YouTuber Demonology Compares His Demon to One of the Quickest: Track Time Tuesday

One of the most widely recognized SRT Demon Challengers in the Mopar world has a way to go before challenging the quickest.

The odds are good that if you pay any attention to the most popular Dodge-driving YouTubers, Demonology is a name with which you are familiar. Host Herman Young is easily one of the best-known Demon drivers on YouTube while also being one of the more active when it comes to hitting the track. For quite a while, Young ran the car on stock power, but recently, had added some extra power to the car that he affectionately calls “Soul Snatcher” with tuning help from Curt Dusterhoff.

Since tuning up his Demon, Young is very happy with the on-track results, leading him to compare his times to one of the quickest in the land. That car is owned and driven by Mark Massirio while Tim Barth handled the tuning work for the run discussed in the video, both of whom I know and both of whom were happy to provide information on the video.

Demonology Demon Update

The video begins with Young talking about how well his Demon is running since the Dusterhoff tune had been installed. He talks about how he has been looking at his numbers compared to the quickest Demons that he has seen online, and he isn’t far from their numbers. Mind you, Young has only run the eighth mile with his tuned Demon while the quickest have all run the quarter mile, but he is using the eighth mile times as a basis for comparison to his own.

He doesn’t reference any specific cars in the first part of his video, nor does he discuss times, but he does point out that his best times are in competition and he wonders whether these other drivers could run their best numbers in an actual race. In many cases, the record-setting Demons ran their best numbers at private track rentals without any sort of pressure to win the race; they were purely focused on running their best elapsed times. On the other hand, Young’s best time came in competition.

In any case, the first segment is just an update on how well the car has been performing and how happy the man behind the Demonology YouTube channel is with his tune.

Hitting the Track

In the next segment of the video, we get to watch Young’s Demon tear up the track. On the first pass of the footage, the Challenger runs a 5.91 at 119.65 miles per hour, followed by a 5.87 at 119.11 and a 5.89 at 119.24. On the second run, the supercharged Dodge takes on – and crushes – a Fox Body Mustang en route to his best time to date in the eighth mile.

At the end of the track footage, the graphics below appear, showing two of Demonology’s best runs alongside a slip of Massirio’s Demon on an 8.99 quarter mile pass. On the two runs compared, Young was about a tenth of a second behind the Barth-tuned car of Massirio on one and only about six hundredths on the other, but the elapsed times aren’t the big story here.

Demonology Versus Barth and Massirio

The Barth-tuned car was going close to four miles per hour faster at the eight mile marker on the 8.992 quarter mile run, so the odds are good that Young wouldn’t have the top end speed to get into the 8-second range had his best eighth mile passes been extended out to the quarter mile.

More importantly, Barth and Massirio were quick to point out that Young picked what is literally their car’s slowest 8-second pass. Young talks about whether or not the quickest cars could keep up in a race where winning matters, but in talking to Barth and Massirio, they can run a whole lot quicker than that 8.99 pass.

For instance, the quickest that the Barth-tuned Demon has gone with blower-only (no nitrous) was a 9.03 at 149.9 miles per hour and on that pass, the car turned a 5.77 eight mile at 120.91 miles per hour. With the nitrous, Massirio ran a best of 8.86 at 156 miles per hour, with a 5.73 eighth mile at 125.58 miles per hour.

There is no question that Demonology’s Demon is running great, but based on the times of the Tim Barth-tuned Challenger owned by Mark Massirio, Young is going to need to pick up more speed in the first half of the track to have a real run at the 8s – or at beating Massirio in a drag race.

Speaking of which, there is a Legion of Demons event planned for January 2020 in Houston and Mark Massirio plans to be there with his supercharged Challenger. Demonology was at that same event earlier this year, so Massirio is hoping to line up with Young on the quarter mile to see who can lay down the better time in a real race.

In the meantime, crank up your speakers and enjoy some Dodge Demon racing action, staring around the six-minute mark in the video above.

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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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