World’s Most Powerful Pontiac | 3,612 HP | Tommy Youmans’ Twin-Turbo GTO Judge!

The drag racing market is well known for its niche categories and one of the legacy passion brands is the now-defunct Pontiac division. The Pontiac V-8 was initially designed in the early 1950s as the brand chased after the quickly growing upscale mid-range car market. Fast-forward a decade and the muscle car movement began taking off and the venerable and feared 455ci Pontiac engine held its own in the horsepower wars. Today, Tommy Youmans’ 1970 Pontiac GTO Judge is the king of the Poncho group when his twin turbocharged combination laid down the highest recorded output for the brand. The GTO Judge unleashed 3,612 WHP on FuelTech USA’s in-house Mainline Hub Dyno.

Getting to 3,600 WHP is no easy feat and Youmans turned to Kauffman Racing Equipment for a suitable engine package. The team began with its MR-1 cast iron engine block, which features the standard Pontiac 4.650-inch bore spacing. The Warp-6 cylinder heads, also from Kauffman Racing Equipment, feature canted valves and are designed for extreme applications such as this one. A custom billet intake manifold tops the potent Pontiac while a pair of 98mm turbochargers provides nearly 50 psi of boost. Previously the engine produced 3,550 WHP at FuelTech USA and the recent 3,612 WHP picked up where they left off, as Youmans to gets ready for Pro 275 racing at South Georgia Motorsports Park and other Outlaw events.

Youmans relies on an assortment of FuelTech products for his record-setting Pontiac engine combination. It all begins with the FuelTech FT600 engine management system. The FT600 engine management system comes with sequential injection and ignition, O2 closed loop, Data Logger, Delay Box, Boost Controller, Nitrous Controller, and much more. The ECU box doubles up as an LCD display and touchscreen showing real-time data and allowing the user to make adjustments without a PC connection. Each PowerFT ECU also includes data logging capabilities, making the FT600 and its sibling products a true all-in-one unit.

The FuelTech products extend beyond the engine management system with various ignition and data acquisition sensors. Each side of the engine is carefully monitored by the WB-O2 Nano, complete with digital readout that can be placed in clear view of the driver’s seat or virtually anywhere on the vehicle. A Switchpanel-8 is user friendly with CAN bus connections that offers up to eight input channels, which can be connected to the PowerFT engine management system. The buttons can be customized, are IP67 protection certified, utilize LED lighting, and can be labeled, making the panel easy to use. Finally the complete ignition system is sourced from FuelTech including the powerful FTSPARK-8 Gen I, which is currently superseded by the FTSPARK-8 Gen II that features up to 750mj of ignition! All FTSPARK Gen I boxes can be updated to Gen II specs.

Youmans’ GTO Judge features a tube chassis construction and rolls on a pair of Mickey Thompson ET Radial Pro 275 tires. The goal is to become the quickest and fastest Pontiac-powered drag vehicle, a record that currently sits at 3.92 and is held by a Pro Modified racecar. With over 3,600 HP on tap, Youmans should have no problem accomplishing his goal. Traditional engine platforms or unique Pontiac race engines—record-setting runs and big power are why you’re seeing #FuelTechEverywhere

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