{"id":66570,"date":"2022-11-23T07:42:03","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T12:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=66570"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:20:13","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:20:13","slug":"the-epling-family-has-the-worlds-quickest-dodge-ram-quad-cab-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/gallery\/2022\/11\/the-epling-family-has-the-worlds-quickest-dodge-ram-quad-cab-too.html","title":{"rendered":"The Epling Family Has the World’s Quickest Dodge Ram Quad Cab, Too"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Over the past few years, we have talked about the Epling Family Dodge Challenger SRT\u00ae<\/sup> Hellcat<\/a> multiple times, as the black muscle car known as \u201c007\u201d set and reset a handful of quarter-mile records. The Epling family was the first to put an SRT Hellcat car in the 8-second range back in October of 2017, followed by being the first to put an SRT Hellcat car in the 7-second range in August of 2019. They were not the first SRT Hellcat-based team in the 6-second range, but with their best time of 6.96, they hold the record for the quickest quarter-mile time by an SRT Hellcat car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Epling family clearly knows how to make a Dodge Challenger get down the track in a hurry, but that isn\u2019t the extent of their abilities. The 007 Challenger is owned by Leon Epling and driven by his son, Jason, while Jason\u2019s son, Logan, has been working alongside his dad and grandfather throughout the progression of the world\u2019s quickest SRT Hellcat car. In that time, he learned how to build a fast HEMI\u00ae<\/sup> engine, but he also has experience in building some very fast diesel Ram trucks. He has put his experience in building Gen III HEMI engines and Cummins Turbo Diesel engines to work with his new performance shop \u2013 Epling Motorsports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not surprisingly, his personal Dodge Ram 3500 has been built to showcase the abilities of his shop and it is already setting records. Back in September, Logan Epling and his 2.5-ton heavy-duty truck ran a 5.28 at 140.707 miles per hour in the 8th<\/sup> mile, claiming the record for the quickest quad cab Dodge or Ram truck in the world. If you aren\u2019t familiar with how 8th<\/sup> mile timing translates to the quarter-mile, a 5.28 8th<\/sup> mile time will often put a vehicle in the lower-8-second range in the quarter-mile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Due to the size and weight of these trucks, coupled with the speeds being reached in the 8th<\/sup> mile, most big trucks stick to the 8th<\/sup> mile rather than the quarter-mile. However, Logan\u2019s record-setting 8th<\/sup> mile run was made on a quarter-mile track, so he did get a quarter-mile time, although he had let off just beyond the 8th<\/sup> mile marker \u2013 coasting to the end of the track. He got to the 8th<\/sup> mile line with so much momentum that this 2006 Dodge Ram coasted for half of the track and still ran an 8.838 at just 102 miles per hour. That should give you an idea of how hard it is charging to get to the 8th<\/sup> mile stripe in 5.28 seconds when a 5,000-pound truck can coast into the high-8-second range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What makes this even more impressive is the fact that this record-setting run was the first of the night, right off of the trailer. Epling expected to go quicker on the next pass, but he had a fuel pump failure that ended his night after one run and on that run, he spun a bit on the launch. In other words, this truck will go faster in the near future, with Logan expecting 4s with the current setup. While the record run was made on a more conservative tune \u2013 around 2,100 horsepower \u2013 he can turn it up to the area of 3,000 horsepower with some tuning tweaks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can watch the record run in the video below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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