Ken Block Hoonitruck, is based on a 1977 Ford F-150, Block’s Hoonitruck is powered by a custom-tuned Ford Performance V6 EcoBoost engine lifted directly out of the Ford Racing Ford GT Le Mans development program. Making 914hp at 7,400rpm and 702 ft-lbs at 6,450 rpm, the engine is a snarling, billet-aluminum menace, sounding like nothing you’ve ever heard in a Gymkhana video.
The power is routed to all four wheels via a Sadev 6-speed all-wheel-drive gearbox (similar to the one used in Block’s Hoonicorn). Chassis, bodywork, and fabrication were all handled by Detroit Speed, in Mooresville, NC, with the overall design and styling of the project dictated by Block and his team at Hoonigan.
This F-150 isn't really an F-150. Like Block's crazy 1965 Mustang drift machine, the Hoonicorn, it's a custom tube-frame chassis with some old body panels on top. We, of course, don't mind because this thing looks rad.
Ken Block and the Hoonigan team have to up the ante with every new installment of their viral Gymkhana drift video series. For the soon-arriving Gymkhana 10, Block and crew built something completely absurd—a drift truck. More specifically, a 1977 Ford F-150 with a 914-hp twin-turbo 3.5-liter EcoBoost V6. Meet the "Hoonitruck."
The Hoonitruck was built in collaboration with Detroit Speed, and the whole thing took two years from idea to reality. Sitting low and wide, it looks just about perfect, and like nothing else that's been used in a Gymkhana video before. Block was inspired to build a 1977 F-150 specifically because that's what he learned to drive in. "I'm pretty sure I did my first burnout in that truck," he said.
It's got a custom all-wheel-drive system, and the engine is supposedly derived from that of the Ford GT. In a video presenting the truck, Block says the engine even has a bespoke, 3D-printed intake manifold designed by Ford Performance. It looks incredible popping out through the hood flanked by two turbochargers. The wheels are custom made by Fifteen52 and feature real deadlocks, "not bro-locks," as Hoonigan creative director Brian Scotto says. Those wheels are wrapped, naturally, with Toyo Tires—one of Block's big sponsors.
Driving it presents a new challenge for Block because it's much bigger and heavier than what he typically slides around. "It drives exceptionally," he said, "but the feeling of the size is very foreign."