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The other night I was bored to tears, out cruising and all. I played around a little, no cops or cars and a broken water line left a puddle across the road 10 ft in front of a stop sign, so I lit em up. It was fun and put me "in the mood" :banghead:  Anyway, at a red light this little dakota R/T toy with a pavement scraping stance and exhaust louder than his kazillion dollar sound system pulls up next to me. Here I am with my 3/4 long wheelbase and I still contemplate racing this dodge. I look over and he stares straight ahead, I inch up, he stares straight ahead. So then I think ####, I'll save my gas on this one. Low and behold he takes off when the light changes while I creep out. I rev it up, though not floored, and keep the exact same pace he does up till about 50 and then get out of it (cops were abundant  :crazy: ). He never got more than a half a car length on me. Then again, I don't know if he was floored, but he was definately racing and should have pulled a lot more than he did on a real truck. Of course, even with mods, those dodge boys can't deal with corvette-derived muscle.  :cool:  :thumb:
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Yeah, when I was at Little River Race Academy just outside of Temple, TX there were two Dakota 5.9L R/T....One was manual, and one was auto, the manual was running 17.6 in the quarter, and the auto was running 17.4's, they both had relatively good jump times both being around .8 sec. Keep in mind that my Jimmy was running 17.2  :crackup: I was very surprised, and shocked. I doubt they were practicing for bracket racing because I culd hear their engines winding up real high  :loser:

 

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Thats sad about thr R/T my wife drove her stock 6 cylinder four door Cherokee in consistant 17.0 at Temple, with the baby seat still belted in the rear seat.  :thumb:
The SPEEDY Senior Enthusiast

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Thats great man.  I was wondering what they would run.  There really aren't many r/t's around here, and nobody takes them to the track if they do have one.
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See thats the thing I was so surprised that they were running so bad, then when I read a Car and Driver right after that experience they tested the dakota R/T and it was running constant mid-17's, so I figured man I guess thats right. The funny thing is, a dodge boy wrote in about that article complaining about how innacurate the magazines' test was, he was trying to say that they ran 14's and that C&D was just biased and all sorts if other :bs:  :jester:  C&D responded by saying that they told Dodge that their dakota was way underpowered and something was wrong with it, but Dodge checked it out and said it weas normal :smash: So I really dunno WTF is going on witht the dakota R/T....

 

 

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Most of the "real" Dakota R/T 2 wheel drives with the 360 in this area run from a 9.50 to 9.90 in the 1/8 mile which would be a high 14 to low 15 second 1/4 mile in pure stock trim. The optional 3.90 gear ratio makes them a bottom end screamer. I think there are a lot of people putting R/T emblems on regular trucks like ricers with their Type R emblems.

HillHound Senior Enthusiast

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I think there are a lot of people putting R/T emblems on regular trucks like ricers with their Type R emblems.

That's what I'm thinking. I see a 99 to 01 red Ram 1500 around here with R/T stickers on the tailgate and sides and I know Dodge never made a Ram like that. Also have seen some F150 reg cab stepsides with ground effects made up to look like Lightnings-I practically pushed one up the entrance ramp onto the interstate and it could hardly get out of it's own way.

 

And I'm sure that it's only a matter of time until I see a fake Silverado SS too. :cheers:

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