D-DAY

SPEED PRO’S MARCUS CRIPPS STICKS 1400HP WORTH OF TURBO BARRA INTO AN XD FALCON TO CREATE A SEVEN SECOND STREET MONSTER

- KIAN HEAGNEY

MARCUS Cripps and the crew from Speed Pro know a thing or two about fast cars, so it should come as no surprise that Marcus’s own XD Falcon happens to be a 1400hp, seven-second street demon.

The XD was originally purchased for a measly $1800 as a replacement for the Speed Pro XB Falcon, which was getting quicker than initially intended – a good problem to have, if you ask us!

“The XB went a 9.4 at over 140mph, and it was at that point where we’d have to ’cage it and fit a ’chute in order to keeping going with it,” says Marcus. Not wanting to chop up a car that had been in his family for generations, Marcus chose the XD as the business’s new development mule.

The XB’s 460ci Windsor found a new home in the XD, before copping some nitrous and comfortably wheel standing its way to low nine-second passes with 1250hp on tap. A Speed Pro customer ended up purchasing the Windsor mill and the majority of the driveline shortly after it had a freshen-up at Dandy Engines, which left Marcus pondering what to do next with the red brick.

Enter the Aussie force to be reckoned with: the mighty Barra. “I was originally looking at doing a twin-turbo small-block Ford, but I thought a Barra would make a good interim engine,” says Marcus. “We had done the carby and nitrous stuff with the old engine, so we thought we’d try learning EFI and turbo things with the Barra.”