During the day, Kyle Williams drives some of the world’s largest dump trucks in the Alberta, Canada sand mines. And when he’s not hauling sand on 400-ton Caterpillar trucks, he’s working in his garage. Lately, it’s a 1995 Ford Mustang with what some might say is a superabundance of turbos: eight, which is one for each cylinder in your replaced-engine muscle car.
He was competing with a 2003 Mustang, but during a race the car in front of him spilled coolant all over the track and the officers didn’t notice. Williams skidded through the puddle of soda straight into a wall, effectively destroying his car. It was July, and in Canada the racing season would end in October, so he needed something quick; he bought a 1995 Mustang bearing chassis within a few weeks.
For $ 13,000, Williams now had a bearing chassis without an engine or transmission, but it was already equipped with a cage, performance brakes, rear, wheels and tires. He added the 5.3-liter LS engine that was in the wrecked Mustang and a new transmission, built a turbo kit, started it and got it ready to run again in six weeks. Before the end of the season, he ran a personal best of 8.60 seconds at 160 mph on a single 88mm turbo.
“Nobody thinks an LS belongs to a Mustang, but I did it anyway because that is the cheapest way to go fast,” says Williams.
Williams’ first car was a 1996 Ford Escort LX with a 1.9-liter engine, which he purchased in 2006. The car forums were growing in popularity at the time, and he took charge of gathering research and was able to power his small 88-horsepower engine. own account. In the process, he blew up the first version and the second version generated just five pounds per square inch of increase. He has learned a lot since then, he says, and has applied all the lessons he knows so far in his Ford eight turbo. Williams had to create a custom autonomous system and quickly learned that not many people are installing eight turbos. Who knows.
“The biggest challenge with this construction on the Honda four turbo is the lubrication system,” he says. “Eight turbos require a lot of oil and I didn’t want to use the engine’s oil pump to power the turbos and possibly lose oil pressure to the engine.”
With some trial and error, he discovered what would work in his configuration. Dinosaur Day for the Mustang is coming and Williams says he will be upset if he doesn’t generate 1,000 horses. In fact, he installed a single express nitrogen nebulizer in case it didn’t reach 1,000 in the increase alone; nitro adds another 200 hp.
It looks like a mix of a steam locomotive and a muscle car and I’m all for it.