The drip of info about Dodge’s drag-strip special, the Challenger SRT Demon, continues, with this week’s tidbit focusing on cooling. Specifically: a special system that cools air entering the engine.
Plenty of performance cars use hood scoops to feed cooler ambient air to an engine in order to increase power output. But the Challenger SRT Demon takes things a step further. When Drag Mode is selected, the vehicle’s air-conditioning system switches from cooling cabin air to putting the chill on engine intake air, via an evaporator that’s downstream of the supercharger. It would supplement the air-to-liquid intercooler.
Chrysler boasts that it’s a first-ever factory fitment of such a system and claims it can lower intake-air temperatures by as much as 45 degrees.
Unfortunately, the notion of cooling air doesn’t make for tremendously exciting video footage, although you can judge for yourself by watching the clip below. There is still more info to come, so stay tuned—provided this drawn-out tease hasn’t already cooled you to this most devilish Dodge.
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