How do you define madness? How about stuffing a 8.4 ltr V10 and stuffing it into a pony car? At the upcoming SEMA Show in Las Vegas, Dodge will show this concept that involves taking out the V10 engine from Dodge Viper and plonking it into a Dodge Challenger, with all 600 horsepower and 500lbft of torque, with the tyre's mercy at the wit of your right foot. When it comes to cars, at times we have to admire the Americans. I guess everyone heard of the Nasa Pencil story, which goes like:Back in the 50s, NASA was troubled by a rather small issue (small in mass that is) where ink pens won't work in outer space, upon spending billions and trillions on research and development, they still can't find an economical solution to producing a pen that Astronauts could write. Having peek thru their rounded intergalactic windows, they could somehow see their
"Hello there Mr Stalin, just a quick question you might want or don't want to answer, but I'll leave that to ya."
"Zay it."
"How do you write with in outer space?"
"Err... pencils."
This is exactly what I felt about at times when I look at American muscle cars, quite to the contrary, the Italians and Germans now play the NASA part. As this beast of a car, with a 8.4 ltr V10 with all 600hp, was tuck into this car, with revisions of only adding a set of Bilstein shocks. No LSD wizardry or whatsoever alphabets that had something to do with so-called helping to achieve the best driving dynamics.
Admit it will ya, driving a cool car is not to shave off that few milliseconds. You just want to hook up a good shag right? This does the job, real quick, and that's why the Cool Wall is more relevant than going fast thru Chicago or Hammerhead.
