---
title: "Watch This LS-Swapped Chevrolet 1500 Pickup Wave Goodbye to a Dodge Challenger"
description: "The old extended cab can really get up and go."
date: "2017-10-17"
modified: "2017-10-17"
authors:
  - name: "Kyle Cheromcha"
    job_title: "Editor-in-Chief"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/kyle-cheromcha"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/watch-this/15221/watch-this-ls-swapped-chevrolet-1500-pickup-wave-goodbye-to-a-dodge-challenger"
categories:
  - "Chevrolet News"
  - "Dodge News"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
  - "Watch This"
tags:
  - "1500"
  - "Chevrolet"
  - "Dodge Challenger"
  - "Drag Race"
  - "LS Swap"
  - "pickup"
  - "Supercharged"
---

# Watch This LS-Swapped Chevrolet 1500 Pickup Wave Goodbye to a Dodge Challenger

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/images-by-url-td/content/2017/10/truck-1.png>)
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We at *The Drive* love a good [high-performance pickup truck,](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/14347/this-heroic-dealer-will-sell-you-a-new-ford-f-150-lightning-with-650-hp-and-a-warranty>) practicality be damned. And really, what's more practical [than a truck](<https://www.thedrive.com/watch-this/9958/turbo-chevy-silverado-vs-ford-f150-svt-lightning-who-ya-got>) that can smoke a supercharged Dodge Challenger from a rolling start and *still* haul a big load of 2x4s back from Home Depot?

This cat-and-mouse game between an early-90s Chevrolet C/K with an [LS engine swap](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/14996/this-bmw-5-series-wagon-is-powered-by-a-6-0-liter-ls2-engine>) and a current-generation Dodge Challenger SRT 392 with a ProCharger kit was posted to YouTube over the weekend. While we'd much rather see [this kind of action](<https://www.thedrive.com/watch-this/14886/watch-this-chevrolet-tahoe-destroy-a-camaro-with-a-nine-second-quarter-mile-run>) confined to the relative safety of a drag strip, at least these guys had the sense to pick an empty highway for their shenanigans.

The video shows three pulls from a rolling start. You can hear the passenger-turned-cameraman in the Challenger calling out the countdown, and the roar between the truck's turbocharged LS engine and the Dodge's supercharged 6.4-liter HEMI V8 is practically deafening. With the engine swap and the turbo, the Chevy has to be putting out at least 500 horsepower. And considering how easily it walks away from the Challenger—which in stock form has 485 HP and 470 lb-ft of torque, not to mention the supercharger—it's probably pushing 600.

Watching that old extended cab put the hammer down is truly a beautiful sight. We're not sure what the Challenger driver was expecting, but between the truck's lowered stance and [copious amount of melted rubber](<https://www.thedrive.com/watch-this/14488/oh-yes-that-awesome-dealer-built-ford-f-150-lightning-is-great-at-burnouts>) stuck around the back fender, he had to have known things weren't what they seemed. Be sure to watch through to the end (unless you're a Mopar fan) to see the Chevy driver casually wave goodbye as he overtakes on the last pull.

https://youtube.com/embed/BUWpKd1WPRw

## Author
Overseeing an expert staff of writers and editors from his lair in Los Angeles, Kyle shapes The Drive’s singular approach to covering the automotive industry and car culture. He’s been with the site as a writer since 2017, taking over as editor in 2019. On a daily basis, Kyle is responsible for directing The Drive's editorial news and car review content strategies, setting special coverage priorities, managing complex reporting projects, and ensuring what you read on the page meets our high internal standards for quality and trustworthiness. He is also the executive producer of The Drive's YouTube channel, which was relaunched in February 2024 to great acclaim and has accumulated over 14M new views in its first year back on the scene. He hosts a biweekly series on the channel where he breaks down fascinating and complicated stories from the automotive world.

### Author social links  
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