(By Jason Mazzotta) – Sometimes it is easy to lose reality of how powerful or how fast some cars actually are when they are surrounded by equally matched cars at a racetrack. A good example is when you are watching NASCAR at a superspeedway like Daytona or Talladega and the cars are all thundering around the track at 200 mph but since they are all together it is easy to lose the sense of how fast each car actually is. When you watch a field of 200 mph drag cars go down the track, the 200 mph becomes just another run and it can lose some impact. But when you take a huge horsepowered car and put it in the middle of a car show cruise, it quickly catches everyone’s attention and the extent of its power and sound is easily realized.
Ben Wright’s very angry sounding blown Falcon is a prime example of a car that may be white noise at a dragstrip surrounded by other huge horsepower blower motors, but at a car show and cruising on the streets it is much more than just another blower motor car. Powered by a Dart 427 small block with an 8-71 supercharger making 20 pounds of boost, it is a car that turns heads with its looks and sound.
As the car cruise is slowly creeping down the streets of Topeka, Kansas, all that is heard is the blower roll from Wright’s Falcon. As he gives some space to the car in front of him, he opens it up doing a burnout so fierce it has people turning for cover and plugging their ears. As he lays down a huge smokey burnout and the sound is echoing off the nearby buildings, there is nothing but smiles from the onlookers.
Check out this wicked blown Flacon lay a monster burnout in the streets of Topeka
That car is Bad To The Bone!!
To every mustang owner who’s left a car show sideways careening into curbs and fences, guard rails and oncoming traffic THIS IS HOW ITS DONE!!!!!!
love high horsepowered cars—but a street line with people(by the way,they don’t make good guard rails) . how many times have we seen this go really bad. owner needs to turn up the idle a bit–or pull a air bleed to smooth out the idle
Absolutely not! Idle is perfect, sounds awesome. If you don’t love it, you don’t get it.
Amen brother. What great lope!
Ask Troy Critchley how well something like this worked out for him.
Old school cool still rules!
Yes, these “street track” events are asinine. Accident waiting to happen.
I don’t care…THAT’s what makes America great!
Yeah….things could go wrong, but they didn’t .
Very cool car.
Spectators get hurt at tracks too. At least there was a lot of room on this closed street compared to the usual four lane with cars coming in the other direction. It was pretty badass, and I would do the same thing had I been behind the wheel.
Truth be known after that initial group of people there was no one along the street on either side.That car has been around here for years.First time Ive seen it do more than just idle around.
Out of material again? this same article was posted on bangshift a couple of months ago.
https://youtu.be/gKzcV7IP_Oc
Now that is just plain stupid.
lmao! I jumped! The point you make is so legit. I worked with jet fighters and tankers non stop for several years. I was sitting in the city outside, more than a mile away and my hair rose to the epiphany. Hell on earth. Don’t lose the details of your own projects, I still do annoying things in quiet places…just regular projects. It does attract some haters sometimes.. such as in the comments sections.
That’s not a cam or blower thing. That’s blower surge and the barrel value is adjusted wrong that is not how it should idle. If you listen just before he gets to the turn he idles it up a bit that’s what it should sound like.
Signed 30+ years dragracer. That’s track not street!