Turbo LSX SN-95 Mustang Has No Time for a Hood
This 1000-plus-hp monster runs 8s, so who cares if it has a hood?
How much turbo is too much turbo? When your engine and turbo setup is too tall to fit under the hood, that might be one indication. But when you can roast your tires all day long, and then run mid-8s in the quarter mile? That’s just an indication that you’re doing it right. Sure, an LS engine in a Mustang is going to make some people mad, but do the ends justify the means? In this case, we say, “Hell yeah they do!” This Mustang is a monster, and it sounds like it’s going to destroy worlds. We don’t care what engine is in it, we just want to drive it.
There’s a long-running joke on the YouTube show Roadkill, where they take the hood off of their car when it is overheating or breaking down in some fashion. However, it’s fair to say that this car is about as far from one of their beater builds as one can get. Where else can you see reliable and dependable 1000-horsepower engines making reasonably predictable 8-second runs? The Mustang chassis is a venerable performer, but with this much power, you could get a bathtub to run in the 8s.
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We’re not really engineers, but we’re inclined to believe that putting some form of hood, even a partial one, on this car would help reduce aerodynamic drag at the top end of the track, and they might be able to get another couple of hundredths off of their time basically for free. Then again, when you have enough power to punch a hole in the space-time continuum, perhaps a hood is the least of your worries.
What do you think? Would you put a twin-turbocharged, huge-displacement LS engine in your Mustang and run it without a hood?
Via [BigKleib34]
