2007 Dodge Charger SRT8
June 14th, 2010 car articles
When Dodge apparent the all-new 2007 Dodge Charger into its lineup, performance-car aficionados had a lot to celebrate. The affair gets kicked up a cleft with the addition of the Dodge Charger SRT8.
With its beverage of Street and Racing Technology (SRT) DNA, Dodge hopes that the 2007 Dodge Charger SRT8 provides absolutely what achievement enthusiasts wish in their American beef sedan: added power, world-class ride and handling, criterion braking, anatomic and aggressive-looking exoteric enhancements and a race-inspired interior.
“The all-new Dodge Charger embodies all of the key attributes of the Dodge cast – bold, powerful, adroit and abounding of life,” said Darryl Jackson, Vice President, Dodge Marketing, Chrysler Group. “The all-new 2007 Dodge Charger SRT8 builds on the Dodge formula. It starts with a 425-horsepower 6.1-liter HEMI engine and continues with a able dosage of acclaimed Street and Racing Technology achievement for a amazing performance-per-dollar amount story.”
During the heyday of the aboriginal Dodge Charger, achievement was abstinent mainly in straight-line numbers. Today, SRT adds a complete access with the 2007 Dodge Charger SRT8.
“The SRT access to achievement is multi-dimensional,” said Dan Knott, Director, Street and Racing Technology, Chrysler Group. “For example, the 2007 Dodge Charger SRT8 incorporates Brembo brakes to stop as able-bodied as it accelerates. Its administration is world-class beyond a activating range. Its autogenous is advised accurately for the achievement driver. And its achievement exoteric characteristics don’t just attending great, they’re aswell functional.”
As an all-around performer, the 2007 Dodge Charger SRT8 is able of alarming numbers exceptional in a beef sedan: 0-60 mph in about 5 seconds, quarter-mile time in the 13-second ambit and braking ambit from 60-0 mph in about 110 feet. The Dodge Charger SRT8 is aswell able of accomplishing SRT’s signature achievement analysis of 0-100-0 mph in the mid 16-second range.
Dodge Charger SRT8 Exterior
Functional achievement is at the affection of the SRT credo. To that end, an all-new foreground fascia includes chip ducts that advice absolute beginning air to air-conditioned the brakes. The foreground fascia aswell incorporates an air dam to abate lift. The awning is able with a beat to carry air-conditioned air into the engine compartment.
The rear fascia appearance chip lower strakes to absolute air breeze and advancing cutouts to board bifold 3.5-inch bankrupt tips. A affecting decklid addle-brain set on bifold stanchions increases downforce for accelerated adherence and traction.
Dodge Charger SRT8 Interior
Race-inspired autogenous accessories in the 2007 Dodge Charger SRT8 alpha with power-adjustable, acutely sculpted and awful bolstered action seats in the foreground adapted with achievement suede inserts to authority occupants during maneuvering. Rear seats accept analogous achievement suede inserts. All seats accept allegory red stitching.
Other antic touches cover “carbon fiber” abstruse covering trim on the council caster for bigger grip, and appropriate finishing on the centermost stack.
A 180-mph (300 kph) speedometer, tachometer and temperature barometer affection aphotic faces different to the all-new 2007 Dodge Charger SRT8. An LED affectation aural the barometer array is driver-configurable for oil temperature, oil burden and annoy burden readouts.
Dodge Charger SRT8 Powertrain
Just as the actual aboriginal Charger – the aboriginal 1964 “Charger by Dodge” abstraction car – sported a HEMI V-8, the all-new 2007 Dodge Charger SRT8 gets its action from a HEMI, too. In this case, it’s a big-bore, SRT-engineered adaptation bearing 425 application and 420 lb-ft of torque.
Several appearance of the new 6.1-liter SRT HEMI anamnesis the allegorical HEMI engines of antecedent decades, including the namesake hemispherical agitation accommodation that accommodate ability and efficiency, orange-painted butt block, atramentous valve covers, and even the application appraisement (with beneath displacement, the 6.1-liter HEMI’s 69.8 horsepower-per-liter appraisement exceeds that of the allegorical Street HEMI of the 1960s and ’70s).
To actualize the 6.1-liter adaptation of the Chrysler Group’s HEMI, SRT powertrain engineers activated allegiant engine-building tricks acid by ancestors of American hot-rodders.
They unleashed 85 added application by abacus added cubic inches, accretion the compression ratio, redesigning the butt head, assimilation and bankrupt systems for added flow, and accretion engine speed.
For added displacement, SRT engineers apathetic out the bore of the cylinders in the HEMI by 3.5 millimeters anniversary in adjustment to access the absolute displacement to 6.1 liters from 5.7 liters.
Source: rsportscars
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