Ok my friend's got a brand new dodge stratus V6 and he keeps busting me cause he sais he can beet me...im bone stock 96 se and all hes got is a new borla...Im runnin 5spd and so is he... anyone that can help, thanks ?

i know the dodge has 200 ponies, but remeber the nissan is a peformance engine, its made for speed, the dodge is a piece of ****, even look at the price between the two, maxima 5spd can do 6.8 if the driver knows what he is doing. just go somewhere and practice your 0-60, listen to the engine.

I love my maxi...it can fake so many people out on how fast it really is and make people really look twice on how fast it is i can rip someone apart off the line and see them up the highway and they dont even look my way ...they are so embarassed "they got beat by a 4 door" four door sports car baby.. the stratus is really a piece of **** but he thinks he can smoke me maybe-maybe not

According to Motor Trend, a 2001 Stratus R/T with 200 hp and a 5 speed does 0-60 in 7.7 and 1/4 mile in 15.7/89.4 mph. Our 5 speeds do around 6.6 but I'm not sure of our 1/4 times.

Get a good launch and walk him.

assuming you are a decent driver, i say you'll walk him.

Neal

you'll smoke him

thanks alot guys...i really love this site ever since i bought my maxi 7 weeks ago. you guys know everything about these things and im gettin to love mine...never knew there was such a market

I walked one in my max, and mine is auto. You'll take em out eezy.

The Max auto is running just about what the Stratus is running with the 5speed. You'll destroy him.

I talked to him the other day and told him that my maxi is runnin about 6.6 with the 5 speed and he was like "yea im runnin like 6.5 with 5 speed" "yea remember i got the 2 door" i didnt challenge him to a race yet but he is pretty confident and hes gettin a bunch of his friends to tell me he'll smoke ME...what the hell is this crap..i have a wierd feeling he'll smoke me cause he always talkes about driving fast...but deep down im confident in max

BTW, whose engine is in the 01 Stratus anyway

Doesn't the 2001 Stratus have all the V6 Eclipse powertrain?
Maybe it's 2002. I remember hearing that somewhere.

Um...tell that PIECE OF **** mopar lover to get over the fact that his car doesn't have the engine that doesn't, and I quote, "Revs like no other engine this side of a V8 Ferrari". I mean come on with 200 HP and a 5 spd they can't even get the piece of **** in the low 7 second range???? But Nissan can take a modest 190HP and turn that into 6.6. Thats a Nissan for you, and the former is a DODGE for ya! Just my 2cents.

That may be. I've a 00 Sebring and it has a Mitsu 2.5 liter engine; supposedly the same powerplant that was used at some point in the 3000; Chrysler has used Mitsu engines for some time.

That's the way I feel about Dodge making the Viper with a V10. The Lotus Esprit of the 80's was fast as hell with an Inline 4 with a turbo. Dodge is corny for making a V10 to out run everyone.

I went out to stair the car down during lunch and i forgot to mention its an R/T ?? ? ?

Dude, don't worry. When you race him don't think he will beat you. I used to drive an LHS for a company I used to work for. The LHS was supposed to have I think 221HP and the car was a dog. You have the torque to get off the line quickly and the HP to get from 30 to 90 with no problem. Just take a practice run if it mean a lot to you to beat him. In my racing days, practice runs always helped me. Just don't floor it because your tires will spin.

...kewl, peace..what does R/T mean anyway ?

R/T = Real / Trash

The R/T stands for Road/Track. and yes, the stratus R/T has the Eclipse GT engine, 3.0L V6 making 200 hp. published times for both cars are high 15s... i dont think you will have a problem beating him... unless he is alot better driver than you are.

Neal