Most of the rebuilds around have classic cars beef up with a ton of muscle but also cost a ton of money. However, Tony Angelo and his team of madcap motorheads like to build a lot of muscle in the least amount of money spent.

YouTube channel Hagerty brings to you another episode of Tony Angelo’s Stay Tuned and this is where they take the budget-built “stinkin” Lincoln Mark VIII to the drag strip. The team has no idea how the car will respond, but they are more than happy to pit it against some other cool cars and builds, to see what it can do, and more importantly if it will even work.

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The Cheapest Lincoln V8 Build Out There?

Tony starts by welcoming his viewers and explaining how he and his team took on a 1998 Lincoln Mark VIII and boosted the 32-valve V8 with a very cheap T4 turbo, taking it to 400 horsepower.

Angelo boasts that all the mods, including all car parts and fluids came to just $4,200, and now it was time to see what this car could do on the quarter mile. Angelo’s team brought out a few cars to test the turbo Lincoln against.

Zach got a ’94 convertible Chevy Camaro while his dad got a ‘79 GMC Caballero Diablo edition, so there’s some tough competition already. Also, Bernardo got a ’65 Chevy Nova, so Ford-powered Lincoln has something to prove, especially since the little-block Nova raced down the quarter-mile in 12:25 seconds, at a top speed of 108.54 mph.

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Did The Lincoln V8 Manage To Take On The Competition?

Next up, the Camaro takes the track and zooms down with a roar, reaching the quarter-mile finish line in 10.64 seconds at a blistering top speed of 124.93 mph. Angelo is all praise for the Camaro, calling it one of the best drag racing cars he’s seen, as he heads off to the Lincoln V8.

As he settles in behind the driving seat, he mentions that the Lincoln makes 375 hp on 10 lbs. of boost. So he wonders what would happen if he took the car to 14 lbs of boost. Surely, it should make more than 400 horsepower.

Angelo zooms off in a puff of smoke but just when you think the Lincoln might just ace the quarter-mile, there’s a more ominous cloud, which his team feels are the rods. Later they discover the coolant under, and that’s the end of Lincoln’s run on the track for the day as it goes back for some TLC.

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