{"id":27854,"date":"2019-09-17T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T12:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=27854"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:24:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:24:16","slug":"twin-terrors-nth-moto-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/owners-clubs\/2019\/09\/twin-terrors-nth-moto-part-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Twin Terrors: Nth Moto Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Where did we leave off?<\/a> Oh, yeah, the part where 1,300 hp just wasn\u2019t enough for Will Dugas\u2019 Dodge Viper ACR, and Philip King, Jr. was about to take a hit off the ever-addictive turbo pipe. \u201cY\u2019all got any of that there…boost?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aaron Miller has been an engineer on boosted\napplications for Mopar\u00ae<\/sub>, a fabricator and tuner for Heffner Performance for five\nyears, and for the last eight years the fabricator-slash-tuner-slash-part-owner at\nNth Moto. He\u2019s meticulous, smart and driven to blow through boundaries. While\nthey\u2019ll work on pretty much anything, Aaron and his business partner have\ncarved out a niche in the Viper market. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Philip started with a turbo stock motor setup\nat first, just like Will. He put 11k miles on that build, before he too decided\nto go full looney tunes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They each wanted performance that would barely\nmake sense in video games, let alone real life. Their setups vary a bit, but at\ntheir core they follow a similar, if not sometimes vague, recipe: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

-Built motor
-Nth Moto machined billet aluminum intake manifold
-Built 6-speed trans
-Built diff
-Motec ECU, tuned by Aaron Miller
-Flex fuel
-Stock suspension
-Fuel system upgrade
-Hydraulic roller cam
-Stock crank
-Factory oiling <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With his list of requirements set, Will sent\nthe Viper ACR back to Minneapolis for the above. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe car wasn\u2019t there long and Aaron was\ncalling me, excited: the car made 1700+ whp without really trying hard. So we\ndecided to stop there,” said Philip. “He showed up at Texas 2K with it that year, unloaded,\nand off I go! No seat time, no test pass, just Aaron in the passenger seat\ncoaching me. First pass on the street was amazing, the car felt like a rocket\nship!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“We haven\u2019t changed much mechanically since, we\njust continue to creep up on the tune to suit my driving needs and desires. Now\nthe car has been 8.8 @ 187mph in the \u00bc-mile and 222.7 mph in the half. It\u2019s\nabsolutely crushed every benchmark I wanted it to hit.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Philip ran at the Texas 2K half-mile event in 2018, too. In fact, he drove his TA from Mississippi to Houston, clicked off a shoeless 206 mph pass on his first-ever run, and drove it home. The following weekend, he drove the car to Nashville for an EMS conference (work), hammered it on the streets with some locals, then drove it home. He estimated he gets around 16-17 mpg on pump gas, and 13-15 on E85. The TA has been christened the Mud Truck, because Philip has the same philosophy as I do on washing cars: He doesn\u2019t.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Will drives the hell out of the Viper ACR, too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cUsually at this point, I sell a car, but this\ncar is so much fun … I can\u2019t imagine not having it,” said Philip. “Easily the number one\nmotorsport experience of my life. We are now over 20,000 miles on it, hundreds\nif not thousands of hits, countless events, dinners and commutes. On top of all\nthat, my girlfriend occasionally jumps in it and legit commutes to work, in\ntraffic, with AC and radio blasting without issue.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As ludicrous as this performance is, as\nbonkers as the numbers are, I\u2019m not sure they tell the whole story. When one is\nlooking for an edge in a race, or a grudge match, or something of the sort,\nthey rarely show their hand in its entirety. I\u2019m just sayin\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now to see the cars up close and personal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Future installments:
Twin Terrors: Nth Moto Part 3 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Where did we leave off? Oh, yeah, the part where 1,300 hp just wasn\u2019t enough for Will Dugas\u2019 Dodge Viper ACR, and Philip King, Jr. was about to take a hit off the ever-addictive turbo pipe. \u201cY\u2019all got any of that there…boost?\u201d Aaron Miller has been an engineer on boosted applications for Mopar\u00ae, a fabricator and tuner for Heffner Performance for five years, and for the last eight years the fabricator-slash-tuner-slash-part-owner at Nth Moto. He\u2019s meticulous, smart and driven to blow through boundaries. While they\u2019ll work on pretty much anything, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":27867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2624],"tags":[2946,509],"class_list":["post-27854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-owners-clubs","tag-car-shows","tag-viper"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/feature-1.jpg","icon_selection":"article","external_link":"","featured_article":[],"upload_background_image":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27854"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28347,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27854\/revisions\/28347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}