Wicked 1,700 HP Dodge Viper Tears Up Texas Streets (Video)
How do you make a V10 legend even better? Add turbos and triple the horsepower figure.
We enjoy, though we don’t condone, street-racing videos. We came across one by That Racing Channel on YouTube about a Viper and Texas 2018 (TX2K18). These videos are great because you get a better sense of a car’s power when it’s lined up with something else. There’s a moment at 8:49 in the video when the Viper gets ready to race a Nissan GT-R when they cut to video from a “rental car” in the slow lane. Our jaws dropped. This thing is FAST.
We drove a fifth-gen Viper once. And the garden variety GTS, too. We left traction control on because it wasn’t ours and all was fine and good, until it wasn’t. We did the ol’ “roll on the throttle as you pass a pokey Camry” maneuver and suddenly found ourselves looking at the door of said Toyota. Right foot came off the throttle, the Viper straightened out, and we rolled back on it to quickly distance ourselves from the partially embarrassing, partially terrifying experience. Note, we’d driven several big-power rear-wheel drive cars in the weeks prior. Why tell you this story? Vipers are nuts even with just stock power.
This Viper ACR, a fifth (and final) generation, is packing some forced induction and nearly three times the 645 hp of the stock car. Allegedly putting down 1,700 hp, the Viper was built by Nth Moto. We’ll repeat: 1,700 horsepower! It’s rear-wheel drive, on 18-inch wheels, and he has a traditional H-pattern manual transmission. It spins the no-doubt-sticky rear wheels like it’s nothing when doing a few pulls to warm the tires up. It’s nuts.
How fast is it? There’s a mention of a quarter mile in the 8-second ballpark at 180 (!) mph. That’s enough to slay all challengers: 1,100 hp Skyline? Toast. Corvette ZR1 with Nitrous? Next. A second 1,400 hp Skyline? Done. The best one though was the white skyline, which didn’t provide a bragging number. It’s not the race, which was predictably lost by the Skyline, but the whining by the loser at the end. You win some, you lose some, give respect where it’s due.
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