Before Jack French started Atomizer Racing Injectors he was a racer himself and a hardcore Mopar fan … now he’s about to return to his roots with one killer company car.

French has a late model Dodge Challenger that is currently being completed and will be ready for testing in Radial vs The World trim in the very near future. This Mopar will be a testbed for Atomizer products and a way for French to gather even more data on what racers need.

For French, the choice of cars was easy since he had no desire to build your standard Mustang or Camaro. “I’ve always been a Mopar fan so it made sense to go with this car. There are only a couple Radial vs The World Mopars out there so we wanted to be one of the few racing the brand. I got a lot of input from the Rob Goss camp on some of the body stuff and this car has the factory tail lights, weather stripping, and rear bumper cover.”

The 2017 Dodge Challenger RT that French used for this build started life as a body-in-white steel shell from Dodge. To make the car as light as possible, the body was sent to Straightline Chassis Design and was totally gutted of all non-essential metal. The weight of the shell went from around 850 pounds down to about 200 pounds total. Then, a 25.2 certified chassis was built inside of it. Chuck Chapman at Chapman’s Auto Body painted the car and all its details, including the airbrush work and Glasstek carbon fiber parts.

The Straightline chassis will be using Menscer Motorsports shocks in the rear to help put the power down to the Strange Engineering full floater rearend, while a set of Santhuff struts will be used in the front. A PST carbon fiber drive shaft with billet yokes will transfer the power from the Proformance Racing Transmissions transmission and Neal Chance Racing Converters billet torque converter. WELD wheels in the rear that will be wrapped in Mickey Thompson rubber will put all the power to the ground.

French’s Challenger will be powered by a DiSomma Racing Engines 528 cubic-inch all billet Hemi. The engine utilizes a set of MBE cylinder heads, along with an intake designed by French and machined by Visner Engine Development. Fuel to the Atomizer injectors will be supplied by a Rage Fuel Systems fuel pump and boost comes from a pair of 106 mm Precision turbos. The entire turbo system was designed and built in-house at Straightline Chassis Design.

The car will be tuned by the Bruder brothers via a FuelTech FT600 ECU that gets data from a full set of Racepak sensors. French will convert the car to the FuelTech Spark system from Pro Line after they get the car sorted out. The driving duties of the new car will be handled by French himself when the Challenger is ready to hit the track.

“We built this car to help us with research and development, plus to promote the company. This car will show the racers that we are going to put our new prototype stuff in our own car before we release it so it can be tested more. We are a ‘by racers, for racers’ company and we will be racing what we build,” French said.

The car is currently being finished by Carroll’s Rod and Racecraft in New Jersey with the goal of having the Challenger ready to test in a few weeks before it makes it racing debut at the Yellow Bullet Nationals.

“My goals are to be able to run at the top of the field at any race we go to. I believe we have enough race car to do it and I want to run in the 3.70’s. I’m going to Yellow Bullet with a goal to win the race, I’m going to Duck’s races at SGMP to win, and I’m going to the Sweet 16 race to win it. We will run this car to death, then fix it, and run it some more,” French says.

Look for French and his new Challenger to become a major player in the Radial vs The World category when it hits the track. Look for more pictures of this nasty Mopar on Dragzine during our coverage of the Yellow Bullet Nationals in just a few weeks!