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Building the Ultimate Station Wagon | Charger Magnum Hellcat | 1000HP Hellwagon | Pt 88

Mar 20, 2024
welcome back to the channel, I'm finally back from SEMA and don't get me wrong. SEMA was great. I met a lot of interesting people, but as you remember, before I left, I put the full all-wheel drive trackhawk transmission in the Hellcat. truck, which was a big accomplishment for me, I'm not sure if it is for you, but for me it was a big accomplishment to finally see the engine, the transmission, everything that's in the car and when I first started this project I told myself and I told some of my friends that the bodywork was going to be the biggest project and the most difficult task and that it was quite difficult.
building the ultimate station wagon charger magnum hellcat 1000hp hellwagon pt 88
I made my own carbon fiber roof. There were some things I had. You know, there was a learning curve with carbon fiber composites. which I had never done at that scale before, making a really long roof like eight or six feet long that's like four and a half feet wide or four feet wide is very difficult, but then I started making the subframe with all-wheel drive and all that stuff and I had a pretty good idea of ​​where everything was going to have to be. I had already played around with some things, but then I started doing it and it became this big snowball effect where everything has taken a little longer. year to get everything to fit in the car while I was constantly working on this eight, at least eight hours a day, which is crazy, and then the wiring took about a month to do which is crazy for the amount of time and effort that goes into it. on this car, so about a year ago MagnaFlow sent me an exhaust and that's what we're doing installing today: a MagnaFlow X series exhaust mod with carbon fiber tips.
building the ultimate station wagon charger magnum hellcat 1000hp hellwagon pt 88

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This is super cute, but I felt really bad because it took me a year to get to this point. I spoke to the owner and I am very happy that he understands what has happened with this and why it has taken him so long, so today we are going to put the exhaust on. There are some things I need to do and some things I need to change, so since I have Trackhawk all-wheel drive on the car, the Trackhawks and Durango Hellcats use a cast iron exhaust manifold, unlike the Charger and Challenger Hellcats, where they use a tubular exhaust manifold and put everything in a different position, so I'm going to have to make midpipes or downpipes whatever you want to call them.
building the ultimate station wagon charger magnum hellcat 1000hp hellwagon pt 88
I have the flanges on that track burned. I'm going to use it shouldn't be that difficult, all I have to do is connect the intermediate tubes to this. nice tube x, before we do that though I need to move these brackets on these mufflers because when I did the whole trackhawk rear drivetrain we have a trackhawk diff that's probably twice the size of a Hellcat Challenger and Charger diff, which I'm very happy because that means it is more robust. I have nothing to worry about. Hopefully I won't have to worry about it blowing up to about 1500 horsepower and launching it.
building the ultimate station wagon charger magnum hellcat 1000hp hellwagon pt 88
Hopefully this thing will just take the abuse, but I need to move those mounts. I think go ahead and then we can bolt everything together and then I can make the downpipes or midpipes so I'll have to say MagnaFlow has the best Hellcat exhaust tuner. There are a lot of exhaust systems out there, but there is nothing that is this. Versatile, you can do whatever you want to make it sound however you want, change a lot of different things. The first thing I'm going to talk about is these drone eliminators, so the one thing I hate about driving cars that are tall.
The horsepower has an aftermarket exhaust, they even have a stock exhaust. A lot of companies have started adding them to their exhausts, but drone eliminators because you always get to that place where you drive down the highway like the speed limit is 75 or 80 or whatever and you have a drone and then if you go over five miles the speed limit, it goes away, then they give you a ticket and you say, well, I have to accept it because I don't want to hear this. drone that's trying to blow out my eardrums, so these drawn eliminators are really cute.
I really like how they are here, they are nice and polished, everything on these exhausts except where it connects to the factory slip joints are all v-b bands and that's it. very clean stainless it's going to last a long time another thing I like about these exhausts is you can go from this is a muffler delete pipe that comes with the exhaust or you have the MagnaFlow mufflers right here that I'm going to end up using or As long as they fit, I'll end up using them, but I'll have to move these brackets here off of them, so what I'll most likely do is put the muffler on. and the straight tube and make the mounts work on both so I can change them if I want to try the different ones, you know the different volume levels or you know I want to hear what it sounds like without the mufflers etc. so I don't want to just say: "Well I'll just put the mufflers on it, I'll never change them.
I might end up putting the muffler deletes on there so another thing is most of the kits you get or the exhaust you get." I do not have the ability to delete this valve, so this is the valve delete on the Hellcat Chargers and Challengers, not the Trackhawks or Durango Hellcats. They have these valves on the exhaust, so MagnaFlow made a nice separate stainless steel piece that the electronics screw into. a really super clean option, but you have the ability to not run it at all, which is really nice, so there's a lot of ability to change the way the exhaust sounds if you want to know if you live in California and you need mufflers and you don't want to getting pulled over all the time it's just a really nice exhaust you don't have to worry about making things everything just bolts on with v-bands very clean install and they also sent me the version that has them a little dusty because they've been sitting for a year, but they are carbon fiber tips so I really can't wait to see them on the

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Hellcat van foreign thank you foreign foreign foreign the exhaust is now on the car so I need to make a little adjustment because the exhaust tips don't go in all the way in so we have one of the carbon fiber tips here and you can see it sticks out quite a bit and that's because I'm going to get into the car real quick using the exhaust tips that are sticking out, this bracket here is bottoming out on the subframe and like I said before, I'm going to cut this bracket off of which the new exhaust bracket and the location of the old exhaust bracket.
They were pretty close but it's still not going to work, so what I'm going to do is remove these mufflers and cut this piece off here. I really like how this is turning out. I really like the mufflers on there even though they are pretty big and I could probably make the fuel tank a little bigger if I knew that if I didn't have them, but we'll leave them there, the Carl sounds great with them, let's cut them off, everything It changed very quickly, I've been trying. to align the MagnaFlow exhaust with the rear valence and this is not working very well, so I've had about eight hours now that tip is not lining up, that tip is touching the valence and this is not technically a MagnaFlow problem because I had to cut the exhaust front subframe mounting points because I have an aftermarket subframe at the time I didn't think it was going to be that big of a problem because you know you wouldn't think about it but since then Everything is V-band it's a problem very big, so I should have put this on the Magnum, bolted everything down, tightened all the clamps and then put the exhaust on the car, after cutting the brackets as one piece and then welding the new brackets together. but now I'm at the point where I've been trying to align this exhaust with the rear valence for eight hours and I probably have at least another eight hours left.
I'm going to put in my custom one piece rear driveshaft. I don't have the front yet, the front should look exactly like this piece of aluminum with the sonax joints, which are the best joints, you can use sonax right there and we'll see hopefully we can measure well, hopefully something fits today we're going to stick this up there I want to stick this up there to make sure it's going to fit and I also want to stick this up there and make sure the exhaust doesn't hit it. The weird axle is finally in the car and it went in very easy at first it has a slip joint and I was trying to press it down and it wasn't compressing at all and I started to worry because it was like it was a custom driveshaft they made it inch too long because it was literally an inch too long so I called the company that made it and they helped me tremendously they make a lot of good driveshafts it's not the driveshaft shop this driveshaft is much better quality than you can get it in companies like that.
I have had driveshafts before but this uses all sonax joints and is ready to handle the horsepower so I called the company and asked if it was the right length. He told me to measure some things and said, just push it a little harder, um and that's what I did. I came in and now we have a nice one piece aluminum driveshaft on the truck and I'm very excited about it, bolted together perfectly, came with bolts, everything was super smooth. The company is also making me a one-piece aluminum front driveshaft, so I'll get that. He said he'll have a guy try it because they haven't made one before, but I'm so happy it's all finally said and done.
I'll have to take the car off one more time to put the fuel tank in there once I've done that, but for now it will be fine to use the exhaust as well, so the MagnaFlow exhaust should have worked very easily, but there's another one too. problem so other than the suspension issue and having a hard time aligning it right now I can get this to line up perfectly and I think what I'm going to end up doing is I'm going to end up cutting off the exhaust and there's a good reason for doing this, so the first reason is I'm going to delete and do this in another video because this has been going on for so long today.
I'm really tired of working on this. so this is going to disappear, that's for those valves. I will never use them, the trackhawk and Durango Hellcat don't use them, but if I cut them I will have to upgrade the flanges for the v-belt assembly since they are backwards if I do that that will make me have one or two less clamps and then this can go and we can get this, you can't really do it with one hand, but get this. hidden up there just fine and then another problem and that's why I'm not going to play with this anymore today, the x pipe hits the driveshaft so I think I'm going to have to fabricate this whole exhaust system.
What I'm going to do first is I'm going to go back to this, align these tips, and I'm going to do that by lining them up here, putting the pipe there where I want it to be, like up there, so it's nice. and tucked in and then I'm going to put the bracket on both sides so this exhaust will stand on its own, then I might go ahead and start

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the x pipe, which I'll have to see. I might have to skip these crossbars that usually go there and now they allow me to lower the x-pipe a little bit more, but also if I do that it will change a lot of things about the exhaust so I think it will work very well.
I will use fewer V-band clamps because there are too many V-bands in this entire system. It's probably pretty decent when you have all the hangers and just bolt it on like you would at the factory or all to the factory locations, but for what I'm doing it will really need to be modified, plus I really wanted to move those mufflers back here instead of having them so far forward next to the fuel tank because if I got rid of those mufflers there I could make The fuel tank is a little bigger, but now that I'm almost done with the MagnaFlow exhaust, I wish it would have fit in there really well, but the problem is that there are so many modifications to this car that they simply need to be modified.
Modified, so I'll fix everything, but we'll worry about that once the car runs and drives. What I have to do now is that I was having a problem with the threaded shock friction shaft, so when I first designed the suspension I used a Lexus threaded shock. At the base it had something similar to this. I just ordered them from BC. I don't know why they are steel instead of aluminum but they are not the right length either so the Lexus ones were probably about there and we have a problem where I can't adjust the suspension enough because these arms here are too long , which is a little strange, so I already put one there and if we go down here it won't have any problems. the axle, I'm really excited about that, so one more of all, I guess the driveshaft fits, but you can see here that it doesn't hit the axle perfectly, but it's too high, so what I'm going to do is the most I'm probably going to shorten this as much as I can, which is also a little sketchy, but I need to shorten it so I can adjust the coil up more so I can get a little bit more, you know, so I can lower the car. because right now it's pretty high and that's not going to work, so let's modify them.
I hope I can. Make no mistake and we'll just cut them off. Needput them on the lathe, you can't. I really see it tonight. I guess you can see it there, you can see the hole down there, so I need to take it out on the lathe and then I need to put it back in and I'm not sure if it fits there 100 percent. with that size but I'll figure out that I'm goingTo mark it, I'm going to mark this one and make them both the same length and go from there. Now I have both bottom brackets removed and you can see I put a little mark there so I think I could go further. than that, but what I'm going to do is cut this here, put this on the lathe, cut it so I can start sliding it back in and then I'll probably face this so it's nice and smooth and uncoated and then I'll be able to put it back in, screw this in. , screw this in, slide them together and then I can adjust it all the way up and then I could just push this in all the way to the right. right height so I've been doing flats today the guy wasn't in the machine shop so I'm hoping to get them done tomorrow morning but I wanted to see the Hellcat exhaust just so I can compare it to the

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because I feel like there's a tumbleweed trapped in my escape.
I feel like they hang lower than I have them, yeah, they kind of look this way, the passenger side is hanging way down, so I was tucking the exhaust a lot higher than So, this is just a Hellcat exhaust from factory which I don't think is bent, yeah it doesn't look bent, it's perfectly centered in both holes and I think maybe I just need you to know this. I felt like I was on the charger. I was worried that if I put it on a trailer it would get caught or sprayed because a lot of v-band clamping could happen, but I really want to get it in more.
I could copy it, but on the passenger side. I definitely want to turn it up a bit more. The passenger side might be a little down too because all that wiring is there, but tomorrow I'll mess it up a little bit, try to install it, tighten it up a little better. I still have to do it. I modified that x tube because that four inch driveshaft is too big other than that I think the charger will come together pretty quickly, it's just one of those things where I have to keep making things, coming and going and waiting for you.
I know, wait to use the machine shop. I could have done those things today. I went back to the junkyard. I welded it all together, but now I have a day off because I'm waiting for the machine shop, so I'll end the video here. super excited because I have the MagnaFlow exhaust, I have it on a little bit, it just needs to be installed a little better, it needs the call them so I realize that everything will probably end up taking him to Fort Collins to Hayden's store and we can go to his left to take everything out and he will just take everything and it will be really nice and I won't have to worry about it so What I'm going to focus on in the next video is finishing everything related to the suspension at the front.
I'm going to order an oil filter when I was at SEMA, this guy makes some stainless steel. Oil filters with steel elements that are really thin and I think I'll be able to fit them in the factory position so I won't be using the TRX housing, but I'm still not sure if I'll order them once they arrive. here I can mess with that now I can put all the lines in Etc. I'm going to end the video here, although if you like these videos, make sure to click the Subscribe button. Like, don't comment below, as always, see you next time. foreign

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