I was going to work and was at a left turn signal behind this red durango. When he finally took off and turned left I was right behind him. I think I pissed him off cause when I got to the nest stop light he was on my right and had a scowl on his face.
Well I was going left agian at this light and he was supposed to go staight. When my signal came I gunned it a little and chirped the tires taking off. But as I was nearing the next light about a block or so up the street I see the red durango charging up on my left. so the light went red and I knew he wanted to race so I just said WTF and threw my auto in to low and power braked it up to about 2,000 rpm or so. When the light went green I could see the durango lurch off the line but I my tires dind't spin to much. sometimes the 5.0 will bog a little when I floor it but it recovers pretty quickly. I was ahead of him by car length or so before I had to slow down for a car. Dont know if the durango would beat me or not in a real1/4 mile race.

 

wtf? how fast are those durangos.i know they have like 340 ish hp but still they must way almost 5000 lbs?

 

I think trucks just seem faster than they really are. My grandpa has a 6.0L 3/4 ton chevy and I used to think it was fast and then I got my 5.0L. Trucks are big and heavy and not meant for racing.

 

It should be able to take an auto mustang

 

The new durangos dont have a hemi, just a V8

 

Some of them do... it's an option.

 

yeap, some of the durangos have a hemi. their engine options are 3.7 V6, 4.7 V8, or 5.7 Hemi V8. i know that for a fact. and they are quick too. ive got a 04 dodge ram hemi RC Rumble bee and i run in the 14's in a pick up truck. my truck weighs in at 4700 lbs. ( i got it weighed) durangos are much heavier than my truck. my guess is around 5500 pounds for a durango. and also, hemis dont have much rwhp but they sure can fly. i can whip all the local ricers and ive got a worse power to weight ratio than them. my truck only is cranking out 258 rwhp. but that is cause of stupid torque management that they put on the hemis. those hemis are so restricted so dont mess with the souped up ones. i know someone with a hemi truck that ran in the high-mid 12's and he is running a 125 shot of naws. that truck only has slicks, nos, headers, CAI, new muffler and gutted cats. and with just that he is in the 12's. its crazy. some of the people with hemis have porting and polishing done and are showing 40-50 rwhp gains from that and now they have turbos and s/c's for the hemis and those people have over 400 rwhp. i wish i had one of those on my truck.

 

That's the beauty of big cubic inch engines. They respond really well to mods. Long tube headers on a big block V8 are worth in the neighborhood of 40 horses over stock manifolds alone, and a cam and intake swap can get you 100 horses or more over stock. I know the new Dodge engines aren't big blocks, but 5.7 liters is a nice sized engine so modded those things are beasts.

 

My Dad has an '04 HEMI Durango with 392 gears (most have 355 I believe) and it's AWD. 0-60 it's rated 7.2 and 1/4 it's rated 15.4 (keeping in mind this is the HEMI with the 392's which really help) The '04 had 335 HP, I belive it is upgraded in the '05.

On a side note our other car, '96 T-Bird w/ the 4.6 and performance chip (tunes for premium ect.) paced the Durango up to 100 or so when the Durango had 4k miles on it, Dad kept saying at 10k when the motor got more broken in he should be the T-Bird. We found out the throttle body was gummed up along w/ the O2 sensor cause the car to run waaaay to rich (wouldn't pass e-check lol), got the problem fixed and the T-bird is faster now. The Durango's are quick for what they are, but they arn't sports car quick stock by any means.