2022 Heck-Kitty Redeye

[njsteve]

Well it looks like the purple car order is gonna get cancelled (by me).

Some weird things were popping up on the hellcat websites so I did a little digging:

The 807 hp rating of the narrow body Redeye Jailbreak was advertised on the Dodge website from day 1. But recently a buyer took delivery of his car that was just built a couple weeks ago and the SRT app on the infotainment center which displays the horsepower rating, said "797" and not "807" like it was supposed to show.

So I started digging and comparing build sheets and window stickers from the narrow body Redeye Jailbreak and Widebody Redeye Jailbreak and found something very concerning: the widebody listed the "high performance engine controller" as part of the Jailbreak package ONLY on the widebody version.

That didnt sit right with me.

Here's what the website showed from late October to 2/1/23:

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So I wrote an email to the CEO of Dodge with my observations and evidence like this:

The dash display from the just delivered, 30-mile 2023 Narrowbody Redeye Jailbreak

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And this:
1) The window sticker portion from a 2023 Widebody Redeye Jailbreak
2) The window sticker portion from a 2023 Narrowbody Redeye Jailbreak

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And what happened?

On 2/2/23, within 12 hours of my email going out, the Dodge website gets revised to show the horsepower rating has been "adjusted" downward to 797.

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So, since I placed an order on 11/1/2022 under the impression that I was going to get a "one of 29 to be made" Narrowbody Hellcat Redeye Jailbreak with the highest horsepower (807) version engine available, as a last call edition, I was sadly mistaken.

The bottom line is that if I continued with this order, all I would be getting for around $20K more than my currently paid for, 2022 797 hp Narrowbody Redeye, would be a different color version of my same exact car I have now with no upgraded engine.

The funny thing about this whole 807 vs 797 horsepower issue is that it is entirely due to the different engine controller that raises the fuel shutoff redline point by a mere 100 rpm.

They are the same exact engine (that actually puts out 812 hp at 6400 per the official SAE certification reports)

These are the 2019 to present Redeye specs from the SAE Test report:

793 HP @ 6200rpm measured (+79 HP), 797 HP @ 6300rpm advertised, 812 HP @ 6400rpm measured
709 TQ @ 4800rpm measured (+57 TQ), 707 TQ @ 4500rpm advertised, 719 TQ @ 4800rpm measured


And these are the 2020-23 Super Stock/Jailbreak specs:

793 HP @ 6200rpm measured (+79 HP), 807 HP @ 6400rpm advertised, 812 HP @ 6400rpm measured
709 TQ @ 4800rpm measured (+57 TQ), 707 TQ @ 4500rpm advertised, 719 TQ @ 4800rpm measured


Same exact engine rated 100 rpm higher, gets you the extra 10 horses...and in reality they both achieved 812 during the tests at 6,400 rpm.