Dodge Demon Will Launch Harder than a Hellcat

During Dodge’s long and slow tease of its Challenger SRT Demon, we learned that it will come with Nitto NT05R street-legal drag radials, but now we know the impact those tires have on the development and performance of the car.

In the latest teaser, a 17-second long video titled “Multiplication,” Dodge showcases the Demon and its tires in a slow-motion launch.

The 18-inch 315/40R spec tires are 12.6 inches wide and Dodge says they were designed and developed specifically for the Challenger SRT Demon with a new compound and tire construction.

Compared to the 707-horsepower Challenger SRT Hellcat, this means the Demon will have a 15 percent larger tire contact patch and over twice as much grip. The tires also have a higher threshold for launch loads, so Dodge saw fit to give the car a higher stall speed torque converter and 3.09 rear axle gears, which is up from 2.62 on automatic equipped Hellcats.

With an 18-percent increase in converter torque multiplication and rear axle torque multiplication, the Demon will launch at higher RPMs and should launch harder than a Hellcat would, generating 35 percent more launch force than the old 707-horsepower beast.

This has been an interesting tease for the Dodge coupe, and we’re starting to get a better understanding of what Dodge has up its sleeve. There’s still seven more weeks until the cars official debut at the New York Auto Show, and the company is promising more information by then.

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