Meet the 707bhp Dodge Ram Pickup

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The Dodge SRT Hellcat is one of the meanest looking super saloons in the market. It also lives up to its name as it has an immensely muscular Hellcat engine lurking underneath the bonnet. The only other car with the same engine is the Dodge Challenger Hellcat. But what happens when you take a Hellcat engine and put it in a Dodge pickup truck? Absolutely bonkers!

First, let’s see what the Hellcat engine can do.

The Dodge Hellcat engine is a 6.2 litre supercharged V8 HEMI engine which churns out a massive 707bhp and 560 lb-ft of torque. If that doesn’t live up to the Hellcat name, nothing will. On the Dodge Charger saloon, it can propel the car to 204mph and accelerate to 62mph from a standstill in just 3.7 seconds. The Hellcat engine makes the Dodge SRT Hellcat the fastest production four-door saloon in the world.

So why would you take a perfectly nice truck and put a massive engine in it? All that power!

First, the Dodge Ram 1500 is a light duty truck with the most powerful engine being a 5.7-litre HEMI engine which could produce 395bhp and 410 lb-ft of torque. That is way lower than what the Hellcat engine can do. Well, the folks at Midland Chrysler, a dealership from Ontario, Canada, sourced a Hellcat engine from a US-based Dodge Dealer and mated it with the standard eight-speed automatic that comes with the Dodge Ram 1500. The conversion looks like a text book engine swap which is fairly clean and it looks like it came from the factory.

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So how does the Dodge Ram Hellcat perform? We have no idea yet since the dealership has not released the figures. But get things into perspective, the Dodge Ram SRT 10 which had an 8.3 litre V10 engine from the Dodge Viper was the fastest production pickup truck in 2004. The Ram SRT 10 only had 500bhp and 525 lb-ft of torque. The performance figures for the Ram SRT 10: 0 to 62mph sprint in 4.9 seconds and a top speed of 154mph. With those figures, we can just imagine how much faster this Dodge Ram Hellcat would be.

We hope Dodge takes notice and makes the Dodge Ram Hellcat a production model. It will surely draw a good amount of interest if they do. The cost of converting a standard Dodge Ram 1500 into a Hellcat is around $90,000.