392 Super Stock Challenger
 

Edmunds.com posted a great article and clip concerning a drag test of the 392 Super Stock Challenger. It is awesome! See:

http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do....photopanel..1 .*

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Very nice article. Unfortunately the car is different enought that the concept will not many of the same features such as leaf spring and 3 speed automatic.

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Ya, but its cool

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One thing you can get is the crate engine.

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I just flat love it...

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That is very impressive that they were able to get the top speed they got with only a three-speed with a 4.56 axle-ratio. Very impressive indeed. I'd just hate to hear what kind of fuel mileage that would get. It would probably rival a 1970 Challenger with a 426 Hemi in the fuel mileage department (and that is nothing to brag about). If you wanted to do the crate engine approach, you would probably either have to get a manual version or accept that you will only be able to use a three-speed Torque-flite because I read the W5A580 has a torque limit of 427ft-lbs. Unless one of the newer 4-speeds based off of the Torque-flites would work, I think you would be up a creak in terms of fuel economy.

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Nice article. Nice!

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Got me a new desktop background now!

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Great article! Obviously the Challenger Super Stocker even impressed a snobby (?) auto journalist who probably has written a lot of favorable articles about refined, wine-sipping imports like the Honda Accord and BMWs and the like. Now he knows what us "piston rattling" speed freaks and Dukes of Hazzard-enamored redneck morons love about American muscle-they are sooooo much fun!!

Heck, if they had given the journalist snob a few more days behind the wheel of this modern firebreather, maybe they could have taught him to say something like-"Mopar or no car!" and have him actually mean it!!!! Of course I think the new Challenger will do more than go in a straight line and stay between the ditches with traction control-whata ya think?

The really fun part of owning Mopars all these years has been teaching others to appreciate or at least respect them. I love to see the look on Brand-X owners' faces after I dust them in a street race. Better yet I like to hear their immediate reactions or excuses after they just got beat by a "junky" Dodge. These days they always want to know how much nitrous you have on board. Of course I have never put NOS on a car I own. If it needs that, you need a real engine in the car and that means you bought the wrong car/brand in the first place.

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demort71 I'm afraid. You think just like me and thats scarey.:D The SS is just one way to stoke the embers and keep us on our seat about the new Challenger. I like the boys at SRT. That would be my dream job. I think I have been modifing cars ever since I've owned one. And all my cars are Dodges or their Japnese cousins. And not a stock one in the bunch.