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Nelson Racing Engines’ Tom Nelson sat down with 1320video at SEMA to explain the Maximus Charger — a 2,000-horsepower 1968 Dodge Charger built to recreate a scene from the original Fast and the Furious inside Furious 7. Over 2,000 hours of bodywork went into a car commenters initially assumed was fake. Watch the full breakdown of the build above.
Tom Nelson’s crew doesn’t warn everyone in the room to keep a fire extinguisher handy for no reason — this blown, methanol-burning alcohol rail engine turns the dyno room into a genuine fire show before the pull even finishes. Between the flames shooting from the headers and the torque numbers only methanol fueling can deliver, Nelson Racing Engines built an episode viewers are still calling a torque monster years later. Watch to see exactly how close this dyno room came to needing that extinguisher.