Ok, I am about fed up with not REALLY knowing for sure which car is better!!! Of course I am an evo IX owner and love it sooooo much, but some peopes around town are trying to make me feel like I bought the wrong car. I mean, seriously, which car is better and more capable on a stock block. I am ultimately wanting to modd mine out to pull easy 11 flat or high 10's in the quarter. But I am hearing trash talk from the srt owners about how they are more capable and it's pissing me off. What I need is someone who has done their homework...Thoroughly! To give me the full scoop, not opinions, but the real run down of which car is better. I know factory stock my IX beats any stock srt4 neon, but Im talking about if you were to give $8000 to each owner, which car would be quicker? All biases set aside please, just want the facts. I don't care if this seems like an ignorant question, just set me straight someone please! Thanks

 

Well the people telling you these are a bunch of morons, no offense. Evo's are the best 4cyl turbo cars that respond really well to upgrades, so with $8k you will run 10's highs or lows that depends on your set up. With evo's traction srt-4 have nooooooooooooooooooo chance in hell, and srt-4's suck at launching because of extreme wheel hoping. 4g63's are known/called rev happy engines because, you can rev them up to 10k's with a few upgrades, lets see an srt-4 do that, noooot. Well this topic has been beatin to death and i can sit here and talk about this all night, but i figure i would point out the abvious.

 

Dude, you have an Evo IX SE, arguably the best of the CT9As available in the U.S.

I used to post a lot on srtforums, as at some point, I was considering an SRT-4. Luckily, my friends and family had swayed me away, despite the numerous test drives I had taken. The engine is really torquey, but the entire car seems so cheaply made. Sure, the Evo's interior isn't anything to write home about, but it's not embarrassing at all. The SRT-4's interior is just so sub-par.

A lot of people have had interesting complaints about the SRT-4. Some people say the motor is solid, though some people say that the day they modded to stage one, problems popped up left and right. I was getting my car serviced at the dealership (as I get free oil changes), and I talked to a guy whose recently purchased Acura RSX Type-S (used, of course) was getting serviced there, and he said he had traded in his SRT-4 for the RSX. Why? Because he felt the SRT-4 was absolute junk, and he even said that the shift knob ripped off once during a shift. It's possible for things to break, but a shift knob breaking off is just silly.

Dodge did what they could to make the SRT-4 look aggressive, but at the end of the day, it's still silly-looking. As quick as it is, its awkward wing (which can only be shaped like that, as any other shape won't match the basic rounded shape of the car) and Neon headlights really drag it down.

And once you mod to the point where you're dumping $8,000 into the car, I'm pretty sure the Evo will rock the SRT-4's socks off. In stock form, the SRT-4 will usually do low 14s in the quarter, though I have seen a few do 13.8 and 13.9. At the same time, the Evo will usually do mid 13s in the quarter, though a lot of guys with decent experience can hit low 13s, with a few people having hit high 12s. Any more power, and the SRT-4's launch will just get worse. Throw corners into the situation, and the SRT-4 will just get left behind even more, even with its LSD (on 2004+ models).

 

It's a neon

Muff said

 

Yea, this topic is one that has been used up, but I appreciate the replies guys. Any more would continue to help greatly! I have done a great deal of research on evos, srt4s, sti's, and the like, but I really just wanted to hear what others are thinking and finding out as well. I just get so irritated at these lil trash talkin srt4 owners...I'm like...really?

 

Front wheel drive. Why is this even a question?