How powerful is the 2018 Challenger SRT Demon?

2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon wins Driveline Technology of the Year award

The 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon was named the winner of the 2018 Roadshow Shift Award in the Driveline Technology of the Year category by Roadshow by CNET in January of this year. But what does that mean? Let’s take a closer look at the performance features that brought the Challenger SRT Demon to win in this category.

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2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Performance Features

The 2018 Challenger SRT Demon was designed with absolute drag strip domination in mind. The limited-production model has a powerful supercharged 6.2-liter HEMI® Demon V8 engine that produces an astonishing 840 horsepower, making it the most powerful muscle car in the world. It has the fastest quarter-mile time of 9.65 seconds at 140 miles per hour, and it puts out 770 pound-feet of torque. The Challenger SRT Demon uses a variety of proven drag racing strategies along with some technology-firsts to reach this incredible amount of power.

Dodge//SRT engineers worked tirelessly to make the 2018 Challenger SRT Demon more powerful, looking at every inch of the vehicle’s design to maximize efficiency and performance. With innovations like ducting the air conditioning to chill the intake air, it’s no wonder why this model is the most powerful muscle car on the market today. Other updates to the Challenger SRT Demon include an upgraded prop shaft with a 15 percent increase in torque capacity, a rear differential housing that has 30 percent more torque capacity and adds a new material for the gear set that has higher fatigue strength, and rear half shafts that are larger in diameter, use a high-strength, low-alloy steel and have 41 splines to deliver 20 percent more torque capacity.

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