Hummers aren’t as great as a lot of people think they are. Yeah, I said it. It’s a heavy brick of a vehicle that in most forms was underpowered, seriously over-geared, with an interior designed by the Marquis de Sade and an underpowered lump of a diesel engine pushing it around. It’s only redeeming quality, in my eyes at least, is it’s off-road prowess. I have stories involving scared military driving instructors hanging onto whatever they could as I proved the HMMWV’s worth on tank trails. My main complaint was always the unhurried power delivery…while it varied from truck to truck, generally HMMWVs accelerate like the seasons change: slowly.
Grant Fraysier’s Hummer H1, however, has a great big cure for that ailment, in the form of a Steve Morris-built 615ci big-block Chevy mill that is force-fed with a Procharger to the tune of 3,029 horsepower and 2,006 ft/lb of torque. The Outlaw-class sand dragger looks less like a Hummer and more like a big-tire drag car. Does it work? The rooster tails of sand flung up by the big paddle tires will tell you everything you need to know.
Beats the snot out of all the HMMWVs I’ve driven. To me it looks like one of those fiberglass Hummer kits that bolt onto a Suburban frame. That would be a much better starting point than a 9k pound, over priced actual HMMWV. Plus the suspension set up on a HMMWV would be hell to get to work in this application. Supposedly that’s why they kept the 6.2 instead of the Duramax, for longevity concerns with the cv joints, gear hubs etc.
I agree with the above comment. This is not nor likely ever was an HMMWV