| 1000 Horsepower Hefner Twin Turbo!
Some history on the Ford Gt. The GT is similar to the original Ford GT40 cars, but bigger, wider, and three inches taller than the original 40 inches —as a result of which, a potential name for the car was the GT43. Three production prototype cars were shown in 2003 as part of Ford’s centenary, and delivery of the production Ford GT began in the fall of 2004. The car was produced in 2004,2005, and 2006 (with i think a few in 2007) for a total of only 3596 units made for sale in the US. The car is equipped with a 5.4 liter supercharged modular V8 550 HP/500 ft/lbs torque Ford motor. The car has a top speed of 205 MPH! Now, what makes this one a bit different? This one was sent to Jason Hefner, of Hefner Performance in Florida, where he built a custom twin turbo set up for the GT. The turbos pump out an impressive 22 lbs of boost, pushing the motor to produce 1000 horsepower on the dyno. The car has 3 modes to drive in, 90 octane (800 HP), 93 octane (850 HP), or 100 octane (1000 HP), all which are easily changeable. After receiving the car from Hefner, we decided that the car was a bit too quite still. We had Jason build us a custom exhaust from the turbo back with small race cats and no mufflers to increase flow (and noise of course). Shortly, we will be lowering the car about 1 inch all the way around to give it that mean stance. Next is how the car drives. The car is absolutely rediclulous, almost dangerous fast! First of all, the car is real fun to drive. It is not a talk on your cell phone, and sip on your coffee type of car. It is made for strapping yourself in, turning the radio off, putting the windows down, and driving. Once your in, you really feel like your in a race car. Visibility is not good when you first sit in it, but when your on the road, it feels right. Changing lanes takes a bit of care while looking out the small rear window. Although the ZO6 drives just as impressive (to a stock GT, not this one), the GT has much more of a race feel. As far as the motor, once you drive this one, a stock one would be boring. The turbos spool up, and its gone! In fact, the turbos are so powerful, that if not regulated properly, the rear wheels break loose at almost anyspeed. My first time driving it, I rolled onto the thottle in 3rd gear, and when the turbos spooled up a bit too fast, the wheels broke loose at about 110 mph! Absolutely crazy. Now that I am a bit more accustomed to the throttle, I can manage the power to the ground much better. December 12- We just detuned the car to the lowest setting to see how it drives which puts the motor at 800 HP running about 19-20 pounds of boost. The car actually drives in my opinion much better, or managable I should say. The turbos come on a bit slower and much more in control, and dont brake the tires loose everytime. You can actually drive the car and get into it a bit and enjoy it. Realistically, the car is probably faster for street driving now because there is much more control. And the new exhaust sounds unbelievable! I am very happy with the set up now! 2014- We had a motor problem at Willow Springs, causing a major failure. Since, we have installed the stock motor configuration back into the car. On top of that, we added some Ford Racing exhaust, and the Ford Racing Tune and Pulley kit which increases the horsepower about 100 HP. Now the car is track ready again. 
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