Hellcat Charger Stomps Everyone in the Half-mile

Hellcat Charger runs down a Lamborghini, a Tesla, a new Supra and more.

The Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat is the fastest production sedan in the world, topping 200 miles per hour in stock form. In this week’s Track Time Tuesday video, a modified Mopar super sedan takes on a variety of high profile competitors at an Omega Motorsports No-fly Zone top speed event. Many of those competitors jump out to big early leads, but every one of them loses to the four-door Hellcat from the SRT Autoworks YouTube channel.

Modified Hellcat Charger

The Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat in the video above was built by SRT Autoworks. We don’t have power numbers, but the supercharged Hemi has been upgraded with the following aftermarket components.

• 2.75 Griptec Upper Pulley
• ATI Lower Pulley
• ID1300 fuel injectors
• Injected Engineering Dual Fuel Pump System
• Kenne Bell Boost a Pump
• Jokerz Ported Snout
• BBK 100mm TB
• Supercharger Spacers
• Emp Ice Box
• Cat Delete Pipes
• Legmaker Intake
• Tim Barth Tuned on E85
• PCM/TCM (Diablo)

Helping to make the most of the supercharged power is a 3.09 rear differential with a Per4mance Development brace, a Driveshaft Shop one-piece aluminum driveshaft and 17-inch Weld wheels wrapped in 315/50/17 Mickey Thompson ET Street R drag radials.

Finally, this car has a full interior and a passenger, so the weight of this Hellcat Charger could be creeping up on 5,000 pounds. Every competitor shown in the videos here weighs considerably less and some have their own supercharged V8, but none can hang with the Mopar super sedan.

No-fly Zone Battles

If you are not familiar with the racing action in the videos shown here, it is basically side-by-side top speed duels. While it looks like a drag race, it is actually a rolling start.

The cars are on an airport runway, so they start out in an area with white markers on the ground. When they get to the yellow cones, that is the point at which they are to hammer down. Some people get into the throttle much sooner, giving them a large head start, but in the grand scheme of things, that doesn’t matter. This isn’t about who gets to the finish line first as much as it is about who hits a bigger top speed.

Fortunately, this Hellcat Charger is so strong that it is able to run down and stomp all of the competitors. Their “head start” of sorts may not matter, but it makes for better video footage.

In the video at the top of this piece, the Hellcat Charger beats a Tesla Model 3. The videos in the middle show the Dodge super sedan beating a Lamborghini and a Corvette Z06 while the videos below show a Porsche 911 GT3 RS and a modified Toyota Supra.

In almost all of these videos, the car racing the Charger is way out ahead when the Hellcat gets to the official starting cone. The one exception is the Corvette Z06, which made for a great side-by-side roll race. The Lamborghini actually puts up a good fight, with the Dodge passing just before the end marker, but the Supra, the Tesla and the Porsche all took brutal beatings.

Again, this Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat has a pretty significant mod list, but in a racing world that is traditionally dominated by supercars, it is exciting to see an American four-door sedan kicking all sorts of ass. Crank up your speakers and enjoy!

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Patrick Rall

"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.

"Ten years ago, I left the accounting world to become a full-time automotive writer and I am living proof that if you love what you do, you will never “work” a day in your life," adds Rall, who has clocked in time as an auto mechanic, longtime drag racer and now automotive journalist who contributes to nearly a dozen popular auto websites dedicated to fellow enthusiasts.

"I love covering the automotive industry and everything involved with the job. I was fortunate to turn my love of the automotive world into a hobby that led to an exciting career, with my past of working as a mechanic and as an accountant in the automotive world provides me with a unique perspective of the industry.

"My experience drag racing for more than 20 years coupled with a newfound interest in road racing over the past decade allows me to push performance cars to their limit, while my role as a horse stable manager gives me vast experience towing and hauling with all of the newest trucks on the market today.

"Being based on Detroit," says Rall, "I never miss the North American International Auto Show, the Woodward Dream Cruise and Roadkill Nights, along with spending plenty of time raising hell on Detroit's Woodward Avenue with the best muscle car crowd in the world.

Rall can be contacted at QuickMirada@Yahoo.com

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