{"id":27400,"date":"2019-08-23T05:00:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T09:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=27400"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:24:18","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:24:18","slug":"deception-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/owners-clubs\/2019\/08\/deception-plan.html","title":{"rendered":"Deception Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Never judge a book by its\ncover, and never, ever, a muscle car by the badges glued on the front fenders. Things\nmay not be what they appear on the outside, so never assume the machine you\u2019re\nlined up against at the drags is what you think it is. This was probably the\nintent of Mopar\u00ae<\/sub> lover Maryanne Papa from Lindenhurst, New York, when she set\nout to make her 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT\u00ae<\/sup> 392 one fast ride. During the day, she\u2019s an administrative\nassistant for an engineering firm on Long Island. At night, she\u2019s out in her\nHEMI\u00ae<\/sup> engine-powered Challenger tearing up the neighborhood. Instead of the already\npotent 392 HEMI pushing out 485 horses under that long scooped hood, Maryanne,\nalong with some friends, stepped up her Challenger SRT 392 up a notch or two.\nActually, these folks took Maryanne\u2019s TorRed machine to number 11 on the dial.\nBut more on that later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How Maryanne got into Mopar vehicles is a familiar story that is shared by many generations of enthusiasts and gearheads. \u201cI\u2019ve loved muscle cars since my high school days. I loved all makes\/models, but especially Mopars. There\u2019s something about them, the look, the sound. My first muscle car was a 1992 Anniversary Edition Heritage Package Camaro. From there, I bought my first Mopar vehicle and it\u2019s been love ever since. I can\u2019t imagine having a passion for any other car. My first Mopar was a white 2007 Dodge Charger R\/T. I traded that in for a 2009 Dodge Challenger R\/T painted Inferno Red. Finally, I traded that in for my current 2015 SRT Challenger 392 that is TorRed. I also have a 2007 Sublime Daytona Charger which I use as my daily driver,\u201d exclaimed Maryanne. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Mayanne ended up with her Challenger is an interesting tale of helping a friend with a ride. \u201cWhat made me purchase this Challenger was I took a trip with my friend to pick up his new Charger from Central Jeep\u00ae<\/sub> Chrysler Dodge Ram of Raynham, New York. I walked in the dealership only to find the Challenger SRT 392 sitting in the floor, I instantly fell in love and had to buy it,\u201d smiled Maryanne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When it came time to make\nher Challenger SRT 392 really rock, Maryanne laid out a game plan that would\ntake her machine from the 12-second ET bracket, way down into the 10-second\nzone. \u201cAfter about 8 months owning it, I wanted to do some performance mods, so\nI sat down with Jimmy Koutsoubis, owner of True Street Performance, and A.J.\nBerge, owner of Hemituner Performance, located in Bay Shore, New York. These\ntwo know their stuff and have done work on my others cars, so I know them well\nand we talked over various options. We\nstarted off with long tube headers and a custom Crower grind cam. I loved it, but wanted more. Both Jim and AJ then came to me with the idea\nof the SRT Hellcat swap. I loved that idea of having a unique build,\u201d commented\nMaryanne. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And what a unique build it was. You\u2019re more likely to see 6.2-liter SRT Hellcat HEMI engines transplanted into vintage cars and turned into a \u201cRestoMod\u201d street machine than being swapped into modern-day Challengers and Chargers that were born with a 5.7-liter or 392 cubic-inch HEMI engine between the fenders. To make the Hellcat engine recognize the electrical harness and other items of Maryanne\u2019s Challenger 392, additional mods needed to be made. These included a Legmaker Hellcat Air Intake, Twin Walbro 450 LPH Fuel Pumps, Custom PCM Calibration, Custom TCM Calibration, Recognizable \u201cRed Key\u201d, Nylon Braided Heat Exchanger Lines, SRT Hellcat Heat Exchanger, and other essential items to keep the cat under the hood well fed with high-octane premium unleaded and nice and cool when the heat goes up. Maryanne also wanted to add some custom touches to her already showstopping Challenger that included custom decals and wrapped interior done by SpeedWorld Graphix, a complete customized engine bay dress-up kit by Billet Technology and a custom hood liner by JB Custom Airbrushing. Despite all this, Maryanne made sure to keep the stock \u201c392 HEMI\u201d front fender badges on to mess with people\u2019s minds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With everything bolted in\nplace and after a few shakedown runs to make sure everything under the hood was\nhappy and the electronics were talking to each other, it came time to head to\nthe drag strip. After some warm-up passes, Maryanne was ready to go wide-open-throttle\nand when she did, the scoreboards at the top end of Maryland International\nRaceway lit up with a 10.38 ET and 132 mph, she was ecstatic. For Maryanne, she\nwas hooked even more on drag racing her Challenger and began participating in\nthe Modern Street HEMI Shootout events up and down the East Coast. She\u2019ll also\nget with her fellow racing friends to attend test and tune sessions between her\nracing events. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maryanne also likes to hit car shows when she\u2019s not burning rubber. \u201cI\u2019m the First Lady of Long Island Muscle Cars. We attend car shows, swap meets and charity events. We also throw a car show every year the last weekend of April at Hooters in Farmingdale, New York, for a charity called Michael\u2019s Cause for children who have Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. We love to give back to our communities and support great causes,\u201d said Maryanne. When asked which things influence Maryanne, she was quick to admit it was her love of all things Mopar. She also confessed that one of her most memorable experiences was meeting Mr. Ralph Gilles, Head of Design for FCA. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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During the recent Carlisle Chrysler Nationals, Maryanne\u2019s\nChallenger placed second in the 2008-2019 Challenger SRT Modified class. But\nshe\u2019s also looking down the road and is contemplating a new Durango SRT, or\nmaybe doing some more mods to her Daytona Charger. Whatever path she chooses, just\nbe prepared if Maryanne pulls up next you at the drag strip in one of her fast\nDodge vehicles, things are not what they appear. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Never judge a book by its cover, and never, ever, a muscle car by the badges glued on the front fenders. Things may not be what they appear on the outside, so never assume the machine you\u2019re lined up against at the drags is what you think it is. This was probably the intent of Mopar\u00ae lover Maryanne Papa from Lindenhurst, New York, when she set out to make her 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT\u00ae 392 one fast ride. During the day, she\u2019s an administrative assistant for an engineering firm on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":27641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2624],"tags":[526,561],"class_list":["post-27400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-owners-clubs","tag-challenger","tag-restomod"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/feature-31.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\/27400"}],"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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27400"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27642,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27400\/revisions\/27642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}