Originally Posted by amx1397

In 2006 I went from a 12 second PT Cruiser to a black srt6 coupe with 18000 miles on it,, got it for $18000.00 on e bay (from a dealer in fl.) On my way home, I stopped at a drag strip ,the car ran in the low 13's,,. got it home ,started to do mods on it, made my own intake, added upper pulley and a tune , now with over 150 runs and down the drag strip. The car was running mid 12's. with all the mods the best was 12.0 ,I went to a dyno day and a few Mercedes v8's were there putting out 490 to 500 wheel hp, I said i want that engine in my car. Rudy was telling me about a V8 he was putting into a crossfire. and was bringing the car to the dragon. now comes the tail of the dragon, 2009, I have known Rob and Rudy for over a year now, we met up at the dragon, I drove the Yellow Roaster that Rudy had built. I was very impressed, as i have been building drag cars NHRA stock classes for the last 20 years ( not the way every one else did it) ,no Chevy's, no Fords and no Chrysler, so that leaves the other American cars ,,AMC, henry J, Packard and a few others.
In January 2010 I sent my srt6 to Rudy with only 30,000 miles on it, started looking for a engine. in March i found what I wanted a SL55 motor with 4000 miles on it,,yes 4000.
bought the engine wiring harness ecu and tranny, had it shipped from Canada to Rudy, I will tell you to get the engine out of Canada cost $2500.00.
as Rudy was building my car he would call and tell me it will be done in a few days and bring me up to date and what he was doing, that is when i was like a woman ,,i changed my mind, I told Rudy over the next 4 months ,no i don't want that ,,can we do this ,,,can you build it this way, I want a different one,, things like ,no i don't want those pulleys and we talked and put a different set on. same with fuel system,, So now it is June 2010 and i am still making changes, June 30 the car is done, July 3 2010 Rudy arrived in Ft Lauderdale with my car. he had not built one with that much power so he wanted to deliver it personally,, that weekend we went to the drag strip, with all the changes i had made they were not the right ones, as the car ran high 11's, here comes more mods. slowly i got the right mods and the car got faster and faster,, so now with over 500 runs and 500 mods the car runs mid 10's for coming up on 7 years now other than normal ware (broken axle my fault) ,the car has run flawlessly. I can't let just anyone drive it as it is scary to drive, just think going 70 to 80 mph on the highway ,,punch it to the floor and the rear starts to come around on you, that is because the car goes fro 80 to 140 in less than 10 seconds. Now with only 64,000 miles , it is the best sports car out there. cost is lots less than a corvette or a gtr, and anyone can have a vett or gtr or mustang. only we can have a V8 Crossfire.
thanks go to Rudy, and Rob. -------jim----