When the Demon comes back, the Air Grabber is coming with it.
Dodge announced this morning that when the 2018 Challenger SRT Demon makes its debut later this year, it will have the biggest hood scoop inlet of any production road car in America – measuring 45.2 inches – along with a pair of Air Catcher headlights all working to feed the hungry, supercharged Hemi.
The hood scoop of the 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon stretches across most of the front edge of the hood, with an opening of 45.2 square inches being the biggest hood opening of any production car in America. The air enters this huge hood scoop and heads through a channel to a downward facing duct in the hood. That duct seals against the top of a new, larger air intake box, completing the new Air Grabber hood system.
The functional hood scoop on the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon is the largest of any production car (measures 45.2 inches square) and appropriately named Air Grabber.
When you take into account the added air of the dual Air Catcher headlights, the Demon Challenger should have much more airflow into the engine than the Hellcat Challenger, as the Hellcat hood scoop does not directly feed the engine and those supercharged muscle cars have only a single Air Catcher headlight. Almost as importantly, the massive amounts of air flowing into the engine of the Demon will be much cooler thanks to the fact that most of the intake air is coming from the outside rather than in the hot engine bay.
A low-restriction air filter is nestled in the top-sealed Air Grabber cold-air intake box to feed the supercharged HEMI® V-8 engine in the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon.
In fact, Dodge states that when tested alongside the Hellcat, the air intake temperatures of the Demon were about 30 degrees cooler on a warm day, which will allow the Demon to make big power for longer periods of time.
On the underside of the aluminum hood of the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon is the top-sealed air duct for the Air Grabber cold-air intake box.
In addition to this new information and the pictures of the new Air Grabber hood, Dodge offered up a new teaser video showing the air flow through the hood and headlights, and you can check that out below.
"Before I was old enough to walk, my dad was taking me to various types of racing events, from local drag racing to the Daytona 500," says Patrick Rall, a lifetime automotive expert, diehard Dodge fan, and respected auto journalist for over 10 years. "He owned a repair shop and had a variety of performance cars when I was young, but by the time I was 16, he was ready to build me my first drag car – a 1983 Dodge Mirada that ran low 12s. I spent 10 years traveling around the country, racing with my dad by my side. While we live in different areas of the country, my dad still drag races at 80 years old in the car that he built when I was 16 while I race other vehicles, including my 2017 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat and my 1972 Dodge Demon 340.
"Although I went to college for accounting, my time in my dad’s shop growing up allowed me the knowledge to spend time working as a mechanic before getting my accounting degree, at which point I worked in the office of a dealership group. While I was working in the accounting world, I continued racing and taking pictures of cars at the track. Over time, I began showing off those pictures online and that led to my writing.
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