Fox Body Mustang Murders Dodge Demon
Nitrous Mustang duels against Dodge Demon on the strip, leaves a stake in the Demon’s heart at Mission Raceway Park.
The 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon is built to do one thing and one thing well: destroy all challengers on the drag strip, one quarter-mile at a time. This leviathan comes with 808 horses of the apocalypse from its 6.2-liter supercharged V8, and 840 horses straight from Hell if the possessed owner opened the Demon Crate. Attempts to bring this behemoth to its knees are only met with blood and fire.
Except for this magnificent slaying by a humble Fox-body Mustang. Wheels brings us the tale of a bone-stock Demon ready to take down our highly-modded hero down to the Ninth Circle, a mere nuisance compared to more worthy victims at British Columbia’s Mission Raceway Park. But let’s look at what this Demon overlooked in this competitor.
Our leviathan has a price tag of nearly $86,000, and weighs about 4,300 pounds. Our nimble pony friend, however, only weighs around 3,000 pounds stock, and could be had for around $10,000 new, around $5,000 now. And it has a magnificent aftermarket, providing our hero with the weapons needed to cleave the Demon’s engine block in two.
Amid the tire smoke, the two combatants take their places at the light, then roar off the line into war. Despite its fearsome reputation, the Demon was left slain on asphalt by the majestic might of the Mustang. Our hero’s speed of 129.44 mph may have been slower than the behemoth’s 135.25 mph, but it was quicker off the line, crossing the quarter-mile mark at 9.89 seconds. The beast, meanwhile, fell upon a pool of its own motor oil with a time of 10.07 seconds.
The Dodge Demon may be the easiest way to tear up the strip, but building a Demon-slayer from a Fox-body Mustang is glory unto the drag racing gods.
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