When it comes to American muscle cars, you think of Ford Mustang, Chevrolet Camaro and Dodge Challenger. This time we are going to introduce the Dodge Challenger Demon, which is relatively rare in the domestic market. Because it is not officially imported, the popularity of this car in China is still quite low, and its strongest performance version of Demon is even harder to see than many supercars.

I believe that in the world's cycling circles, the quarter-mile linear acceleration race is very popular with many fans, because it can most intuitively reflect your ability to control and train vehicles. But it was in this fierce competition that there was no production car for a long time until Dodge introduced the Challenger Demon. SRT is the performance department of Dodge. Since its establishment fifteen years ago, it has developed many crazy mass production models. They gave a challenger model 707 horsepower and named it Hellcat. But SRT is not the first department in Dodge to pursue performance. Before SRT, Chrysler had a group of engineers who were keen on performance. At that time, they would make a lot of modifications to the vehicles on the market and let these modified vehicles participate in different competitions on weekends. This group of engineers bought a Plymouth coupe of 1949 with little money. After careful modification and adjustment, they built the core HEMI engine of Challenger Demon.

Since 2002, SRT team has inherited the spirit of the former team and continued this all-round performance. SRT built the fastest model on the main track in the world at that time-Dodge Viper ACR. When the Dodge Viper ACR achieved great success, SRT decided to build an ultimate linear acceleration car that could be legally on the road. When developing this car, SRT used almost all advanced technologies. What they need to build is a brand-new car with brand spirit. SRT team members are passionate engineers who know how to build the first mass-produced linear acceleration car. First of all, it needs a powerful engine, second, it needs a completely lightweight body, and finally, the most important thing is grip, because even without great power, it is useless to transmit it to the ground. Finally, he needs to inhale enough air for the huge engine, and he also needs to cool the engine absolutely quickly. With this plan, the SRT team began to build their most unconstrained muscle car.

First of all, the devil's engine is very similar to Hellcat, both of which are V8 HEMI engines with mechanical pressurization. But apart from the layout, the two engines have little in common. Demon's supercharger is bigger, and it can reach a larger supercharge value. There are reinforced piston, connecting rod and valve structures, and then the injection system is replaced by a brand-new double oil pump system. All the efforts have contributed to the 840 horsepower of Demon, 1045 Nm of terrorist power output. You should know that this is a commercially available car. You can buy it directly in the shop. With a powerful engine, the next step is the design of the body. You can see the front face covered with air inlets from the front of the car, unlike some modified cars. Demon has the largest hood air intake in production cars, but SRT engineers are still not satisfied with this design. Finally, they removed a car light to let enough air meet the intake of the engine. Just like many boxers will lose weight before the game, SRT has made a strict slimming plan for the devil. They removed all the sound systems except the door, and the anti-roll bar was hollow and its diameter was slightly reduced. The sound and heat insulation materials are also completely eliminated, and the wheel hub has also adopted a lighter design. SRT is so focused on reducing the demon's weight that it is equipped with a smaller set of brakes to reduce the weight of 14 kg.

And all this is far from over. Both the rear seat and the co-pilot seat are one-yuan optional items. This is crazy, right? What other car can you think of to choose the co-pilot position? In the end, the devil's weight was reduced by 9 1KG compared with Hellcat. Because the demon is a model built for linear acceleration, SRT also equipped him with a series of equipment to participate in linear acceleration. Demon has a built-in line lock system, which can keep the rear wheel burning by locking the front wheel to achieve the purpose of heating the tire. Demon is also equipped with TransBrake system, which can start the first gear and the second gear of the gearbox at the same time. There is no need to brake, because the gearbox is locked. As long as you step on the accelerator and keep the speed within a reasonable range, the devil can eject you like a rocket. This is the first time that the gearbox lock is installed on a production car. When you switch Demon to linear acceleration mode, the engine will start the torque accumulator function. It can control the ignition time and pressurized air pressure by computer to obtain the maximum torque of perfect ejection. Then the computer will soften the front suspension and harden it, so that when you step on the accelerator, all the weight of the demon will be transferred to the rear wheel to achieve higher grip. You will be surprised to see Demon equipped with air conditioning, because air conditioning is a burden for a car that both co-drivers need to choose.

But this time you think too much. The function of air conditioner is to make the air introduced by intake air lower, thus cooling the engine. SRT calls it a power system cooler, and the devil uses air conditioning as a cooler to cool the supercharger. The power cooler system can reduce the intake air temperature by 45 degrees, and the lower the intake air temperature means the greater the airflow density blowing into the engine. This also means that there is more air in the cylinder. In short, this will give the engine more powerful power. Finally, Demon needs to export all this to the ground. Of course, street tires simply can't control this powerful force. Demon factory is equipped with special linear accelerated radial tires, which are basically bald tires that can be legally used on the road. In order to let the wide tires stay in the car body honestly, SRT also specially installed a wide-body wheel eyebrow for the devil, and finally the devil was 7.62CM wider than Hellcat.

But if you want to release all the potential of the devil, you must open the Pandora's box equipped with SRT. It contains all kinds of linear acceleration tools, which can turn the devil into an out-and-out accelerated beast. Dodge can't equip you with narrow front wheels for legal reasons, but this box has everything you need. Presumably, you want to ask how much this box costs, and the answer is still only one yuan. From this point, you can also imagine how much Dodge wants you to drive this car to the race. All you need is a coke to meet everything you need for the competition.

Just like the Dodge Viper ACR before, the devil has now become the aura model of Dodge. It is the best interpretation of the infinite possibilities born after engineers break through the technical limits. Devil is not only fast, but also a truly shocking mechanical work. We don't know how Dodge will go in the future, but I believe it will bring us many crazy works.

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