Eight-second Street Driver On 17" Radials

[2rismo]

Taken from a US forum:

The car is a 1989 notchback with a 351 dart block stroked to 427 cid. I run tfs-r heads ported by TEA and an efi spyder. The blower is a procharger F-2. I tune the car via an accel gen VII. To many people's surpise, the transmission is a lentech AOD. I drive the car all over the place and don't own a trailer. It is by no means a gutted race car. It has a full interior and a stereo with a 10 inch subwoofer in the trunk. The car weighs in at a porky 3650 with me in it.

The thing that throws off most people about the car is that it pretty much looks like your average 13 second mustang with a set of 17 inch rims on it. The car has a stock hood and everything runs through a set of 3 inch tailpipes. The car sounds healthy, but nobody expects it to run the numbers it does. My current best et is an 8.91 at 160 mph.

I actually got my NHRA competition license on 17 inch rims. I think I might have been the first person in history to do that.

Anyway, here are some pictures:

exterior shot after an nmra race (normally there are no stickers on the car):

Pulling a heavy 17 inch wheel off the ground:

Just your average notchback:

Interior shot:

Motor shot:

I do have a set of drag rims, but have not actually made a full pass on them.

[JAS-25T]

WOW - thats tops. ultimate sleeper.

does anyone else thing they look like an XF coupe?

[N1GTR]

As said - awesome sleeper

[GTS4WD]

does anyone else thing they look like an XF coupe?

YES!

I first glanced at the photos an thought.. "geee.. another bogan that made their XF run on VB and got their mate to push it to the pub in under 8 sec"

Very impressive though..

[2rismo]

They're a smaller looking car than an XF but at 3650lbs race weight this is showing some serious horsepower. An F2 Procharger is a big puppy too.

[FATAZZ]

In the pic of the motor,is that big pipe going into the cabin?

[2rismo]

Yes. Intercooler in cabin. You'll also notice that the intake pipe to the 90deg elbow on top of the manifold comes forward through the firewall, from the intercooler.

[swanny180]

Hmmm considering its LHD, it looks like the pipe going to the cooler would be going drivers side of the cabin? That seems like a weird setup, where in the cabin is the cooler located?

Absolutely phenomenal car though, crazy crazy numbers to be running!!

[2rismo]

Behind the dash.

[whatsisname]

Nice find, Adrian.

This is exactly my kind of car, low key, no fuss, clean and tidy looking on matching 17's, nice engine set-up and under bonnet detail, with serious grunt and outstanding results on the strip!

[icydude]

5.0 mustangs are the farthest thing from sleepers in north america.

you can run 8's for 15000 easily