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Ok here is the story. Friday night i was pumping gas and one of my buddies that i havent seen in a while pulls next to me in a black SRT-4. We talked for a lil bit and i asked him how fast the car was thinking he might let me drive it. So hes like why dont you find out for your self. I was like oh **** we'll all know the outcome to that but we still went at it. He is stock and so am i both manual trannies. We went at it from a 20mph roll and thru second gear i was a car behind him but when he shifted he was gone like almost 6-7 cars behind him. I dunno if this is normal or might seem like a noob question but i felt it was lackin some power cause 6 cars in front seems like a lot. Can someone help me out like on what can cause the max to be this slow? and i know mods is one of them but its still slow for a stock max(i think)