First I have say WOWWWWWW. A whole lot of different power to a 5400lb truck.
I cannot imagine what the Dakota SRT-8 will feel like in 05.
PRO:
The first gear is toooooo short. Within a second, you are already redlined
The Second gear the truck sit back on the rear then launches with the front
jumping.
The tranny stick is way to long for my taste, makes it harder for me to find
the third gear. Maybe I uses to the short throw Jap sticks.
The tires were Michelins vice BFG but have no cornering abilities. Never
ever apply power when cornering. You know when you do it.
The rack and pinion device is slow to react (1/2 second) under full WOT when
taking off but very accurate driving normally.
CON:
No rear wheel well liner. This is a first....
Ugh! Need a High-powered stereo. The music sounds great but when I blowing
ears with 1000 watt, triple amped stereo, there is a difference.
The rim size is tooooo small for a heavy weight truck. Though the tires did
fill up the wheel well, I rather have the 1500 20-inch (plus the aggressive
width) rim.
I just found out the new 2004 Ram V-10 SRT-10 will reside on the 2500 RC
frame vice the 1500.
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Steven St.Laurent
C4I System Engineer
Engineering Branch, PSD, MCTSSA
MARCORSYSCOM, U.S. Marine Corps
Office (760) 725-2506 (DSN Prefix: 365)
"Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government.
It can only exist until voters discover they can vote themselves
largess (generous gifts) from the public treasury. From that moment
on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most
benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy
always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a
dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations
has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this
sequence: from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to
liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to complacency;
from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependence; from
dependence back again to bondage.
(By Alexander Tyler Frasier, over 200 years ago.)
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