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2019 Hellcat Challenger Gets a New Hood Design

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By Patrick Rall, LXForums Editorial Staff

2019 Hellcat Challenger Gets a New Hood Design



FCA announced this morning that when the 2019 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat begins reaching dealerships later this year, it will feature a new dual snorkel design. The company included two images of the new hood design, with vents that appear to be taller and wider than the scoop on the current Hellcat hood, but it looks as though this new hood might not have the heat extraction vents - or at least they don't appear to be in the same place as the 2015-2018 Hellcat hoods.


According to the brief release accompanying these two pictures, this new Hellcat Challenger dual snorkel hood design "pays homage to the distinctive Mopar design themes from some of its most famous muscle cars". Several classic Mopar muscle cars ran some variation of a dual scoop setup, including the 1970 Dodge Coronet Super Bee, the 1971/1972 Dodge Demon 340, several model years of the Plymouth Barracuda and various over models in specific trim levels. The new Hellcat hood looks nothing like any of those classic hoods, but I can see where the classic Mopar designs shaped this one.
We don't know yet whether this will be the only hood for the 2019 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat or if the current hood will still be offered, but even without the heat extractors, this new hood could offer some performance advantages over the current design.

Over the past few years, Dodge has developed a great many of hood designs with the two most notable here being the Challenger T/A hood and the Demon hood. Each of these engine covers use the front-facing scoop to feed air directly into the engine. On the other hand, the hood scoop on the Hellcat Challenger simply feeds cooling air into the engine bay while the two vents help evacuate hot air.

While we don't know for sure exactly how this new dual snorkel hood functions, it is possible that one scoop directs air to the engine intake while the other feeds cool air intake and engine bay. Of course, without the heat extractors, both of those scoops might be used for cooling air, but with the company's work with hoods that bring engine air in through the hood scoop, it is possible that the 2019 Hellcat Challenger could have a slightly revised intake setup.

If nothing else, the 2019 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat will have a distinctive new look with the dual snorkel hood design and while we know that both scoops are functional - it isn't clear yet how exactly the hood functions.
 
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Thats cool. I really liked GTO back in the days of the 60's and 70's Even the 389 with the three deuces would run like hell, but I had a 69 SS 396/375 Chevelle that would smoke it hehe. This Scat is most fun car I have ever owned! If I would had this in the early 70's I would have slept in it! LOL.
 
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Not digging it at all...
Did SRT hire OLD designers from GM? It looks like an Olds 442 or Trans Am/Firebird hood.
And NOTHING like 69/70 Dart/Coronet/S.Bee scoops or even a 70-74 cuda hood.

It lost it's Mopar meanness.
I thought they learned from pussifying the 300 from 2011-14, b4 restoring some balls in 2015.

I'm betting they will sell a hell of a lot of replacement 2015-18 Hellcat hoods in 2019.
Maybe that's their real goal by adding the OldsAmFire hood... :wink:
 
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