert. scales, with me in it, race weight 4,600 lbs. Haven't had it over 150 mph yet, but it was still pulling hard/accelerating at that speed.
I won the SRT Nats street tires SRT8 division in it in '06. That was against the 300's, Chargers and the Jeep GC's. They are all very close in the 1/4 you really can't see a pattern, except for the Jeep being quicker in the 1/8th from lower gears, and paying for the weight by the end of the 1/4.
There are the odd freak fast in each SRT type running high 12's but on the main they all run low 13's. At Nats it was 104* elev was around 1,500 ft, don't recall the DA but it wasn't good. My time was in the 13.4's IIRC. My PB is a 13.1 in better weather with a 1.9 60 ft and a 108 MPH trap.
For Comparo, at this years SRT Nats I won the SRT6 street tires with a 13.005 1/4 and a freakish fast 60 ft but with only a 104 trap.
Flores always traps higher and likely would have beat me, but in true hotrodder spirit he spent his time helping a buddy fix his busted Skittle. So the guy could get home when the event was over.