This is certainly a strange sight at nearly any track anywhere, let alone at Bandimere Speedway in Colorado. In the left lane we have a worked over Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT-8. It may look stock, but a keen ear will notice that some work has been done to the silver SUV. It isn’t the most aerodynamic, or the lightest, but the 6.4 Hemi under the hood certainly will do the trick. It isn’t out of the ordinary to see an SRT Jeep at the strip. The odd part comes from the Noble M400 in the right lane. The Noble is a rare sight in the United States, and it’s party trick involves two turbochargers on what is a highly re-worked Ford Mondeo V6. It’s light, it’s quick, and it is a handler, not exactly a drag car in theory but it’s fast enough that it won’t embarrass itself at all. Now, which one will cross the line first: the silver barn door with a Hemi or the British import with a lot of boost?
If that Noble wasn’t asleep at the light, it would have been real close.
Not really. Reaction time is the time after green that the car actually cleared the beam. ET is measured from the time the car clears the beam, so the Jeep had the Noble by about 1.2 seconds, plus the roughly 1/2 second added by the slow RT in the right lane. The GC had better than 200 feet on the Noble at the stripe, and almost 200 if they had both cut good lights.
Those GC’s are nothing to sneeze at. I had a 1st gen 1998 5.9 and it was no slouch. Ate many Z/28 and Mustangs from the time period of when I owned it.
Actually it’s a 6.1. But you’re correct, it’s not stock. 😉
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