Blown To Hell

American Racing Headers Is Jamming a 1000hp+ Blown Hellcat Motor Into a Prius!

- Povi Pullinen

ABOUT as interesting to drive as a refrigerator and shaped like a futuristic door wedge, the Toyota Prius has long been the butt of many car jokes. However in a narrow old workshop in Brooklyn, New York, a team of maniacs are finally putting the carcass of one to good use – by jamming a 707hp Hellcat motor in it. With a Whipple huffer strapped on top.

Normally powered by hydrogen, pump fuel, quinoa and healing crystals, the original Prius mill has been turfed for 6.2 litres of Chrysler’s finest, and Nick Filippides, founder of American Racing Headers, couldn’t be more excited to see it coming together as the ultimate sleeper. “We’re gonna have some fun in this thing. I have a long commute on the Long Island Expressway each day, and I can’t wait to see the reaction I get blowing by traffic in it,” he laughs.