Agreed, your going to get a little less straight line out of that than the crazy SRT4 (Those cars are straight up nut, back when I was hanging with the "tuner" (add nitrous, fart cannon, and a spoiler and she's good to go! types), I remember the SRT4 was the car to beat. Haha looking back, it was always hilarious to watch the bone stock SRT-4s smoke these civics and tiburons.

Your not going to have as much nut as the SRT-4, but even with the Avant, I think you will be shocked at how much better it handles. Or maybe that's just me. My Subaru couldn't handle as good as my A4, and my Subaru used to eat neons in the twisties.

Actually, while I have an SRT owner on the line, what is different in those cars, aside from engine/cosmetics, from a regular neon? I'm assuming you have some mods in yours at that power, but stock for stock, what are we talking here?