Don’t try this at home.
A group of savvy car enthusiasts fashioned a tricked out Barbie Ford Mustang that can go from 0 to 60 in just six seconds and reach max speeds of 72mph.
By comparison, your average Barbie car can only go up to 2.5mph.
Grind Hard Plumbing Co., a YouTube channel that builds ‘crazy contraptions and cars’, posted a few videos of the souped up Power Wheels in action.
In one harrowing scene, the driver, who is named Ethan, is doing donuts with the contraption before it spins out of control and almost goes over a cliff.
‘There’s no traction for the steering, so Ethan’s understeering like crazy,’ one of the onlookers said in the video. ‘It’s pretty much uncontrollable.’
Thankfully, the car and its driver’s descent are stopped short — with just a few inches between the edge of the cliff and a steep drop onto some train tracks and, beyond that, a lake.
‘Holy sh** this thing is terrifying,’ the driver Ethan says in the video. ‘I hit 0 to 60 in 9.4 seconds time. That’s pretty good.’
They’re calling it the ‘world’s fastest Mustang Power Wheels toy car’.
Grind Hard Plumbing Co., a YouTube channel that builds ‘crazy contraptions and cars’, posted a few videos of the souped up Barbie Power Wheels in action
In one harrowing scene, the driver, who is named Ethan, is doing donuts with the contraption before it spins out of control, almost goes over a cliff and lands in a lake
The pink Barbie Mustang was customized with a 240cc engine from a Honda CRF 230 dirt bike and, all told, only took about four days to build.
‘I wanted to find the cutest Barbie Power Wheels car online and turn it into a drift cart,’ creator Edwin Olding told the Drive.
Instead of rewiring the Power Wheels’ original parts, Olding ended up dropping the car’s outer shell onto a go-kart that he found on Craigslist.
‘First, I found a used and abused go-kart on Craigslist and we got that running,’ Olding explained on Grind Hard’s YouTube channel.
To make it fit, they removed some of the shell and then welded it back together.
The pink Barbie Mustang was customized with a 240cc engine from a Honda CRF 230 dirt bike (pictured) and, all told, only took about four days to build
‘Then we tore apart the Pink Power Wheels Mustang, cut the go-kart chassis to fit the toy car then pulled the motorcycle engine’, he added.
‘We welded engine mounts in the front of the kart for better weight distribution then installed a 240cc Honda Dirtbike engine’
‘This crazy kart build was an absolute blast,’ Olding noted.
In one harrowing scene, the driver does donuts with the car before it spins out of control and almost goes over a cliff. Thankfully, the car and its driver’s descent are stopped short
WHAT ARE THE SPECS OF THE SUPED UP BARBIE CAR?
Grind Hard Plumbing Co., a YouTube channel that builds ‘crazy contraptions and cars’, has built a souped up version of a Barbie Power Wheels Mustang.
All told, it only took about five days for them to construct it.
They completely overhauled the Barbie car’s parts so that it could achieve frighteningly fast speeds.
The souped up Barbie Power Wheels Mustang steers with a clutch pull handle on the steering wheel and a gear lever in the cockpit
The driver, named Ethan, said it can accelerate from 0 to 60 in just six seconds.
Here’s what it’s made up of:
- The car is a Power Wheels 12V Battery Barbie Ford Mustang in Pink
- It’s been outfitted with a 240cc single cylinder engine from a Honda CRF 230 dirt bike
- Built with a performance camshaft, upgraded piston and a big bore kit
- Has about 24 horsepower
- Steers with a clutch pull handle on the steering wheel and a gear lever in the cockpit
The vehicle includes some other big upgrades like a new piston and a performance camshaft.
It also has about 24 horsepower, according to the Drive.
It’s controlled with a clutch pull handle on the steering wheel. Olding noted in the video that first gear was difficult to use at times, perhaps due to a lack of fuel.
Grind Hard published a video with a time lapse of the building process on their YouTube.