How much power" How much torque" How much anything" These are all questions that we?ll have to wait eight weeks to answer with regard to the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon. What we do know with certainty today nestles somewhere between the files labeled ?jack? and ?squat,? but there are some clues. For instance, Dodge indicates the Demon will be 200 pounds lighter than the Hellcat, and the third tease released by the company, which showed drag-racing rubber at all four corners, indicates the implementation of all-wheel drive. And then there?s the cryptic “#2576@35” license plate in one of the latest images.
What does all this mean" In the virtual, sometimes suspended, and most definitely skewed reality that exists in our collective heads, the Demon engineers need to find something close to 350 pounds of superfluous items in the Hellcat to ditch in order to hit the weight target. That?s because of the additional mass of the all-wheel-drive system. This weight loss will require more than a two-week cleanse; chopping hundreds of pounds from an automobile is a significant task. The first place we would look is the engine block. All Dodge V-8s employ an iron block?a majorly heavy hunk of metal. When we once asked if there are any Vipers running around with Hellcat engines, for example, an SRT engineer told us it would never happen because the Hellcat is just too heavy.

So, where?s the weight gonna come from" The front fenders, hood, and doors, ...