{"id":22812,"date":"2018-09-10T15:02:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T19:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=22812"},"modified":"2018-09-10T15:02:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T19:02:39","slug":"roush-jackhammer-mustang-joins-the-700-hp-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/roush-jackhammer-mustang-joins-the-700-hp-club","title":{"rendered":"Roush JackHammer Mustang joins the 700 (hp) Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Plymouth<\/em>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0In the Detroit\u00a0horsepower\u00a0wars, the 2015 Dodge Hellcat was the first to unbridle 700 ponies, followed by Chevy’s 755-horsepower Corvette ZR1 this year. Ford is expected to join the\u00a0club with its earth-pawing, 700-plus\u00a0horsepower Mustang GT500 early next year.<\/p>\n

Call it the Meg. But for those who can\u2019t wait, Ford mod shop Roush has dropped a 710-horse Snake on dealerships for 2018: the\u00a0supercharged JackHammer Mustang.<\/p>\n

Based on the GT model, the new JackHammer makes 710 horsepower and 610 pound-feet of torque thanks to a massive\u00a0supercharger mounted\u00a0on top of the already capable\u00a05.0-liter V-8<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A rocket ship on wheels, I\u00a0tested the beast in its native\u00a0Plymouth habitat.\u00a0Armed with a 6-speed manual transmission, smoky burnouts are easily induced out of stoplights (a 10-speed automatic is also available).\u00a0The added horsepower\u00a0overwhelms\u00a0the rear tires even with the nanny systems turned on. Merge with authority onto I-96 and the Jackhammer gulps traffic like a whale ingests krill.<\/p>\n

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The steroid injection increases horsepower over the normally aspirated V-8’s 460 horses. It\u00a0also eclipses other powerful factory Mustangs like the 2019, 526-horsepower Shelby GT350 and\u00a0540-horsepower GT500 made from 2011-2014.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The JackHammer, named after the mad doctor\u00a0Jack Roush himself,\u00a0is the latest Frankenstein’s monster to emerge from the legendary mod shop here. Roush has a special partnership with Ford that allows customers to order a Roush-modified\u00a0Mustang for dealer delivery with other trims like the turbocharged\u00a04-cylinder Ecoboost or movie-inspired Bullitt.<\/p>\n

Customers can choose a Stage 1\u00a0kit that modifies the suspension and exterior of an turbocharged-4 cylinder Ecoboost \u2014\u00a0or a Stage 2\u00a0kit that does the same to a Mustang GT. But the JackHammer is the only package that comes with the Full Monty: body mods, suspension tuning and supercharged mill.<\/p>\n

The upgrade stickers for\u00a0$14,765 on top of whatever the customer has paid for their factory GT, which starts\u00a0at $36,090.\u00a0Roush then adds its goodies before the ‘Hammer\u00a0is shipped to the customer’s dealership for supercharger installation. Thanks to the certified Ford installation, says Roush, the customer still gets a\u00a0five-year\/60,000-mile powertrain warranty just like a factory ‘Stang.<\/div>\n

Both Suburban Ford of Ferndale and Hines Park\u00a0Ford in New Hudson are certified Roush dealers in the Metro Detroit area.<\/p>\n

The JackHammer is not the first time Mustangs have eclipsed 700 horsepower. Roush\u00a0entered 700-horsepower territory with\u00a0its 727-horse P-51 special edition last year. The\u00a0package cost over $42,000 and only 51 were built. In even rarer air is the $113,445 Super Snake from Shelby’s Vegas tuner shop which buys\u00a0you 710 horsepower with an\u00a0upgrade option to a claimed\u00a0800 horsepower<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Roush will make\u00a0200 Jackhammers for 2018. But if they\u00a0run out, don’t panic because the company begins\u00a0manufacture of a 2019 model Stage 3\u00a0Mustang this October. It\u00a0will carry\u00a0similar specs right down to the 710-horse engine, adjustable shocks\u00a0and sticky Continental ExtremeContact Sport tires.<\/p>\n

Though the Corvette ZR1 is king of the 700 horsepower club, the Roush ponies are clearly aimed at the 717-horse Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat.<\/p>\n

The Hellcat is already legend, but its aging chassis weighs\u00a0in at a porky\u00a04,439 pounds. Even when outfitted with supercharger and\u00a0additional cooling equipment, the JackHammer should weigh less than 3,800 pounds on Mustang’s new\u00a0sixth-generation architecture.<\/p>\n

Pushing the Jackhammer around interstate cloverleafs, that lighter weight\u00a0is noticeable as the rear-drive Mustang rotates beautifully under throttle. Beware full throttle,\u00a0however, as 710 horses easily induce\u00a0wheelspin.<\/p>\n

Roush\u00a0claims the JackHammer is capable of 1.07 Gs in cornering loads, which puts it in good handling company with the track-tuned\u00a0factory Mustang GT350 and Chevy Camaro ZL1. Based on the same, nimble platform as the sensational Cadillac ATS sedan, the Camaro is in another league in handling,\u00a0rivaling luxury performance weapons like the BMW M4.<\/p>\n

But there is nothing as distinct as\u00a0a Mustang V-8 soundtrack, and the JackHammer roars under throttle like a T. rex after Jeff Goldblum. Roush offers an Active Exhaust tuning option that allows drivers to turn up the sound to Touring, Sport, Track and Custom modes.<\/p>\n

That ought to keep us occupied until the Meg arrives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Plymouth\u00a0\u2014\u00a0In the Detroit\u00a0horsepower\u00a0wars, the 2015 Dodge Hellcat was the first to unbridle 700 ponies, followed by Chevy’s 755-horsepower Corvette ZR1 this year. Ford is expected to join the\u00a0club with its earth-pawing, 700-plus\u00a0horsepower Mustang GT500 early next year. Call it the Meg. But for those who can\u2019t wait, Ford mod shop Roush has dropped a 710-horse […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}