Wow, where did you pull these times from? Your stack of Motor Trends? LOL,
you tell me "I've been to the track guys" as if you were boasting, then you
quote magazine times?!?!?! If a 2000 R/T ran a 15.4 it'd have to be a loaded
CC with a bad driver, sorry. You can get an R/T with crank windows, locks,
mirrors, no OHC, etc BTW. Heck, I consider my 99 a slow one and it ran 15.2
bone stock with a 150lb tpnneau cover, 100lb bedliner, and stock dead RSAs
at 37k miles!!! The white RC 5-speed 3.92geared 4.7 Sport that wa sthere
with me ran 15.1 best........ and it did NOT have a tonneau cover, and only
had a light spray in bedliner, on top of that he took his tailgate off and
removed his air filter (my air filter stayed in place too). So, don't you
think my slow 99 could make up a few tenths if I removed the tailgate,
bedliner, and tonneau cover (about 300lbs of stuff)? That at was at a track
with 2000ft elevation too. That's experience not magazine times.....
-Ryan
99 DA RC R/T
Well, according to this magazine my truck will.........
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dakota-truck@buffnet.net
[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@buffnet.net]On Behalf Of Steven T. Ekstrand
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 10:32 PM
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
Subject: DML: Re: Re: SS S-10 Ssspank!!!.....AND 4.7 RC vs 5.9 R/T
2000 Dodge Dakota Quad Cab 4.7 L V-8 4 Speed Automatic 235 bhp @ 4800 rpm
295 lb/ft @ 3200 rpm 7.4 sec. 15.8 sec. @ 86.0
1999 Dodge Viper GT2 8.0 L V-10 3600 lbs 460 bhp @ 5200 rpm 500 lb/ft @
3700 rpm 4.0 sec. 12.1 sec. @ 120.5
1999 Dodge Dakota 5.9 R/T 5.9 L V-8 4 Speed Automatic 250 bhp @ 4400 rpm
345 lb/ft @ 3200 rpm 7.0 sec. 15.4 sec. @ 89.0
Some independent performance specs (had to through the Vip in...)
Notice---
The 4.7 Dak is an automatic Quad cab.
The R/T bodytype is not listed, it could be an RC or a CC.
The difference is 4 tenths
Turn that into a Reg Cab 4.7 with a 5 speed and it's pretty easy to see
more than a 4 tenths savings.
Not fair, but that's not what this was every about. NOBODY here is trying
to claim a 4.7 has more power than a 5.9. It's just, you can't get an R/T
manual. Not even sure how stripped you can get an R/T.
Sorry, I just don't trust a bunch of children j*rking off to imaginary time
slips. Before long somebodies going to tell me about the Lightning that
ran high 11's bone stock at Bandimere.... Hey, guys? I've spent some time
at a drag strip okay?
And you're not going to get your dream match up. The legendary 4.7 manual
RC is about as rare as they come. Matt's got one and it's modded with
simple bolt on's but we all folllwed his progression one change at a time
and it was damn impressive.
More than that, if they are equal or nearly equal and you want a handling
vehicle you'd put Hotchkis on it and Bilsteins. Which truck is going to
win? The 4.7 has 150lbs taken off the nose of the vehicle. Don't discount
how important that is. The 4.7 basically weighs and has the balance of a
3.9. And I've seen Gary Pinkley's 3.9 RC run circles around vettes at an
autox (gee, I wonder if driver had anything to do with that???--oh well...)
I have one last thing to say....
HITLER!!!!!
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