Watch This 3,200HP Twin-Supercharged Ford Mustang Run a 4.18 Quarter

Don’t blink. You may miss it.

bySean Evans|
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It’s very rare to find two superchargers working in tandem on an engine. Many have tried, few have succeeded. Brooklyn native “Mustang Mike” Modeste belongs to the latter group. Modeste is a six-time drag racing champion and one of a handful to belong to the “Six-Second Drag Radial Club.” His lightning-fast steel bomber? A Fox Body Mustang with twin ProCharger F-1Xs affixed to a 670 cubic inch Ford engine, a unit Modeste built himself. That combo generates a staggering 3,200 horsepower and allows the coupe to post aggressively blistering quarter-mile times, like this 4.18 second blast at 184 mph.

Last week, Modeste and his blue blur turned up at Lights Out 7 at the South Georgia Motorsports Park, allowing people to get up close to the monster of a dragger. Look close at the twin chargers and notice that Modeste’s written “We are not turbos” and “Yeah! We get that a lot!” on each, because he’s tired of explaining the unique setup to inquisitive passersby.

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He also says that five years ago, when he last had the engine dynoed, it cranked out 2,936 ponies. Now he believes that number to be north of 3,200. That’s a whole lot of gallop. (What will Modeste get it up to in another five years?) We’re treated to a rear view of the Blue Oval screaming out of sight, again putting up a stupid-fast time of 4.17 seconds at 186 mph. It makes the competing ‘Stang—which put up a very respectable 6.6—look slower than a drunk sloth. Check it out.

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