Why buy a Bugatti Veyron when you can get yourself an old police car and make just as much power for literal pennies on the dollar.
When the Bugatti Veyron came out in 2005 it had a whopping price tag and a gargantuan size engine capable of a metric 1,001 HP or 987 American Horsepowers. That’s a lot. But one of my favorite Youtubers, Cleetus McFarland, took his project Ford Crown Victoria to flavortown earlier in 2018 and took the supercharged 5.4L under the hood of this cop car all the way to 1,000 HP and beyond theoretically making, at various points on their power curve, more horsepower than a Bugatti Veyron. And if you think of it, this police car made considerably more horsepower than that French assembled hypercar because all those American Horsepowers where made at the wheels!
Check out the amazing video for yourself below!
Keep in mind that if you’ve been following along on this crazy build, there’s no ordinary engine underneath the hood as they’re using a modular 5.4L V8 engine from a Ford Mustang GT500 that they got wrecked for a grand total of just $7,500. What a steal!
From there, his crack team of wrenchers and tuner, which he shares a garage with, slowly swapped out crank pulleys on that 5.4L’s eaton Supercharger to crank up the boost. Dynoruns progressively got nuanced with their 5.4L engine making that much more horsepower on every pull.
Their first pull netted them 819 HP and 707 HP. Form there, the dyno pulls that progressively got more power include jumps to 844 HP and 727 lb-ft, 872 HP and 763 lb-ft, 897 HP and 785 lb-ft which, at that point, they were really only trying to eke out three more HP to hit 900.
A turn of a nitrous bottle brought them to a whopping 1,068 HP and 967 lb-ft which was, unfortunately, all she had to give. In their next video, the Crown Vis suffered catastrophic engine failure.
Before you get all mad at my title, I’m well aware that the Veyron can make its power reliably, day in and day out, and not break down like this Crown Vic did and I’m really comparing apples to oranges.
Still, pretty cool.
Source: Cleetus McFarland
