Twin-turbo 1,400 HP GT350 Sounds like Heaven, Goes like Hell
World record-breaking Shelby proves that we shouldn’t stick a fork in the GT350 just yet.
Look, we get it. The Shelby GT500 is the new kid on the block, and it seemingly sucked all the wind out of the GT350 balloon as soon as Ford pulled the covers off its latest snake. But we’re here to tell you that the GT350 ain’t dead yet. And when you add prodigious amounts of boost to Ford’s high-revvin’ Voodoo flat-crank wonder, it’s pretty darn fast in a straight line, too.
None, however, are quite as quick as Fathouse Fab’s 1400R, as they call it. This is the Shelby specialist’s range-topping twin-turbo package, one that produces (you guessed it) 1,400 horsepower (at the wheels!!!) on E85 or race gas. Running 93 pump gas will only net you a “mere” 850 at the wheels. But we’re assuming that the one we see here in BigKleib34‘s video from Street Car Takeover in Indianapolis is running full tilt.
Of course, the Xona Rotor dual ball bearing turbochargers are the star of this car’s upgrades. But there’s much more to building a GT350 capable of making this kind of power, as you would imagine. Things like stainless headers, a Magnaflow exhaust, Motec M150 ECU Package, Injector Dynamics injectors, return style fuel system, a sleeved block with forged internals, billet oil pump gears, crank sprocket, and much, much more.
Fabhouse also upgrades the driveshaft, axles, and clutch so you don’t have to worry about breaking stuff on your very first pass. They claim that these upgrades are good enough to make your GT350 an 8-second car right out of the box. Which is easy to believe. But we still love watching this one do work on the track. And my God, what glorious sounds this thing makes. Honestly, this might be the best sounding car on the planet, at least in our slightly biased opinion.
On the first pass, this monster from hell stumbles off the line. But it quickly regroups and blows past a Camaro to record a 10.16-second pass. The Shelby redeems itself on the next pass, ripping off an 8.65 at 163 mph. That’s good enough for a GT350 world record, for starters. But it’s also one heck of a pass for a manual car of any type. And the Fabhouse crew drove the thing to the track, breaking the record on its fourth-ever pass. Thus, we can safely say that it isn’t quite time to stick a fork in the GT350 just yet.
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