We're all rolling with ideas and we're like
hey Adam the parts guy you'd be
pretty good size you about six - okay go
down to Men's Wearhouse get a really
nice black suit and I have my secretary
order up like a black Stig Top Gear type
helmet and I said okay get online and
find like a real priest shirt with a
white collar so when we went out to
Uvalde to the Continental Tire proving
grounds and we went to 17 and we did the
photo shoot
you know we've got him out there holding
across
when dodge came out with the 840 horse
powered demon it kind of seemed like it
might be the last word in 21st century
muscle cars no doubt Ford and GM started
working on bigger and badder muscle cars
of their own the very next day folks at
Hennessey though they didn't want to
wait especially not when they had a
platform as good as the Camaro zl1 to
base their new car off of so how do you
go about banishing a demon you get
yourself an exorcist
so this is the Exorcist Camaro he has
EEZ infamous Exorcist Camaro this is it
okay and this is the infamous one this
is probably probably the most famous one
that anybody would know this particular
car has been at 200 miles now or I think
over six times now including a top speed
of 217 and a quarter-mile nine five
seven 147 miles an hour
it looks fairly stuck it looks pretty
much like your average most part yeah I
mean we're not really one to go
completely crazy with body kits or you
know anything we do have the signature
stripe it obviously kind of sets it
apart as part of the package and and
that kind of thing and then we've
obviously added the force on wheels to
this particular package because they're
you know the best ones in the business
and for our application this is what
worked out best but other than that I
mean it for the most part in the outside
its is the old one which is an
aggressive car to start off with right
once you get under the hood though very
different story big numbers though you
blew past 999 correct you know we shoot
for the thousand horsepower mark which
is essentially where the Exorcist is so
a thousand horsepower at the motor Kendy
turn it slightly we can turn it 485 so
it depends the application but
essentially yeah it's they all sit right
within that that thousand horsepower
range that's what the ideas of the car
walk me through the magic here because
this looks like it could also be a
nuclear reactor
obviously there's there's a lot that
we've done to this upgraded whipple
supercharger that's bigger than the
factory one obviously and a lot more
durable but 2.7 liters yeah okay 2.7 and
we've got the you know the whole top end
of the motors been redone we got an
upgraded cam the heads drivetrain valves
everything's been completely custom
the headers exhaust free flow cats and
the main thing for this car is the
tuning so we have applications for both
at MC transmission automatic and if
there's if it's a manual so you can get
the car either way and we can get the
same amount of power out of both amount
of power but we do we do go a little bit
further with the automatic as we can we
can modify the detuning for the
automatic transmission to kind of
accommodate certain things like that
we've hand-picked everything built
everything to our specific spec to make
it you know if you can consider a
thousand horsepower reliable this car
would be is the shining example of that
because we if we beat this card within
an inch of its life
it's still here and it's running great
speaking of the transmission the rear
end and stuff like that the drive shaft
and transmission how much do you modify
that really honestly not much really
yeah not much in the manual transmission
will upgrade the clutch other than that
did ten speed transmission can hold with
the right programming you know it can
hold it properly right we still have all
the creature comforts I mean a/c still
works functional at cruise control still
works all of that kind of stuff again
because it has to be it has to be usable
sure we're not even though this
particular car is built for racing we're
not building a race car for a customer
we want this to be just a you know an
upgraded Street
I'd spent some time recently with the
Camaro SS which obviously has 455
horsepower so a little less than half of
what this car has as ridiculous a
statement as that sounds that car is
quick no one's ever gonna complain about
that car being slow here we go
23 miles an hour rolling so how long did
it take you guys to figure out exactly
what you had to do to this engine to get
it out to that level will increase its
incremental until they get to the point
where we feel like all of a sudden
things can't you know I mean we could
easily turn this up to 1,200 horsepower
we've done other Cadillacs and other
Camaros and that level extreme turbos
and things like that which then you're
getting into a lot more modifications of
the drivetrain right but for us it's it
just becomes you know making sure that
the user billion drivability and just
taking it one step at a time until we
get to a point where it's we've reached
a limit of safety gotcha ton of work
done under the hood here yeah what about
in terms of handling and things like
that I mean the suspension essentially
stock the Z the zl1 comes with the
magnetic ride suspension and a bunch of
other tweaks as far as the the underside
of the suspension goes yeah so we didn't
we don't mess with it a lot other than
custom alignment settings especially if
we do the upgraded forward line wheels
for the customer and things like that so
when we did the different runs that was
the only one thing that we really
changed was we made sure that the
alignment was proper for the for the top
speed runs which is a completely
different alignments heading from what
we have to in the quarter-mile runs as
well and apart from those little Lima
changes you know the suspension and the
body we're gonna get hold holds up even
at 217 for the most part we have we did
that we had one one run at you Ivaldi
that actually there was so much
downforce in the car and we were going
into the one the one final turn at
absolutely as fast as we could we
actually did rub away the inside of the
fender well on the one side of the car
because it because of the lien so that's
amazing
so it freaked him out a little bit cuz
it started to spill some smoke out and
production the tire rubbing against the
carpet on the inside of the
yeah I could see how that might be
somebody but you know once you went to
get it out of the way this rubbed out of
the way doesn't do it again and you've
done a lot of thousand horsepower
small-block based projects yeah so we
had a pretty good idea you know what it
was the main thing with this car was the
drivetrain and knowing the aerodynamics
and the suspension differences that this
car came you know the goal became okay
not just the horsepower but now we had
you know 200 miles an hour how fast can
we take it can we do a car that'll do
217 and we'll break you know break nines
in the quarter-mile and this is this is
kind of it what was the biggest hiccup
in that process sort of trying to get it
to the point where it is now the on this
car the automatic transmission really
yeah just making sure that we could we
could both Road race it at 2:17 and have
the gearing for that right so to get one
that does kind of all-around that's
that's really what kind of makes the
extras just package unique is to be able
to have that level of horsepower and
then still be able to run this and run
that with with minimal adjustments does
it how many of these is it a limited
number is it yeah with the Exorcist we
do a limited number I think we're the
goal was 25 I want to say let's say that
I love the test-drive okay walk in here
tomorrow and I say here is my new zeal
one how long does it take for me to have
this thing parked in my drive generally
six week okay how much would that cost
me about one on one of these turnkey to
drive home tomorrow the package runs in
about 54,000 okay so on top of the on
top of a fiber chain yeah
depending on how it yeah how you how you
want to buy it
this feels very familiar the steering
still has that very trademark Camaro
weight but also sensitivity it's very
direct it's very easy to point once you
get used to sort of managing the heft of
it but even have these everyday speeds
whether it's a very drivable very
manageable car it's very obvious that
this is not a stock chair even a ZL one
because the sounds that are just
bubbling out of this thing it's
basically volcanic it's just all of
these deep elemental grumbles roars and
fractals the suspension is more or less
unchanged and over the stock Camaro zl1
so which is to say this car is going to
be a very capable handler it's gotta be
more than able to take any of these
turns that you can throw out in quick
bursts it's a car that can lay down a
very you know respectable Nurburgring
time I'm curious to know how much faster
this one would do it given the extra 350
horsepower prepare for liftoff in three
two one
we have go
how long have you been here so we bought
the racetrack Glenn sir Motorsports Park
back in 2004 and we've built this
workshop in 2007 moved in 2008 so about
10 years about 40,000 square feet and
about 25 service bays as our business
has grown we're last week we built 15
cars and we're ramping up to build 20
plus 8 cars cars and trucks we probably
build more trucks and SUVs than we do
cars right now but we're ramping up to
build 20 per week so you know it's cool
the demand for you know faster cars
trucks and suv's just continues to grow
so it's nice to have the space to do it
The Exorcist how did that car come about
that that's a great story so I mean
Timken discus and the the marketing team
from Dodge we're just dominating the
automotive media with all their teasers
kind of I think that was like the winter
spring of last year so 17 as they led up
to the unveiling of the demon yeah the
New York Auto Show in April so you know
every week here comes a cool teaser
video here's the Nitto Tire here's the
chiller for the the inner cooling system
and I'm like man they're just sucking
all the oxygen out of the room or nobody
else nobody else and that muscle car
space can get any attention and get my
hat's off to them so I was literally
getting ready for work one day I get out
of the shower and I told my wife I said
the demon needs a rival to the demon
needs the Exorcist to have something to
compete against because there's nothing
there was really nothing that there was
nothing that compete against the demon
at that point time nobody knew how fast
it was gonna be I assumed before it came
out they can't be piping.this unless
it's a substance second-quarter ma far
yeah
which obviously was 109
Javad so I had the idea for the name of
the car but I didn't even know what scar
would shut so I can't I came to the shop
that later that day I said okay I got
this idea for a car I got a name for a
car I don't know who its rivals gonna be
but we need to pick which car that's
gonna be so the the new zeal one had
just been out for a little while
we had already successfully tuned the LT
for supercharged v8 engine in the zo6
Corvette and so I told my god I asked my
guys I'm like we give that a thousand or
spec oh yeah we need that thousand then
obviously we built it and began testing
it and we went a nine five the demon and
its own ride straight out of the factory
no modifications a solid nine second car
I think the demons badass but I mean we
built I think we're on our 23rd or 24th
Exorcist right now
ten speed automatic transmission they
said it was one of the serta for
limiting factors with handling this kind
of power you can feel how aggressive it
is which clearly is their reprogram
shifts I've never felt the Camaro that
shifted especially on the down shifts
with the aggression it's the violence
even of this unit so I know obviously
the specs at this point you know
thousand horsepower 883 pound-feet of
torque 217 mile an hour speed like you
said did nine five and a quarter right
forget the numbers for a second what do
you think makes it special scare the
crap out of ya you know more so than the
demon did you like the demon is super
impressive there's just something about
the exorcist where i mean from a roll
when you've got more power and less
weight i forget about the drag ship I'm
just talking about on your you know you
go into a runway event where you can go
side by side the that's where the
Exorcist this really kind of comes into
its own so on the street you know if you
don't have a drag radial tire on it it
can be a little be a little scary to
hook up but it's really it's really
super impressive from a roll from 70
miles an hour on where traction is not
an issue it's brutally fast I mean you
know dodge built three thousand demons
in three plus three hundred for Canada
so you know you go to a car show you're
gonna probably see a few demons the car
show you rolling an exorcist probably
not too likely you're gonna see another
action
1,000 horsepower in a muscle car like
this one is absolutely 100 percent
acceptable it is called for it is
beautiful it is exactly what the world
needs
it is the Camaro for the insane it is
one flew over the Camaros
you