Before the DaimlerChrysler merger really weighed things down, there was a way to tell what the hot vehicle of the moment was at Dodge: white and Code PBE Viper GTS Blue. In addition to it’s namesake, you can look at the Dodge Ram VTS concept truck that hinted at what was to come later on, and this thing, the Shelby SP360. Yeah, it’s a Dodge Durango with a bodykit that certainly looks late 1990s. But it also had some grunt to back up the cheeseball deal. The story goes like this: for the 1999 SEMA show, Performance West, along with some other companies, whipped up a concept known as the Dodge Durango Super Pursuit II. More or less, it was a bolt-on 360-powered Durango that was trimmed up to be something special. The Shelby attachment was in name only. Shelby had nothing to do with the manufacture or design of the SUV, but it was blessed off and the name was attached. 
A Kenne Bell blower was bolted onto the LA 360, as were equal-length headers that tucked into 2.5″ exhaust. The engine management system was tweaked to handle the boost and the result was 360 horsepower…remember, this was 1999, when the Camaro SS was kicking out 320 horsepower on a good day. Running the 46RE automatic and four-wheel-drive, the potential to haul tail was there, and with Eibach shocks and Stillen six-piston front brakes, driving confidence was there too. Of course, the body kit and the upgraded interior seating areas should be mentioned too, but be honest: the only reason you’re looking at a nearly twenty-year-old SUV is the performance kink, isn’t it? 
The thing is that the SP360 is just about myth anymore. The Viper SUV, it ain’t…360 horsepower is V6 territory and you’d have to give the 360 under the hood one thorough going-through to improve past that. And it doesn’t have quite the draw as, say, a GMC Typhoon. A 408 stroker with a blower does sound appetizing, but that’s the usual dreaming. What do you think…worth it or a dud?
Regardless of the mods done to it. It is still very dated.And yes is down on power by todays standards. I say its a 7K truck at most 9k.Thats just what I think
In Arizona, where several manufacturers test their prototype / pre-production cars, trucks and SUV\’S, it would be very cool to roll up to a Friday evening hangout in this 20 yr old Durango. It would catch the engineers eyes!