My wife works at the local Ford dealer and she called me yesterday saying they got this go mango beauty on trade! 18k miles, 2020 scat pack wide body, six speed, alcantera seats, 6 piston brembos and active damping suspension. Just like I would’ve ordered one! I can dream I guess. It’s way more car than my 5.7 R/T was.

If your wife told you about it, that would be implied consent to purchase...;)

What are you waiting for ...:grin:

Price??

Yeah, anything with a stick (especially a widebody version) is really in demand now.

53k I think. If you’re interested I’ll put you in contact with my wife. She works in sales there. She’s off today but will be back in office tomorrow.

Haha, I wish. We’re needing a van now, so my challenger dreams are on hold. I’ve got a 2 and 5 year old so we’re in that phase of needing a van for space and convenience in parking lots with sliding doors due to car seats.

Maybe that is why it was traded in.



Jason

Just an update: There was some very slight rubbing of the 275/40x20 Pirellis and the Hellcat wheels on the front of the R/T. The inside sidewalls of the front tires would rub when turning the wheels tightly while backing out of the garage and on tight sharp turns. Turns out the inner sidewall was just slightly rubbing against the front suspension uprights where they curve to meet the strut coils. I ended up buying a pair of 3mm spacers and that did the trick. Totally silent now. I also bought a set of the correct 2011 TPMS sensors from rockauto to replace the 2022 sensors that refused to link to the 2011 ECM.

And I added some clear rockguard film to the lower 8" of the fenders and doors, and added the "ZL1Add-ons" brand splashguards as well. We have been busy!

In between the five days of straight rain we have been having and another few to go, we were able to squeek in a ten minute drive yesterday and I'm happy to say the new TPMS sensors were picked up by the ECM and now we have correct readings with the 20x9.5 Hellcat rims. Yay!

I got all three oil analysis back from Blackstone. Engine, trans, and rear diff look fine. Trans and diff still had their original 24,000 factory fill. Engine oil had 500 miles but was very dark from cold starts and local driving since being replaced last year by the previous owner.

There was a thread on the Challenger site about what people do with the stupid plastic engine covers on the 5.7 Hemis.

I found a use:

The covers do make good dog houses...or Teenaged Mutant Ninja TurtleDog costumes for Halloween.

You could flip it upsidedownwise and make a nice food bowl!

Cheers
Dave

My son decided he wanted stripes on the R/T similar to the monochromatic scheme that I did on the Triple Redeye. So we got out the Avery decal sample catalog and the wife, me, and the boy all perused the catalog and miraculously, we all picked the same color! Tangerine.

I took a few days to install since the driver's door section had a flaw in the carrier sheet that actually went through to the decal itself but wasn't visible until I installed it. I called the decal company and they sent out a new driver's door section in a couple days. I' m very happy with their product and their customer service (though it did take a couple days to get through via email). Vinylgraphicspro is the name of the company.

https://www.vinylgraphicspro.com/pur...nt-decals-kit/

Here's the finished product. It does the exact same thing that the Maroon stripes on the Octane Red do: they ghost out when viewed at a perpendicular angle and only show up when viewed at an oblique angle or in bright, direct light.

Great looking car. Makes me miss mine. They are a lot of fun. About the engine cover. I purchased a set of the 392 half-covers that were modified by Steve White motors. Makes a huge difference. I don't think they do them anymore though. You could always buy a set of the 392 covers or "SRT Powered" covers and either modify the wording or run them as is. Not only looks better, but helps dissipate the heat soak.

Hope you don't mind that I added some pictures.

Nice! Very “Kowalkski-esque” :-)

Hey njsteve
I have a 1971 Raleigh girlie chopper like the one you sold 20 years ago, how much do you think I can sell it for and can you tell me a bit about it?

Sadly the girl versions aren't that in demand and are usually cannibalized for parts. UGH!

Bod Ashton (bashton) of Musclecar and Corvette Nationals fame would the one to talk to: https://www.yenko.net/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=116

Have to say those wheels and especially that stripe really transformed that car! Looks great.

Thanks. The boy really wants to put a factory shaker setup on it but altogether that runs around $5k. ($1,200 for the hood and $2,000 for the shaker hardware, $500 for shipping, then another $1,000 for paint?)

When I wanted stuff for my car and his age I had a job or two! Always liked working to fix up my cars.

$500 to ship a hood ?? I know shipping has gotten stupid expensive, but that seems unreasonably high. Where is it coming from ?

Have you tried finding a set up from a crashed car locally that you can go get ?

I wanted to put a shaker setup on mine too, but the cost was nuts. My justification for not doing it was I could trade mine for a scat pack shaker at the time with a little more dough than what the conversion would have cost on my R/T and got 110 more HP to boot. But with the high cost of these cars now, the hood is likely a more cost effective option. I drove a scat pack shaker when I considered the trade and and I can say the cool factor was there 100000%!!!! haha

Maybe try looking on copart or junkyard websites as you can find these cars wrecked and they are willing to sell the parts for a fair amount less than the dealers.

It's a big piece of metal. I think it was around $200 actually but if I overestimate I can only be pleasantly disappointed if it costs a bunch less.

I'm a "glass half-broken" kind of guy. (Mega-pessimist)

I borrowed my son's Orange car to make a run out to Pennsylvania today. Around 120 mile round trip. I was at a stop light out in PA and an old guy in the car next to me at the light, rolls down his window and he and his passenger (both in their late 70's) give the thumbs up. The driver then says: That's an awesome looking classic!

I said: "Thank you! It's my son's car and he doesn't know I borrowed it today. It's a stickshift too!"

They both laughed and said "We won't tell him".

Fun times with old car guys!

BTW, the car sure runs nicely on the highway even with the 3.92 gears. Got 24.5 mpg for the trip.

I was thinking the other day how long newer cars actually last. When I was 14 and got my first car, a 1969 Z11 Pace Car Camaro, it was only 8 years old in 1977. It was a rusty mess with a 1964 327 in it. Cars back then just fell apart without any assistance from their owners.

My son's 2011 R/T was 12 years old with 24,000 miles on it when we found it a few months back. The advances in metallurgy and chemical coatings alone are amazing in terms of preserving the exposed parts. The underside of his car is pristine (having never seen a winter yet). Last week I had the bottom of the car coated in Fluid Film by a local guy. I also had him do the crusty underside of my 1995 Suburban as well. This is his winter business as a landscaper in Doylestown, PA when he isn't snowplowing. Cost around $300 a car and he spent a total of five hours under the cars. Wheels off and up on jack stands. He uses the spray cans for the suspension and then brushes on the heavy stuff out of a gallon can for the rest of the bottom of the car. It's a lanoline based goop that stinks a little for a couple days and then goes away.

This way the Challenger should get a little help in staying nice just in case the boy has to drive it this winter if one of our beaters isn't available.