SEMA 09: Dodge Challenger 1320

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SEMA 09: Dodge Challenger 1320
A Challenger rally car I guess...
www.gminsidenews.com
November 3, 2009

The Dodge Challenger 1320 began life as a Mopar Drag Pak Dodge Challenger. The current Drag Pak option is a light-weight, stripped-down, race-only, special-order version of the Dodge Challenger designed for competitive drag racing.

For the street-legal design, Mopar’s design team took the vehicle back to its roots with styling reminiscent of vintage Mopar muscle, updated with today’s technology. The Dodge Challenger 1320 image vehicle, named for the 1,320 feet on a quarter-mile drag strip, features Mopar’s 426 cubic-inch, all-aluminum, HEMI® V-8 crate engine that generates 556 horsepower. The engine is equipped with unique Mopar-designed valve covers and a dress-up kit. Mopar’s long-tube headers and exhaust system allow the cubic inches to breathe. Electric cutouts allow the exhaust to bypass the muffler system, which exits through custom side pipes for added rumble at the dragstrip. Power is put to the ground via a six-speed manual transmission through a custom Dynatrac rear housing with Mopar Dana 60 internals and a selectable, ARB locking differential. Mopar police wheels, widened in the rear, are strapped with Mickey Thompson street-legal drag radials to provide extra grip at launch. A four-corner, adjustable coil-over kit is provided by Mopar as an option for the Dodge Challenger. This system improves the handling of the vehicle under extreme loads of 556 horsepower and 540 lb.-ft. of torque.

Following Mopar’s high-impact color heritage, the design team layered the 1320 in Acidic Hue, a non-metallic yellow paint and added matte black graphics. The body is lightened with the following carbon-fiber components from Mopar’s design team and Seibon:

• Bulged hood with HEMI scoop
• Front spoiler
• Grille panel/headlamp surround

The interior is equipped with bare necessities--Dodge Viper seats, a sport steering wheel and a Hurst shifter. The rear seat, center console and radio have been removed in order to reduce vehicle weight and maintain the 1320’s no-nonsense theme.

[RamJet502]

Badass car!

[YupYupYup]

Now that doesn't stand out or anything...Ha, ha!

[big swede]

Mopars all alluminum Hemi They need to get that into the regular Challengers pronto. That big beast of a car would weigh the same as the Camaro in RT trim and about 100lbs more in SRT form.

[WWI Flying Ace]

God Bless America!

[ZvetteGuy]

Let the PonyCar Wars begin!!!

[Burnout Czar]

Originally Posted by ZvetteGuy

Let the PonyCar Wars begin!!!

The pony car wars are over, Camaro one. Have you seen sales for the last 5 months?

[JeffInDFW]

You guys are going to laugh at me, but my heart is actually beating fast as hell right now! **WOW** that is AWSOME. Oh my GOOD LORD, I'm forwarding that car to all my car buddies. I'm going to wake up my wife to tell her we are selling SOMETHING because I MUST HAVE THIS CAR!!!!!!!!!

[CheetahDC]

This is the best thing I've seen from Chrysler in a while.

[chinamonty]

It looks like a Revell kit.

[BigAls87Z28]

Cobra Jet and Now the 1320 from Dodge.

I hope that Camaro launches a road course version of thier car, and not a drag-pack car...

[CheetahDC]

Originally Posted by chinamonty

It looks like a Revell kit.

Is that a compliment or a put-down?

[Slideways]

Originally Posted by JeffInDFW

You guys are going to laugh at me, but my heart is actually beating fast as hell right now! **WOW** that is AWSOME. Oh my GOOD LORD, I'm forwarding that car to all my car buddies. I'm going to wake up my wife to tell her we are selling SOMETHING because I MUST HAVE THIS CAR!!!!!!!!!

I am not laughing. 426 Hemi for Pete's sake, that's b@dass!

[thebuickguy]

Mopar sees camaros power and raises the pot.