If you’ve ever before wish to own a muscle car powered by Dodge’s 1,000-hp Hellephant dog crate engine, currently’s your possibility. A Hellephant-powered 1968 Dodge Charger named Dumbo is slated for a Mecum public auction running in Las Vegas from November 10-12.
The supercharged 7.0-liter V-8 was revealed at the 2018 SEMA show, and went on sale as a dog crate electric motor in 2019. The preliminary manufacturing run quickly sold out, so now it’s likely much easier to get a Hellephant if the engine is currently installed in somebody else’s construct.
1968 Dodge Charger called Based on the Hellcat supercharged 6.2-liter V-8, the Hellephant makes 950 lb-ft of torque in addition to
the aforementioned 1,000 hp. The name incorporates the “heck”from Hellcat with”elephant, “the nickname of the initial 426 Hemi, which just so occurs to match the displacement of the brand-new engine in cubic inches. In the customized Charger, the Hellephant is linked to a 6-speed manual transmission and also 4:10.1 back side. The Charger additionally has actually upgraded suspension as well as brakes, in addition to a custom-made exhaust system.
1968 Dodge Charger named Painted Destroyer Gray with a grey interior, the cars and truck sporting activities elephant graphics as well as badges in the style of the Dodge Hellcat logo, as well as refined improving touches like LED headlights and also taillights, Rushforth alloy wheels, as well as Ringbrothers billet door deals with.
This isn’t the only Charger loading a Hellephant engine. Wisconsin-based SpeedKore Performance Group packed a Hellephant in a 1970 Charger for comic Kevin Hart, as well as additionally developed a Hellephant-powered 1968 Charger called Hellucination for Stellantis design boss Ralph Gilles. Both Chargers additionally have carbon-fiber bodies, which are SpeedKore’s specialty, as well as custom frames.
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