Carbon Fiber: The Performance World's Go - Fast Gold
Noah Thanos
What Is Carbon Fiber And Why Is It Today's Hottest Performance Automotive Material?
Formula 1 and American muscle are two automotive genres that don't usually meet. F1 cars are high-revving, mid-engined toothpicks with wheels, while muscle cars are big V8 coupes with the aerodynamic qualities of a brick. But hey, who cares when you have torque? Despite their lack of similarities, SpeedKore Performance Group decided that Detroit could learn a thing or two from Monaco.
Since 2015, SpeedKore has been sending icons of American muscle to finishing school, outfitting their various modern muscle cars with high-performance powertrains, custom-designed frames and, most notably, famous F1 lightweighting technology in the form of carbon fiber. Their most recent creation, a 1970 Dodge Charger dubbed Hellraiser, is built entirely of the stuff. It dropped 600 pounds from its original curb weight while gaining about 600 horsepower by way of a 426 Hellephant V8 from Mopar.