Secrets of Roadkill's General Mayhem Hellcat Engine Swap - Hot Rod Network
Over the past several months we’ve had an Interweb jab-fest with Richard Rawlings and Gas Monkey Garage that led up to an 1/8-mile heads-up showdown of 707-horsepower, Hellcat-powered cars at our Roadkill Nights event on August 12, 2015. We got... They brought a lightweight, back-half ’67 Dart with a Powerglide and a trans brake, while we stuck to the rules we’d set: 3,500 pound minimum, leaf springs, 12-inch tires, and a 2015 Dodge Hellcat engine and trans. Up until now, that’s all you’ve really known, as we’ve been kind of secretive about our prep for the Gas Monkey drag race. First, if you’re new here, the General Mayhem is a ’68 Charger that we traded for a set of cylinder heads a few years ago. Next, we bought a class A motorhome, tore the 440 out of it, threw in some leftovers from our ’73 Fury race car (for 24 Hours of Lemons) and went rally racing, Dukes style. More recently, we yanked the drivetrain out of the General and heaved it into the Crop Duster, our ’70 Plymouth street/strip car. There was a new plan for the General Mayhem: Dodge had become our title sponsor, so we scammed a 2015 SRT Hellcat drivetrain out of them. The plan was to slap the Hellcat drivetrain into the car, then drive it cross-country from Michigan, through the Black Hills and Yellowstone, arriving in Washington. Source: www.hotrod.com
