You may recall a few weeks ago that we ran a feature on the jaw-dropping new 1967 Shelby Mustang Pro Modified entry of Saud Alzabin’s Desert Demons Racing team, including a video of a low-boost crank on the chassis dyno shortly after its completion. With a state-of-the-art chassis from Jerry Bickel Race Cars featuring all the latest tricks and lightweight titanium parts and a Tim McAmis Race Cars carbon fiber body, mated with a monstrous 526 cubic inch Hemi from Disomma Race Engines with a pair of 91mm turbos, there was little question this car and this team would be a force to be reckoned with in the class this season.

But few expected Disomma (who is handling the driving duties) and the Desert Demons team to get the car up to speed as quickly as they did. After all, turbo cars are traditionally a finicky beast that take some time to meet their true potential. But if our mental statistics — which can’t always be relied on — are accurate, Alzabin and Disomma went from nothing to the second quickest 1/8-mile turbo car in history in the span of one weekend. 

Desert Demons entered the X-Treme Pro Mod class at this past weekend’s U.S. Street Nationals down in Bradenton, Florida, with the Mustang, painted in “1996 Ferrari Formula Rosso” red and carrying a Neal Chance lightweight full-billet NXS converter with a Titanium option, paired up alongside roots and screw-blown Pro Extreme and Pro Nitrous-style cars the likes of Randy Weatherford, Adam Flamholc, and fellow Neal Chance-equipped racer Tommy D’Aprile.

With help from the Bruder brothers, Rich and Nick, and doorslammer icon Joe Lepone Jr., Disomma went quicker almost every lap down the track during pre-race testing and the event itself, running 4.09, 4.02, 3.98, 3.90, 3.88, 3.85, 3.84, 3.89, and a 3.73 at a booming 209 MPH (top speed of the meet) in the final, narrowly losing their debut race to D’Aprile, who posted a 3.70 in the money round after a nearly dead-even start.

No doubt we’ll be hearing a lot more of this team this season, along with other turbo teams that have adopted Neal Chance’s new NXS torque converters.