The Texas Mile is quickly becoming the put up or shut up proving grounds for ultra high performance cars. What started as a small niche event is quickly drawing additional attention from speed and horsepower junkies from around the world. As horsepower and speed freaks ourselves, we can see why, if drag racing gets your heart pumping like chugging a two liter of Mountain Dew, then running your car flat out on the standing mile may be more like chugging a case of Red Bull. 

It wasn’t long ago that we brought you news of the Lund Racing twin turbo, Coyote powered Mustang that broke through the 200 MPH barrier at the Texas mile. The bar has since been raised higher by another car tuned by Lund Racing. The Power by the Hour built 2007 Super Snake belonging to JM Brake and driven by Revvan’s Van Collier just put the Mustang world on notice. On October 27 Collier drove the car to an astonishing 220.8 MPH at the Texas Mile event in Beeville Texas.

Carroll Shelby would be proud of what this Snake has done.

Obviously this is no run of the mill Super Snake. Actually it’s a convertible super snake, featuring a removable hard top by Smoothline. It took us a few minutes to figure that detail out but look closely and the clues are everywhere. The car’s 5.8 liter engine was built by L&M racing engines, it’s breathed upon heavily by the biggest daddy of them all, a 4.2 liter Kenne Bell.

The blower, which displaces more volume than the engine in most family sedans is force feeding the engine an impressive 26psi of boost. This hungry beast is fed a steady diet of E98. We have not yet been able to locate any official dyno numbers with the big Kenne Bell, but we can tell you that the car made 1013 HP to the rear tires with the little Kenne Bell 3.6 liter blower on board back in the spring.

Exhaust is by American Racing headers, and QTP, it also features electronic cutouts. A SPEC clutch provides the necessary grip to connect the trans and flywheel, and gears are rowed with an MGW shifter. Forgeline wheels and Hoosier tires provide the rolling stock and forward grip. 

Chassis upgrades include components from Griggs Racing and BMR. Inside the car you’ll find a full cage, Recaro seats and Sabelt harnesses. We also noticed that Collier was not only wearing a full racing suit, but what appeared to be a HANS or other protective type device as well. 

The video was put together by Gearhead Productions, and gives us a nice look and listen to this beast. With the cutouts open it sounds more like an old school solid cammed outlaw engine than the refined mod motor that it started as.

Another bonus of the video are the onboard shots, and the split screen as the car hits top end you can see and hear it’s progression down the track. There’s also a few shots of the outside of the car as it makes the run.

We’d love to see more Mustangs heading out and making some top speed efforts. Is this the future of racing? A rebirth of top speed taking place on runaways instead of the salt flats and dry lake beds? It may be, whatever it is, we think it’s incredible to see a car that for all intents and purposes you can cruise around in on the street, run such an impressive number, well into Hypercar territory.