ramenth said

Actually, didn't they do something like that with the "blown" Charger on the first one?

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The most vile instance of this, of course, is from the first film where Vin Diesel’s ‘70 Charger is catapulted into the air after colliding with an 18-wheeler. But, this is Hollywood after all. Can we really believe what we saw? Not entirely. It has already been revealed that the Charger’s tire smoking wheel stand was accomplished via a pair pneumatic arms that ramped the B-Body Mopar’s nose high into the air.

Moreover, the savvy HEMI lover will attest that the shiny chromed elephant pictured beneath the hood of Vin’s Charger isn’t a 2nd Gen. 426 HEMI at all, rather a 392 1st generation plant. Movies use several cars for movies like these and as the video below reveals, even the Charger used for all the close-up driving isn’t all it’s cracked up to be:

While seeing the top of a plastic supercharger and butterfly scoop opening with the rest of the hood is a little jarring, there is some solace to be taken that the engine beneath the bonnet is indeed a Mopar big block, namely a 440 RB-Block. This is, of course, a massive improvement over the 350 small block Chevrolet-powered version of the ‘70 Charger found in the fourth film titled simply, “Fast & Furious.”

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