{"id":20887,"date":"2017-07-28T12:44:25","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T16:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=20887"},"modified":"2017-07-28T12:44:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T16:44:25","slug":"the-mighty-dodge-demon-by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/the-mighty-dodge-demon-by-the-numbers","title":{"rendered":"The mighty Dodge Demon by the numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We came. We saw. It conquered.<\/p>\n

For 12 tantalizing weeks before the New York Auto Show last April, Dodge teased its Challenger SRT Demon.\u00a0On the show\u2019s opening night,<\/a>\u00a0the 840-horsepower brute was unveiled as the fastest production car ever produced, claiming an unheard of 9.65-second quarter-mile time at 140 mph.<\/p>\n

This week the wraps came off media first-drive impressions of the Demon at Indianapolis\u2019s Lucas Oil Raceway, where it proved as breathtaking behind the wheel as its gaudy stats had suggested. Face-flattening, 1.8-G launch forces. Demonic shrieking from inner headlight air intakes. Three-foot-long wheelies.<\/p>\n

And still we want more. The Demon lives large and has the numbers to prove it.<\/p>\n

To help us wrap our heads around the Demon\u2019s world, Dodge\u2019s mad genius engineer Chris Cowland and his merry crew shared a few more numbers.<\/p>\n

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\u25a0Demon has a 200 mph speedometer, but is governed at a top speed of 168-mph lest the street-legal, radial racing tires explode from the heat generated by sub-10-second quarter-mile times.<\/p>\n

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\u25a0Just 800 feet off the line (7.35 seconds down the drag strip), the hungry, supercharged, 6.2-liter V-8 will have sucked the equivalent of all of the air out of the Demon\u2019s cabin. That\u2019s 2,973 liters of air (at a record rate of 32,564 liters per minute). When Dodge\u2019s unholy warrior crosses the quarter-mile it will have consumer 4,900 liters.<\/p>\n

\u25a0To up the ante over the insane, 707-horse Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat, the bonkers Demon underwent 25 major component upgrades including a larger supercharger (2.7 liters vs. 2.4 liters) and a higher redline (6,500 rpm vs. 6,200 rpm).<\/p>\n

\u25a0In order to produce 840 horsepower, Demon was outfitted with high-flow fuel injectors (that\u2019s 101 pounds per square-inch \u2014 or 27 percent more than the 707-horse Hellcat\u2019s 80 PSI). At full power, Demon is drinking 1.36 gallons-per-minute of high-octane unleaded gasoline \u2014 or nearly the same amount of liquid (two gallons per minute) that comes out of your shower head.<\/p>\n

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\u25a0 So powerful was the Demon\u2019s supercharged V-8 that only a NASCAR-rated dynamometer could hold it for testing.<\/p>\n

\u25a0Each piston downstroke \u2014 which occurs 50 times a second \u2014 is delivered with the compressive force of 11.1 tons from the cylinder chamber.<\/p>\n

\u25a0How do you get 11.1 tons of compressive force? Ram supercharged air and fuel into a combustion chamber and detonate it with a spark plug, of course \u2013 an explosion that creates a peak combustion temperature of 4,500 degrees. That\u2019s almost half the temperature of the sun\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n

\u25a0Isn\u2019t that enough heat to melt the aluminum cylinder head? In theory, yes, since aluminum (depending on alloy) melts at 1,200-1,300 degrees. Fortunately, that heat is quickly dissipated \u2014 to crankshaft power, the exhaust, engine structure and heat transfer into surrounding coolant. As a result, the head stays at around 480 degrees.<\/p>\n

\u25a0Naturally, Cowland\u2019s team painted the V-8 cylinder block \u201cDemon Red.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u25a0Demon is the first-ever production car to lift its front wheels \u2014 the result of a 2,576-pound weight transfer at launch to the rear which carries the fronts for a Guinness World Record wheelie of 35 inches long.<\/p>\n

\u25a0On 91-octane pump gas, the Demon produces 808 horsepower and 717 pound-feet of torque. Add the available engine controller (found in the $1 Demon crate full of drag goodies) \u2014 calibrated for 100-plus, unleaded, high-octane fuel \u2014 and you get the full 840 horse\/770 torque numbers.<\/p>\n

\u25a0The Demon wears 12.6-inch-wide Nitto drag racing tires on all four corners (for optimum quarter-mile performance, Dodge recommends replacing the fronts with skinny \u201crollers\u201d \u2014 also in the crate \u2014 for lower roll-resistance). An IndyCar\u2019s race tires measure 10 inches wide in front and 14 inches in the rear.<\/p>\n

\u25a0Atop the Demon\u2019s hood is the largest functional hood scoop \u2014 with an opening 45.2 square inches \u2014 in production today.<\/p>\n

\u25a0To save 113 pounds of weight, the front and rear passenger seats were removed (they can be optioned back for $1 each).<\/p>\n

\u25a0To save 4 pounds, Demon uses a manual tilt\/telescope steering column.<\/p>\n

\u25a0For all its steroid-pumped power, the $86,090 Demon still comes with Fiat-Chrysler\u2019s standard five-year\/60,000-mile limited powertrain coverage.<\/p>\n

\u25a0Dodge will make 3,000 Demons for the U.S. and 300 for Canada. Deliveries begin around Halloween.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We came. We saw. It conquered. For 12 tantalizing weeks before the New York Auto Show last April, Dodge teased its Challenger SRT Demon.\u00a0On the show\u2019s opening night,\u00a0the 840-horsepower brute was unveiled as the fastest production car ever produced, claiming an unheard of 9.65-second quarter-mile time at 140 mph. This week the wraps came off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20888,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20887\/revisions\/20888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}