2019 Dodge Hellcat Redeye vs Chevy Camaro ZL1 1LE - DRAG RACE & LAP TIMES

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. I'm Thomas and I'm James and today is the battle of the beasts we have. two of the most powerful production cars you can buy, this is the Dodge Challenger Hellcat red eye and that is the Camaro zl1 zl1 1 l II James, why wait a minute? This is not a Chevy commercial. Hi Thomas, I'm a big fan, that's a sweet Hellcat James, what is this? I bet he just makes farting noises and falls apart because of it, yeah okay dude go away get up yeah whatever James I never liked you anyway okay time for a fight on camera slow, no, aah, you. ruin everything you know what you're doing ok step aside winter is one thing rust is one thing and we get a lot of help here in Canada actually rust is pretty much the same color as maple syrup coincidence I don't think so and you say I don't take it seriously, yes it's fine but it can prevent rust and the best way to do that is to get your vehicle new or old and the process is simple and inexpensive and that is what will allow my Subaru continue living in the future. yeah, okay, let's pretend those WRX transmissions are made of glass.

Find out how to bring your car to your local Crown Center using the link in the description below. Well, let's start with this, a car that does not understand the word manners does not know what subtlety and class are only knows one thing the relentless destruction of all tires in the search for the correct speed this is the

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red eye challenger basically a detuned

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demon that can stomp on it and spin it still makes 797 horsepower and 707 pound-feet of torque from a 6.2-liter V8 that's being force-fed by atmosphere from the largest supercharger in a production car in the world and although its brother, the Dodge Diamond, is the real

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car this red eye has no interest in. losing this drag

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, but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't against a very worthy opponent, the zl1 1le, if the regular Camaro SS is an orc from Lord of the Rings, then the zero is o achhi cleaned up by Chevy for born to track, the only package that makes an already absurd car inconceivably monstrous, is a killer supercar that has been tarred and feathered with splitters, hoaxes and spoilers, all in the name of downforce for fear that if rises into the air at high speed, his The driver would also end up ascending somehow today we have the six-speed manual which until recently was the only transmission available for a single paddle shifter and if you're wondering what paddle shifters are for, they activate and disable rev matching.

It's lighter than the Challenger and more aerodynamic and by the time a Challenger owner criticizes the Camaro for losing its muscle car heritage, it's already gone, but let's put that to the test in a drag

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if you're new to the throttle, we do. car reviews, track tests and a lot of nonsense so subscribe and ring the bell good 0 1 0 1 1 le 650 horsepower 650 lb-ft of torque I've done some practice on these it's a monster so I got to be very careful, I don't have elevation change, he is automatic, I don't have elevation change, so as long as I can stop my brain from fighting, I could hold down the accelerator the whole time, but I still have to manage the accelerator because there is lots of power to the rear wheels ok, Hellcat red eyes, we're in track mode.

I'm going to do a two-foot launch here because launch control can only spin the tires on this surface. I have it on track which means the coolers are on so I don't have air conditioning here because it rewrites the air conditioning to cool the gigantic engine in front of me and this is basically managing the throttle. Well, once this gets going, it will be a win for red. Mind you, oh God, my heart still died. I can't even. I usually talk to the camera during this. I couldn't even do it. These cars are so fast. James.

I need a minute. Okay, you, I was a clear victory. Yes, please take a moment. look please take off well together yeah but then that just draws it in it just walks the horsepower just carries it yeah oh okay let's see how you guys do on the track. Can we take a breather and then do the track? Yeah, okay, James takes the Camaro and that's it. It's safe to say he was pretty excited. Release the beast. I have 650 horsepower and 650 feet towards my foot. This is the fastest Camaro ever made. If you get one of these, you're driving a modern saber-toothed tiger.

Why drive? a saber-toothed tiger when you can drive a lab experiment gone wrong he's a supervillain okay the

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i'm in track mode i'm manually shifting 797 horsepower through here for dick books locking straight-line differentials this for we I open it and I see colors that are not there. It has adjustable stabilizer bars and camber plates. You can get up to three point seven degrees of negative tilt, which means it's fun in terms of it's so hard it hurts in the first place where the LSD is. two different ones to the moon, one meaning the rear end snags very easily and rubbish comes out and it's not just the LSD and suspension we have to thank for their incredible cornering ability, this is on the exclusive Eagle F1 tires Goodyear Supercar 3R, in fact.

Fortunately, this Alli has already consumed its first set of tires, although Judea has hooked us up with a bunch of them, so we have tires to burn, and yet when you reach the limit of those tires, it progressively separates so that still be in control, it's predictable. and I said the same methodology that the SS has that amazing steering filler, this is not a stock headset or it's stock size, it just doesn't sing the carbon fiber to give it some style in the cabin. The best part about this is that you get the v8 behind you and the supercharger moans in front, but is it all about the straight lines?

Feet as hell

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spent a lot of time making sure this thing can go fast in a straight line and it does, but they also spend some time making sure. It can turn corners because it has improved shock absorbers. Improved springs. Stiffer sway bars and stiffer bushings so you know how much they can really turn. Push on certain curves. Curiously, it doesn't push in the tight ones. Push on the fast sweepers. The front just doesn't. I don't want to connect, but in these tight things I think it's because I can turn it so easily with the throttle that it actually feels quite agile, it's big, but it's on John where you're watching James destroy that Xena one right now, obviously it's a little more buttons a little more race car this has stayed true to its muscle car routes it's confidence it's all about that engine I have yet to experience g forces like this on a track this makes the SS one Sounds like a lullaby This has the stiffest suspension possible and that means it's really bad out there.

I'm shorter, I have less confidence driving this. I thought it would be a lot scarier, a lot harder, unlike the SS, the corner is a little bit faster because that way you can. I don't use the power to go out as much as that. I would say this has too much power. I don't know that Thomas has red eyes right now. I can't wait to see how they do on these small maps. The direction is actually pretty good. It's very heavy, I don't know if it's just because it has less power than other cars or the fact that it's part of a system that's trying to carry thousands of pounds around a corner.

It feels heavy, you can't escape it, but it's a lot more agile than you think it would be and you can't really tell him until you post it here, it's time to laugh out loud, okay, so all the rules are Time Attack and Thomas is an athletics instructor, so he will say the following. hot laps he'll have one warm up lap, three hot laps and one cool down lap and that's all the time he has and I think he's dying in the Camaro. Okay, this Camaro is crazy. I have never had to exercise my use of vision so much.

However, on this small track you have adjustable dynamic suspension spool valve dampers which are currently on their hardest setting and as James mentioned above it is very stiff, in fact I had a hard time reducing the power coming out of some In the corners, a softer setting on the shock that you have to adjust on impact by moving them out of the car and not out of the car would probably be better for this track, so it hurts the top speed a little bit, but the ability of this car to maintain the speed. Going into a corner is incredible and once you stabilize the car it accelerates so hard it hurts, red eyes are a different story, it's brutally fast in a straight line and much tamer, although a little slower in the corners. used to the size, it's a surprisingly easy car to drive at the limit of traction, enjoy it, okay, so we just finished the hot laps, yeah, and these are just looking at you, these are two of the most monstrous things, are they two of the scariest things I have?

Have you ever driven on this track? How is this? Because he just destroys the straights and then is hilarious in the corners, like in Manager. Oh you can, it's hilarious. It's everywhere. This is a serious race car, but that's how awesome the keys are. My face was serious when they said if you keep your face that way, the wind will come, he'll be like this forever yeah, that's the wind, okay, beat the

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, yeah, well I won this one first, you're this one, deserves this one, one of these is the phosphates that are on top of the trucks, well, I think this is the winner, okay, we'll find out that this was the best I could do, this is the best I could do, okay, I made a 116 0.08 which is pretty slow, so it's slower. that a Honda Civic type-r, yes, very fast in a straight line, immediately killed it, but the curves are just so it has the drag strips, it has the dragster, yes, moral, the story is fine, this is the car faster, hides in all the clues, okay.

What did SS 1le 111 58 1150 do? I know this because I also changed my phone number after it pumped too. Well, this did a 111. It's not much different from the SS on this track because there's almost no straight when I was driving, you're in the next corner, I mean, immediately, but then in the corner it's pretty much the same, this is a slightly cooler day than that, well, it's quite bumpy in this particular environment, yes, but there you go. That's the fastest car we've ever had on this track. It is an incredible machine. I still can't believe it.

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