MOPAR Hellephant Crate Engine

MOPAR's Hellephant is an impressive crate engine, and the big numbers it commands are certainly worthy of attention: 1000 horsepower, 950 lb-ft of torque...and a $30,000 price tag. Like we said, all big, impressive numbers. Here's another potentially impressive figure - the lot of Hellephant crate engines slated for production sold out in less than 48 hours. We say this is potentially impressive because nobody seems to know how many engines are actually supposed to be built. So whether they sold 1 or 100 in 48 hours is anybody's guess. However many they sold, the fact is some people think the Hellephant is worth the coin. Obviously, that's a personal call. But if you're one of the people who think the demonic pachyderm's power-to-price ratio is kind of steep, we'd like to present you with a powerfully affordable alternative, PIE's 840 bhp Supercharged MAGNUM 408 Crate Engine. The price? About $15,000. And yeah, we know, our SC MAGNUM 408 is making 840 bhp to the Hellephant's 1,000, but think about this: our 408 crate is making 85% of the Hellephant's power at less than 50% of its price. With these kinds of numbers, we think our SC 408 crate engine is looking pretty impressive itself and worth considering for your next barn-burner, street-stormer, or track-terror project.

This isn't marketing hype either. These are real engines, built to order, ready to go when you are. In fact, here's a little rundown of one we just finished twisting the engine brake with. It made 843 hp and 740 lb/ft of torque on 15lbs of boost with our unique centrifugal supercharger kit. Built for Trip Boughtnight, the block started as a stock block that we hard block filled above the freeze plugs then fit with a set of billet 2 bolt main caps. We performed our basic performance prep machine work, which consists of square decking the block as well as boring and honing with a stress plate. The crank is a SCAT forged crank swinging a set of Chevy H beam rods and our custom JE blower pistons with Hellfire rings. The cam is one of our PIE grinds with 236 / 242 duration @ .585 lift and cut on 110 LSA. Sealing the cylinders is a set of Cometic head gaskets and ARP head studs. We utilized a set of Edelbrock heads that we CNC ported with 2.08" intake and 1.60" exhaust valves. Topping the engine off is an Indy 360-3M intake manifold."