{"id":25528,"date":"2019-07-30T18:35:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T22:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=25528"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:24:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:24:19","slug":"srt-hellcat-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/showcase\/2019\/07\/srt-hellcat-everything.html","title":{"rendered":"SRT®<\/sup> Hellcat Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a discussion we all have had: \u201cWouldn\u2019t it be great to shove X engine in Y car and see what happens?!\u201d\u00a0Fire up Google and you\u2019ll find thousands of pages and pics of engine swaps. There\u2019s no denying the LSx is a popular swap, but for us Dodge fans, we want to stay brand loyal \u2026 and we want more power!\u00a0And that\u2019s how we get to this story\u2026<\/p>\n

Karr Crapps is quickly becoming the thing of internet legend.\u00a0Scratch that, his car is. With nearly 35,000 subscribers and hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube, he\u2019s got eyes on his SRT\u00ae<\/sup> Hellcat engine-powered project car and I HAD to know more about it.<\/p>\n

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A modern day Cobra; Karr\u2019s roadster is now powered by an SRT Hellcat engine from a Dodge Challenger SRT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Up first, the car itself. Karr says he “loved Carroll Shelby\u2019s idea of the smallest car with the biggest engine\u201d when Shelby developed the original Cobra all those years ago.\u00a0Karr wanted to make a modern day version of that, so he started with the ubiquitous Mazda Miata.\u00a0It\u2019s become the best-selling roadster of all time, so finding one to cut up was easy and cheap.<\/p>\n

Then, he needed a driveline and we get to thank his father for the Mopar\u00ae<\/sub> influence.\u00a0\u201cDad was always hunting for Dodges,” said Karr. “I remember a \u201970 Charger, Panther Pink.\u00a0A \u201970 440 Six Pack.\u00a0Super Bees. There was a Superbird dad found in some random guy\u2019s garage.\u201d So when it came time to do an over the top engine swap, he was destined to do a Dodge.\u00a0\u201cThe donor car was a wrecked Green Go [SRT] Hellcat, 6-speed car.\u00a0I got the Mopar engine harness from the Hellcrate kit, did a custom drive shaft and an 8.8-inch rear end. A big radiator topped it off.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Custom fabrication was necessary to make it fit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Let\u2019s be honest, that\u2019s a lot of engine in a tiny car. How much cutting was needed to fit the SRT Hellcat in there? \u201cI watched a lot of internet videos to see what others had done, then started cutting until it fit!\u201d\u00a0Karr said. He wound up doing more work than he needed to do and adds, \u201cMy advice to anyone trying this in the future is that if it fits, great, but if not, I\u2019d recommend taking out the firewall, transmission tunnel and then rebuilding around that.\u201d<\/p>\n

I won\u2019t go into too much detail on the build itself; he\u2019s done a fantastic job highlighting it on his YouTube channel<\/a><\/u>.\u00a0Just know this wasn\u2019t a bolt-in job; lots of custom fabrication was needed to make it fit.\u00a0The exhaust is custom and sticks out of the front bumper cover.\u00a0There was no way to keep the SRT Hellcat under the stock hood, so that\u2019s been cut to allow clearance (and show off that amazing powerplant!).\u00a0The donor car was in a wreck and even simple things like sensors had to be replaced \u2026 but the guys got it done and it works brilliantly!<\/p>\n

As you can imagine, there\u2019s not a lot of weight to the car. \u201cEven with the [SRT] Hellcat driveline in it, the car only weighs 2,580 pounds,\u201d Karr said. That\u2019s barely 100 pounds more than the car weighed with its original four-cylinder engine!\u00a0But instead of 120 horsepower, it now has well over 700. In fact, while the SRT Hellcat is still running on its stock internals, it has a tune and some basic tweaks \u2026 and in 6th gear at 4,600 rpm on the dyno, IT SPUN THE TIRES! This thing is a BEAST!<\/p>\n

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\u201cHellkitty\u201d gets dyno tuned. It spun the tires in 6th gear!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Karr says the power delivery is wicked \u201cand when you press the gas in any gear, it feels like you\u2019re in first.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the flick of your right foot, \u201cHellkitty\u201d liquifies tires in seconds, but would you believe he\u2019s looking for more?!\u00a0\u201cOf course I\u2019d like to make more horsepower. Why not?! Dodge and Mopar are pushing it these days; look at the 1,000-horsepower Hellephant!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Fresh paint is inspired by HEMI\u00ae<\/sup> Orange<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Karr isn\u2019t the first person to do an SRT Hellcat swap; in fact, it\u2019s becoming more popular due to the amount of horsepower available. The guys at Roadkill<\/i> put one in their 1968 Charger “General Mayhem” a while back, and of course Gas Monkey Garage<\/i> built the \u201cShart Cat<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0Back in 2015, those two cars and the shows that built them came together at our first-ever Roadkill Nights Powered By Dodge \u2026 and they faced off on the dragstrip<\/a><\/u>.<\/p>\n

We talked about how you can buy a Hellcrate engine<\/a><\/u> ready to go from Mopar, and a lot of projects will go that route, but Karr says, \u201cI love that Dodge isn\u2019t holding back, that the [SRT] Hellcat isn\u2019t a limited production car.\u201d\u00a0That means there will be plenty of SRT Hellcat donor cars for builds like his.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s a tight fit, but as you see, it can be done.\u00a0What would you put an SRT Hellcat in?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And that begs the question: what would YOU put an SRT Hellcat engine in? Let us know in the comments below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a discussion we all have had: \u201cWouldn\u2019t it be great to shove X engine in Y car and see what happens?!\u201d\u00a0Fire up Google and you\u2019ll find thousands of pages and pics of engine swaps. There\u2019s no denying the LSx is a popular swap, but for us Dodge fans, we want to stay brand loyal \u2026 and we want more power!\u00a0And that\u2019s how we get to this story\u2026 Karr Crapps is quickly becoming the thing of internet legend.\u00a0Scratch that, his car is. With nearly 35,000 subscribers and hundreds of thousands […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":25534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[638],"tags":[605],"class_list":["post-25528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-showcase","tag-srt"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/feature-4.jpg","icon_selection":"article","external_link":"","featured_article":[],"upload_background_image":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25528"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45742,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25528\/revisions\/45742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}