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Hennessey Wraps up Visit to Barrett Jackson Orange County

June 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Hennessey Performance is settling back in after wrapping up our visit to Barrett Jackson’s first Orange County edition of the famed auto auction. Nestled right beside duPont Registry’s sprawling display, we had roughly 3,000 horsepower lined up under the awning for attendees to get up close with.

Here’s the rundown of what you missed out on:

It might be safe to say we had one of the highest power to square foot ratios on the grounds at this past weekends event!

And incidentally, if you watched SPEED’s coverage of the event, you may have seen our trailer during the sweep away transitions. The camera guy across from us was continually panning and sweeping for those commercial cutaways you see before sending you back to the auction block.

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Hennessey Ford GT 1000 Makes 972 Rear-Wheel Horsepower

September 21, 2009 By Leave a Comment

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Last month we brought you dyno video of a white and blue-striped Ford GT 700 — the Hennessey-upgraded GT that gains a solid 160 hp at the motor over stock — making 576 hp to the rear wheels.

In that post, we mentioned how it will soon become a twin-turbo/supercharged GT 1000 that will crack the 4-figure mark and turn it into one of the fastest Ford GT’s on the planet.

And as promised, here are the results…

On everyday 93-octane pump gas, the freshly completed GT 1000 put down 857 rear-wheel horsepower.

And when tuned for C16 leaded race fuel, it catapulted to 972 rwhp, teasing the DynoJet’s graph by coming in just under that vaunted 1,000 line. Who knows, maybe we’ll be bringing you a third video of this same car doing just that one of these days.

Until then, here are the latest adventures of this wicket GT:

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Dyno Video: 576 rwhp Hennessey Ford GT 700

August 11, 2009 By 1 Comment

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This 2006 white and blue-striped Ford GT came to the shop last week as a customer’s 710hp GT 700. But in a matter of weeks it will be leaving as a 1,000 hp twin turbo (and supercharged) GT 1000!

The Hennessey Ford GT 700 is the first level of upgrade packages we offer for the Ford GT. We take the supercharged 5.4L V8 from 12 psi to 16 psi of boost and add a custom-fabricated stainless steel exhaust, high-flow air filters as well as performing a thorough recalibration and tune of the computer and other on-board sensors to handle the added power.

The end result is a stout 160 hp gain over stock that gives Ford’s supercar the extra grunt it needs to take on the latest batch of high-horsepower exotics (and American speed demons like the Corvette ZR1 and 600hp 2008+ Vipers).

Here’s the video of the baseline test we ran of the car on our new Dyno Dynamics dyno before it goes under the wrench:

It made 576.5 to the wheels on a hot and humid Texas morning, putting it right in line for 700+ crank hp.

And if you think that sounds good, just wait until it hits the rollers as a GT 1000.

Stay tuned!

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