Yahoo Autos Homebuilt Hellcat-Powered Grand Cherokee Rips 10s
If you want a monstrously quick SUV, you could hold out for the Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk, the factory-built SUV that pairs the 707-horsepower Hellcat supercharged V8 with all-wheel drive for the very first time. Or you could take matters into your own hands.
The folks who built this Hellcat-powered Jeep Grand Cherokee opted for the latter.
The HellHaWK® is now track proven! 10.8 first pass off the trailer down to a 10.5 @132mph spinning all 4 wheels at the...
Posted by True Street Performance / Jim on Sunday, June 25, 2017
On Facebook, True Street Performance calls this evil 4x4 the "HellhaWK" - named for the 2006-2010 WK1-generation Grand Cherokee on which it's based. An Instagram video shows just what this hot-rodded Hellcat is capable of: An indicated 790 horsepower and 739 lb-ft of torque to the rear wheels.
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In the comments on that Instagram video, True Street Performance says the Jeep is running four-wheel drive, with an upgraded transmission and axles. The tuners run rear-drive on the dyno to preserve the driveline, but out on the drag strip, all four wheels put the power down.
And hoo boy, is there a lot of power. Watch how hard this thing squats on a drag launch - on its way to a 10.854-second 1/4 mile at 128.89 mph.
For the record, Jeep says the factory Trackhawk will do 0-60 in 3.5 seconds, on the way to an 11.6-second quarter-mile. Clearly, comparing a tuner freak machine to a stocker is apples-to-oranges. But we just love that True Street Performance did what everyone else has been daydreaming of.
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