This 9-Second Hennessey Demon Will Stalk Your Nightmares
The Dodge Demon is already pretty quick off the line, when you tick all the boxes for properly-warmed drag radials, slimline and lightweight front wheels, race fuel and the full-fat ECU map. Nothing is ever so fast that the speed merchants at Hennessey can’t make it faster, though.
Applying a HPE1000 kit, like the ones you can get for the Jeep Trackhawk and Chevrolet Corvette, results in the kind of madness that will see you running nine-second quarter-miles and smoking just about everything else that rolls up claiming to be road-legal. A maximum of 50 Demons will be modified this way, says Hennessey.
Filmed completing a 9.14-second run at 152mph at Lonestar Motorsports Park on 8 May, the HPE1000 Demon is now the fastest Demon yet to hit the strip. It’s so damn fast we must have blinked and missed it, because we’re a bit late picking this up. John Hennessey himself said:
“The 2018 Demon is a street-legal rocket from Dodge, but we wanted to take the car’s impressive track times to an industry leading level.
“Over the past several months we have worked to develop a low nine-second drag car that our customers can drive to the track, put on an impressive show with blistering 1/4 mile times, and then drive home in complete comfort.”
The HPE1000 upgrade lifts the 840bhp car to 1035bhp at the crank (880bhp at the wheels) and slingshots the bonkers creation to 60mph in a frankly silly 1.9 seconds. A 4.5-litre supercharger replaces the meagre 2.7-litre factory item. Long-tube headers, a higher-flow induction system and improved fuelling are all included as well, and it’s all covered by a 12-month/12,000-mile warranty. That’s 48,000 attempts to beat Hennessey’s record…
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So the drivetrain loss is about 200 horsepower
My car doesn’t eveb produced that much at the crank
Well, 1035-880=155 and the driveline loss for most RWD cars is about 15% so this is quite normal
You know with all the s* they put customers through you would think people would stop bowing down to hennessey, yea they make fast cars but only after ripping off paying customers or using their cars to experiment on
Shed some light on it
one day someone will put a turbo (or 2 ?) on it, just for the fun
Then the output is gonna escalate to 2000hp just for fun haha
An upgraded version of an upgraded version of an upgraded version of a Challenger?
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“Smoking just about everything else that claims to be road-legal.”
There are quite a few street legal 6 second cars in the US and Canada. I think that’s why you said almost.
Hennesey Demon: I ate an STI
Gotta love that sound!!!
Every Honda guy wants to race lol
That supercharger is bigger than my car’s engine displacement