Over 5000 Turbocharged Horsepower Recorded on a Hub Dyno - FuelTech’s Hub Dyno Record Smashed with a 5326 Horsepower Result!
The evolution of engine building and making big horsepower has really ramped up in the last decade! Although there are classes that keep those power figures in check with weight and power-adder restrictions, seeing the potential of what’s available to consumers is still eye-opening!
FuelTech had some big numbers recently result on their hub dyno, spawning the bench racing sessions of just how quick and fast a door car can navigate the eighth-mile and quarter-mile distance.
A once in-a-lifetime drag-and-drive: Edelbrock Sick 66, held October 10th-18th 2024. It checks all the boxes: Route 66, over 50 checkpoints, 6 tracks, and an epic experience. Don’t miss your chance; CLICK HERE for more info on Sick 66.
To offer a starting point comparison - last year we posted a story about Mark Micke’s new ’69 Chevrolet Camaro Pro Mod build, which spun the hub dyno at FuelTech’s Georgia location to 4779 horsepower!
About ten months after the car’s debut, it light the scoreboards at Bradenton Motorsports Park with a 5.359 at 272.94 mph run, the quickest pass by a door car in drag racing history at the time. His incrementals read .926 seconds to the 60 foot, and an eighth-mile time of 3.575 at 219.19 miles per hour.
Fast forward two months, and several days of testing was underway at Bradenton Motorsports Park in preparation for their US Street Nationals event held the last weekend in January 2024.
‘Turbo Todd’ Moyer, a man with several wins and records to his name already, shocked the racing world with a 5.14 at 273 mph pass! This was accomplished with a blistering 3.457 at 233.92 mph eighth-mile, and the throttle was reportedly closed just before the 1000 foot mark!
To have a direct comparison of the two turbocharged Pro Mod rides, and know the power level of one, it has been speculated that the engine in Moyer’s ride was making in excess of 5300 horsepower.
Just a couple days ago, FuelTech had a brand new Jerry Bickle Race Cars Chevrolet Camaro race car on their hub dyno. And after only three pulls, the FuelTech hub dyno record has been broken to the tune of 5326 horsepower!
The Camaro, owned by Australian Andrew Zada, was at FuelTech for some shakedown and tuning by crew chief Paul Mouhavet to get the car ready for track testing this fall. Packing a MH6 ProLine Hemi powerplant wearing a pair of Precision Turbo Next Gen 98-millimeter turbochargers, a M&M Transmission sits in the tunnel.
With the power levels we’re seeing, could 4-second quarter-mile elapsed times be possible in good air this fall?
Check out the full video below:
Written by Derek Putnam. Photos and video courtesy of FuelTech.
If you have thoughts / feedback / ideas, please e-mail us at derek@sickthemagazine.com