Dale Arnold got hooked on going fast and that led him to build one awesome 2018 Dodge Challenger Demon. It hasn’t been a smooth road for this Demon, but the latest version of this modern muscle car is truly amazing. Dale has pulled out all the stops to create the king of all the Dodge Demons.

Fords were Dale’s vehicle of choice for a long time. He has owned different Mustangs and wasn’t even into drag racing that much until he started hanging out with the guys at HPJ Performance. When Dale saw a Dodge Demon sitting in the showroom at a local dealership, he had to have it and the rest is history.

“I’ve always been into muscle cars, and the guys at HPJ Performance turned me on to drag racing. Originally, I was just messing around with street cars that made like 1,000 horsepower, but that just gave me a taste of the fun. From there, things progressed and I got into the race car stuff more,” Dale says.

Dale’s Demon went to see Jason Eberly at JE Speed for its Mopar makeover. The car was gutted and it received a state-of-the-art chassis so it can compete in the tough Limited Drag Radial (LDR) class. A Moser full floater rearend takes care of sending the horsepower to the Mickey Thompson drag radials. In the front, you’ll find a set of Santhuff struts, and in the rear, Menscer Motorsports shocks control the show.

Under the hood, a Disomma Racing Engines-built GEN 3 HEMI uses a billet Noonan Race Engineering block as its foundation. The Noonan block has been filled with a Callies crankshaft, GRP connecting rods, and Diamond pistons.

The engine is topped off with a Thomsen Motorsports billet intake, and cylinder heads from High Horse Performance. Boost is sent into the engine via a ProCharger F-3R blower that’s spun by a gear drive from Chris Alston’s Chassisworks. Behind the engine a Proformance TH400 and ProTorque torque converter round out the driveline. Fueling is handled by an Aeromotive fuel pump and FuelTech fuel injectors. The car is controlled by a FuelTech FT600 ECU.

So why on Earth would you take a fairly sought-after modern muscle car and turn it into a full-blown race car? Well, Dale had pushed the Demon just a little too far in its OEM configuration too many times. After breaking plenty of parts and setting off the car’s airbags multiple times, Dale wanted to step things up and unleash his beast.

“These cars weigh like 4,400 pounds from the factory, so you tear stuff up when you try to go fast with OEM parts. I’d blown up two stock transmissions and a built stock transmission. I blew up another transmission and the rest of the airbags went off in the dash and the steering wheel. At that point, I made the decision for us to stop beating our heads against the wall and try to go real fast without any restrictions,” Dale explains.

A rare car is only as valuable as the number assigned to it by others. Dale Arnold isn’t interested in just owning a rare car, he wants to enjoy his vehicle. This Demon King wasn’t built to make purists happy, it was built so Dale could go as fast as he can at the track.