The Hoonicorn RTR
You’ve seen it “Wild in the Streets” with the Gymkhana 7 video, but now here are the details on the star of the show. This is Ken Block’s 1965 Ford Mustang, known as the Hoonicorn RTR, and here are the details you’ve been looking for to make your own … if you have a few hundred-thousand to spare.
The body starts off as a 1965 Ford Mustang notchback, but then gets fitted with a carbon-fiber widebody treatment that’s designed by RTR, the Head-Hoonigan-In-Charge Ken Block, Auto Sport Dynamics (ASD) and the Hoonigan team. The fifteen52 wheels are the Tarmac R40 models in 18×10.5 with custom compound Pirelli Trofeo R tires in 295/30 R18.
Inside, Ken is protected by an ASD-built roll cage with a carbon-fiber dash filled with a MoTeC display, custom Auto Meter Hoonigan gauges, Recaro race seats, and a custom-machined handbrake lever with the Hoonigan logo.
It uses a full tubular chassis with custom suspension mounts that also locate the JRi dampers with Eibach springs into an inboard cantilever system. Why was this done? Well, this is where the Hoonicorn RTR gets interesting.
Instead of using just the rear wheels to propel it down the streets of Los Angeles, it uses all four thanks to a six-speed Sadev SC90-24/170 all-wheel-drive transmission. The hydraulic handbrake also actuates from this system just like Ken’s RallyCross car does.
That transmission also sends the 845-horsepower, 720-lb-ft beating that the Roush Yates 410-ci V8 puts it through to the Sadev SP03 differentials at both ends of the car. The engine is fed by eight Kinsler individual throttle bodies and is controlled by a MoTeC engine management system.