THIS IS THE MACK DADDY!! My name is andrew and this is my soon to be car...props out to justin and billy and stephen....this site jus started so give me some time...later dawgs
This bitch has 740 horses!!!!!
Here is the magazine article from Muscle Mustangs and Fast Fords they wrote on the MackDaddy if you would like to read it.
By John Hunkins
Potography by the author
We've never met 31-year-old Brain Mackhendrick, but we can tell that he's a Blue Oval motorhead to the highest degree. His '87 Mustang GT says it all: no compromise. Perhaps it's a combonation of his strong sense of independence and his friendship with the folks at Dugan Racing, but trust us when we say you don't want to mix it up with his black beauty on the back roads of georgia.
Before you dismiss Brians car as just another pretty face, we'll enlighten you about Brians GT in the Dugan Racing booth at the Atlanta Fun Ford Weekend, our Impression was of a nicley prepared but average looking 11-second driver. Truthfully, we usually gravitate toward brash bold-looking mustangs, and Brian's GT is relatively tame by comparison. and then Tom Dugan began describing the car.
"It's got a 352-cubic inch Ron Anderson -built motor with an R-Trim Vortech and it makes around 1,000 hp," said Tom.
'Oh really?" we asked. By now Dugan was reeling us in like an expert deep sea fisherman. "here are the keys, just don't bounce it off anything."
We slid behind the leather MOMO steering wheel, got comfortable in the Kustom fit seats, and tightly cinched the Auto Pro safety harness. pushing in the clutch on the aluminum Saleen racing pedal and a turn of the key, we were impressed with the aggressive snarl of the Vortech-huffed Rap bullet as it snapped to life. A few explorating blips of the throttle gave us some idea of the fury that was about to be unleashed.
Without slicks, a pass down the quarter-mile was out of the question (we had orders to keep it out of the guardrail, remember?), so we located a desolate stretch of pit access road on the edge of the Atlanta Dragway property. We had already been warned of the GT's blinding performance (it had an earlier run of 11.50/131 on radials being grannyshifted with a 2.54 60-foot time), but nothing quite prepares you for a Mustang like this.
Before we saw four grand, the 3.55-geared rear stepped sideways in a losing battle with traction. We gathered it back in, but only after felling an incredible force from behind. We're sure the killer Alpine stereo in Brains car sounds good, but there's no way it could plossibly compete with the lusty surge of that blown mill.
The road was running out fast, so we squeezed the binders on those huge Bear Racing cross-drilled rotors and felt are eyes pop out. Crank the wheel, set up for the turn, caress the throttle gently, and feel your brain leak out your ear as the Griggs Racing GR-40 suspension and 255/40R17 Dunlops on Cobra R 17x9-inch wheels vacuum the chassis to the road.
Phew! One could get used to this real quick. We toyed with the throttle again in an attempt to discover the extremely minimal point at which massive wheelspin erupts, and it was pretty minimal. Incredibly, the folks at Dugan say that Brains engine has been detuned from the 1,000-hp mark to make it docile on pump gas. It makes only 9 psi of boost after the massive Spearco intercooler, and a paltry 19 degress of timing is in at full boost, and that's made with a huge 3-inch 10-rib pulley spinning the R-Trim at a lazy 46,000 rpm.
The Ron Anderson Performance prepared engine is stroked and poked to 352 cubic inches and uses a 4-bolt SVO block with a 3.44-inch stroke Sonny Bryant crank. JE 9:1 forged pistons float on 5.400-inch Oliver billet rods and recive airflow through 2.05/1.60-inch valves set in stage 3 ported RAP Will-Burt Street Heat aluminum heads. The stainless valves are activated by 1.6:1-ratio Lunati roller rockers and a Lunati blower camshaft with 255/265 duration on a 114 lobe seperation angle with .660 inch lift. Fuel enters the equation via eight 55-lb./hr. low-impedance injectors managed by by an EFI Systems Programmable Management System. A Cartech Stage 2 fuel system easily keeps the hungry engine supplied with plenty of juice.
Air is fed to the balenced and blueprinted bullet by means of a ported Ron Anderson Performance intake, the aforementioned Spearco intercooler and a Vortch R-Trim blower. An 81mm Pro-M mass air meter monitors engine load for the EEC-IV computer and air is admitted to the intake through a BBK 80mm throtle body.
Dugan says there's more than $100,000 in the car but that's only because it's been rebuilt from the ground up several times. "This car's had two interiors, three engines and seven sets of wheels and tires, and all the sheetmetal except that on the doors and quarters has been replaced," he said. Now all brian need is a partidge in a pear tree.
Side notes from the article.
Brain Mackhendrick's 352-cubic-inch engine uses a 302 deck-height A4 block, a stroker Sonny Briant crank, Oliver rods, JE 9:1 forged pistons and fully ported Will-Burt aluminum heads. The powerplant was built by Ron Anderson and is artificialy inducted with a Vortch R-trim blower, a Spearco air to air intercooler and a ported RAP manifold. Brians marching orders were to build a 1,000-hp engine for a street car.
The all black interior featurs Kuston fit seats, a leather MOMO steering wheel, a Dugan 6-point roll bar, Alpine sterio equipment,Auto Pro saftey harnesses, Saleen race padals, Auto Meter gauges and an EFI Systems Programible Management System (formerly known as the Crane Intercepter 2).
Exterior enhancements are subtle but effective. Cobra R 17-inch wheels, Dunlop Radials (255/40R17 front, 275/40R17 rear),a Cervini hood, a Dugan whaletail and Dugan Cobra ground effects give Brian Mackhendrick's '87 GT a powerful yet tasteful appearance. Dugan swathed the GT in Sikkens urethane black paint.
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