The Dodge Neon SRT-4 is pretty impressive for an American attempt at a turbocharged front driver. Box-stock they would run 13.9 in the quarter and could be massaged for more power easily, which gained them a cult following. However, in the name of hot rodding, if one is good, two is better, and this SRT-4 down in Mexico has a second, equally nasty sounding turbo motor in it’s back end. Little information about the car is available, though it sounds like it’s running two independent drivetrains, using the five-speed manual trans up front and an automatic out back. It doesn’t sound like the perfect combination, as you can hear the gear ratios fighting each other. However the team has this car set up, watching it do a front-drive burnout, followed by a rear-drive burnout, then finishing with an all-wheel-drive launch is a neat party trick.
” Gear ratios…I don’t care about no stinkin gear ratios” !!
I love when guys build these sort of twin-engine freaks. A 24 Hours Of LeMons team runs an old automatic AW11 MR2 with a 5-speed AE92 Corolla GTS drivetrain grafted into the nose, calling it the MRolla and it works (sorta). There’s also a Scirocco with twin automatic drivetrains front and rear that runs fairly successfully in the Grassroots Motorsports $20XX Challenge
“burnout”