We know that the Hellcat Hemi is capable of more power; even Dodge expects warmed-over 1000 horsepower Hellcats to be the norm sooner rather than later. But so far nobody has been able to crack the code that Chrysler is so protective about. That is, until now.

When Chrysler introduced this new approach for 2011 model year LX cars, it took Diablosport, a leading manufacturer of custom tuners, more than three years to crack the encryption and make tuning a reality on the new models. Before Diablosport made the breakthrough, enthusiasts went to the extent of replacing the entire computer system in 2011+ Challengers, Chargers, and Chrysler 300s with older tech in order to circumvent the problem.

While we have no doubt that there’s a wealth of untapped potential in the Hellcat’s 707 horsepower, 6.2-liter supercharged V8, Chrysler uses a newer, very tuner-unfriendly encryption method to lock their PCMs, likely to avoid being on the hook for warranty claims on modified cars. This RSA encryption is a military-style encription that makes it vastly harder to create custom software for the PCM.

From our friends at HP Tuners, we have not one, but two Hellcats that are spinning the rollers and making some heads turn. What we’ve found out is that if a person removes their PCM and sends it off to HP Tuners, they can bypass the RSA encryption and rewrite the files and return it to you, allowing more tuning power from the Hellcat Hemi. Other tuners have taken the 2014 code and replaced it in the 2015 PCM, but that code is only going to work for the non-boosted applications. For the supercharged Hellcat Hemi, the 2014 code won’t work and that’s where HP Tuners has made some strides as the first to break into the Hellcats DNA.

Alex Peitz at SeriousHP, shows us a dyno chart indicating a gain of 37 rear wheel horsepower and 30 pound-feet of torque, for a total of 705 rwhp and 630lb-ft of torque. Accounting for an 18% drivetrain loss, as SeriousHP does here, that equates to 830 horsepower and 743 pound-feet of torque at the crank, or a hell of a lot more than the 707 hp/650 lb-ft that Dodge purports that the stock Hellcat makes. Of course, it should be noted that there’s a difference in the readings for both hot and cold, but 687 rwhp and 611 lb-ft of torque is still very impressive.

The second Hellcat to pump up the rollers happened at Torrie McPhail’s Unleashed Tuning also turned in some impressive numbers with 680 rwhp and 616 lb-ft of torque, a gain of 33rwhp from their baseline run of 647rwhp, as seen in the video below. Both of these Hellcats were run on Friday the 13th this past March, and with this alteration of their DNA is the first and it comes from HP Tuners.

Thanks to the keyboard wizardry at HP Tuners, the Hellcat has been unleashed and its DNA is no longer secret. Who knows where the next wave of tuning will take us?