Now, he's working on fitting a Chevy C-10 pickup-truck front end to cope with the weight. He started out adapting parts from a C4 Corvette, then scrapped that plan. The front end of the car wasn't built for the massive tank engine, so Werner started adding parts to support it. Perfect.Įven a Crown Victoria has a weight limit. Lucky for Werner, he found a 2006 Ford Police Interceptor imported from Stockton, California. He needed something cheap, easy, and body-on-frame. He wanted an old Rolls-Royce, but any sturdy example was too expensive to justify cutting up. And with the help of two of the biggest turbochargers on the market and a custom ECU (the Meteor originally had magneto ignition), he thinks he's gonna get it.īut if a Bugatti is pushing the limit with 1500 horses, finding a suitable platform for the 2500-hp Meteor became its own challenge. Meteors make about 550 horsepower from the factory Merlins can get close to 2000. Werner also considered the Merlin-the aerospace version of the Meteor, with a supercharger and a different camshaft-but even that wasn't going to make the power he wanted.
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