Dodge Challenger RT Scat Pack 1320 Tested at the Drag Strip

Yes, we are here to test the new Dodge Challenger r/t

scat

pack

1320

. The

scat

has a 485 horsepower v8 engine and offers you a lot of cool

drag

racing goodies, so we will hit the track and We'll see what it's all about. So let's give you a quick tour of the

1320

and show you what makes it special right off the bat, obviously, it's the 485-horsepower 6.4-liter Hemi v-8 engine. You'll see custom 1320 badges, a very nice touch here. 20-inch wheels rocking a A very special version of the Nexen tire on his r4g, but these are not the typical road racing specs that Ord is not used to, but they are used to the endurance specs made for this car, such as You can see, it's a narrow body car with a pretty aggressive stance, especially in these.

The big rear wheels roll over to the driver's side, so yes, this car is under $50,000 and if you're smart you can get it for around $45k, making it a great deal for a 285hp v8. strength with a lot of cool technology. So we're inside the car right now and one of the most interesting things about this car is the technology that I mentioned. From the factory this car has a line lock that allows you to lock the front brakes and allows you to do big burnouts. It also has a factory installed trans brake which basically means it manipulates the pin and the transmission between reverse and drive and allows you to basically have a really advanced

drag

racing launch, better than even most launch control systems.

I'll prove it on the track right now. what you're gonna do you're gonna let the brake activate my mom and you need to have to be above a thousand I mean tell everyone to be around twelve thousand three hundred yeah that's where we're okay now press and hold the OK key. button keep it pressed keep it pressed take your foot off the brake no, now you're holding it with the OK button, okay, keep this pressed all the time, keep it pressed all the time and so on, bring your rpm to about 4500 for your exhaustion, I'm sure it's not going to jump or anything, hopefully, it won't stay like that, no, you want to keep them there, yeah, it is, so you don't want to bring it up and then drop it again.

Cancellations are certain. lock up, okay, hit the OK button, hold it down, get the RPM up, keep it high, gasp, done, let's keep up the pace here, as best we can, that's really clever. I like that for an OEM manufacturer. It's a really cool implementation now that we're going to do it. stage once we have the car ready then we won't worry about the tree and they will just go through the transbrake lift, yes that sounds good, guide you through it so you do it with your paddles, pull both back, it says increase . engine speed with your foot on the brake increase the engine RPM to about 1800 and it will show you right in the center there we go okay now one paddle it doesn't matter which one keep your brake foot off the brake now you're holding with the paddle and then you release the paddle and everything goes well, ready, set, stable, that's great.

Wow, that's a great implementation for the manufacturer. It is really impressive. He's so skilled. I mean, it makes idiots like us do things like that. Yeah. I'm actually surprised by the independent suspension or no real wheel hops, but a little bit, but yeah, and when you put it in crawl mode, I mean, it changes the suspension, allows the shocks to rotate up, stiffens the shocks in the rear, so it pushes the drag radials all the way off the pavement, yes you can see the nose rises up a lot on the outside and that's right, and that's what you want, it's turning everything towards back to gain grip and take you down the very slippery track.

I, uh, I don't. I care about the time when I wish they would record 60 feet. I'm really curious to know how this goes off the mark. It's amazing for an OEM. The Carters have a trans brake and just because if it sounds like a really solid 60 footer for a full tram performance data yeah okay quarter timer not too interested in that eighth hundred zero timer 200 zero to sixty top speed history laps lap time ah, here's all the fun stuff, now you can all this, you can get it on this page too with the performance pages we got it, we just put it up there because sometimes if the car goes out, sometimes the performance pages take a little longer to load yeah rather than having a right there obviously I'm a big fan of cars but they did a great job for someone who wants to go to the race track, have a good time cool, but you might like to think that I can go to dinner in the car tonight, yes this is a real weekend warrior car, it really is, so let it go.

See if I can do something from memory, okay, foot on the brake, activate the line lock, we'll see our line pressure and then we'll press and hold okay, and now I can release the brake buildup with a few rpm and do a good old fashioned exhaustion, it absolutely puts this bad boy on the scene and it kind of helps on your screen and it kind of helps guide you through the steps, which is pretty cool, yeah, it's pretty idiot proof or a fool like me, okay. I have my left foot on the brake and my memory serves me right.

I pull the paddles back, I pull the paddles back, I increase the engine speed, right there, we pull a paddle back and take our foot off the brake and then when it's ready, we'll release the paddle. three two one let's go a little bit of the wheel hub that's okay in a second and the third transmissions mandus okay okay, okay, let's do this we have our left foot on the break let's activate the line lock let's build our break the pressure let's push and hold well, let's let go of the break, let's put up some rpm and do a good old fashioned burnout, yeah, okay, make sure this guy's in the rhythm as best we can you know , the way you work it, it sounds good again.

I think it's telling that if an idiot like me can get on this thing and make it work, they did it right away, we're ready, that's right, we're on our left foot. On the brake, we will pull back both paddles like this, we will increase the RPM of the engine to around 2000 revolutions or so, around there we will release a paddle like this, we will release the brake pedal. so and when we're ready, we're going to paddle like this, whoo-hoo, not bad, not bad. I think we had our first casualty. I think so. We know we don't know exactly what the et was, but we know this car was. faster than that mistake, you can, you can do that, yeah, let me get some perspective from people who see this online.

I'm licking this thing two or three times in a row, leaving the ground is immediately going back to the car and also. Laughing at two or three times, these cars have had no downtime and they've driven from one end of the

strip

to the other beyond that, they've been a hot lap for literally, I think two hours, almost two hours straight, now Windows up, okay, windows up, come on. let's do some more drag racing let's activate our line lock build enough pressure and the brakes press and hold well, now we can release the brake pedal, there we go, it has a nice smoke, sorry guys, Delta will get out of the way. very funny, everyone clarified this, they say, yes, it's like a picture, oh wait, it doesn't matter, I can't take a photo, okay, our car is ready, now let's use the factory line, unlock the left foot on the brake vanes, activate the accumulation. our revs and we need to release a paddle, we'll release the brake pedal like this and yeah, oh, that was good, no spin at all, a smooth launch and Amelie at full speed, no spin and that was it. a solid one, that's good about these big navigation aids because they're not working, it's a little easier to turn off the power and figure it out even if you're a newbie, but man, L is solid, ah, fun stuff.

Wow. zero dist: 0 m 3.7 seconds around mile eight seven eight ninety one but I think I lifted a little early but that's solid again it's amazing that we're in a heavyweight family coop that has real rear seats that are pretty comfortable and we go from 0 to 60 in 3.7 seconds and we run effectively mid-7 seconds in the 8. I mean, I have a passenger in the car, so you can imagine that if you do this right, you're running at 7 6 maybe I can ever do a seven to six in the eighth mile and I actually don't see, I completely get it, like you can pull off an 11 second high pass in this car, that's gnarly, I mean shoot 12 5 , we are lifting at the 8th mile mark. brilliant