---
title: "Watch a Hellcat-Powered Jeep Grand Cherokee Tear Up a Drag Strip"
description: "It's called the \"HellhaWK\" and it lives up to its name."
date: "2017-06-29"
modified: "2017-06-29"
authors:
  - name: "Eric Brandt"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/eric-brandt"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/watch-this/11989/watch-a-hellcat-powered-jeep-grand-cherokee-tear-up-a-drag-strip"
categories:
  - "Jeep News"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
  - "Watch This"
tags:
  - "Grand Cherokee"
  - "Hellcat"
  - "Hellhawk"
  - "Jeep"
  - "sports car"
  - "suv/crossover"
  - "Trackhawk"
  - "True Street Performance"
---

# Watch a Hellcat-Powered Jeep Grand Cherokee Tear Up a Drag Strip

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/images-by-url-td/content/2017/06/hellhawk-2.jpg>)
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The madmen at [True Street Performance](<https://www.facebook.com/truestreetjim/>) in New York have created a monster. They got a little too anxious for the upcoming [Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/9126/the-jeep-grand-cherokee-trackhawk-is-707-hp-of-all-wheel-drive-hellcat-suv>) that’s coming out later this year, so they stuffed a Hellcat-sourced 707 horsepower Hemi V8 into an all-wheel drive WK Grand Cherokee from the mid-late 2000s. Here it is obliterating a dyno:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BVmpd-PnZMk

It sounds like the HellhaWK happened almost by accident. “We had an extra motor and a donor body we were trying to decide what to do with... and came up with putting them together,” shop owner Jim [told *Jalopnik*](<https://truckyeah.jalopnik.com/someone-made-their-own-jeep-grand-cherokee-hellcat-and-1796488209>). The idea began with a customer asking if they could make a custom Jeep Hellcat, so they put this one together to see how it would turn out. Here's how it turned out.

https://youtube.com/embed/RW3yC6q46t4

According to a Facebook post, this beast had an even better run doing 10.5 seconds at 132 mph.

Upgrades other than the engine swap include a Paramount Performance transmission, stronger axles, and a new differential. The transfer case is stock and clearly has no problem handling this much power—at least not yet.

Jim indicated that the cost for a build like this would cost around $40-50,000. Not too bad for an SUV that can hustle the quarter mile in 10.5 seconds.

So, if you’re looking for a more budget-friendly alternative to the all-new Trackhawk, and if you really need to get home from the mall in a hurry, [True Street Performance](<https://truestreetperformance.com/>) is here to help.

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