You do know that car was a Dodge with the old late 80's 2.2 motor right?

No mine does not sound like an old Dodge....... Thank God.....

 

Yes, I know that black car was really a Dodge Interceptor concept car, really cool looking, but the engine of that Dodge sounds like the same as Wheelie, my little brother even said the same thing..everytime I accelerate, I almost always think of that black car..HEEHEE!.

(If you look very closely at the black car in the movie from the front, you will see Dodge's old Pentastar logo on the hood, thats how you know it was a Dodge..LOL!!)

 

It was 2.2 twin turbo if i rembered correctly

 

Didn't think it was a twin, might have been. I just know it was the same motor as the Daytona's of the time. I know the production one you could get with a turbo/intercooler setup. Ran nice, but died soon.

 

They actuaaly made 6 Turbo interceptors for the movie, 4 of them were wreacked, the other 2??....1 is in Kansas, where the new owner has modified it, and other is in a museam somewhere...I still can't get over the simularities of the engine sounds of the Dodge and the Chevy HHR...1 think I should clear up, when I speak of the sound of the engine, Im referring to the sound from within the car, while you are driving, not from outside..:)

 

look what i found:

would type it but this guy does a good job, so I quote
The Dodge PPG Interceptor also know offically by it's Dodge name, the M4S, is a car that was built in the early 80's. 1984 to exact is the model year. It had very little in commom with anything produced by Dodge in those times. It was NOT just a Daytona with a different body. The only thing the M4S shared with the Daytonas of the day was the 2.2 liter engine block and the 5 speed manual transmission. On top the block was a highly modified Cosworth 16 valve twin cam head. It was force fed with twin Garret T-25 turbochargers and fueled with Bosch- L Jettronic fuel injection. It made 440 hp and had a top speed as tested by Road and Track to 194.8 mph. It did 0 to 60 in 4.1 and the 1/4 mile at 12.9 at 104 mph. Rumor had it that there was also another engine that was making 600 hp. The M4S was a mid-engine designed car designed by Dodge as a concept for future production, but due to it's high cost construction the idea for production was dropped seeing how Dodge didn't think anybody would be interested in a high proced sports car in those days. Remember this was 1984. Long before the Interceptor M4S made an appearance in the low budget film 'The Wraith' it saw use as an actual Indy pace car. The only modification the M4S received was flashing strobe lights for serving duty as the Indy pace car. After it's first major appearance to the public at Indy the car was donated by Chrysler for use in the movie 'The Wraith'. A place called Code One was contracted to build some replicas of the real prototype M4S for the movie. I've read that up to 30 of these cars were built for crash sequences and stunts. After the movie filming was over the car was returned to Dodge. Flash forward to today and apparently there are know to be 4 M4S's in exsistance. One was last known to be located in the head quaters for PPG Industries. One of the others is located at the Walter P. Chysler Museum in Aubum, Michigan and is on regular display. The last thing I heard was that there is a place, and I'm not sure of the name, that makes reproduction PPG Interceptor rolling chassis's for sale to the publiuc after buying the rights. They have a website on the internet as well and a complete car sells for something close to $70,000. However the engine is not a Dodge 2.2 twin turbo. I believe they stick Chevy 350's in the car instead much like any other kit type car. The coolest thing would be to buy a rolling chassis and throw a good old Dodge 2.2 liter Turbo II engine in it modified to make 300 hp or more. Thats about all I know of the PPG Interceptor

http://www.thewraithcar.com/

 

Wheelie7, that is a unique description of your engine's sound. You're not smoking anything, are you?

 

Wheelie7, it might be the fuel pump. I have a 2.2 and there is a low groan sound comming from the engine sometimes, Dealer said it was the fuel pump and not too worry , yea right. So I checked out some others and had the same sound , wow this time the dealer may have been right, figure that one out. Anyway it has gotten more noticeable lately so will take it back in and make them do a pressure check just to make sure the so called 'fuel pump sound' is not meaning the fuel pump has a problem

 

LR : LOL...No, I am not smoking anything!!..It's the truth, Wheelie makes this unique harmonicalike/accordianlike sound when i accelerate, after he gets to 3rd gear, he gets quiet..low engine hum...But I actually like that engine sound, none of my previous cars made that sound, If it is a defect, I dont want to change it..LOL!!!! OH!!, and I found out that he makes it when his AC fan is ON, When it is off, the accordianlike sound disappears...I keep the AC on tho!! LOL!!

 

I don't think my fuel pump is the problem Jwolf, I think it's just the way the engine sounds...Wheelie's unique VOICE..HEEEHEE! =D