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Simple, rugged, lightweight, and a metric ton of boosted LSX power; man, do we love us some LSX buggies! In this video we discovered on YouTube we found this extreme off-roader putting its massive power to use not on the sand dunes or dirt trails, but rather on the chassis dyno. All that shiny polished aluminum and ultra-nasty exhaust note left us wondering just what all was going on with this bad little dune buggy’s powerplant. After a bit of research we found that the engine was built by the good folks at Hutter Performance in Chardon, Ohio, and if you’re looking for straight up badness, this thing has all you can handle.
The foundation of this build is the C5R LSX block, and the engine breathes through a Wilson billet intake manifold that gets stuffed with all the atmosphere it can swallow by not one, not two, but, count them, four (!) turbos, that combine to push between 16 and 18 PSI. Now, if you’re expecting that a quad-turboed C5R mill should produce at least quad-digit horsepower and torque numbers, you won’t be disappointed. According to Wilson Manifolds, this thing makes over 1,000 horsepower and 1,200 pound feet of torque at those knobby rear tires. Making it all the more impressive, all that power is created on good old fashioned pump gas.
Now, what would be really cool is if we could hunt down some videos of this thing ripping wildly across the sand barely on the edge of control. Stay tuned…
