Used to be, if you had big tires out back, a blower sticking through the hood and were tooling around at idle that you would be nothing more than a show car, cannon fodder for every trailer queen joke you could make around events like the Street Machine Nationals. In Australia they don’t play the poser game…either your car can or it can’t. And rest assured that this Chrysler Ute most certainly can. The license plate says “340 Mopar”, and given this car’s performance, it’s hard to believe that it’s “just” a small-block Chrysler with a huffer here. This thing’s idle surge spins the tires better than most cars will under full abuse, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. It’s skid attempt looks more like a horizontal Space Shuttle launch with soundtrack provided by a banshee. I can’t recall the last time I heard a Mopar wind up this hard and it wasn’t a Hemi…
(Courtesy: Car Throttle)
I do love a pissed off sounding Mopar, even if it’s idle is embarrassingly bad.
Love those Aussie Mopars!
I’m a Mopar or no car guy. I’ve got the bonafides. But come on. The idle surge and tire smoke is because he doesn’t have the right torque converter in the car to make it more driveable and launch better. I had a 440 powered T bucket with long rams on it, and with the stock converter, you couldn’t move it without spinning the tires. Same thing when we bought our then-new ’64 max wedge super stocker. Even my 350/350 chevy LUV daily driver dacades later, was like that until I got the right converter for it.
Idle check valve spring.
Shurely he does this on purpose.
From my observations..the problem is in the Aussie throttle set up.They`re only working correctly when on the floor. I should of opened a chain of tire/liquor stores there 20 years ago.
The idle is more for effect, there are plenty of cars here that idle fine with a supercharger. I’ve noticed alot of the dedicated burnout cars set their idle like this for effect.
The rough idle is because of a too rich idle setting. A blown car will surge like this when too rich at idle. But being rich at idle does help to keep engine temps in check.
We all know, spinnin’, aint winnin’, but that is badass.
it has at least a 4k stall in it, and it’s tuned to the ragged edge. can’t remember how much hp it makes but it’s high into the 4 figure mark.