Racing

There is a New World’s Quickest Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat

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Colby Davis Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat

Zdung Ho’s Go Mango Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat has spent several years serving as the quickest (and fastest) Hellcat sedan in the quarter mile, but on May 6, the record was officially claimed by Colby Davis.

While competing at Streetcar Bragging Rights at Carolina Dragway, Davis’ Dodge Charger laid down a handful of 7-second runs that allowed him to win the Heavyweight class – while claiming the title of the World’s Quickest Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat. [Read more…]

1989 Plymouth Voyager Runs a 10.74 Quarter Mile

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Badass Performance 1989 Plymouth Voyager Turbo

The Mopar community knows that the 1980s Dodge, Plymouth, and Chrysler cars got their biggest performance numbers from turbocharged four-cylinder engines. The Shelby Charger, Daytona, Omni GLH, Shadow, Spirit and Laser all benefited from the turbocharged engine program, allowing them to keep up with (if not beat) the Mustangs and Camaros of that era, but … Read more

Furious Fuchsia Dodge Challenger Wins the Street Car Takeover Womens Class

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Kate Tout Dodge Challenger SRT8

The Street Car Takeover racing season began in late February at Bradenton Motorsports Park and among the spread of classes was the Women & Wheels class. As the name suggests, this class is made up entirely of women drivers and well-known Mopar racer Kate Toutkoushian took the class win in her Furious Fuchsia Dodge Challenger. … Read more

Here is the 2023 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170 8.91 Timeslip

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2023 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170 Timeslip

When the 2023 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170 was introduced last month, one of the key details of the limited edition, 1,025-horsepower muscle car was that it ran an NHRA-certified 8.91 quarter mile time. That makes it the quickest production road car sold in the U.S. market, beating the Tesla Model S Plaid by a … Read more

Meet the World’s First 8-second Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat

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Tina Boggess Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat

Tina Boggess and her white Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat have held the title of the world’s quickest Durango Hellcat, but this past weekend at Kentucky Dragway, Boggess became the first Durango Hellcat owner to break into the 8-second range. Boggess and her supercharged Dodge SUV known as the “MomCar”, ran an 8.87 at 157.661 and … Read more

The ZTunes Hellcat Resets the Dodge Charger Quarter Mile Record

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Zdung Ho Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat

The Go Mango 2016 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat which is owned, driven and tuned by Zdung Ho has long been the quickest and fastest Hellcat sedan in the quarter mile, but at the first Legion of Demons event of 2023, the man known throughout the community as “Z” continued improving on his personal best time … Read more

Experiencing Radford Racing School, Formerly Bondurant

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Dodge Challenger at Radford

Starting back in 2015 or so, the Bob Bondurant High Performance Driving School became the official driving school of Dodge/SRT. Through that partnership, everyone who buys a new Dodge SRT product gets a free one-day course at the Arizona-based educational facility and all of the production-based vehicles used at the school back then were Dodge … Read more

Ram TRX Beats Raptor R in a Drag Race on Pavement and Dirt

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Ram TRX Beats Ford F150 Raptor R

When the Ram 1500 TRX was introduced back in 2020 for the 2021 model year, it rocked the performance truck world. Delivering a whopping 702 horsepower and 650 lb-ft of torque, the TRX is the most powerful production truck ever, beating the V6-powered Ford F-150 Raptor by a huge margin in literally any head-to-head test. … Read more

Dodge has Big Plans for the Hurricane Inline Six Engine

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Hurricane Inline-Six Engine

We have been talking for years about the Hurricane inline-six engine family; with the arrival of the new Jeep Wagoneer and Grand Wagoneer, those long-rumored engines have finally come to production.

In the huge Jeeps, both the standard and high-performance variants of the 3.0-liter Hurricane engine provide substantial power, making them reasonable alternatives to the Hemi V8 engines which are also available in luxury Jeeps… [Read more…]

Chevy, Ford and Toyota Top Drag Racing Teams All Use Hemi Engines

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Dodge Charger Funny Car NHRA Hemi

A few months back, I attended the Summit Racing Equipment Nationals at Summit Motorsports Park in Ohio, where I got to spend the day in the Tony Stewart Racing garage area. While there, I got to watch the teams of Matt Hagan and Leah Pruett as they prepared for their first track action of the … Read more