Vicious Mustang Puts Down 1003whp!

[Tinker]

Who else out there remembers when 450hp was usually considered barely streetable?

[Che70velle]

Originally Posted by Tinker

Who else out there remembers when 450hp was usually considered barely streetable?

No kidding! My 02' Z06 had 405 flywheel hp, and I thought that I had me a monster...LOL!!

[GregWeld]

Originally Posted by Che70velle

No kidding! My 02' Z06 had 405 flywheel hp, and I thought that I had me a monster...LOL!!

Where's the like button!


LOL



FACT!


Or you bought a big ass crate motor! A 502!! with 502 hp!

[preston]

I'm making 650whp on low boost and it scares me every time I drive it - for the last 2 years ! I'm not "getting used to it" lol although yeah I don't drive it that much these days.

Yeah I remember when the new 4.6 cobra 4v came out and people were strapping on blowers and making 420whp out of the box and I remember thinking, "wow we have just gone too far now - what is the point of even building a hot rod if these guys can make SO MUCH power on a factory motor so easily ??"

Still remember the first time I saw a magazine car claiming 1000fhp, it was a TT 331 ci Saleen Mustang 5.0. I just thought wow that is stupid I bet that motor is a total hand grenade anyway. But I was intrigued by twin turbos in a street car....

Ramble on over to the forced induction section of the Corvette forum - now a days you're pretty much a chump if you're not making 1000whp. I don't know where those guys are doing all that roll racing to 150mph but I"m glad it doesn't seem to be anywhere around me !!

[Vegas69]

Stunning, but a track car? I find that hard to believe.

[Sheck44]

Seriously awesome car ... 10,000 hours of work, WOW !!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvAqEGbkx5E

Steve

[GregWeld]

Originally Posted by Sheck44

Seriously awesome car ... 10,000 hours of work, WOW !!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvAqEGbkx5E

Steve

Think about that amount of HOURS ---- there's 2080 hours in a year of working 40 hours a week -- 52 weeks of the year -- no vacation..... So 10,000 hours is 4 guys working on the car non-stop every day all day long for a year.

[Che70velle]

Originally Posted by GregWeld

Think about that amount of HOURS ---- there's 2080 hours in a year of working 40 hours a week -- 52 weeks of the year -- no vacation..... So 10,000 hours is 4 guys working on the car non-stop every day all day long for a year.

Yeah...then multiply the number of hours X an average shops hourly labor charge. Wow.

[rustomatic]

That year was supposedly nine months, so pay more in less time, for probably more than four guys/subs. We knew in advance that Vicious was a seven-figure car, so yeah, the person paying can probably handle some errant gravel damage . . .

It was painful trying to watch the Jay's Garage episode--the builder looked like he was watching somebody key the poor car (while tolerating the host's rambling lack of awareness). Pretty much every significant element of build design/quality/ingenuity/fab skill went unnoticed.

[Centerforce]

Originally Posted by Vegas69

It sounds great until a car goes off the track ahead of you and you go through a cloud of rocks.

Maybe the owner has deep pockets and doesn't care. Kudos to him!

Originally Posted by GregWeld

Think about that amount of HOURS ---- there's 2080 hours in a year of working 40 hours a week -- 52 weeks of the year -- no vacation..... So 10,000 hours is 4 guys working on the car non-stop every day all day long for a year.

Originally Posted by Che70velle

Yeah...then multiply the number of hours X an average shops hourly labor charge. Wow.

Originally Posted by rustomatic

That year was supposedly nine months, so pay more in less time, for probably more than four guys/subs. We knew in advance that Vicious was a seven-figure car, so yeah, the person paying can probably handle some errant gravel damage . . .

It was painful trying to watch the Jay's Garage episode--the builder looked like he was watching somebody key the poor car (while tolerating the host's rambling lack of awareness). Pretty much every significant element of build design/quality/ingenuity/fab skill went unnoticed.

The risk of damage is always there, but pretty minimal in autox and non-sanctioned racing where you aren't door-to-door with other cars. We have no doubt that the owner could have the car repaired in the case that anything did happen to it.

We actually haven't thought about the hours in those terms, but it really helps put it in perspective, Greg. There were times in the last month leading up to completion where every worker in the shop was working on something for the build, so the hours added up FAST.