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Here in St. Louis there is a car club of Mopar SRT's... Just a couple days ago one of the members posted this in the forums... Those that live in St. Louis might have heard about this on the radio and news... I heard it last weekend, but didn't know it was an SRT-4.

Yea so around 230 sun morning i'm coming home heading southbound on 55.
Well prolly around 2 a trucker phones in a call to the Festus police saying some kids were throwing rocks down onto the highway from an old abandoned overpass. So anyways i just passed up herky and i go up this hill where the overpass is at the top. I pop over the hill and right in front of me is a rock, that is prolly a good 60-70 lbs and i hit it doing 80mph.
It deploys my airbag and the car goes on its side, hits the rock bluffs and flips six times. I managed to climb out and see an ambulance there that had been following me. He told me he was surprised to see me alive.

So thanks to some f*ckin kids my srt is no more, and the insurance didnt give me enough for another one.

He didn't have a way to host the pictures, so he sent them to me so I can host them for the car club site, but I thought I'd share these here too...

OUCH!

That is some crappy insurance too, unless he had it paid off already they should have paid at least the loan in full.

Mike

Never even heard of an SRT - looks like a family car..??

It doesnt look like a family (as in something like a 'mini' van) car but i would say that its a Sedan.

here is a pic of one that hasnt been totaled.

SRT-4's are a Turbo Charged model of the neon -- basically a Dodge neon with a different motor, manual transmission, suspension and interior. They were made from just 2003-2005 and not many were made... under 90,000 in the entire world over all three years.

Stock 2005 SRT-4
Power 230 hp
0-60 mph 5.90 sec
Quarter mile 14.4 @ 100.8
Braking, 60-0 mph 118 ft
600-ft slalom 65.9 mph
Lateral acceleration 0.88 g

Stage 2 2005 SRT-4
Power 271 hp
0-60 mph 5.00 sec
Quarter mile 13.3 @ 105.6
600-ft slalom 71.9 mph
Lateral acceleration 0.92 g

Thats one lucky dude!
Amazingly the car doesnt look as bad as I thought for rolling 6 times!

camaroguy1998 wrote:Thats one lucky dude!
Amazingly the car doesnt look as bad as I thought for rolling 6 times!

yeah most damage is in the back, and how did he hit that rock?? the front bumber cover has no more than scratches(youd think a 70 lb rock would do more damage, unless he is blaming a rock to get more insurance instead of saying he was doing over 100 and just lost control)

That'll buff right out!
The damage is amazingly light for what he describes.
The insurance thing sucks (if they declare it totaled, at best you'll get the current book value, usually not enough to replace a limited edition car) but he should just be happy to walk away in one piece.

I had a 35" BFG Mud Terrain tire break off my Jeeps 2" by 2" Steel frame that mounted to the back of my Wrangler back in 2000. The tire with the 15" steel wheel and steel frame for the carrier weighed over 100 pounds.... The tire landed on the highway flat after bouncing over a car while I was doing 70mph... The 2" steel spindle snapped in half when I hit a bump and the whole unit went flying... This was at 141 and 40 here in St. Louis... I pulled over and went to run out to grab it... Everyone was avoiding it and it was in the middle lane... being a teenager i was going to run out in the highway and grab my $400+ tire/wheel/carrier package and toss it in the jeep. Then all of a sudden a brand new 2000 Chevy Van came over the hill there at the intersection and hit it head on... It was an older guy in his 70's and he later said he thought it was just a re-tread and didn't think twice about hitting it. The point of the story is the tire was only 12.5" wide with a 2" frame (14.5" in height) and the van had little damage on it... The tire went under the nose of the van and got stuck in the front end... blew out the radiator, broke the tie rods and crap and locked his wheels to the left... he hit the center wall and was hit by a car behind him... I was standing on the side of the road saying oh ****....

so the tire and wheel ok? lol, youd think that he would just go around, hitting stuff in the middle of the road usually isnt good to begin with, another question, was he a hippie? he mighta not realized how big it was for *obvious* reasons

Apoptosis wrote:I had a 35" BFG Mud Terrain tire break off my Jeeps 2" by 2" Steel frame that mounted to the back of my Wrangler back in 2000. The tire with the 15" steel wheel and steel frame for the carrier weighed over 100 pounds.... The tire landed on the highway flat after bouncing over a car while I was doing 70mph... The 2" steel spindle snapped in half when I hit a bump and the whole unit went flying... This was at 141 and 40 here in St. Louis... I pulled over and went to run out to grab it... Everyone was avoiding it and it was in the middle lane... being a teenager i was going to run out in the highway and grab my $400+ tire/wheel/carrier package and toss it in the jeep. Then all of a sudden a brand new 2000 Chevy Van came over the hill there at the intersection and hit it head on... It was an older guy in his 70's and he later said he thought it was just a re-tread and didn't think twice about hitting it. The point of the story is the tire was only 12.5" wide with a 2" frame (14.5" in height) and the van had little damage on it... The tire went under the nose of the van and got stuck in the front end... blew out the radiator, broke the tie rods and crap and locked his wheels to the left... he hit the center wall and was hit by a car behind him... I was standing on the side of the road saying oh ****....

man!!... I always wondered why your jeep didn't have a spare mounted on the back!!

I'll just refrain from commenting, because I'm sure someone would construe it as me being an unsympathetic asshole.

Apoptosis wrote:SRT-4's are a Turbo Charged model of the neon -- basically a Dodge neon with a different motor, manual transmission, suspension and interior. They were made from just 2003-2005 and not many were made... under 90,000 in the entire world over all three years.

Stock 2005 SRT-4
Power 230 hp
0-60 mph 5.90 sec
Quarter mile 14.4 @ 100.8
Braking, 60-0 mph 118 ft
600-ft slalom 65.9 mph
Lateral acceleration 0.88 g

Stage 2 2005 SRT-4
Power 271 hp
0-60 mph 5.00 sec
Quarter mile 13.3 @ 105.6
600-ft slalom 71.9 mph
Lateral acceleration 0.92 g

Wow, didn't know they had that much power.. Do you know what they do to the stage 2 to get the extra tenth out of the quarter mile? I can imagine they just increase the displacement and beef up the suspension.

I'd be burning off tires left & right with something like that lol

stage 2 has bigger fuel injectors, a new PCM (computer) and a wastegate (holds more boost)... Nothing but bolt ons ;)

Wow... what have kids come to these days? It's good to see that he came out just fine though! Poor car!

Indignity wrote:Wow, didn't know they had that much power.. Do you know what they do to the stage 2 to get the extra tenth out of the quarter mile? I can imagine they just increase the displacement and beef up the suspension.

I'd be burning off tires left & right with something like that lol

Increasing displacement isn't a cheap thing to do. (That's like going from 3.8 liters of displacement to 4.1 liters... that's what displacement is) Adding boost is cheap... well, to some extent! But yea, as Nate mentioned, there are only a couple things that it has in the Stage 2. A new PCM helps wake up a car so much you wouldn't believe it. Removed/reduced torque management, increased boost on a turbo car, etc. is just tight.

On the SRT-4 the PCM adds about 10whp for $400... the butt dyno couldn't tell a difference. ;)

Apoptosis wrote:On the SRT-4 the PCM adds about 10whp for $400... the butt dyno couldn't tell a difference. ;)

10HP is barely noticeable on a Dyno and not at all on a seat of the pants Dyno!
Depending on where you where when you started 25-30HP is needed to be able to feel the difference!
100 to 125 is really felt but 400 to 425 is hardly felt!

how has a 60-70 lb rock not destroyed his front bumper? It doesnt look like it has any cracks in it at all! Are we sure this is why the guy crashed?