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There is simply too much to share about this car and build see the link at the end of the story for more photos, and without writing a novel I have done my best to showcase two years of work within the box we have to play with here on Speedhunters. As you go through the story you will have to excuse some of these photos, as I realize they are not the standard quality you are used to seeing on the site but we did the best we could given the priority of building the car. Ken introduced me to his idea of a four wheel tire slaying classic Mustang during a hangout session one evening at his home in Park City, Utah. He wanted a classic Mustang that looked period correct and was absolutely bat shit crazy. Low, wide, and a slayer of all tires summed it up. This beast needed to be reliable enough to support demos and video projects, but serious enough to win Gymkhana competitions. This got my brain going crazy with ideasAfter a bit of wild brainstorming and idea spit balling, Ken asked me if it was a project that RTR would like to take on. I was absolutely flattered that he had asked us to build this car and we absolutely wanted to make the insane concept a reality. Thats pretty much where the Hoonicorn RTR idea was born and the two year long project began. Over the last 1. 0 years I have been fortunate enough to meet and work with some of the best in the business to bring wild ideas and my visions to reality. I am grateful that such talented people choose to spend their time supporting our project car builds and global motorsport activities. There was no question that we were going to require the best in the business to support this one of a kind project every step of the way. Our first choice for the build was utilizing the talents of ASD Motorsports, a group that I have entrusted to support many of my projects and competition efforts since 2. Ian Stewart, the owner of ASD, is an absolute genius when it comes to engineering, and the entire crew over there is unbelievable with metal fabrication and pretty much making any and all impossibilities come to life. In translating the interior and exterior design from verbal concept to paper, we teamed up with Andy Blackmore, who I worked with on the RTR X project. Andy and I connect very well and I knew he would be the best person to crank this off. Ken and Hoonigan were handling the livery design and wheel design, so those were a couple things that we did not have to worry about adding to the plate. My brain buzzed for weeks as I compiled inspiration for the interior and exterior design. The excitement of what this project was turning out to be in my head was causing me to lose sleep. Once the inspirational elements consisting of Group B rally cars, DTM cars, Mad Max movie vehicles, classic American muscle, wild Japanese builds, and old school racecar interiors were collected, the very collaborative design effort between Ken, the Hoonigan team, the RTR team, Andy Blackmore, and myself began. The design process was a long one, and it was constantly being critiqued and adjusted well into the first months of the build. This was a simple result of having so many perfectionists on board, all with the passion to make this one of the most epic machines ever built. How To Make Bitlord Torrents Faster there. In hindsight, it was a very fun process to have the opportunity to narrow down the possibilities. For the most part, we were only limited by our imaginations. The design process continued until we had a truly unique concept that everyone involved was proud of. Mythbusters Jaws Special'>Mythbusters Jaws Special. The process to get this final concept locked took us months. Achieving The Impossible. Obviously this project was an extremely technical one. St Century Fox Opening. We had to build a AWD racecar inside of an obnoxious, aesthetic defined box. Traditionally, when a project is required to end up a fully functional racecar the aesthetics are built around engineering needs. The process we embarked on was about as ass backwards as it gets. While working to lock in the aesthetic design, the ASD Motorsports team began designing the car from the ground up in CAD. This was the true start of making the dream a reality. This beauty right here The Unicorn  was on e. Bay looking for a new owner to baby and nurture it. Well, it got a new owner, but the babying and nurturing was not in the cards. We had some other plans that we like to think offered the Mustang a better future. A future full of 1. Following three months of CAD development The Unicorn went under the knife, being completely clipped from the firewall forward and totally gutted. The Hoonicorn RTR started its life at ASD Motorsports, the same place many incredible world first cars  including my championship winning Ford Mustang RTRs  have been born. The body was then attached to the hand built box tube frame, and the mock up and initial component placement based on the CAD data began. Mounting the Roush YatesFord Racing 4. V8 heart was one of the first things happened. This is same animal I have been using in Formula Drift for the last three years and it is an incredible engine. With 8. 45 horsepower, over 7. Ken The Rev Limiter Is My Best Friend And It Better Shoot Fire Block had planned to put it through. One of the biggest challenges created by the aesthetic box was the overall width of the car and the fact that we required some wheel lip up front. AWD cars work similar to FWD cars under throttle, and you will notice most front wheel drives use high offset wheels to create the desired scrub radius. The small scrub radius would allow the Hoonicorn RTR to have great steering feel and no wheel jerk under throttle. The target scrub radius of 8. In addition to that challenge, we had caused another aesthetic induced dilemma. The stacks and air scoop were required to stick out of the hood of course. That worked great on paper, but in reality there was a Sadev differential that had to sit in front of the motor and locate at the centerline of the wheels. Without the stacks it would have been easy to just move the engine back, however the cowl defined how far rearward the engine could go. Standard catch 2. Well, the guys were able to make it work, if barely. This hurdle was overcome by moving the wheels on the body 1 inch and making a custom oil pan for front diff clearance. They were able to allow for 3. Ackerman geometry, which is crucial to rule out understeer in an AWD car. This beast here is the Sadev SC9. Dakar Rally. Take note on the metal porn that is a 1. CNC machined bell housing built to locate everything exactly where it needed to be. The snake that you see here is how the power gets to the ground. The load is transferred to the front and rear through a transfer case, and a driveshaft connects directly to the differential up front. Between the transfer case and differential in the rear is a driveshaft disconnect, which frees the driveshaft when the fun stick  aka hoon handle, aka handbrake is pulled.