As of now, Dodge isn’t putting a big, new V8 under the hood of the Charger muscle car. So that leaves you with either buying an older-generation model or waiting for Dodge to eventually put one in the muscle car.
Yet YouTuber Rob Dahm didn’t want to sit around and wait for a nearly 1,000hp engine to go under the hood of the 2026 Dodge Charger. So he decided to take the current car with its inline-six engine and create something very special.
In short, he would push the engine to its limits.
Dahm decided to take the current Dodge Charger with its Hurricane inline-six engine and see just what it could do. With a massive single turbocharger added, he’s been seeing how much power he can extract, pushing the engine and transmission to almost the breaking point.
In fact, as it stands, his 2026 Charger is making so much power that the transmission simply can’t keep up with what the engine is producing. Dahm will need to do some extra work on his Charger to ensure it doesn’t destroy the transmission.
How Much Power Is the 2026 Charger Producing?
Dahm did a lot of work to upgrade the car. He installed a Turbosmart 7275 turbocharger on the Charger, along with a CPC Manufacturing billet intake manifold. This has a secondary fuel rail to ensure the engine is getting all the gas it needs. Dahmn also added a Fuel Lab surge tank, which now sits where the passenger seat was, ensuring the car doesn’t run out of fuel on a high-boost run.
As standard, the current 2026 Dodge Charger’s inline-six engine produces 550hp in its twin-turbocharged Scat Pack trim. Yet Dahm managed to pull 848hp from his Dodge with a full exhaust system. But he felt he could get more power out of the car, thinking the back pressure was building up so much that it was limiting the car’s power output. So it was taken off to see what the car would do.
With the exhaust removed, power shot up to a ridiculous 920hp. That was on 40psi of boost, but the YouTuber wasn’t done yet. He gave the Dodge 46psi of boost, plus a shot of nitrous. Power then rose even higher to a staggering 970hp and 863lb-ft of torque. This has also been done without messing with the car’s eight-speed automatic transmission.
It is still running the stock transmission, and that will likely be Dahm’s next area of focus.
The Transmission Stopped the Power From Rising Higher
In fact, the transmission sensed danger during the dyno runs, so it forced a shift, stopping power from reaching four-figure territory. Dahm even enabled manual mode, but the transmission still got frightened by the boost it saw, so it dropped from sixth to seventh gear early as a precaution. Dahm will have to perform some computer magic to stop the transmission from slipping into another gear.
It may also need a bit more work to ensure it can handle the extra power. While most people will still want a V8 under the hood of the Charger, Dahm’s ability to pull so much power from this car is incredibly impressive. His work showed the Hurricane inline-six engine’s potential and why enthusiasts shouldn’t turn their noses up at it.