1,500-HP Dodge Charger Makes Challenger Demon Look Tame

Just about every engine you can get in theDodge Challengeryou can get in the four-doorCharger, too – but not theDemon. That was restricted to the two-door muscle coupe. But that evidently didn't sit well with the power-obsessed tuners at SpeedKore, so they developed this muscle sedan on their own, and took it far beyond anything Mopar has done in-house.

Unveiled at SEMA this week, theSpeedKore Demonis based on a 2019 Dodge Charger Pursuit police cruiser, but it's much more powerful than anything you'd find in a law enforcement agency's motor pool.

At its heart sits a 6.2-liter Hemi V8, but instead of a supercharger like the one found in the Hellcat or Demon, SpeedKore installed a pair of billet turbochargers and a host of other upgrades. The result is a massive 1,525 horsepower (measured at the crank), and SpeedKore thinks it can do more, having left the engine dialed in with "only" 26 pounds of boost.

However much muscle the engine is ultimately capable of producing, it's not left to the rear wheels alone to handle. It's transmitted through a Hellraise Performance gearbox to all four corners – something you can't get from the factory with anything more than the Pentastar V6.