Insane Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk Boasts 1,885 Horsepower
A stroker kit and jumbo supercharger propels this gonzo Hellcat-powered Cherokee to over 165 MPH
Toward the end of the 20th century, some wise engineers at Jeep saw fit to shoehorn a 5.9-liter Dodge V8 under the hood of the brand’s soccer mom favorite Grand Cherokee (ZJ). With that, the fuse was lit for increasingly visceral and bombastic creations, yet still relatively subdued — at least externally.
Perhaps the pinnacle of those hot-rod grocery-getters was the Grand Cherokee Trackhawk which was offered from 2018 to 2021. Under the Trackhawk’s hood beats a 6.2-liter supercharged Hemi V8 that cranks out 707 horsepower and 645 lb-ft of torque. And you thought the Wrangler Rubicon 392 was powerful.
Sometimes, 707 horsepower just isn’t enough
In factory form, Car and Driver piloted the Trackhawk from 0-60 MPH in just 3.5 seconds on its way to a standing quarter-mile time of 12.0 seconds. However, for the true thrill seekers among us, 707 horsepower just might not be enough. For that, there’s Al Numairy Performance in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Their insane take on the Cherokee Trackhawk strokes the Hellcat Hemi out to 7.0 liters displacement and adds a beefy 3.8-liter supercharger from Whipple.
Running on X98 ethanol fuel, the modded Trackhawk makes a bonkers 1,885 horsepower on Al Numairy’s in-house dyno. Though we do have to call one small foul on the dyno test. That 1,885 horsepower is measured at the engine’s crankshaft, not at the wheels. In English, that means the horsepower figure doesn’t account for the parasitic drag of the drivetrain like the transmission and axles. It’s safe to say that horsepower at the wheels is likely about 15% less than at the crank. That’s a pretty standard rule of thumb. Still, that’s 1,600 horsepower at the wheels which is more than double the stock output.
This Cherokee Trackhawk is faster than a Porsche 911 Turbo or Tesla Model S Plaid
We’d love to see what this machine can do in a traditional acceleration test like 0-60 MPH or a quarter mile drag race, but apparently, “roll racing” is a thing nowadays. In the case of our hopped-up Trackhawk, it passes the starting line already doing 60 MPH and the driver keeps the hammer down until it crests 165 MPH.
We should pause to mention that the company bringing us footage of the amped-up Trackhawk in action is Dragy Motorsports, which runs a YouTube channel of the same name. Dragy also sells a line of popular GPS performance meters so you can measure your vehicle’s acceleration without needing to visit a drag strip.
Browsing the interwebs, it seems like 60 to 130 MPH acceleration is a popular roll racing benchmark. To set the scene for you, a 2021 Tesla Model S Plaid logged a time of 4.7 seconds, while a 2021 Porsche 911 (992) Turbo S clocked in at 6.7 seconds per a Reddit discussion using mostly magazine tests to obtain the times. So how did our 1,885 horsepower Trackhawk do? It ripped from 60 to 130 MPH in a blazing 3.87 seconds. And the best part is that except for the wild vinyl wrap and drag radials, you’d probably never have suspect that kind of wallop. Could this heavily-massaged Trackhawk from Dubai be the ultimate sleeper?