5 Things That SUCK About The Dodge Demon

What's going on, ladies and gentlemen? I hope you are having a fantastic day if you are new to the channel. My name is Park Enarans Dean and this is Vehicle Virgins. I spent the day with this new 800 Dodge Demon. Forty horsepower from a 6.2-liter supercharged V8 engine 770 pound-feet of torque Has the largest front hood scoop of any production vehicle The largest air induction volume of any vehicle The fastest pickup time 0 to 60 2.3 seconds fastest quarter mile time nine points six five seconds at 140 miles per hour this thing is faster than a Porsche 918 McLaren p1 or a Ferrari as well as a Bugatti Veyron in the quarter mile you can buy one for $85,000 that's pretty amazing and in my review I showed that it's actually also kind of decent to drive on curvy roads.

I know people like to fight on the Internet and say, uh, yeah, hell, it's really good at going in a straight line, once it sees a two-degree turn, the thing turns 40 times, but actually with 315 The front and rear section tires have a good amount of grip, believe it or not, with three 15's in the front and can turn a corner pretty fast now it doesn't feel like it wants to, it weighs 4,300 pounds which is quite a little bit, but it can be done if you believe in it, so today I'm going to show you what it's like to drive a car from a first-person point of view and then we'll talk about the five

things

I hate about the Dodge Demon. because honestly no car is perfect, the

dodge

demon

is certainly not perfect and there are some serious shortcomings that I want to discuss in this video, let's move on and let the vehicle virgins put a

dodge

demon

in the canyons and try to see.

How good is it at cornering? I'm right? Let's put it in manual mode. ZF 8-speed automatic transmission that shifts very well. Let's go ahead and head out onto a road that's too narrow for a demon according to most people, but. Let's evaluate whether that is true or not. The supercharger whine on this thing is incredible. It has to be one of the best parts of the car. A much louder moan than you're used to, even in a Hellcat. Pretty impressive. That's part of. the reason is we have a larger blower instead of 2.4 liter on the Hellcat we have a 2.7 liter blower and a 20% increase in boost pressure the steering is quite tight this is a totally comparison strange, it feels somewhat similar to a superior. off the ground Camaro z/28 we have those huge z28s like 305 in the front and 305 in the rear, this one has three 15s in the front and rear, enormous amount of grip, but it's a big car, I'm sure The z28 would flog this on a track, but this kind of similar vibration, decent visibility of the front paddle response is tremendous and then when you step on the accelerator, the level to which this pushes you back is almost comical, to be honest. honest, let's see." I'm in second gear, this will absolutely light up the tires and second gear, oh my goodness, wow, what incredible luck, ladies and gentlemen, you can turn the corner, you don't want to, actually, but now it's the time to talk about five

things

I hate about the dodge demon the first thing I hate about the dodge demon has to do with the mods, there are two parts in this one that modifies the demon and two that modifies a Hellcat, let's be real 965 in the room mile absurdly fast, fast enough for anyone.

The problem is that after a few passes down the strip after reading on the forums, after seeing some demons push the low 9s, you will want more power. I mean, that's the nature of the beast in a supercharged car with this setup, it's not. It's very difficult to get more power, a simple pulley on a demon will increase the power 100 to 200 horsepower with retuning and a pulley and potentially you use 85 new injectors and suddenly, boom, there goes the warranty factory, that was the point. from getting the demon first the second part is Hellcat Hellcats started $63,000 starts at 85 how easy is it to modify a Hellcat to make it faster than a demon really very easy actually for $2000 you can do it on 285 pulley and then hhp tuned and that will give you 750 horsepower to the wheels with 15% gear grades, it's somewhere around 880 horsepower which is already more than a devil for 2 grand, spend the rest on real slicks instead of drag slicks that are Road Legal since they have little sheets for water and then you can also install a roll cage on the car, which I'll talk about in a moment why that's such a bad thing for the hell I feel like manufacturers today Today they are trying.

It's very difficult to compete with aftermarket companies that are shooting themselves a little in the foot and nowhere near as close to the devil as the BMW m4 GTS. BMW wanted to make the definitive edition of M by adding some components that you could have made. Same thing got a lot more power, was faster on the track for a lot less money for the m4 GTS. It starts at 135k originally with a markup, people paid like 200k for it, yeah it has a water injection system, sounds better. It has lightweight seats with a roll cage, but the power increase was almost negligible when you could do that for the cheap tuned boom on the m4, spend some money on coilovers, maybe some better tires and then already or faster than the m4 GTS and the m4.

In itself it would only cost you 70 thousand dollars spent 10k and modifications and you destroy an m4 GTS. Something similar with this you could buy a Hellcat, spend money and make it significantly faster than a demon. Now I will say that seeing this car in person, the wide body one. the logos, how it sits on the road with the drag wheels and tires, it looks way cooler than a Hellcat, it's cooler than an Alcot, it's significantly rarer, the fact that it's a demon makes it different, it has the trans brake, there are a lot of upgrades that might need to be done eventually, like upgrading the transmission, if you really take the Hellcat up 10 notches, but it's definitely something to consider and that downside is the second thing I hate in my opinion Hell: He weighs too much, he started life as essentially a Hellcat or a challenger, if you will, weighing 45 or 4,600 pounds, now they dropped 200 pounds and left him at 40, 340, 400 pounds, which is a nice improvement , but there's a reason why funny cars with five times the horsepower of a demon. weighing 2,600 pounds and not 4,300 pounds now, if they had spent all the money to develop a completely new car to make it light, it could have been a financial disaster, but 4,300 pounds for a drag car is pretty intense, it limits you in situations like this . in the corners you have a car like the zl1 for example that vehicle is excellent it's like a mclaren 570 on the track but it can run half tens in the quarter mile and then you add simple nitrous spray that can take the car to nine with the right. tires, it's done and boom, I have a nine-point car that can also lap the track as fast as supercars, minus a one-trick pony, to be honest, this is a one-trick pony, for To be honest, though it's easier and more enjoyable to drive around the corners than you think.

The third thing I don't like about the Demon is that it looks too much like a Hellcat from the side in the rear, in fact the rear has nothing to identify it as a Demon at all. that potentially the matte stripe that runs the length of the car, although you don't have to get it and it's a pretty expensive option at several thousand dollars, the rear just says SRT, yes you get wider fenders and a different hood, but now they make the Wide body Hellcat and you imagine people are going to start putting demon looking hoods on their Hellcat, yes you have drag tires but people do that on Hellcats too.

I feel like they should have done a little more to differentiate themselves. differentiate him from the rest of the challengers because to a layman this just seems like a challenger, now part of that is cool because well, if you really know and are aware, you realize that this is a demon and if you don't know We could continue thinking it's just a very loud muscle car that's boring. Now we have an interior element that is nice and specific for demons, other than the different buttons here on the... it says demon here on the right side of the dash and it actually says the number of this car is demon number eleven hundred ninety-five , but other than that, even on the outside it looks more or less the same.

The fourth thing I hate about the demon Dodge and this confuses me beyond belief is that technically you can't run this on a drag strip according to the NHRA you need to have a roll cage and door bars on any vehicle that is capable to run the quarter mile in less than ten seconds. In fact, that is not only during the competition, it is also a fine-tuned test. I saw my friend Nick guitar mageddon. zl1 ran under ten and got kicked off the track because his car didn't have a roll cage and then he ended up building a roll cage on his vehicle but it's confusing to me because the dodge demon was built with almost one goal in mind, dodging around themselves.

He admitted that the purpose of this in many ways was to have a factory car with a warranty that can do the fourth in less than 10 seconds, knowing full well that he can do the fourth in less than 10 seconds. I'm pretty surprised they didn't. Decide to put in a roll cage and it should have a roll cage so you can drag race this thing instead of running in a sub ten pass and then getting thrown out last but not least the devil will be the Coolest and fastest challenger? We don't know when they came out with the scat pack it was crazy how much power it generated then they made the Hellcat people have like 707 horsepower are you crazy?

Is it legal to put it in a car? People are going to die. It's the end of. the world and then we date a devil that just crushes it again 840 horsepower, I mean in a year they don't date the devil, that's the dumbest name I could have said right there, that makes 950 horsepower and stays low. Nines that has a roll cage and comes with a different custom-made interior. There's really no way to know now. I hope they maintain their values ​​quite well. They are not making that many thousands, but for the people who buy a devil. depreciates and then they come out with a better, crazier version, this feels like when it's the end, that's why people, when they get into the aftermarket world, their car doesn't become obsolete because they start modifying it, they They add different aftermarket components that you reinforce. transmission you upgrade more engine components to produce more horsepower, you use different fuels and that way you can always keep progressing instead of becoming obsolete, buy a new car, but because it has a factory warranty, you probably won't you want to avoid that.

It puts you on the spot, although overall I'm really impressed with the demon. I love this car. It's more fun to drive than I would have imagined. It's very comfortable. It can take corners and of course it's stupidly fast on a straight. line I think we're going to end this video with a little bit of acceleration, ah, ridiculous thing. Special thanks to the owner for providing this vehicle, OMG it's epic. Special thanks to drones for the epic drone footage. I hope you enjoyed this video. As always, browse the channel and subscribe. I hope to see you in the next video.