Stock Redeye with Just DR’s ran 10.22@134 last night. (Not a press event with Evan Smith).

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Settle down and buy what you want to buy. Trying to justify one’s position on here is like trying to train a pig. You just waste your time and irritate the pig.

Man up and break out the check book and be done with it. Just know there is always someone with more money and a faster car and a hotter girlfriend...
 

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I love that dodge guys will do all sorts of mental gymnastics to defend the non production items that make the demon the demon in one breath and then shit on the CJ in the next.

Of course the main (and significantly important) differentiator being street legal/warranty et al.
 

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I'm a Ford dealer. I can own a Cobra Jet today for $105k.
I have a truck and a trailer; multiple in fact.
I have over 20,000 square foot of storage space, I don't need a place to put it.
It is a fast street car. Slap a dealer tag on the back, and I'll drive it all over town.
Would your insurance really cover a non licensable car with a dealer tag? What happens if you crash and insurance gets involved? You'd also need to slap on street legal tires I'd assume
 

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What is your point in comparing a NHRA factory stock track only CJ to street driven mopars?
I’ll answer that.
By having no interior no passenger seat skinny front tires large thick slicks out back the dodge demon has now become a 1320 race car that is no longer safe to be driven with any sort of enthusiasm on the street.
It is very fair to compare two track rods in their own environment!
 

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I’ll answer that.
By having no interior no passenger seat skinny front tires large thick slicks out back the dodge demon has now become a 1320 race car that is no longer safe to be driven with any sort of enthusiasm on the street.
It is very fair to compare two track rods in their own environment!

OMG get off of it already.

I have 2 gigantic trees in my front yard you can come hug if you want.
 

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I’ll answer that.
By having no interior no passenger seat skinny front tires large thick slicks out back the dodge demon has now become a 1320 race car that is no longer safe to be driven with any sort of enthusiasm on the street.
It is very fair to compare two track rods in their own environment!


Lmfao...Then compare the CJ to the Mopar NHRA factory stock challenger drag pack that competes in the same class and cleaned up in 2018. CJ took it back this year. The fact remains demons and red eyes are street legal, can be insured and driven legally on the street. The CJ cannot period....
 

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I’ll answer that.
By having no interior no passenger seat skinny front tires large thick slicks out back the dodge demon has now become a 1320 race car that is no longer safe to be driven with any sort of enthusiasm on the street.
It is very fair to compare two track rods in their own environment!
There is very little difference to driving on the street with drag radials then there is some of these newer R compound tires that specifically outline how temp impacts their performance, or rain as well.

all the steps you’ve mentioned have no impact of the ability to drive the street and even safely drive the street.
 

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Demon on skinnies isn’t going to sit well with an insurance company.

When you put the after market off highway package on it, it’s off highway. An insurance company can void the coverage for your stupidity in driving a road vehicle with off highway items fitted.

Manufacturers can and have voided warranties for running catless exhaust but not so much anymore.

A demon with slicks and skinnies fitted on 100 octane is no more road legal than a cobra jet.

You can put street tires and wheels as well as pump gas and safety equipment on a cobra jet and drive it on the street if you register it as a collector or specialty vin iirc. I’ve seen a street driven one, there’s no denying it’s far easier in a demon to keep or make it road legal since it is road legal factory. Installing the after market crate makes it non road legal.
 

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Would your insurance really cover a non licensable car with a dealer tag? What happens if you crash and insurance gets involved? You'd also need to slap on street legal tires I'd assume

I get what yer getting at and yer not wrong necessarily but he could have an umbrella. I have a $1m umbrella and it’s like $60/mo.

Also, if the car is in the dealerships name, if he has separated himself via llc’s etc, he’s fine.
 

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There is very little difference to driving on the street with drag radials then there is some of these newer R compound tires that specifically outline how temp impacts their performance, or rain as well.

all the steps you’ve mentioned have no impact of the ability to drive the street and even safely drive the street.
That sucks, why dr? If you want to get it done you should at least have ET Streets and slicks themselves. Are you actually saying you like to drive highway speeds or backroads with skinnies up front? Handling would be crap!

if you want a fast car that can compete on 4 base wheels/tires that may not be the fastest it can go in the 1320 I’m all for that. What makes the demon with crate so much better than the demon off the showroom? .4 slower and a ton more fun on the street. That a trade I’ll make any day of the week.
 

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That sucks, why dr? If you want to get it done you should at least have ET Streets and slicks themselves. Are you actually saying you like to drive highway speeds or backroads with skinnies up front? Handling would be crap!

if you want a fast car that can compete on 4 base wheels/tires that may not be the fastest it can go in the 1320 I’m all for that. What makes the demon with crate so much better than the demon off the showroom? .4 slower and a ton more fun on the street. That a trade I’ll make any day of the week.

min not saying I prefer to drive on skinnies. Though I have done it in the past and it was fine, I not prefer a more balanced set up myself. The nice thing about the demon is you can quickly swap wheels and tune and bam, docile street set up.


In context here, I think between the two (GT500 and red eye challenger) I’d prefer the GT500 as I know it’s the more well rounded vehicle. However since I’m not really SVTP baller status I’d likely go for the red eye, and still have a car that checks all the boxes for my wants and needs out of a weekend use garage Queen.

I look forward to seeing what the GT500’s do with a DR set up
 

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