7Sec All Steel FG XR6 Turbo + Vid

Weighing 1700kg and producing roughly 1400hp this all-steel FG XR6 Turbo is able to reel off 7-second passes.

Dion Amato of Dyno-Mite Performance in Victoria has built a number of spectacularly-quick cars over the years, and this FG Falcon ute with a heavily-modified XR6 Turbo engine is the latest and greatest of those creations.

The car was bought from Queensland with just 36,000km on it, trailered home and then stripped out so work could commence. Dion took the shell to a few fellow professionals for things like the cage, the 4-link rear end and the LHD conversion. It’s not a full-chassis car though, those modifications were made to the factory Falcon ute chassis, and it also has its original steel panels on the outside.

Dion also did work on it himself at home in the garage with a plazma cutter to relocate some of the car’s weight, taxing the domestic power grid in the process. “I tripped the safety switch about forty times and kept making the inside lights dim and flicker”.

Dion also bought a TIG welder and fabricated his own fuel tank to sit in the ute tray, a space that it shares with 140kg of ballast (60kg on the left, 80kg on the right).

For power the car features a Barra straight six that Dion de-stroked to 3.7L with an Auscrank and Argo rods. The engine features a deep oil pan that Dion also fabricated, and a Garrett GT55 turbo that gets wound up to 34psi, producing what works out to be roughly 1400hp based on the car’s 1700kg of weight and a blistering time slip of 7.94 at 176.54mph.

The clip above from a trip north to run the car at Sydney Dragway shows Dion running that very impressive seven.

Issue 127 of Street Fords Magazine has a 7-page feature story on Dion’s 7-second FG Falcon ute, and it is officially on sale now. It is also perfect-bound for the first and probably only time, so don’t miss your chance to obtain what could be a collectable anomaly of an issue.