Why The DODGE DEMON Is Better!

Hey guys, I'm Brenton Brown, owner of Forza, tuning performance and today we're going to talk about these three

demon

s and how they differ from the regular Hellcat. We get a lot of questions about what's different between the Demon and the Hellcat.

demon

was introduced in 2018 as a limited production vehicle, they made 3300 of them, just there's a lot of cool stuff about the demon and the demon head and on the options list, a demon box, it was literally $1 to get the option and inside the box they give you a second PCM which is the computer for the car that had no maximum speed limiter they gave you a jack and a special front they refer only to the thin fronts that are drag racing wheels and you know, a pressure torque wrench.

With the devil in it, they give you a high-octane button that replaces the bezel and dash and gives you the functionality to run race gas with the push of a button. The demon is basically a specific tow vehicle. There are many similarities between the Hellcat and the Demon, both cars feature a 6.2-liter Hemi v8 engine that is supercharged. The difference between the two engines is that the demon engine is considerably stronger. Everything, down to the flow of the engine block, is much stiffer than the Hellcat engine. The crankshaft is stronger. the connecting rods are stronger the pistons are stronger the camshafts are similar but the demon camshaft has a slightly different profile the cylinder heads the demon and hellcat heads are both CNC Don us on a specific machine which does nothing more than that two cylinder heads, the difference between the two is that the demon head has many more belts, making it structurally stronger and superior to the flow characteristic of the Hellcat head.

They are very similar, so the demon head is structurally stronger within the engine and lubrication system. It's a little different on both engines, they have piston quarters that spray oil on the bottom of the piston skirts, what it does is cool the pistons to prevent detonation, but the piston quarters are double and hell, so they were actually supplied twice. The most oil on the bottom of the piston skirts occurs when the normal Hellcat engine, both cars are supercharged and have a very similar supercharger. If you look at them side by side, it is very difficult to tell them apart.

The devil, of course, has the devil. on the supercharger cover, but physically they are the same size, the Hellcat has a 2.4 liter displacement supercharger, meaning it displaces 2.4 liters of air per revolution, the diamond supercharger has a displacement of 2, 7 liters and how they achieved that is what they did. They actually extended the rotor pack a little over an inch which gave it more volume to pump air into, so both of them if you look at them from the outside look very similar until you start taking them apart, what did Dodge do to feed additional capacity? that supercharger is that they made an improved hood.

I'll show you in this one. This is actually a real functional ram air hood. What the air does is it comes in here and it goes through the underside of the hood over here and you'll see this. The plastic bezel here seals against this weatherstripping, so it actually forces cold air through the hood directly into the airbox, so it also introduces the hole in the headlight, which is a hallmark feature of the Hellcat. This is a ram air feature that forces cold air in. through the hole in the headlight into the air box right here so the Hellcat just has this and then the demon built in both of those things this really makes a difference in keeping the intake air temperature cooler and really introducing a It forces a lot of cold air into the supercharger.

Another interesting thing about the Demon Engine is that they redesigned the oil pan into the windshield pan. They knew that this car was going to be used specifically in drag racing applications under heavy acceleration leaving the line, so what they did was redesign it so that the oil pickup tube would remain submerged in oil under heavy launches when the demon leaves the line. , it's doing about 1.8 G, so in a standard oil pan, what would happen is the oil would go to the back of the oil pan and there could be potential, we're there. For the oil catcher to suck in air and damage the engine, then Dodge came up with revised oil paint and wind protection directly to prevent that from happening.

In the aftermarket world there are some things called killer coolers and what they do is incorporate the air conditioning system into a brick that cools the coolant that cools the supercharger, so never before on a production vehicle has anyone done this , what they do is use the air conditioning system and when you put the car in track mode or drag mode, it turns off the air conditioning in the cabin of the vehicle so that the air conditioning system completely cools the heat exchanger that is responsible of cooling the coolant passing through the supercharger, which lowers the intake air temperature, makes the car faster, makes the air denser, and shuts down. detonation, so it's a pretty cool feature, especially on a production vehicle, the engine, the demon and a Hellcat are incredibly durable and reliable, something that Dodge does on these, which is not very common for a production vehicle, each engine when built is sent to a room and tested on a dyno at about 5200 rpm for about 42 minutes straight, once it passes all the tests then they take the engine and send it to be installed in the vehicle .

They do this on every car that comes out of the Since the Demon was built as a special and limited production vehicle, it's more of a drag vehicle, the Demon produces about eight hundred and eight horsepower or about eight hundred and forty on race gas, while the Hellcat generates 707 horsepower. Part of that is because the boost level of a Hellcat is about 11.6 pounds of boost and the Demon runs about fourteen and a half, so that extra boost level allows the Demon to achieve greater power and all the differences that we talked about in the internal components of the engine allow it to endure. under that abuse, as you can see from a mechanical standpoint, the demon is a far superior car to the Hellcat, it has considerable differences, it is a much stronger platform and Dodge did a phenomenal job and in my opinion it is one of the coolest cars.

A lot of time, so let's go over some fun facts about the devil in a quarter-mile race on the drag strip and about one hundred and seventy-three cubic feet of air. Okay, a lot of people don't really know what. Well, what does that do? This means that one hundred and seventy-three cubic feet of air is the typical lung capacity of eight hundred and sixteen human beings, so to put that into perspective, it's pretty good when the demon is going full throttle, he's taking in about 1.36 gallons per minute. of fuel, so To put that at the end of perspective, it would be a typical shower head in your house if you turn it forward and run it at full power, so about two gallons per minute of water, so that's the amount of fuel that is processed through the engine at that power level when the demon goes off the line on a racetrack at a launch, the ring gear is looking at over eleven thousand pound-feet of torque and that works out to This results in the car being propelled at 1.8 G, which is unheard of for a production vehicle with the engine's stroke power, so when the engines fully accelerate as the pistons rise, there is over 11 tons of force in each connecting rod. piston, which is literally the equivalent of the weight of five Dodge demons on each piston rod and this is happening more than 50 times every second at 6300 rpm, so now that we've given you a little bit of context, a little bit of information about the demon and why it is such a cool car, we have these three demons behind us, this one you will notice.

It has an interesting license plate, it just arrived on a ship from Kuwait, so we are building it for a client there. There will be some pretty extreme construction. You will receive a fully built Ford engine, nine inch rear and upgraded axles, virtually nitrous driveshaft. whatever you do, this car is going to be around 1,500 horsepower when we're done with the black, same thing, this foreigner surpassed our usual stage for our build, this car is getting a lot of really one-of-a-kind parts, a full direct injection. nitrous system a triple pump fuel system this car will probably have around 1,400 horsepower when we are done the gray car here this will really be a special project I don't know if everyone has heard of the hellephant engine that is coming out from Dodge, post specs on that and it's about a thousand horsepower out of the box, they assigned a hundred engines to build and we were lucky enough to be one of the first on the list, so these engines are supposed to be delivered to us by Dodge and their first quarter of 2020, so this Dodge demon here has about 27 miles, it still has the plastic, seeds and everything else, what we're going to do is make a completely covered vehicle. ready for our billet, but what we're going to do is remove the original engine, we're going to start with the Hellephant engine as a base, we're going to do all of our typical modifications and everything we have, we have a lot of unique things like completely. ceramic wheel bearings, wheel hubs and everything, this car will have a lot of very high end unique parts, this car will definitely exceed 1,500 horsepower, so we will keep you updated on this in future videos, which is like waiting for the engine.

At this point we are very excited about this project, okay guys, I hope you liked this little segment about the Dodge Demon, some specs and all that, so if you like this content and want to check out some future videos, be sure to like and subscribe.