As you read this, I’m in the middle of throwing every possible ounce of unnecessary weight out of a certain gold Chrysler before the wife and I pack our bags and head to New Jersey for the final Modern Street Hemi Shootout race. We’ve been busy ever since I got back from SEMA: lots of time has been spent looking over the tune, trying to figure out what happened at the test-and-tune event in Beech Bend, and to see if there was something missing or something we didn’t catch. More will come on that once we start clicking off quarter-mile runs, but for now, let’s just say that this video isn’t so much for you, the reader, as it is for me, because I need some inspiration before I go out and flat-foot the car in competition and anger.
The mean black machine you see here is Rob Goss’s X275 Dodge Challenger. It’s a ProCharged beast that started life as a Drag Pak car, and it’s a solid unit. The F1-X helps stuff the Gen III Hemi with enough boost that even for all of the porker jokes that anti-Challenger fans surely have lined up, six second quarters at well over 200 miles an hour are the normal. Against the field at the Import Vs. Domestic World Cup Finals at Maryland International, it was the force to be reckoned with. No drama, just spool, stage, and scoot on down the 1,320. That’s how it’s done!
OK, you had me excited there for a second. You got me. I thought it was a Challenger, but its a Challenger paint-carrier with a race car chassis and a 3rd gen supercharged hemi. OK. Got it.
It is still a production body
So did you think it would be safe to do it with a factory car ? People can never just be happy for others accomplishments ..