Yep. I was there. What they won't tell is the Hellcat won, in all reality. The rules were 'Best 2 out of 3', Team Green broke before they got to the second race even. Therefore, by forfeit, the Hellcat really won...
Oh, and lets fall back to another video that's been seen a hundred times of a turbo slant that really has no significance other than you feel that it's a bragging point that it ran 2mph faster. Still isn't very streetable (I don't think it's street driven, and I'm sure I've read Ryan say the spool would be unbearable on the street) doesn't get 20mpg, have A/C and heated leather seats, can't take a corner, not real reliable, so on and so forth.
Is Ryan's car impressive? Sure. So is a 12 sec N/A slant (or 10 for that matter) but it's still only good for 1/4 mile drags. The Hellcat is still the better all around car. A 1/4 mile number don't make a car. Oh, and the more I see the same video of Ryan's car, the less impressive it is.
And I don't see how comparing a extremely high boost lighter weight drag only car to a low boost 100% street car is more fair? I guess I just don't have the proper close minded vision...
Nobody was trying to compare the two cars, except; it was a MATCH RACE... and The only pertinent outcome was the race winner, which in the one race they actually had, was the slant car by a margin so wide that it was very unlikely that the other car would ever be able to make it up... Yes, you can spend beaucoup money and have everything in a car, but to take a cast irom 50 year old economy six with NO power adder, and beat a 2015 supercharged muscle car us practically science fiction.
It is, to me, anyway...
What do you think of this:
To Mopar Ma...
In 1944, back near the end of WW II, the Grumman corporation, builder of the Hellcat fighter plane, developed a new aircraft. The Bearcat. It was about 30-percent lighter than a Hellcat, and slightly smaller, but had the same engine. A radial 3,000+hp motor that had a favorable history.
The Bearcat was designed to fix what was wrong with the Hellcat; a climb rate that was too slow.
This new Bearcat used the hot rodding methodology to solve the problem; an engine swap into a lighter chassis, effectively.
It worked (of course) ; the new Bearcat’s climb rate, set records that were unbroken for ten years! Finally, a jet-engined airplane broke them...
I use an online calculator program (Wallace online Calculators,) that has several capabilities, among them, figuring out quarter-mile e.t.’s from vehicle weights and horsepower available. It seems to be pretty accurate, so far.
It says that a 707 horsepower Challenger Hellcat that lost 30-percent of its 4,300-pound weight would run a 9.44 @ 143 mph.... Scary...
I realize that that’s not likely to happen, but losing 25-percent, which would be just over 1,000 pounds, a time of 9.66 @ 140 should be possible @ 3,300 pounds, about the weight of a 1970 Challenger.
Ma doesn’t seem to be in much of a hurry to put twin turbos on a Viper; this may be her only chance for total musclecar domination... LOL!
How about it, Ma?????