F1K John Jinnings' 1,000HP Luxury Screamer

Most avid enthusiasts can look back to a point in time when their fascination with things mechanical transformed into a lifelong pursuit.

- Joe Greeves

John Jinnings, from Churubusco, Indiana, at 15 remembers telling the owner of a local gas station that he wanted to learn about cars. He worked there through high school and college until he stepped away to take over the family business, but his love affair with automobiles never waned. In fact, as an avid connoisseur of mechanical novelty, he’s calculated that he has personally owned 156 vehicles, creating 25 magazine-worthy customs in the last 27 years. His latest is this over-the-top F-100, a 1,000hp twin-turbo bullet that he calls the “F1K.”

Everyone’s familiar with the F-100 logo but the mysterious F1K piques your curiosity about what might be under the hood. Lift it to see a polished sledgehammer of an engine with twin turbos large and in charge. From a visual standpoint, it’s hard not to be impressed with the sheer audacity of the build. Creating a unified package, however, is more than bragging about dyno numbers. Since John feels each build is supposed to somehow top those of the past, this project starts with a twist—it originated not with the vehicle but the motor. The last three vehicles that he built featured a small-block supercharged motor, an injected John Kaase big-block, and a three-valve supercharged Mustang GT. Now it was time for something new and the Ford Coyote was the dessert of choice. After reading that Hellion Power Systems produced 969 hp at the rear wheels of a stock 5.0 Mustang using their twin-turbo setup, he contacted them about his goal of 1,000 hp. They assured him they could deliver that and more so the next priority was locating an engine compartment big enough to contain the monster mill. John felt a big old F-100 would surely accommodate the new motor, but as it turned out, it was still a tight squeeze.