[GOING TO HELL 19]

I hope no one will be offended, but I did put a logo on my fender. Before: View attachment 615238

After:
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We're not offended but you should be lol. Did you have a Cobra on your fox box, too? Just bustin your chops since you made it easy.

 

[Sarna March]

The truth on this topic is there's 2 major kinds of car people. People who respect the cars, and people who want respect because of the car.

A third type: people who defile cars while ridiculing "purists."

I'm not suggesting whoever did this to an actual Ferrari 288 GTO should be shot.

I'm just not thinking I would have any artificial tears glued to my cheeks if it happened.

On the whole "defilement" topic, just wait until the copyright on Mickey Mouse runs out pretty soon. You want to see defilement taken to a whole new nadir? I have already seen some of the aggressively-marketed products with Mickey Mouse giving the finger, etc.

 

[Xylander]

A third type: people who defile cars while ridiculing "purists."
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I'm not suggesting whoever did this to an actual Ferrari 288 GTO should be shot.

I'm just not thinking I would have any artificial tears glued to my cheeks if it happened.

On the whole "defilement" topic, just wait until the copyright on Mickey Mouse runs out pretty soon. You want to see defilement taken to a whole new nadir? I have already seen some of the aggressively-marketed products with Mickey Mouse giving the finger, etc.

At least they picked the right Ferrari to do that to. 288 owners are already ridiculed by "proper" Ferrari owners. Kinda like how 911 and 718 owners poke at Boxter owners.

 

[HemiMetal]

 

[hellsie]

Poor guy, girl, they, them.

no **** the "THEY THEMs"!

 

[hellsie]

I hope no one will be offended, but I did put a logo on my fender. Before: View attachment 615238

After:
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oh my...these rims thu

 

[srt_blubyu]

View attachment 615177 View attachment 615178 View attachment 615179 This guy with the new HellCat Avenger must get laid all the time. Talk about a panty dropper car!

now that right there is awesome... only thing better would be a k-car or mid 80s caravan

 

[WVHEMIS]

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Please tell me that is not a real T/A car?

 

[Sonny85]

Please tell me that is not a real T/A car?

No it is not, it's a tribute T/A.

 

[d16dcoe45]

A third type: people who defile cars while ridiculing "purists."
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I'm not suggesting whoever did this to an actual Ferrari 288 GTO should be shot.

I'm just not thinking I would have any artificial tears glued to my cheeks if it happened.

On the whole "defilement" topic, just wait until the copyright on Mickey Mouse runs out pretty soon. You want to see defilement taken to a whole new nadir? I have already seen some of the aggressively-marketed products with Mickey Mouse giving the finger, etc.

That is just a rendering, it isn't a real 288.

 

[d16dcoe45]

At least they picked the right Ferrari to do that to. 288 owners are already ridiculed by "proper" Ferrari owners. Kinda like how 911 and 718 owners poke at Boxter owners.

No Ferrari owners look down on 288s! Where do you come up with this stuff? Every Ferrari collector ASPIRES to own the 5 modern Ferrari supercars (288, F40, F50, Enzo, LaFerrari) Are you referring to "A Ferrari has a V12 engine"? Or the fact that it isn't a 1962/63 250 GTO but "stole" the name? Yeah nobody cares or even thinks like that anymore. Wow.

 

[badazzsi]

They are playing dress up lmao 🤣

 

[392]

maybe because they want a hellcat but can't afford one & that makes them happy....live & let live

 

[The Beeban is here]

Yeah, there's a guy here in town with an SXT badged up with HC badges. It has a muffler and resonator delete. He's one of those 19-21yr old street drifter wannabes that has moderate body damage on all 4 corners of the car. He does it to intentionally annoy people. I've met him at C&C a couple times. It's offensively loud and sounds horrible. However, he still falls into the "my car is a prop" group, as he's doing it for attention. Overwhelming negative attention is still a lot of attention. When you talk to him, he comes across as one of those guys who's just taking the piss all nonchalant like. "Yeah, this car is stupid, everybody in town knows this car." That attitude is learned behavior though because he went a long way to try and make it a semi-believable fake. HC hood, SRT performance spoiler, the big HC billboard stickers, HC front fascia. Of course he doesn't have the Brembo brakes and he left the fog lights in the lower fascia, which are dead giveaways. When the car fires up, there's no denying that it's a V6 though. He used to try telling people it was a Super Stock due to the small brakes on the front, but folks started calling him out... hence the current flippant attitude about owning a joke car. That thing started out as a serious attempt at passing off a clone, but he started getting called out a lot.

What I see a lot of down here in Tallahassee are actual Hellcats that are trying to be Redeyes. I went to C&C this past weekend and there were 4 HCs including mine. 1 "normal" Hellcat, and 2 other Redeyes. Both of those Redeyes were fakes. Before I got my Redeye, I never really paid attention under the hood as to the differences between the two when the hood is open. Both of those fake Redeyes had green belts and Redeye supercharger emblems. However, neither of them had the driver's side plumbing for the chiller. I ran their VINs for fun and both of them were 2015 and 2016 Hellcats that had done hood swaps and upbadge jobs. Both owners were representing their cars as Redeyes. One of them came over to my car and said, "That's my Redeye over there, how are you liking yours?" I told him that I was really enjoying mine, but asked him where his Redeye was because that one was a 2015 Hellcat. "You're a funny guy..." and he walked off.

I get honest fun. Cars like that Prius with the HC engine in it or overtly stupid upbadge jobs like 98 Ram trucks running around with TRX badges (it's a thing). Sadly, those folks are a minority, as most of the fakes I see are attempts at misleading people. The intent of the build matters. I've got no issue with people who want to build something silly for fun... it's their money, do whatever. But, when a car is built to try and mislead people by an owner who's serious about trying to pass it off as the real deal... that's not cool.

 

[The Beeban is here]

That’s terrible. Fake Red Eyes. How old were these guys? But that’s a great point no chiller. I don’t even know where mine is or what it looks like. Can you post a pic. Brilliant come back.

 

[Xylander]

That’s terrible. Fake Red Eyes. How old were these guys? But that’s a great point no chiller. I don’t even know where mine is or what it looks like. Can you post a pic. Brilliant come back.

Basically, a Redeye is going to have extra A/C coolant lines on the driver's side of the engine bay. This hardened line looks similar to the ones that run on the passenger's side of the engine bay beside the IC coolant tank. On the Redeye, these lines carry the air conditioned air to the chiller behind the front bumper. Just beside the oil cap mounted on top of the line is a visible actuator that when active, diverts airflow to the chiller.

Redeye. Note the chrome-like lines on the right side of the image just beside the coil pack cover beside the oil fill cap and the location of the black PCV pump. The actuator is the part with the "Fujikoki" label:

Hellcats don't have this portion of tubing, nor the actuator:

I'm sure there's quite a few other noteworthy ways to tell a Redeye apart from a Hellcat. You can't always go with the green Gates belt, as many people swap those to the green belts when they change the pulleys. Of course the Redeye's blower is bigger, but if you're not deeply familiar with either engine bay, it's easy to overlook.

 

[The Beeban is here]

Nice. Thank you sir.