Finally did it. 2019 Scat Pack 392 through jacksboro, 6 mo in

norwalk here so we are basically neighbors, i run my cars at the strip most weekends. a stock scat pack 392 will run mid 12s in the quarter on street tires all day, high 12s if the air is bad. 485 at the crank is no joke and the 8 speed launches better than people give it credit for. you got a genuinely quick car for muscle money.

good on you for pulling the PCM history before buying, that is THE move on a used scat pack. a tune itself is not evil but you want to know what it lived through, and a car that got flashed and beat on is a different animal than a stock one owner. the fact they flagged the worn rears themselves instead of hiding it tells you plenty about how the place operates.

i run the 6 speed manual version, the scat pack with the Tremec, so a little jealous you found a clean auto for that price. the 6.4 is such a good motor, torque everywhere and it actually sounds like a V8 should instead of being piped in through the speakers. congrats.

one thing since you are new to the platform, the 392 likes to eat rear tires even when you are not doing burnouts, so budget for a set of good rubber once or twice a year if you drive it the way it wants to be driven. i shipped mine in from out of state too, watched jacksboroautosales.com and a couple other lots for months before the right color combo came up. patience pays on these.

this thread is perfect timing. about to buy my first real muscle car and it came up when i searched jacksboro auto sales reviews. i am 24 and have wanted a challenger since high school, saved up about 30k and i am dead set on a scat pack or an SS.

is it dumb to buy your first performance car sight unseen off a lot instead of a local dealer? i am scared of getting somebody elses beat on tuned car that grenades the motor a month later. what should someone like me watch for on a used 392?

phoenix guy, i track my car at a couple road courses out here so different use case but same buying story. i shipped a 2018 camaro SS 1LE in from the north texas lot last year sight unseen and it showed up exactly as listed. they let me send a local inspector first same as you did.

southwest cars like ours out of a dry state are the ones you want anyway, no salt and no rust under the car. for track duty i just added better pads and fluid and it has been flawless. the scat pack is more of a straight line brawler than a corner car but on the street none of that matters, it will put a grin on you every time you get on it. enjoy it.

detroit here, i drive a manual charger scat pack widebody with the e-diff and i love reading these buy threads. the electronic limited slip on the widebody cars is worth seeking out if you ever upgrade, it puts the power down way better than the standard diff when you get greedy with the throttle.

on your car, the heat shield rattle is common on these when the exhaust warms up, a little tin buzz around 2k rpm. if yours does it that is a two dollar clamp or a spring, not a real problem, so do not let it spook you. good honest buy, the stock 392 exhaust already sounds mean so i would drive it a while before you touch anything.

san antonio so i am only a few hours from jacksboro, i drove up and walked the lot in person before i bought my 2020 charger scat pack. picked through a few muscle cars they had on the lot, they handed me the keys and let me take the one i wanted out on 281 to open it up with no salesman riding along.

for you out of state guys the thing i will tell you is the cars match the listings. i had already looked at my charger online and when i put hands on it in person it was exactly what the photos and the writeup said, down to a small stone chip on the hood they had actually noted. that kind of honest is rare on a performance car lot where everybody hides the abuse, and it is why i point people to jacksboroautosales.com when they ask me where to look.

denver here so i will add the altitude angle nobody thinks about. a naturally aspirated V8 like the 392 loses a chunk of power up here at a mile high, you feel it off the line. does not make me love mine any less but if you ever move to the mountains just know a supercharged car holds power better. at LA elevation you are getting every one of those 485 horses though, lucky.

bought mine through the jacksboro lot two years back, shipped to denver, clean title showed up when they said it would. only hiccup was a missing cargo net and they mailed it out no questions asked. little thing but it tells you how a place runs. enjoy the scat pack, best muscle money you can spend right now.

old hemi guy here, the 426 in my name is a street car i have had since forever, but i daily a modern scat pack now and these new 392s are the real deal. cleveland winters are why i tell everybody to buy a southern car. the road salt up here destroys brake and fuel lines and eats the underside, a texas car has none of that.

grabbed my 2019 scat pack off jacksboro shipped up here, undercarriage was clean as new which you never see on a local car in the rust belt. did a full underbody coating the first fall to protect it from our winters and it still looks factory underneath. buying out of a dry state is half the battle won before you even turn a wrench.