Otts and Hudson snuck up on the combination last fall and into this spring, Jamie adding, “I knew we were in the ballpark, as far as being a contender with it.” Foregoing the idea of contesting the Street Outlaws: No Prep Kings series, Otts took the cab to the Radial Fest in Huntsville, Alabama earlier this month and recorded a career-best elapsed time of 3.97-seconds with the biggest and bulkiest car in the field.
“I’d never been a ‘three,’ and I really wanted to go a ‘three,’ ” he says. “We unloaded and made a couple test hits and then went the 3.97 at 192 mph. This single turbo deal makes around 3,000 horsepower to the back tires, similar to the big nitrous engines, but they can be 300-pounds lighter than us. We can’t ‘sixty’ with those guys and I knew that going there. But we turned it up racing against Tim Slavens and it went .970 60-foot and then went in the air and all the wheels came off the ground,” he notes with a laugh.
The Killer Cab is motivated by a TKM Performance-built 520 cubic-inch big-block Chevrolet centered around a
Donovan cast iron block and cast
Brodix Headhunter cylinder heads, fed boost by a
Precision billet 118mm turbo driven by the gases from the Southern Speed-fabbed exhaust. A
Callies crankshaft swings
GRP connecting rods and
Wiseco pistons, while and the valvetrain is spun by a
Bullet camshaft. Hudson tunes the car via a
FuelTech FT600 ECU, which also controls the FuelTech FTSpark ignition module. A
Rossler Turbo 400 and Camerons torque converter deliver the power out back via a
PST driveshaft to a Larry Jeffers Race Cars-built rear end housing with
Strange Engineering axles.
Menscer Motorsports shocks and struts are situated behind the striking
RC Components Comp Series front and rear wheels.
Weighing in at 2,650-pounds in big-tire trim, the cab is primed to be a contender in virtually any venue Otts chooses to compete.
This offseason, the wrap was removed and a local paint shop, Paint by JC, applied the striking new look to the cab for its next racing chapter. The wild paint scheme — complete with a healthy dose of blood splatters — combined with its long and low stance and unsuspectingly-flat hood, it’s a car unlike any other.