Dodge Has Built A 485bhp 'Entry-Grade' Street-Legal Drag Racer

The Challenger Demon may be history, but Dodge is sticking to the drag-racing theme with a new ‘grass-roots’ strip-ready special edition
Dodge Has Built A 485bhp 'Entry-Grade' Street-Legal Drag Racer

Dodge has announced a continuation of the Challenger SRT Demon’s legacy on the drag strip, with a more affordable grass-roots drag machine that still packs a mighty punch over the quarter-mile.

The $45,980 (all-in) Challenger R/T Scat Pack 1320 is a development of the regular Challenger R/T, named for the number of feet in a quarter-mile. It’s built to take advantage of a few Demon-derived technologies to minimise that all-important sprint time, without forcing the price tag of its Hellcat Redeye big brother.

Dodge Has Built A 485bhp 'Entry-Grade' Street-Legal Drag Racer

A naturally-aspirated 6.4-litre V8 up front sends a 485bhp, 475lb ft shockwave to the rear wheels via tech spanning an eight-speed TorqueFlite automatic transmission with Line Lock, TransBrake, Torque Reserve and Nexen SUR4G drag radial tyres for ‘repeatable quarter-mile times’.

Dodge says the car will smash the standing quarter in 11.7 seconds at a terminal speed of 115mph. That clips 0.3 seconds off the regular Scat Pack car’s time and makes the 1320 the fastest-accelerating road-legal muscle car you can buy – at least south of anything with forced induction. The 0-60mph sprint flies by in just 3.8 seconds.

Dodge Has Built A 485bhp 'Entry-Grade' Street-Legal Drag Racer

SRT-fettled Adaptive Damping Suspension sits beneath standard Challenger arches on what is a subtle but handsome car. On the front wings you’ll see a new interpretation of the old Dodge Super Bee logo, here known as the Angry Bee. The same graphic appears in the instrument cluster and headlights.

The purple car you see here is finished in a new matt shade called ‘Black Eye,’ which Dodge says it could turn into a production colour if customer demand is there. It looks brilliant, so let’s hope it makes it, but there are already 14 cool colours to pick from.

Dodge Has Built A 485bhp 'Entry-Grade' Street-Legal Drag Racer

Steve Beahm of FCA North America says there’s a strong market for the Scat Pack 1320:

“All it takes is an evening spent at a local drag strip to learn that the grassroots drag-racing community is large and extremely loyal to their cars.

“We created the Dodge Challenger R/T Scat Pack 1320 for the heart of the sport; the bracket racer who wants to drive to the track, suit up, go fast and go home with a big smile and maybe a trophy in the trunk with minimal prep and upkeep.”

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Comments

Anonymous

Wait, it’s seriously called the “SCAT Pack 1320”? I thought it was a joke.

07/20/2018 - 10:26 |
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DL🏁

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

They need to make an even cheaper version with 420 horsepower and call it SCAT Pack 420

07/20/2018 - 11:11 |
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Martin Burns

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

1/4 mile drag strip is 1320ft long

07/20/2018 - 14:32 |
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Ali Mahfooz

The Challenger has had more variants than any car maker has ever had on a single model. And now they’ve added one more to this list. Gg Chrysler. 😂

07/20/2018 - 10:29 |
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ahem.. Lotus Exige and Porsche 911

07/20/2018 - 10:36 |
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That’s traditionally what a lot of muscle cars were like: you could get different engines in different trims, different carburettor set ups, transmissions etc. Hardly surprising tbh.

07/20/2018 - 12:18 |
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No like seriously dude. You haven’t seen confusion until you go to the Porsche 911 configuration online lol

07/20/2018 - 16:46 |
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Anonymous

I see the odometer also reads 1320 mi
Coincidence much?

07/20/2018 - 10:31 |
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Anonymous

Wonder if 1320 would use this as a company car…

07/20/2018 - 10:40 |
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Daksh Pat

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Omg yess

07/20/2018 - 12:24 |
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Tomislav Celić

Lotus - they stop making one version, than they make another special version

Porsche - makes tonne of special versions at the same time to make sure veerybody gets what they want

Dodge - makes a special version because they can

07/20/2018 - 10:41 |
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Vincent Lin

Watch the odometer simply go up 1320 ft at a time…

07/20/2018 - 11:00 |
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Anonymous

Goverments introduces new emidsions regulations
Dodge: F**K this we’ll do it as we want

07/20/2018 - 11:05 |
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ShadowHuayra (HemiPower)

Oooh more throwbacks from Dodge

07/20/2018 - 11:14 |
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This was a real car built by Dodge. It was a street legal Drag-Pak car built in very limited numbers in 2009. article

07/20/2018 - 11:16 |
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ModernChaos

So what I’m hearing is, if I put better tires on my Challenger SRT, I could break into the 3 second range for 0-60…

07/20/2018 - 11:37 |
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Martin 1

Why is it called R/T? Shouldn’t it be 392? My understanding is that the R/T’s have the 5.7 hemi while the SRT 8 or 392 have the 6.4 hemi, like this car has, so isn’t it based on the SRT8 instead of the R/T? I’m genuinely confused

07/20/2018 - 11:47 |
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ShadowHuayra (HemiPower)

In reply to by Martin 1

In 2015 SRT trim was only given to the really high performance stuff with the introduction of the Hellcat twins. As a result R/T trim got the 392 (6.4L) V8. Been that way ever since.

07/20/2018 - 12:15 |
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