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Chrysler Bringing 556-horsepower Mopar Dodge Challenger 1320 To SEMA

15.10.09

The modern muscle car quickening was brought with it a rebirth of factory drag-watercourse accessories from the major manufacturers, like the FR500 Cobra Jet Mustang from Ford. For the Trick Challenger, the Mopar Drag Pak offers a firelight-weight, race-only version of the street car for gala order. This year's Specialty Equipment Demand Association (SEMA) show will offer an even more potent yet roadway-legal version of the car, called the 1320. The Mopar Trick Challenger 1320 is what the company calls an "fetish vehicle," meaning it builds the image on Sunday that sells cars on Monday. The "1320" in the name is a very privy to number for straight-line enthusiasts, as that's the painstaking number of feet in a quarter-mile shamble strip. The point behind the car is to explore new possibilities for Mopar additions to the yardstick production Challenger. "We will gauge reaction to these vehicles and study new directions as we develop Mopar performance parts and accessories for our vehicles," said Pietro Gorlier, president and CEO of Mopar Rite, Parts and Customer Care. Ralph Gilles, president and CEO of the Escape from Car Brand, hinted at possible production authenticity for some of the 1320's goodies, saying, "Our vehicles are designed and built by the same enthusiastic automotive enthusiasts within our company who are designing and engineering new Mopar parts and accessories for vehicles in our yield pipeline." To take the stripped-down Drag Pak Challenger and unseat it back to street-legality, the team started with an all-aluminum Mopar 426 cubic-inch crate apparatus rated at 556 horsepower, complete with a Mopar-designed valve hide and dress-up kit. Long-tube headers and a new exhaust system let the big engine drive the air it needs to create all that power, which is sent to the dirt through a six-speed manual transmission and a Dynatrac upraise housing with Mopar Dana 60 internals and a locking differential. The register of mods doesn't stop there, including routine Mopar police wheels, an adjustable flake down-over kit, and an electric cutout system to bypass the mufflers line are also available. The street-legal drag-chute hot rod also gets a Seibon carbon fiber HEMI bailer hood, front spoiler and grille panel/headlight environment to make it easy to spot from the outside--as if the Acidic Hue glowing yellow paint and matte black graphics wouldn't do the antic. Inside, the car gets Dodge Viper seats, a flaunt steering wheel and a Hurst shifter. The 2009 SEMA show starts Tuesday, November 3 and runs through November 6, with swarm days running from October 30 to November 1. [Chrysler]

Source: Motor Authority