Dodge revealed the 2015 "Worlds Fastest Sedan" today

[EeePee]

They said they used 12 Pirelli tires doing the burnouts and drift and tug of war.

 

[kwkride]

I bet that was fun beating on that hellcat. I've got a race on Sunday in Florida. A few of my buddies bought hellcats and I've gotten invites to beat on 'em at the track.

We had a thrashfest this past weekend on my car. We went from a shell (no brakes, fuel system, trans, motor, cooling system, or blower) to everything completed except the cooling system for the blower and a few little odds and ends.

Here's a video:

http://youtu.be/YWunwvn-F5g

Very nice setup!
Here's my '05 Magnum R/T

 

[BadWagon]

what did it dyno at?

3rd gear?

Sorry guys, I've been super slammed, family, work, travel and wrenching. I didn't see the notifications pop up. LOL.

705hp/675trq @ 6000 in 4th 18lbs.

I'm happy with the numbers as a first go around with the new build.

We had TCM issues and couldn't pull past six grand in 4th, my car normally pulls to 6500, and the TCM and PCM are getting a fresh wipe and flash with a few tweaks. We'll start upping the RPMs with 6650, and see how it goes.

Looking at the graph with the 3rd gear pulls, we'll be somewhere around 750-760 hp and the torque just behind it.

So far it's run a best of 11.2 @ 125 in the 1/4 but we've learned a lot, and have quite a bit of work to do. The chassis has 100K on the clock and some of the suspension bushings are shot, so something is moving on launch, causing it to hook/spin outta the hole. Plus, I need to learn how to drive it, and we're still trying different techniques and stall speeds. All of that seat time is worthless until the car doesn't have major issues and some consistency. Solid rear cradle bushings, and custom coilovers on the rear will help me put the power down.

We've already found that the cats have blown out, causing a major restriction, so that's a somewhat straight forward fix... go catless and give the exhaust some TLC.

I like the boxxy shape of some of these new cars and didnt realise you guys where
modifying them like this. That wagon is bad ass. I'm not even sure what it is. Dodge?

There must be a lot of people with money to spend on toys over there for them to make
so many cars that are almost not road worthy, and i bet some of them aren't.

These race bred cars have virtually no tread on the tires. Are these cars just for racing
or do they get road registered and drive around? 100k is a descent amount of money to spend on a toy.lol

That wagon sounded tits on the dyno btw.

It's a Heavily modified Dodge Magnum R/T. I've owned it since 2008, and I bought it used. It's 100% street legal (we have inspections and emissions tests in NC). I drive my kids to school in it and we take it on road trips.

I change the tire/wheel combo for the track, and up until now, drove it to every race and event. I'm now towing it because at this power level, shit's gonna break, or go wrong, etc. and I don't wanna be out there tearing half the car apart to fix something in order to get home.

I was at Challengerfest 6 in Bowling Green, KY a few weekends ago, and BangShift.com contacted me afterwards and they just released an article on my car.

BangShift.com This Magnum Is The Result Of Many Friends And The Call For More Speed - Meet The Badwagon - BangShift.com

 

[EeePee]

Cool! "thumbsup"

 

[DickyT]

Cool article!

 

[BadWagon]

Thanks bud! I didn't even know Bangshift was there.

 

[EeePee]

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[BadWagon]

Great video! Who ever was driving the hellcat is a moron. He greased the hell out of those street tires and heat soaked the motor... As for leaving in 2nd, that's for those who can't drive.

Still a great video though.

 

[EeePee]

You could almost buy a Charger and Challenger for one Tesla. And honestly at this point, I'd probably buy the Tesla. But not here in Ohio. I have no idea where a single charging station is.

 

[STANG KILLA SS]

I don't know why but that post of yours, reminded me of Mark Thomas' corn powered funny car from when I was growing up. looks like it was based out of ohio too.

 

[BJoe]

What info do you have on that Funny, Cory?

 

[STANG KILLA SS]

not much mostly what google says. he actually won a title in the car i think (IHRA?) i think even the oil they used in the motor was also bio or corn based of some kind. its been alot of years....
i had a poster of it on my wall growing up. more like the older version in the second pic.

 

[BJoe]

Thanks, I'll have to dig a bit further then later on.

 

[STANG KILLA SS]

Dodge seriously just keeps hitting it out of the park.
**** the corperates, and penny pinchers, build bad ass cars and bad ass promotion. even if they only sold 3, the publicity the hellcat line has brought to dodge is insane. "thumbsup"

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[STANG KILLA SS]

not quite as cinematic, but still good

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[BJoe]

They do seem to have a good ad agency working for them.

 

[badhoopty]

They do seem to have a good ad agency working for them.

as well as awesome brand clients and lawyers. an ad agency can only get away with what the client has the balls to let them get away with.

and lets not forget thats 700hp, factory... for relatively cheap.

my last project at the agency i worked at was a hellcat challenger giveaway, and client legal would not let me say it was the most powerful musclecar ever made because somebody could have made a more powerfull one in the month between approval of the spot and the launch of the promotion... i also had to fight like ****ing crazy to get a fake studio burnout because of safety concerns and second hand smoke...

 

[badhoopty]

oh... and i also had to FIGHT to show the hellcat logo, because client legal viewed it as too catoonish...

 

[CrawlinMike]

not quite as cinematic, but still good



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That Danny T one was pretty a pretty dumb ad to me? Cheesy is normal but sends an odd message. Maybe makes more sense to Mexicans/Spanish speaking?

 

[EeePee]

Promoting street racing and hooliganism. Good ad. :roll: