Hellcat super car performance.

[Cooter]

The results: A blistering 10.85 seconds at 126.18 mph on street-legal drag radials. (It posted an 11.2 at 125 on the stock rubber.) For comparison's sake, we've squeezed 12.3 at 119 from the Camaro ZL1 and11.8 at 125 from the Shelby GT500. Running a 10-second quarter is a major feat for any car, regardless of power, much less a showroom-spec car. If the 707-hp figure wasn't warning enough, the 1/4-mile run is an additional shot flung across the bows of Ford and GM. We can't wait to see them return fire.

[Mytur Binsdirti]

Could Ford be fighting back?



http://horsepowerkings.com/is-ford-getting-ready-to-announce-a-750-hp-svt-mustang/

[JB400]

Shelby already produced a Mustang that makes 1000hp.

[Ghoste]

I think the Shelby one is considered outsourced though, SRT and SVT being done in house is the difference.

[SRT-440]

Yea, when they say "most powerful muscle car ever produced" they are talking about mass produced from a manufacture. Mr. Norm offers a 1000+ HP SRT Challenger also.

I'm debating on putting a supercharger on my 392...a guy in my car club put on a Edelbrock SC on his and it did 550 rwhp and that was with the stock manifolds and the canned tune from edelbrock.    

[hatersaurusrex]

Anybody here driven a challenger SRT with paddle shifters?  Do they have good response times or are they more for show?   The tip shifter in my RAM sometimes thinks for a second before shifting    However - it's a 5-speed truck transmission and I generally only use it for compression braking so no big deal.   

For example, Lambo Aventador paddle shifters have something like a ~50ms response time.    I know, that's a 250K car - but still - I'm hoping a car of this caliber would be tuned to respond near-instantly.   My left hip is trash and I can't drive a stick the way I used to.   Only way I get away with it in my jeep is with the doors off so I can hang my knee out the door when I shift.   It's autos for me for the most part, especially in a car which usually has a more more cramped floorboard than a truck.

I'm like a kid waiting for Christmas with this car coming out - but a sluggish auto would be a deal breaker for me.    Anyone know if programmer chips can improve the transmission response?

[1974dodgecharger]

Ralph said auto is faster in shifting than anyone can shift a manual he said with new technologies he said auto is just faster and better, but who knows propaganda to sell more autos?

[Ghoste]

Thats been the case for a long time.  Everyone likes to think they can shift like Ronnie Sox but very few can.

[Cooter]

Thats been the case for a long time.  Everyone likes to think they can shift like Ronnie Sox but very few can.

yep.

[SRT-440]

My '12 has paddle shifters...they are pretty fast and the shifts are firmer...but the car is faster just in auto.