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Dodge Super Charger gets Hellephant 426 heart for SEMA

FCA's custom muscle car gets a thumping 1,000-horsepower, 7.0-liter V8.

Chris Paukert
Following stints in TV news production and as a record company publicist, Chris spent most of his career in automotive publishing. Mentored by Automobile Magazine founder David E. Davis Jr., Paukert succeeded Davis as editor-in-chief of Winding Road, a pioneering e-mag, before serving as Autoblog's executive editor from 2008 to 2015. Chris is a Webby and Telly award-winning video producer and has served on the jury of the North American Car and Truck of the Year awards. He joined the CNET team in 2015, bringing a small cache of odd, underappreciated cars with him.
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Dodge isn't providing any performance estimates for the Super Charger, but we imagine it must be quite a chore just to get those 1,000 horsepower and 950 pound-feet of torque to the ground.

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The Super Charger's Hellephant 426 Mopar crate motor will be available for sale next year.

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Dodge's 1968 Super Charger is powered by the company's new 426-inch supercharged crate motor, the Hellephant.

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Fiberglass flares give the Super Charger 4 inches of width on its stock counterpart.

The wheelbase has been stretched a further 2 inches to give this B-Body new proportions, too.

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The Super Charger features a Dodge Viper steering wheel, a roll gauge,  unique trim and a full slate of Mopar gauges.

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This is one of the coolest features of the Super Charger -- those round forms aren't tail lamps, they're rerouted pipes finished in 5-inch round gloss black exhaust tips borrowed from the Alfa Romeo Stelvio.

The actual rear lights are LED units that are recessed behind the surrounding panel.

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The concept maintains the second-generation Charger's fabled flying buttresses, which are painted here in De Grigio Grey Metallic.

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The Super Charger features a phantom-style front end with headlamps borrowed from a modern SRT Challenger Hellcat, as well as a hood scoop from the Dodge Demon.

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In addition to the wheel flares, in profile, other custom touches including shaved door handles, unique wheels and single-piece side glass are evident.

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Satin black vinyl decals provide extra detailing.

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Dodge didn't pull an old Charger out of its collection for this project, it bought a car off the internet and gutted it before building it up into the Super Charger.

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The Super Charger is on display at the 2018 SEMA aftermarket expo in Las Vegas.

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