Hoonigan’s Honda IndyTruck Is the Finest Kind of Madness

• This 2017 Honda Ridgeline donor truck, proven at SEMA this week, began its life as a take a look at mule for the Honda Efficiency Improvement (HPD) staff earlier than the Hoonigan staff acquired their palms on it.
• The two.2-liter engine is a twin-turbocharged V-6 constructed for a 2022 IndyCar and is able to 700–900 horsepower at 12,000 rpm.
• The IndyTruck makes use of 2021 Acura NSX hubs, suspension arms, and carbon-ceramic brakes together with a customized inboard suspension and subframe constructed in-house at Hoonigan.

One week after Ken Block and the staff at Hoonigan launched their Electrikhana video exhibiting Block churning via tires on the Las Vegas Strip, they’re again in Vegas, on the SEMA present, with one thing new. That one thing new is a closely modified 2017 Honda Ridgeline truck with a 2022 IndyCar engine swapped in. It is an aluminum 2.2-liter twin-turbocharged V-6 engine that, when revved as much as its 12,000-rpm redline, produces 700 to 900 horsepower, based on the Hoonigan staff.

Hoonigan joined forces with Honda Efficiency Improvement for the truck, with the acknowledged objective of constructing a truck in a position to tackle something from native highway programs to hill-climbs. The bodywork for the truck is a very customized, one-off design constructed from carbon fiber and fiberglass. Seen head on, the IndyTruck might nearly go for a standard Ridgeline if it weren’t for that large entrance splitter. A more in-depth look makes it clear simply how bonkers this construct is. Its engine is open to the weather, nestled below a towering three-level rear wing full with aspect blades that home the truck’s taillights. How very completely different, in sum, from the Ridgeline you noticed driving to the grocery retailer yesterday.

The prized jewel of the challenge is in fact, the engine. Mounted in a mid-engine orientation, the twin-turbocharged V-6 fills the area beforehand taken up by the truck mattress. The open-air placement would make it simpler to listen to the engine belt out its wonderful tune, and our solely grievance is that we did not get an opportunity to listen to this factor flip over.

The inside of the truck was utterly stripped out and a customized sprint was added. Hoonigan changed the usual Ridgeline seats with a pair of carbon Recaro racing seats with Willans harnesses hooked up to the roll cage. The truck wears a set of 20-inch Rotiform LTN solid wheels wrapped in Pirelli P Zero rubber.

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