These Are The Butch Parts That'll Stop The Dodge Challenger Demon Eating Itself
I know, I know: only the other day we had a piece on this very website talking about how tired we’re getting of all the Challenger SRT Demon teasers, and here we are a few days on posting another. News it news no matter how frustratingly it’s packaged though, and eight videos in, we’re kinda committed to see it through. So, what’s Dodge telling us this time around?
Teaser number eight is called ‘Race-Hardened Parts’, and it’s about, err, race-hardened parts. So, it’s nice and self explanatory this time around, with the press releasing detailing the butch bits and pieces the Demon’s driveline has been given to stop things going bang when the presumably more powerful 6.2-litre supercharged V8 kicks in.
Compared to the Hellcat, the Demon gets an upgraded prop shaft with a 15 per cent higher torque capacity, a new differential housing giving a 30 per cent increase in torque capacity, and 41-spline half shafts for a 20 per cent increase in capacity.
Along with these hardware changes, it’s been revealed that the Demon has also been given a ‘Launch Assist’ function which monitors wheel speeds and momentarily reduces torque when required to prevent wheel hop. And a reduction wheel hop means? Less chance of damaging driveline components, of course - working together nicely with the upgraded parts.
Finally, Dodge has added the option of a four-point harness bar, easily mountable thanks to the deleted rear seat.
The full car will be - finally - revealed on 11 April, although by then, we’re not sure how much more Dodge will have to tell us about it…
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11th f*cking april???? How many bloody videos, they should release it at geneva
At least we have a date.
Another one….
didn’t car throttle talk about how they’re suckers for these dodge demon teaser videos and they shouldn’t be?
Every teaser does tell us something about the car, so it does have a use. Also, you don’t deserve downvotes for saying that
Mentioned in the first line…
Anyone who works at Dodge???Please take pics of Demon secretly…Im tired of all of these teaser videos
It’s been spotted testing completely undisguised and it’s been in the F&F 8 trailer, so we already know what it looks like!
Here
customer gets into his Dodge Demon
turns the key
Car: before proceeding to engine start please watch these 20 videos about how awesome I am…
Customer: oh for God’s sake!
leaves the car
goes to work in a Prius
Or in an Aztec.
Can you save up the next 2 weeks of these teasers and just dump them on us in one post please?
2 weeks? Save up all seven then dump them on us. I stopped watching them in week 3
by the time all the teasers are out I’ll have enough for the car
They just borrowed volvo pieces and called them “Race Hardened”
All this god damn hype and the car will be sh111t when it’s released.
It will only be able to go in a straight line so basically you’re right.