Re: Gas Monkey Dart
[Re: theraif]
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This is a working shop, that builds cars to make a living. The show may be successful, BUT no way it pays them enough to keep the doors of that shop open and pay all those guys. If you watched the episodes, the car was obviously built in that shop.
Looks EXACTLY like they built it all to me. There are certain things in there that a real race car shop would not do
Last edited by Monte_Smith; 01/17/16 03:09 PM.
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Re: Gas Monkey Dart
[Re: theraif]
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01/17/16 06:02 PM
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Stock Hellcat (supercharger) engine with nitrous. Other than re-mapping the PCM (which they did not do) there are no other mods.
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Re: Gas Monkey Dart
[Re: Monte_Smith]
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01/17/16 06:37 PM
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This is a working shop, that builds cars to make a living. The show may be successful, BUT no way it pays them enough to keep the doors of that shop open and pay all those guys. If you watched the episodes, the car was obviously built in that shop.
Looks EXACTLY like they built it all to me. There are certain things in there that a real race car shop would not do Rawlings net worth is $15 million, i don't think he has trouble keeping the lights on. AAron is worth $3 million. He doesn't need to get his hands dirty to put food on the table.
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Re: Gas Monkey Dart
[Re: Spaceman Spiff]
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01/17/16 06:42 PM
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This is a working shop, that builds cars to make a living. The show may be successful, BUT no way it pays them enough to keep the doors of that shop open and pay all those guys. If you watched the episodes, the car was obviously built in that shop.
Looks EXACTLY like they built it all to me. There are certain things in there that a real race car shop would not do Rawlings net worth is $15 million, i don't think he has trouble keeping the lights on. AAron is worth $3 million. He doesn't need to get his hands dirty to put food on the table. There are BIGGER $$$ behind the backing of this show. Don't forget Denis..... he is the one with the mega $$$...the silent partner more-less....
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Re: Gas Monkey Dart
[Re: Stanton]
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01/17/16 08:19 PM
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This^^^^, I wish I could support myself doing what I love like they seem to, but they are NOT my hero's at all. They're "color by numbers" hacks IMO.
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Re: Gas Monkey Dart
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01/17/16 08:54 PM
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Does anybody know the specs of the engine (is it stock) and any info on the car. It looks REALLY rough and really gutted. At 700+ HP stock and a gutted car 5.80's seems pretty slow to me. the charger had nitrous. the dart he said they changed pulleys and it was on E85 with an water intercooler
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Re: Gas Monkey Dart
[Re: theraif]
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01/17/16 10:09 PM
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Does anyone know if they raced on a true 1/8 mile? I might be wrong but I thought one of the videos I watched mentioned that it wasn't quite 660'. Seemed like the Charger and Dart both sounded pretty awesome!
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Re: Gas Monkey Dart
[Re: theraif]
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01/17/16 10:09 PM
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The show i wanna see now is the powerball winner show where all the flim flam beggars of money have to come on camera and make their pitch---now that would be real---even if they got paid with tv money.... Oh, you mean Shark Tank !!!!
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Re: Gas Monkey Dart
[Re: Monte_Smith]
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01/17/16 10:12 PM
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Guys,
I've watched the show and what I've seen didn't match the caliber of the vehicle that I looked at. I saw pictures of a build thread of the car and it was a pile of tubing on the floor and somebody burning wire under the car and people working under the hood or welding on a bench. No pictures of the 4 link, cage, etc. going in. I was impressed with what I saw of the car and any episode of the show that I've seen wasn't representative of the car that I looked at.
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Re: Gas Monkey Dart
[Re: MR_P_BODY]
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01/17/16 10:15 PM
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I think it was a 5.80 in the parking lot of the Pontiac Silverdome. There was no prep but they did have a set of clocks...it was bumpy as a motocross course.
Not defending the guys on the show, but no testing and no prep and the "first time out", not bad.
Also that track was only 600' from what I was told.. so its short of the 1/8 Nevermind, that answers my question, 600'.
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Re: Gas Monkey Dart
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01/17/16 10:15 PM
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Does anyone know if they raced on a true 1/8 mile? I might be wrong but I thought one of the videos I watched mentioned that it wasn't quite 660'. Seemed like the Charger and Dart both sounded pretty awesome! It was 600'.. they were worried about the shut down area
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Re: Gas Monkey Dart
[Re: theraif]
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01/17/16 10:43 PM
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I thought the original gripe by the Charger guys was that Ass Monkeys didn't build the car themselves.
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