2008 Dodge Viper SRT-10

cpruitt submitted on 08/31/2007 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 1:30 PM
from: www.motortrend.com

Tags: 2008 Dodge Viper SRT-10

Car-company intelligence is way more reliable than that of our national government, so the Deciders at Dodge have known with absolute certainty that the Bow-Tie Boys have been hard at work on a whopper of a WMD for a couple years. So they're launching a preemptive strike with their own Weapon of Mass Displacement -- a significantly revised V-10 packing a nice round 600 horses and 560 pound-feet of torque, and all of 'em SAE certified. So where'd they find an extra 90 horsepower and 25-pound-feet? In the three places all racers know to look:

More Displacement

- An extra millimeter of bore (to 103 mm) boosts capacity from 8.3 to 8.4 liters
- Pistons and rods borrowed from the 6.1-liter SRT-8 Hemi V-8s boost compression ratio from 9.6:1 to 10.2:1
- Iron liners are pressed into a block with improved water jackets for more efficient cooling

Higher Revving

- Hollow-stem intake valves lower weight
- Investment-cast intake rockers further reduce valvetrain inertia
- Pistons get larger-diameter wrist pins and bronze bushings
- Powdered-metal connecting rods use aircraft-quality fasteners for increased fatigue strength
- Cross-bolted main-bearing caps improve strength and durability
- A larger oil pump with a swinging pickup (adapted from the Viper Competition Coupe) improves oil pressure under high-rpm and high-g operating conditions. Read Article

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indoctrin8ed - 8/31/2007 4:46:45 PM

+1 Boost

Easy to find 600 hp in a (cough) 8.4 liter engine. When they join the 100+ hp per liter club, then we'll be impressed.

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Bmw8ter - 8/31/2007 5:12:56 PM

0 Boost

Cars that are pushing 100+hp per liter, also have little power below 5,000rpms. It's hard to have fun in a car when you have to keep the needle around 6,000rpms just to get maximum hp....the mazda RX8 is a good example of this.

lewishamiltonpimp - 9/1/2007 11:44:11 PM

0 Boost

Bad example. It's a rotary.

DaHarder - 8/31/2007 8:59:46 PM

+1 Boost

This vehicle truly embodies all that is 'Muscle Car'...

Too bad the styling lost its way with this generation, as the 1st gen had so much more road presence.

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adamsaf723 - 9/1/2007 1:54:16 AM

+2 Boost

I'm so bored with this car. It needs a refresh.

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dodgedart - 9/2/2007 1:22:23 AM

+1 Boost

at least it's one more step further from the sporty ram Hemi

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indoctrin8ed - 9/3/2007 10:09:29 PM

+1 Boost

BMW8ter - you're sadly wrong. My E46 M3 6 cylinder(which has been out since 2000) makes 100+ horsepower per liter and it snaps your head, then climbs past 5000 RPMs to 8,500 RPM and pulls the entire way.

The new BMW M3 V8 makes 85% of it's torque available across 6,000 RPMs.

Audi's 4.2 liter V8 is potent this way as well, same with Porsche's flat 6. All make gobs of power across a wide range of RPMs, and 100+ hp per liter.

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