Melbourne, Australia native Daniel Nunziante has attracted a whole lot of attention on social media over the last  week to his dazzling new ‘91 Ford Mustang radial-tire machine. The Fox body, finished in a one-of-a-kind Candy Violet by Custom Body Works in Sydney, is packing a punch equally as strong as its exterior under the hood, priming it to be a real player in the Outlaw Radial and Pro 275 categories down-under.

The build, completed by Craig Burns at SCF Race Cars in Sydney, has been five years in the making.

“I started street racing at a young age and all I’ve wanted to do is go faster,” Nunziante says.” I had an 8-second nitrous street car then I built a small-block Ford twin-turbo car on a 28×10.5 that became the first car in Australia to run 200 MPH on stock suspension. I’ve become friends with Kevin Fiscus and he came to Australia to help me with my radial Cortina,” Daniel continues. “With Kevin’s help, we put a big-block Ford twin-turbo on a 315 and then become to first 6-second radial-tire car in Australia.

“At the time Kevin was building a Fox body with Racecraft and I fell in love with that car, so I decided to build one for myself. I bought this as just a bare shell in 2016 and sent it off to Craig, who has built all my cars. In that time I bought Kevin’s Pro Line 481X out of his Pro Modified Mustang,” he adds.

The new car is a chromoly 3/4 chassis with standard front framerails (front hoop car), wrapped in steel roof and quarters. Burns utilized Motor City carbon-fiber doors, and nose, and a Schoneck  carbon-fiber hood.

The powerplant, as noted, is a Pro Line stage 3 540-inch 481X, freshened by Con Sagiaris at Pro Race Engines. The AJR billet block has a 4.250-inch stroke and 4.500-inch bore, and the resulting package measures 10.5:1 compression. To accomplish this, Pro Line used a Bryant crankshaft, CP alloy rods, and Diamond pistons. A Pro Line custom camshaft spins the valvetrain inside Stage 3 Alan Johnson (AJPE) billet heads, with T&D steel rockers, Victory titanium valves, Smith Brothers pushrods, and PAC springs. On top is a Hogan’s intake manifold. A wet sump oiling system with a Titan pump keeps it all lubricated.

A FuelTech FT600 controls the operation, including the 16 Billet Atomizer injectors drawing fuel from a Waterman pump. An MSD Pro Mag 44 delivers the spark, and custom stainless turbo manifolds built by SCF with titanium exhaust, and TurboSmart electronic wastegates and blow-off valves are plumbed up with Precision Turbo 102XPR turbos to introduce the boost to the cylinders.

In addition to the FT600, American-based tuners, radial-tire and no-prep stars, Nick and Rich Bruder do all the tuning and power management through a Davis Profiler and VPS unit.

A Proformance Racing three-speed lock-up transmission and Neal Chance lock-up torque converter send the power through a GJ carbon -fiber driveshaft to an SCF custom chromoly housing with a Toms 10-inch billet center section and Mark Williams floater axles. Nunziante has also chosen TBM front brakes and Strange carbon-fiber rears. Menscer front struts are paired with Menscer four-ways adjustable out back, and it all rides on 17-inch Weld V Series fronts and 14-inch Weld Alpha drive wheels.

Nunziante says “the color and how low it sits and the craftsmanship in the build” are his favorite elements of this project years in the making. He’s quick to thank those that made the project possible, including Nick Bruder, Marcus from Speed Pro Australia, Chris’s Diff, Mood Motorsport, and FuelTech Australia.

Nunziante will race in the Kenda Tires 660 Drag Radial Series, and out of the gate, he’s hoping to card a 3-second pass in the 1/8 and a 5-second runs to the 1320.