He calls it OVERKILL – We call it PERFECT

Ben calls his 1976 Ford Cortina “overkill,” and it’s hard to argue: a twin-turbo, supercharged Ford Cleveland V8 stuffed into a compact Australian sedan, built specifically to chase his own personal best burnout time at Summernats. A mechanical issue cut the record attempt short, but not before the car vaporized its tires and earned genuine respect from a crowd that expected a lot less from a Cortina.

Turbos or a supercharger — most builders pick one and commit. Ben picked both, then bolted the whole twin-turbo, supercharged assembly onto a 1976 Ford Cortina that most of the world has never even heard of, let alone expected to see doing a competition skid pull. His own description of the build says it all: he calls it overkill. Everyone who has watched the resulting cloud of vaporized rubber agrees completely, and about half a million views later, the internet still can’t decide if “overkill” undersells it.

A Cortina, of All Things

The car underneath all that forced induction is a 1976 Ford Cortina Mk3, a compact family sedan sold across Australia, the UK, and parts of Europe through the 1970s — not exactly a name that comes up in the same breath as Mustangs and Camaros on most muscle car sites. But Australia’s burnout and drag culture has never cared much about pedigree, and a Cortina with the right engine swap is just as capable of putting on a show as anything Detroit ever built. One commenter recalled owning a nearly identical example, right down to the “Hot Wheels” badge stamped on the underside, a small detail that speaks to just how common these cars once were on Australian roads.

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A Ford Cleveland Doing Something It Was Never Meant to Do

Under the hood, viewers identified the engine as a Ford Cleveland — the 351 Cleveland V8 that Ford built in Australia and the U.S. through the 1970s, prized by builders for its big-port heads and its willingness to make serious power with the right combination of parts. What makes this particular Cleveland unusual is what’s bolted on top of it: both a pair of turbochargers and a positive-displacement supercharger, stacked together rather than chosen as an either-or proposition. It’s the kind of layered forced-induction setup that most builders would call excessive on principle, which is exactly the point Ben seems to be making with the car’s own name for itself. Running two distinct boost systems at once also means twice the plumbing, twice the potential failure points, and twice the tuning headaches — a build complexity that goes a long way toward explaining why the run ultimately ended early.

Meet Ben and the Boost Factory

The car’s owner, known in the video as Ben and running an operation called the Boost Factory, built the Cortina specifically to chase a number: his own personal best skid time of fourteen seconds, set at a previous Summernats. Summernats itself is Australia’s biggest celebration of burnout culture, held annually in Canberra, where builders bring cars specifically engineered to do one thing extremely well — turn tires into smoke for as long as mechanically possible while staying in a tight, controlled circle. Chasing a personal best in front of that crowd, with a brand-new twin-turbo-and-blower combination nobody had fully shaken down yet, is about as high-pressure as amateur motorsport gets. Building a car specifically to chase a personal record, rather than simply to look impressive in the pits, is a mindset that resonates strongly with the grassroots burnout crowd, who tend to respect a genuine competitive goal over a purely cosmetic build.

A Run Cut Short, and a Crowd That Didn’t Mind

The run itself didn’t go the way Ben hoped — a mechanical issue ended the attempt before he could challenge his own record, and at least one commenter who was there in person admitted to being a little disappointed by how early the burnout wrapped up. But that same commenter also made a point of saying they’d gained real respect for Ben afterward, noting that this was apparently his first genuine burnout run in the car at all. Pulling off a widely praised skid on a brand-new, wildly complex forced-induction combination on the very first real attempt is its own kind of achievement, mechanical gremlins or not.

The Sound That Everyone Keeps Talking About

If the visuals didn’t sell the build, the audio closed the deal. Commenters have specifically called out the combined note of the twin turbos and the supercharger working together, describing it as a “deep roar” unlike anything a single-induction setup produces on its own. That layered sound — turbo spool blending with supercharger whine, all sitting on top of a Cleveland V8’s inherent rumble — is a big part of why viewers keep coming back to this particular clip instead of the dozens of other burnout videos competing for their attention.

Why 1320video’s Approach Works So Well Here

Part of what elevates this clip above a typical burnout compilation is the channel behind it. Regular viewers of 1320video have praised the channel specifically for taking time to talk with car and truck owners on camera, pulling out the history and reasoning behind a build rather than just filming smoke and cutting away. That approach pays off here — without it, viewers would never have learned that this was Ben’s first real run in the car, or that he was chasing a specific personal-best number from a previous Summernats, details that turn a few seconds of tire smoke into an actual story with stakes. That kind of storytelling is a big part of why enthusiast channels build loyal audiences instead of one-off viral hits, and it’s a big reason this clip has held onto steady views years after it first went up.

Overkill, By His Own Admission

By the end of the clip, “overkill” has stopped sounding like self-deprecation and started sounding like an accurate spec sheet. A twin-turbo, supercharged Ford Cleveland stuffed into a 1976 Cortina was never going to be a subtle build, and Ben doesn’t pretend otherwise — he named the philosophy himself. Mechanical issue or not, a car that can vaporize its own tires on a combination nobody had fully tested yet earned every bit of the respect it picked up in the comment section, and it’s exactly the kind of unconventional build that keeps burnout culture interesting.

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