Dodge Demon - Everything You Need To Know | Up to Speed | Donut Media

(engine revving) - It's late at night on the drag strip as you creep to the starting line a hulking beast of muscle pulls up in the lane next to you You glance over All that you can see are two glowing red eyes floating in the darkness The lights go down the Christmas tree Green light With a bellowing howl of the engine and a searing banshee cry the Challenger lifts its front wheels off the pavement It's doing a friggin wheelie You try in awe and envious terror as the crimson Dodge disappears into the night it was built with quarter mile domination in mind and given a name from the depths of darkness itself This is everything you need to know to get up to speed on the Dodge (bleep) Demon Dodge Demon (electronic music) Drag racing It's the purest form of motorsport there is two cards race from one end of the quarter to the other and the first one there wins it's simple and that's where the beauty lies you get one shot ♪ One shot ♪ To prove yourself and your car there are no do overs But for as long as drag racing has been around as big as the community is no one's ever made a purpose built street legal production drag car that is until SRT gave us the Demon Dodge Demon Dodge's Street and Racing Technology division has been responsible for some of the craziest cars on the road for over 15 years I mean they made the Neon cool they gave the Challenger 700 and seven horsepower and called it the Hellcat it had words my aunt won't say aloud in its name I don't know James I see your videos you're drivin' around in that h e double hockeysticks cat It's call a Hellcat aunt Oh my Lord please don't use that language in front of me But SRT isn't the first group at Dodge to be obsessed with speed in fact they are direct descendants in a long line of horsepower hungry engineers and racers within Chrysler's walls if you worked for Dodge back in 1959 you would've noticed some students at Chrysler's Engineering Institute sitting together for lunch every day and just chatting away about cars these guys were smart and they liked goin' fast most of the guys were modifying their daily drivers and racing them on weekends So they each threw in about 20 bucks bought a 1949 Plymouth coupe and called themselves the Ramchargers Ramchargers Soon the work they did at the track made it into Chrysler's lineup For example the Four 20 six hemi It's one of the most legendary engines ever and it was perfected at the track by the Ramchargers Ramchargers Since 2002 the SRT team has carried the because we can spirit of Dodge performance that the Ramchargers inspired 40 years prior so why build a Demon? SRT already built the worlds quickest track car that took global records The Viper ACR SRT refocused that energy on building the ultimate street legal drag car and would use all of their engineering mastery in the process they needed a new no compromise spirit animal a halo car that would cause every single person on Earth to say What they made that? Just like the Ramchargers the people at SRT are racers They know what they need to build the worlds first production drag car First you need the power second it needs to be light third it needs to breathe a ton of air fourth it's gotta have grip because power is no good if it doesn't make it to the ground fifth its gotta cool itself off like a Viking jumping into a calm spring SRT had their checklist and got to work on the most over the top muscle car ever devised First up was the engine the Demon's engine is very similar to the Hellcat's in that it's a supercharged Hemi V8 But aside from the block the two motors are extremely different the Demon has a bigger blower making more boost stronger pistons rods valvetrain and a new fuel injection system featuring two fuel pumps instead of just one on the Hellcat The result is 800 The result is 800 eight The results is 800 and 40 horsepower From a car that you can buy from one of the guys you know the three guys Him him and Chrysler One of 'em Why What the (bleep) is going on 800 and 40 horsepower You shittin' me? Imagine riding 800 and 40 horses I've ridden an elephant a lot of times Don't ask and that thing's probably five horses tops Six Demons could've crumbled the entire Roman empire Tell you what history books'll look a lot different There wouldn't be a Napoleon in there Genghis who? Alexander the what? History would be ruled by James the guy in those things we've never seen that go super fast and scream like I was gonna say fire engines that But I realized they've never heard of fire engines Add the fire engines (screaming) And 700 and 70 pounds of torque It's the most powerful V8 ever put in a production car I didn't say one of I didn't say Dodge's most powerful V8 I said the most powerful V8 ever in a production car Next they had to modify the body You see these scoops everywhere? They're not just for show bub Lotta cars gotta em and most of them are fake Not on the Demon it is the largest functional hood scoop of any production car I'm starting to see a theme It is the blankest blank of any production car ever SRT even took out one of the headlights to make it an intake That's an old school trick To me that feels like something that the Ramchargers would've done Ramchargers That's not a headlight That's a frickin' intage Like an MMA fighter cutting weight before a fight SRT put the Demon on a serious diet to drop some L Bs They took out all of the speakers except for the ones in the doors The sway bars are hollow and smaller in diameter they stripped out the noise and vibration deadeners The wheels are lighter and the steering column has manual adjusters instead of power the Demon is so focused on weight saving that SRT installed smaller brakes to save 16 pounds and it doesn't stop there no pun intended The passenger and rear seat are optional The passenger seat is optional Huh yeah What? Pretty crazy right Very They're a one dollar option As a result the Demon is 200 pounds lighter than its Hellcat brother Just like I'm bout 400 pounds lighter than my Hellcat brother Lars hit me up it's been a while We're both mad at 'em dude I don't think we're mad at each other Let's fight it out have a soak and be brothers again Since this thing is a real drag car SRT gave it features necessary for a day at the strip the Demon has a built in line lock system that lets you do massive burnouts by locking up the front wheels once you're staged the Demon also has a transbrake Which engages first and second gear simultaneously You don't have to hold the brake because the transmission is locked up all you gotta do is use the throttle to keep your revs in the correct range this is the first time a transbrake has ever been put on a production car When you put the Demon in drag mode the engine engages torque reserve which controls the ignition timing and supercharger airflow to produce massive amounts of torque for the perfect launch The front suspension softens and the rear suspension stiffens up electronically so when you hit the gas the Demon's weight transfers from the rear tires giving you more grip that's cursive But James you say I heard the Demon has AC if it's such a true drag car what's it doing with AC It's not for you dummy It's for the air induction and for the coolant of the engine SRT calls it the power chiller which you know coincidentally is what they called me in high school The Demon uses the AC refrigerant to cool down the supercharger the power chiller reduces air intake temperatures by 45 degrees cooler air means denser air in the blower and that means more air in the cylinders and that my friends that means more power This again has never been done before and now all this powers gotta go to the ground and street tires just won't cut it This car comes with proprietary drag radials from the factory they're basically slicks that are barely street legal To keep the tires from sticking out of the fenders SRT has put huge fender flares on the Demon and now this guy's three inches wider than the Hellcat but to unlock it's full potential you gotta open the Demon crate It is a pandora's box of drag strip accessories that elevate the Demon to a full fledged drag dominating monster Dodge can't put skinny front tires on for you What Dodge can do is sell you the wheels A jack to lift your car an impact wrench to take the wheels off and a torque wrench to put them back on But James you ask what's a drag racing dream package like this gonna cost me? A dollar that's how much SRT wants you to track the Demon They'll give you everything you need to race for the same price as an Arizona Ice Tea Like the Viper before it the Demon is now Dodge's halo car The very best example of what's possible when engineers are encouraged to push the limits of technology united by a singular vision the Demon's not just fast It's a truly impressive piece of engineering So where does Dodge go from here? They wouldn't tell us But based on the energy in the room they already have plans for something insane I didn't think the Hellcat would be outdone But here we are 800 and 40 horsepower later with air conditioning and comfy seats Well one comfy seat maybe the next one will be jet powered maybe a new nuclear reactor or maybe the power of love whatever it is I'm sure when we first hear about it we're all gonna say What they made that? I can't (bleeping) wait This is everything you need to know to get up to speed on the Dodge Demon Dodge Demon I actually got to drive this car around for a week so check out that video right here what other cars do you want to see me and my buddies drive tweet at your favorite OEMs and say yo give Donut a car we gotta lot of new shows going on Monday wheelhouse with my son Nolan Sykes Tuesday Matt Fields F D Corvette build Wednesday science garage with my best friend Bart Thursday Up to Speed Friday the bestest it's the chillest crispiest show on Donut If you watch those shows you're supporting Up to Speed It's not competitive we're a (bleeping) team don't be a dick What are your demons Let me know in the comments no judgment If you need to DM me let me know Follow me on Instagram If I get 20,000 followers I will pick one of you at random and send you something weird It will probably be perishable and it won't have anything to do with Donut I love you (engine revving)

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Id: -wj1pc3tJEk

Length: 12min 37sec (757 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 15 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/[deleted]]

Ramchargers!

[u/johnnypoopface]

this one was really funny, Maybe the best so far. but seriously the Demon is insane. Literally insane that you can go out and purchase that car.

[u/Tohoseiryu]

"They even made the Neon cool!"

[u/DatsunTitan]

This makes me really want Dodge to build a new Ramcharger based on the Ram

[u/draginator]

I really enjoy these videos but I wish they were a bit toned down so I could share them with my father.

[u/sportmodeguy]

I won't be impressed with Dodge until they make a Dodge Dart Demon

[u/s1ravarice]

Well he got very excited at that horsepower figure

[u/seeingeyegod]

I see way too many things nowadays titled "what you need to know about X".

[u/Wheelisbroke]

I’ve watched a few of these & although it’s a funny delivery, many statements were very wrong. At least get some facts straight!