For most people, the prospect of a Viper ACR would be sufficiently intimidating; this is the American Club Racer, after all, designed to show up the European supercar elite in their own back yard. It has more than 8.0-litres of swept capacity, more than 600hp and more than 700kg of downforce at top speed. Which, at 177mph, is drastically lower than the normal Viper's 206mph. Because track car, of course.
However, PHer Falcon500 is not most people. Having set out originally to buy a V8 muscle car, his head was turned by the Viper. Then it was turned by some light tuning. He says the idea "was to get a nice head and cam package and leave as is and bring to Cyprus." That's not exactly what happened...
See, despite calling Cyprus home, Falcon500 visited Texas soon after buying the ACR; in his own words the Lone Star State "put paid to that idea" because of all the crazy horsepower projects around. The idea was of it 'just' being a 9.0-litre Viper with about 785 horsepower at the wheels... Instead of that, this was going to be a turbo Viper.
Apparently packages start at 1,100 wheel horsepower, with the V10 stroked to around 9,000cc and twin turbocharged. But even that wasn't going to be enough for our dedicated PHer. With 76mm turbos and the increased capacity, 2,100hp was on the cards. On a standard block, because that's rated "for 3,000hp before issues may start". Useful to know.
The full spec is in the build thread, as are a couple of remarkable onboard videos, but suffice it to say the 2,000hp Viper has been received pretty well: "Epic utterly epic" said one commenter; "this is properly incredible" another. "Sir, you have officially won PistonHeads" sums up the general consensus quite nicely, it seems. So the least we could do, in light of all this, was make the twin-turbo Viper ACR our pick from Readers' Cars this weekend. The next job on the to-do list? 2,700hp, of course...