Dodge Demon - Everything You Need To Know | Up to Speed | Donut Media

(engine revving) - It's late at night at the racetrack as you crawl towards the starting line, a massive beast of muscle pulls up in the lane next to you. You take a look. All you can see are two glowing red eyes floating in the darkness. The lights come down from the Christmas tree Green light With an engine roar and a searing scream, the Challenger lifts its front wheels off the pavement It's doing a damn wheelie You try in awe and envious terror as the crimson Dodge disappears into the night It was built with quarter-mile domination in mind and was given a name from the depths of darkness itself.

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to catch up with the Dodge (beep) Demon Dodge Demon (electronic music) Drag racing It's the purest form In motorsport there are two card races from one end of the room to the other and the First come first serve wins, it's simple and that's where the beauty lies. You have one chance ♪ One chance ♪ To prove yourself and your car, there is no turning back. But for as long as drag racing has been around as big as the community, no one has made a purpose-built street-legal production race car, until SRT gave us the Demon Dodge.

Demon Dodge's Street and Racing Technology division has been responsible for some of the craziest cars on the road for over 15 years. I mean, they made the Neon cool. They gave the Challenger 700 and seven horsepower and called it the Hellcat. He had words my aunt wouldn't say out loud on his behalf. I don't

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, James, I see. in your videos you're driving with that double hockey stick cat. His name is Aunt Hellcat. Oh my God, please don't use that language in front of me. But SRT isn't the first group at Dodge to be obsessed with

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They are direct descendants of a long line of horsepower-hungry engineers and racers within the walls of Chrysler. If you had worked for Dodge in 1959, you would have noticed that some Chrysler Institute of Engineering students sat together at lunch every day and chatted about these guys' cars. They were smart and liked to go fast. Most of the guys modified their daily drivers and competed with them on the weekends. So they each invested about $20, bought a 1949 Plymouth coupe, and called themselves Ramchargers Ramchargers. Soon, the work they did on the track made it into the Chrysler line. For example, the Four 20 six hemi.

It is one of the most legendary engines of all time and was perfected on the track by the Ramchargers. Ramchargers Since 2002, the SRT team has carried the Dodge performance spirit that the Ramchargers inspired. years before, so why build a

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? SRT already built the world's fastest track car that took global records The Viper ACR SRT refocused that energy on building the ultimate street-legal race car and would use all of its engineering expertise in the process. They

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ed a new uncompromising spirit animal, a self-halo that would make every person on Earth say, What did they do that?

Like the Ramchargers, the SRT people are racers. They know what they need to build the world's first production drag car. First, you need power, second, it needs to be light, third, it needs to breathe a ton of air, fourth, it needs to have grip because it has power. It's no good if you don't reach the ground in fifth place, you have to cool off like a Viking jumping into a calm spring. SRT had its checklist and got to work on the most powerful car ever devised. The first thing was the engine. The Demon's engine is very similar to the Hellcat's in that it is a supercharged Hemi V8.

But aside from the block, the two engines are extremely different, with the Demon having a larger blower that generates more boost, stronger pistons, valve train, and a new fuel injection system with two fuel pumps. instead of just one in the Hellcat The result is 800 The result is 800 eight The results are 800 and 40 horsepower Of a car you can buy from one of the guys, you know the three guys He, him and Chrysler One of them Why what? The (beep) goes to 800 and 40 horsepower. Are you fucking with me? Imagine riding 800 and 40 horses. I have ridden an elephant many times.

Don't ask, and that thing is probably five horses at most. Six

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s could have brought down the entire Roman empire. I'll tell you which history books will look very different. Isn't there a Napoleon in there? Genghis who? Alexander what? The story would be ruled by James, the guy in those things we've never seen that go super fast and scream like I'm going to say fire trucks, but I realized they'd never heard of fire trucks. Add in the fire trucks (screaming) and 700. and 70 pounds of torque It's the most powerful V8 ever put in a production car I didn't say one of Dodge's most powerful V8 I said the most powerful V8 ever put in a car production Then they had to modify the body.

Do you see these scoops everywhere? They are not just for show. Many cars have them and most of them are fake. Not on the Demon, it's the largest functional hood of any production car. I'm starting to see a theme. It's the emptiest white space of any production car. At one time SRT even removed one of the headlights to turn it into an intake. That's an old school trick. To me, that feels like something the Ramchargers would have done. Ramchargers That's not a headlight. That's a damn setup. Like an MMA fighter cutting weight before a Fight SRT put the Demon on a serious diet to drop some L Bs.

They removed all the speakers except the ones in the doors. The stabilizer bars are hollow and smaller in diameter. They removed the noise and vibration dampers. The wheels are lighter and the steering column has manual adjusters instead of power, the Demon is so focused on saving weight that the SRT installed smaller brakes to save 16 pounds and it doesn't stop there, no pun intended. Passenger and rear seats are optional. Passenger seat is optional. Eh yes? That? Pretty crazy, right. Very They are a one dollar option. As a result, the Demon weighs 200 pounds less than its Hellcat sibling.

Just like I weigh 400 pounds less than my Hellcat brother. Lars hit me, it's been a while. We are both angry. To them, friend, I don't think we're mad at each other. Let's fight, take a bath and be brothers again. Since this thing is a true drag car, SRT gave it the features needed for a day on the Strip, the Demon has a built-in line lock system that allows you to make massive burns by locking the front wheels once you're on scene. The Demon also has a transbrake that engages first and second gear simultaneously. You don't have to hold down the brake because the transmission is locked.

All you have to do is use the throttle to keep the revs in the correct range. This is the first time a transbrake has been fitted to a production car. When you put the Demon in crawl mode, the engine activates the torque reserve which controls the ignition timing and airflow of the supercharger to produce massive amounts of torque for the perfect launch. The front suspension is softened and the rear suspension is electronically stiffened, so when you step on the accelerator, the Demon's weight is transferred from the rear tires, giving you more grip. That's cursive. But James, you say I hear the Demon has air conditioning, if it's a real drag car, what does it do with the air conditioning?

It's not for you, dummy, it's for the air induction and engine coolant. SRT calls it a power cooler, which you happen to know is what they called me in high school. The Demon uses AC coolant to cool the supercharger, the electric cooler reduces air intake temperatures by 45 degrees. Colder air means denser air in the blower and that means more air in the cylinders and, my friends, that means more power. This has never been like this. It's been done before and now all these powers have to go to the ground and street tires just aren't enough. This car comes with patented drag radials from the factory.

They are basically slicks that are barely street legal. To keep the tires from sticking out the SRT has put huge fenders on the Demon and this guy is now three inches wider than the Hellcat, but to unlock its full potential you have to open the Demon's bed. It's a Pandora's box of tow strip accessories that elevate the Demon to a full drag. The dominant monster Dodge can't put skinny front tires on you. What Dodge can do is sell you the wheels. A jack to lift your car. An impact wrench to remove the wheels and a torque wrench to put them back on.

But James, you ask what it is. Is a drag racing dream package like this going to cost me? One dollar, that's how much SRT wants you to follow the Demon. They'll give you

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you need to compete for the same price as an Arizona Iced Tea. Like the Viper before it, the Demon is now Dodge's halo car. The best example of what is possible. When engineers are encouraged to push the limits of technology united by a singular vision, the Demon isn't just fast. It is a truly impressive piece of engineering. So where does Dodge go from here?

They didn't tell us, but based on the energy in the room, they already have plans for something crazy. I didn't think the Hellcat would be far behind. But here we are 800 and 40 horsepower later, with air conditioning and comfortable seats. Well, a comfortable seat. maybe the next one will be jet powered, maybe a new nuclear reactor or maybe the power of love, whatever it may be. I'm sure when we hear about this for the first time we'll all say what did they do that? Can't wait This is everything you need to know to get up to

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I actually got to drive this car for a week, so check out the video here. What other cars do you want? to watch me and my friends drive tweets to your favorite OEMs and say "give Donut a car", we have a lot of new shows on Monday to Speed ​​Friday the best, it's the most relaxed and crunchy Donut show If you watch those shows that you support Up to Speed ​​​​It's not competitive, we are a team (beep) don't be an idiot What are your demons? Let me know in the comments without judgment If you need to text me, let me know Follow me on Instagram If I get 20,000 followers I'll pick one of you at random and send you something weird.

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