The 2020 Dodge Challenger SRT Super Stock Is an 807-HP Street-Legal Drag Car (2024)

There are three constants in life: Death, taxes, and a yearly increase in horsepower for the Dodge Challenger and Charger. Right on time, SRT has taken the wraps off of the new horsepower kings in the lineup. Witness the 807-horsepower Challenger SRT Super Stock and the 797-horsepower Charger SRT Hellcat Redeye.

2020 Dodge Challenger SRT Super Stock

It feels like a million years ago that Dodge revealed the first Challenger Hellcat with 707 horsepower (it was announced in 2014 for the 2015 model year). But a mere 700-some horsepower is old hat. The top dog in the Hellcat lineup is now the Challenger SRT Super Stock, which packs 807 horses and 707 lb-ft of torque.

Think of the Super Stock as part Redeye, part Demon. It wears the Demon's wheel and tire package—18-by-11-inch matte black five-spokes shod in 315/40 Nitto NT05R drag radials at all four corners, tucked under the now-familiar Widebody flared fenders that add 3.5 inches of girth to the already stout coupe. Power comes from a lightly retuned version of the Redeye engine, itself a slightly softened version of the Demon powerplant. SRT says that revised engine calibration accounts for the 10-hp increase over the Redeye.

The "Super Stock" name—not to mention the past decade-plus of Challenger special editions—should give you a hint that this latest coupe is aimed at drag-strip dominance. It's packed with tech for the holeshot. Standard active dampers are tuned to transfer as much weight as possible onto the rear tires in Track Mode; a limited-slip diff and 3.09 final drive help put the power to the ground. A whole suite of electronic assistants make sure you get down the quarter-mile as quickly as possible: Line Lock (for burnouts), Launch Control (to brake-torque the engine to a set rpm), and Launch Assist (to eliminate wheelhop), plus Torque Reserve (which builds boost pressure in Launch Mode) and Power Chiller (which uses the air-conditioning system to reduce intake-air temperature.

All this adds up to some serious numbers. Dodge says the Super Stock will crank out a 3.25-second 0-60 time and a 10.5-second quarter mile at 131 mph. According to Dodge, that's about as fast as a factory Challenger can get without the Demon's tricky bits—the 104-octane race-gas tune that netted 840 horses in that limited-production model, and the trans brake that enabled its 2.3-second 0-60 and 9.54-second 1/4 mile. (One can't help but assume that the Super Street's 807-hp output falls just shy of the Demon's 808 pump gas number intentionally.)

Unlike pretty much every other Challenger variant out there, the Super Stock is visually restrained—for Dodge, anyway. There are no unique badges or decals to set the Super Stock apart from lesser Redeye Widebody models. Only the five-spoke wheels and Demon-spec drag radials give it away. Dodge says the Super Stock will not be a limited-production model; ordering opens this summer ahead of the production start this fall, with the Super Stock package continuing into the 2021 model year.

2021 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat Redeye

It's something of an SRT tradition for the Charger to lag one year behind the Challenger in performance upgrades. So it's no surprise that Dodge is stuffing the 797-horsepower, 707-lb-ft Hellcat Redeye drivetrain, which debuted in the automaker's big coupe last year, into the Charger sedan for 2021.

As has always been the case, the Redeye drivetrain brings with it plenty of Demon-style tech, including Power Chiller to lower intake air temperature. All that horsepower helps the Charger claim plenty of superlatives: Dodge calls it the "most powerful and fastest mass-produced sedan in the world," with a claimed 10.6-second quarter-mile at 129 mph and a top speed of 203 mph.

Every Redeye will be a Widebody, and for 2021 all Charger Hellcats get small design updates and a new hood design. Ordering for the Charger Redeye begins this fall, with cars arriving in early 2021.