It wasn’t that long ago when 500-odd bhp in a supercar seemed perfectly respectable, but not any more. We are starting to wonder these days whether power is now only limited by cash and sanity, and what better way to show this than with this 1800bhp Mosler MT900S road car.
A standard 7.0-litre Mosler has around 550bhp and can still crack 0-60mph in just over three seconds. But one customer has decided that such lowly figures are nowhere near good enough and so enlisted the help of Nelson Racing Engines in Chatsworth, California.
What they have created is a twin-turbo 427ci V8 engine for his car that now develops around 1100bhp on 91 octane pump fuel and around 1800bhp on race fuel. To help give the driver half a chance of getting the car to the end of the road boost can be controlled every 100rpm in each gear.
In the first few gears boost can be limited to around 6-8psi, while higher gears can take the full 30psi. A recent dyno run apparently produced a reading of almost 1600bhp before the intake collapsed under the pressure. Undeterred Nelson Racing has set about fixing the problem and hopes to have the 1800bhp monster running like a dream in a coupe of weeks.