Kyle Williams' 8-Turbo-Boosted V8-Powered 1995 Ford Mustang
During the day, Kyle Williams drives some of the world’s biggest dump trucks in the sand mines of Alberta, Canada. And when he’s not hauling sand in 400-ton Caterpillar trucks, he’s working in his garage. Lately, it’s a 1995 Ford Mustang with what some might say is an overabundance of turbos: eight, which is one for each cylinder in his engine-swapped muscle car.
He had been racing a 2003 Mustang, but during a race the car in front of him sprayed coolant all over the track and the officials didn’t catch it. Williams skidded through the coolant puddle straight into a wall, effectively totaling his car. It was July, and in Canada the race season would end in October so he needed something fast; he bought a 1995 Mustang rolling chassis within a couple of weeks.
For $13,000, Williams now had a rolling chassis with no engine or transmission, but it was already fitted with a cage, performance brakes, rear end, wheels, and tires. He added the 5.3-liter LS engine that had been in the wrecked Mustang and a new transmission, built a turbo kit, wired it up, and got it ready to race 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 88-millimeter turbo.
“Nobody thinks an LS belongs in a Mustang but I did it anyway because that’s the cheapest way to go fast,” Williams says.
(photo credit: The Drive)
