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Dream Giveaways is giving away a pair of Challengers.
The old one is a 1970 R/T 440-Six Pack Trak-Pack. Update, it's a 440 not a 400. Typo.
390 hp, 490 ft-lb.
3,700 rpm on the interstate where it will get, perhaps, 9 miles per gallon.
With the 18 gallon tank that means a 162 mile range.
Because of the 4.10 rear gear, it's barely going to get past 100 before it runs out of revs.
It's astonishing how far technology has come.
The Beast makes almost as much power, gets more than double the mileage and has a top speed just past 150. Same 0-60 time. With a superbike's worth of engine missing (7.2 v 6.0 liters).
The Dodge is just two tenths faster in the 1/4-mile. 13.6@101 vs 13.8@101.
Did I mention the weight difference? The Challenger is 3,671 lb., The Beast is 4,162 lb. Technology is amazing!
A lot of it has to do with the gearing in the transmission. Even with the 2.92 diff, the Caprice has more than a 13:1 final ratio in first, compared to just 10:1 on the Challenger, AND the torque multiplication from the converter inherent in a slushbox.
But the old Challenger definitely has more style.
The OE engine would have been 383. The 400 didn't come out till 72.
ReplyDeleteIt's a 440 not a 400. I made a typo.
DeleteI'm not a MOPAR guy most of the time, I'm not even sure you could get a 6-pack on a B engine from the factory. My entire experience with MOPAR is driving a '73 Charger with a Kieth Black Hemi (nothing on the thing was OEM) "professionally", keeping two friends slant-6's running (easy!) and keeping Harvey's two D-150s with 318's going.
DeleteAll I really learned is MOPAR gave Lucas a run for the title Prince of Darkness!
And if I deal with another Torqueflyte it will be with explosives. I don't care if they're actually any good, by the time I'm called in it's too late and I hate them now.