Turbo 1,700-Whp Viper SRT-10 Runs Mid-Tens Quarter-Mile, Sets a New National Record

The nameplate has long been retired from production, but its legendary status will live forever. However, from time to time, adrenaline junkie go-fast enthusiasts like to summon a Frankenstein-ized example to pull a fast one on contemporary high-velocity automobiles. A very interesting event is taking place in Brazil, and they have some man machines to show.

The name of the game is literally Race 100-200, and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what the big deal is with it, but I’ll give you one hint. They have a 6,562-foot-long arrow-straight strip of tarmac at their disposal. That’s 2,000 meters or 1.24 miles of ‘Floor It!’ possibilities. And that’s precisely what one special Dodge Viper SRT V10 did.

What’s so special about a Dodge Viper doing a Wide-Open Throttle pass somewhere in Brazil, you might ask? Well, this is no ordinary SRT 10. It still has a V10 in it, but when it rolled off the assembly line, the rowdy sportscar made around 600 naturally-aspirated hp at relatively civilized 6,000 RPM and 560 lb-ft at 5,100 RPM. In metric jargon, that’s around 608 PS and 760 Nm. Pretty good numbers for 16 years ago, but not nearly enough for today’s horsepower-addict world.

Consequently, the builder of this Brazilian job, Viper, André Carrillo by name (@andre_carrillo_ by social media call sign), slammed a pair of forced-induction air compressors onto the engine. The twin-turbo setup fires up around 1,700 horsepower at the tires (allegedly, the crank value sits in the ballpark of 1,900 hp, but that would be an optimistic driveline loss of just 11%).

The pair of Garrett GTX4202R Turbos spools to about 25 PSI, so the V10 has been forged to take the extra punishment. The six-speed manual tranny of the original car might have been a good setup for the street races. Still, the Brazilian Viper sports an Emco sequential box with six speeds. To achieve the massive horsepower ratings, the ten-cylinder ogre burns E100 Ethanol.

The purpose of this build wasn’t to get the best time in the quarter-mile sprint but to score big in the half-mile speed trial. The end result is a new Brazilian record for the 880-yard top speed, with a 225.48 mph terminal velocity across the finish line. That’s 362.88 kph in 14.95 seconds.

In all fairness, the SRT-10 came into its own once it passed the quarter-mile mark (which it did in 10.53 seconds, at a speed of 174.35 mph / 280.59 kph). This Dodge wasn’t built for catapulting acceleration. The zero-to-sixty miles per hour (97 kph) time of 4.31 seconds stands as solid proof of this (in metric measurements, the Dragy instruments recorded a 0-100 kph of 4.43 seconds).

The twin-turbo Viper blasted from 100 mph to 200 mph (161 kph – 322 kph) in 6.1 seconds and kept pulling hard until it shot across the trap. The builder doesn’t say the rear axle ratio is, but his declared intentions were to build a fast car from the start, not necessarily a quick one.

The Race 100-200 event consists of three main categories: a 402-meter / classic quarter-mile drag race (where the best time wins), an 804-meter (half-mile) top-speed sprint, and a 1,000-meter (Brazil uses the metric system) top-speed contest (1,093 yards, or 3,281 feet).

As a final note, in August of last year, the same car – and the same driver (who’s also the builder and tuner) – achieved a personal best of 336.23 kph (208.92 mph) in 15.25 seconds. That race, however, occurred at a different location – play the second video below – and not on the Franca Airport strip (which, by the way, is set at an altitude of 1,003 meters / 3,291 feet above sea level).