![]() ![]() The suspension has been retuned, too, particularly to handle the new, standard Mickey Thompson ET Street R street legal drag tires developed just for the Demon 170. The transmission has a new transmission brake, the driveshaft is stronger, the differential is stronger (by 50%), and the rear halfshafts and CV joints are new. With the engine itself, it has a new 3.0-liter supercharger and pulley, a new throttle body, bigger fuel injectors, stronger cylinder head studs, new pistons, rods, crank bearings, fluid damper and billet main caps. The stories about blown test engines were not a publicity stunt, they really were breaking engines trying to hit their target numbers, and that led to more and more and more of the Demon powertrain being replaced and upgraded. ![]() To hit these numbers, Dodge literally broke some eggs (engines) to make the Demon 170 omelet. Run it on premium (91 or 93 octane), and it makes 900 horsepower and 810 pound-feet of torque, which is still more than the original Challenger Demon. That's not to say it's slow when running on pump gas. And that's where it gets its 170 designation - that's the proof number for E85's ethanol content. Yes, it's a four-figure Challenger, at least when it's running on E85 ethanol. And a couple of years later, they've created the car you see here, a Challenger that can make 1,025 horsepower and 945 pound-feet of torque. When it was time to opt in or out, every single person hopped on board. But it was to build the ultimate Dodge Challenger. About 40 people came, all to potentially be recruited for this project, which was going to be additional work on top of existing projects. The pandemic was in full force, so it was the safest way to get people together to talk about the plan. As Tim Kuniskis, the head of Dodge, explained, the Demon 170 was a somewhat secret side project that really got its start in the parking lot of the SRT building. And that's exactly how the Dodge Challenger Demon 170 came about. People willing to put in extra work to make something really special. Many of the absolute best cars on the planet were born from passionate groups of people. ![]()
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