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Originally Posted by 1bad65
Not sure what you're asking, but if you put a Camaro SS with those mods up against a 480hp Challenger, I'd say the modded Camaro would win by a bigger margin than 0.1 sec imo.
Hell, that SMS Challenger with the supercharged 5.7 Hemi only ran a 12.8 in the 1/4. And it had alot more than 480hp.
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I used the Camaro as an example as to what the new engine and transmission would do for the Challenger. Its about the same difference in power to weight, and probably pretty similar gearing advantage. Currently, the SRT8's are only a tenth or two behind the Camaro SS. So, if you think that a 2010 Camaro with the mods I described would pick up more than 0.1s, why would you think that a Challenger with an equivalent performance boost
won't see similar gains? I mean, if ~50 hp and better gearing can help one roughly 4000 lb, low 13s car why wouldn't it help another?
Also, I wouldn't call 20 hp a lot. The SMS car only had 500 hp, they were running just 5 psi of boost. And it weighed more than an SRT8 (though they were within 50 lbs). So I'd say its fairly indicitive of the new SRT8's performance. And 12.8@112 (Motor Trend SMS test) is faster that 13.0@110 (Motor Trend SS tests).