Watching the last vid with smoke shooting out from under back of car...does that not remind you of open headers or cutouts/dumps of some sort?
The exhaust tips are at the corners of the rear of car. That's is deff is not what is blowing the smoke back.....watch the vid and give your thoughts on this please

And about the weight loss. IIRC the Maserati Ghibli and Quattroporte also use the same platform, but use aluminum and other light weight materials where the Dodge's use stamped steel. So they may have raided the Maserati parts bin to shave a few pounds if these are actual interchangeable chassis items.

My first thought was it has exhaust relocated to the center under the licence plate...

That's not where the exhaust tips are at
You can see them closer to the corners of the car. Where the smoke is blowing straight out near the center

Wrong, and I,ll tell you why. The 2576 is the number of cc,s of the blower. The fact that, that number would be on the plate Just by Chance, would be almost 14,000,000 to 1

Now the suggestion that it may be the weight difference of the car compared to the hellcat, and the fact that that number also, Just happens to match the cc,s of the new blower, Not possible IMO.

But, I really don't know 100% maybe 80%, wouldn't bet my life on it though.

The smoke is tire smoke getting blown back by the exhaust. See it a million times at the drags.

I read one one site and what sounded like the best guess was that the #2576 stood for lbs and the 35 was psi and was directly correlated with the tires. The load rating of 2576lbs at 35 psi air pressure. This is high considering the current drag radial nittos are ~1900lbs max load rating.

This sounded right since each of the videos they have put out have dealt directly with one aspect of the car (first video was weight, this newest video is tires).

Can anyone say if they changed the coil pack for the Demon?
I know the 6.2 Hellcat uses the same coil as the 6.1 and 6.4.
IF the blower is pushing 35psi I would think they needed to upgrade the coil.
Hemiup found this out will pushing 28 PSI through a 6.1. IIRC
Matt

The blower is not pushing 35 pounds. Heck it not pushing 25 pounds lol

Thats what I'm thinking.
Someone awhile back mentioned the original Hellcat engine was capable of much more. In fact they had to de tune it twice because the powers to be thought is was too much HP and didn't want to overshadow the flagship VIPER.
Don't know how much truth is to it.
Matt

If they had a blower that could push 35 psi it would have about 2000 hp

Missing a golden opportunity here.....

Put a beefier AWD chassis under it, weight would not matter eiththat kind of power AND AWD traction

Ok, that could be it. But what a Boring Spec, Why would they advertise that. Most people don't know if that's impressive or not. I certainly wouldn't put That spec on a License plate to impress anyone.


My New truck tires are rated at #3250 @ 45 PSI, Sweet, the New Demon Hellcat, sucks compared to my tires Specs.

I Need a Friggen New license plate.

See, That Cant be it.

I know nothing about Twitter but isn't the # a 'hashtag'?

Maybe thereis a clue there?

So the rear seats and the passenger seat are optional.

http://www.autoblog.com/2017/01/31/2018-dodge-challenger-srt-demon-seats-weight-loss/

Some info

New write-up claims there's only one seat in it to save weight...

https://www.carthrottle.com/post/the-dodge-challenger-demon-will-only-have-one-seat-to-save-weight/

Will be option if ya want it

Uncharted territory. Anyone know what the air-bag configuration is???

I think they are deliberately putting disinformation out there about the two cars