King's Quest

With 1600hp on Tap and a Show-quality Finish, Simon Mokdassi’s Xyking Is the Complete Package.

- Andrew Broadley

XY FALCONS are something of a tradition for the Mokdassi brothers. The family all share a profound appreciation for the Blue Oval, but although Simon Mokdassi now owns one of the finest examples in all the land in XYKING, he strayed from the pack with his first build.

“Before I built the XY, I was into luxury cars,” he explains. “My first decent car was a BMW M3 known as CANDYMAN. I kept it for two years, then stripped it to a shell and sent the body to Queen Street Customs for candy red paint. I redid the interior in white leather, fitted 20-inch Lexani wheels, a cam package and an EMS ECU, and it won every car show in Adelaide between 2003 and 2004.”

But a love for XY Falcons had always been with Simon, and when he relocated to Sydney around 10 years ago, he knew the time to build one was finally at hand. He bought the car from Murray Bridge in South Australia and dragged it home, where he and his brothers set upon it and stripped it, ready for soda-blasting. Simon and his father spent the next two years building what was a fine example of an XY GT replica. “A lot of late nights were spent with him. He was so fussy – everything had to be perfect,” Simon remembers. “We worked on it nearly every day, every night and on weekends. It looked beautiful in Track Red and I loved driving it, but I got sick of getting beaten by most cars I raced.”

In went a 680hp, 408-cube Clevo stroker, and the tables turned in Simon’s favour. “Not only was I beating everybody, but I was power skidding past them with thick clouds of smoke. It felt good for a few weeks until I blew the Top Loader, so I replaced it with a Protrans C4 and ran 10.4 down the quarter, but two weeks later it split the block at a street meet.”