Challenger engines....

**TurboAWD** · 12-06-2005, 02:08 PM

Taking cues from the 6.1L powered show car and the 6.4/392 powered 1970 challenger vert that was at SEMA(also sporting a pistol grip and sitting in the mopar booth) suggests a few things. If this car is going to be a 2008 Model, then wouldnt all the SRT-8s be powered by 6.4 HEMI engines by that time?

As for 6 cyl engines I would suspect atleast 4.0L in a base and sxt type model and then 6.1 R/T and 6.4 SRT-8. This may sound funny to not have a 5.7L but you're eating mustang sales with the 6 cylinder and GTO/Mustang GT with the 6.XL engines.... 2008 is far enough away to make this complicated.
Jesse

**bipto** · 12-06-2005, 02:49 PM

How about...

SE - 4.0L V6
SXT - 5.7L HEMI
R/T - 6.1L HEMI
SRT8 - 6.4L HEMI

wishful thinking..?

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**Drew's RT** · 12-06-2005, 03:31 PM

Wouldn't that be nice...

**bluefox** · 12-06-2005, 03:55 PM

Oh yeah thats what I'm talkin bout!

**Zentenk** · 12-06-2005, 07:23 PM

R/t 5.7
Srt 6.1

**Trouble** · 12-06-2005, 07:57 PM

If the SRT version doesn't have something in the neighborhood of 50+hp more, preferrably a different motor altogether and around 100hp more than today's SRT's , I'll be in a non DCX vehicle. A used Viper or a new Elise (yeah totally sybil type picks there) have been waiting to be in my garage but I've held off. Hell it may be even a Z06 or modern-for-the-day Mitsu or Subie for less cash. Come on Chryco, IMPRESS ME...I GOT MONEY. 425HP on that car isn't likely going to cut it 2-3 years from now. My main question...how much will it weigh? 4K like current LX's? Not gonna do!

-Trouble

**chasb** · 12-06-2005, 10:26 PM

My '69 Dart 340 GTS with six pak weighed in at 3360lbs and did 12.9's consistently with no headers and 4.10 gears.

This new baby has to break the 4,000lb barrier to play with the old challenger/cudas.

Originally Posted by Trouble

If the SRT version doesn't have something in the neighborhood of 50+hp more, preferrably a different motor altogether and around 100hp more than today's SRT's , I'll be in a non DCX vehicle. A used Viper or a new Elise (yeah totally sybil type picks there) have been waiting to be in my garage but I've held off. Hell it may be even a Z06 or modern-for-the-day Mitsu or Subie for less cash. Come on Chryco, IMPRESS ME...I GOT MONEY. 425HP on that car isn't likely going to cut it 2-3 years from now. My main question...how much will it weigh? 4K like current LX's? Not gonna do!

-Trouble

**MattRobertson** · 12-06-2005, 10:32 PM

The way I see it DC is going for platform standardization... parts commonality. That means R/T=5.7 and SRT=6.1 across the board. I'd love to be wrong as I want a Challenger SRT to join my Magnum in the garage, when the time comes, and it'll be a weekender that I keep stock, I think (except for the flames :D ).

**karma** · 12-06-2005, 11:06 PM

http://www.autoblog.com/entry/1234000270066570/

Pics of that '70 SRT-8 Challenger...and of the 392 on a stand.

**shiltz** · 12-07-2005, 09:25 AM

Originally Posted by bipto

How about...

SE - 4.0L V6
SXT - 5.7L HEMI
R/T - 6.1L HEMI
SRT8 - 6.4L HEMI

better yet drop the 4.0L V6 on the SE and put in the 4.7 V8 instead, then it would be all V8's for the car.

**Trouble** · 12-07-2005, 11:37 AM

The 4.7 is a rather hated motor for many Moparists. A guy I work with has one in his truck however and I sure can't figure out anything specifically bad about it. Not that it means much but in fact the sound is quite pleasing...My 5.4 Triton sounds horrible in comparison.
-Trouble

**gn300** · 12-07-2005, 11:46 AM

[QUOTE=shiltz]better yet drop the 4.0L V6 on the SE and put in the 4.7 V8 instead, then it would be all V8's for the car.[/QUOTEHave to have a v-6 for all the reg non car guys to have a conv that replaces the sebring.But BRING ON THE HEMI's WHO CARES 6.1-6.4 BRING ON THE HORSES.

**shiltz** · 12-07-2005, 12:18 PM

na, even the non car people can get a V8, why put a large 6 over a small 8, it's not like it's really all that much better fuel economy, especialy if they end up adding MDS to the 4.7.

I never really heard anything bad about the 4.7, one of the guys I work with had a jeep grand cherokee with the 4.7, he never had any issues with it as far as I know, I think he liked the 4.7 in the jeep over the 5.7 hemi in his ram actualy.