H2H Ep8, Dodge Viper Vs. Superformance Daytona Cou

Dodge Viper takes on a Superformance Daytona Coupe!

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• H2H
• Ep8
• Dodge
• Viper
• Vs.
• Superformance
• Daytona
• Cou

[ori599gtb]

The Viper is not a V8, it's a V10.

[noodles308]

sounds like the daytona coupe was sand bagging it. NO WAY with that HP and Weight that the coupe would have lost the drag race.

[Buttnut105]

Is it really a surprise the Viper won at the track? I don't care what kind of suspension setup you have, one is a car built to race in the 1960's and the other is built to race in the 1990's.

[Dann1403]

Dude.. SWEET! I like your show.

[limdynamite]

this is bullshit that Daytona should have smashed that viper 6 ways till sunday, i saw lots of driver error.

[shananagans5]

@FANADICALCOWHEAD You are aware the Superformance cars are currently being made? I agree the Daytona should have smoked the Viper and it was probably because of tires or a tuning issue but I can guarantee they were not running on old tires. The BFGs are regular street tires and any soft compound on the Viper would make a huge diff.

[FANADICALCOWHEAD]

@pankero1 The only reason why it lost are due to the fact that it had a pair of stone age tires, I'm pretty sure those B/F goodrich are as old as the car itself and if you know anything about rubber, it's that it gets dry and stiff overtime and doesn't grip as well. Had the Daytona been racing on a set of slicks, the viper would merely been a small gray spec in the daytona's rear view mirror. And Personally I find the daytona a lot more attractive than the Viper, it's got the look of an XKE jag!

[Realityisthetruth]

I remember seeing the original episode and they did interviews with the owners afterward. The Viper is running R compound tires and the Daytona is running regular street tires. That explains the drag and road course times. 

[mj20042]

That makes NO SENSE that the Viper would win the drag race. None at all. I love the Viper, it's honestly my favorite realistically OBTAINABLE car, but there's no way in hell it should have won that drag race, unless the superformance had an absolutely HORRIBLE transmission, like an incredibly long-geared 4-speed, or something.

[paladain55]

haha, keith craft lives a few miles from me. 

[red1950stude]

@noodles308 agreed- 1/3 less horsepower vette will do the same #'s.

[iamtheman177]

at 5:02 you can see the daytona get on the breaks...