UPDATE, 3 October: Jason’s Foxbody is ready for a fire-breathing tilt at Drag Challenge 2025, cranking out over 1300hp to the hubs on the MPW Performance & Race Fab dyno!

The work required to get the car to this point is all detailed below, and we can reveal it has already run an 8.6@164mph in testing at Dragway at The Bend on its very first hit out. Stout as! Check out all the juicy details in the video below:

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19 August, 2025: Tuff Mounts frontman Jason Waye might just be Street Machine Drag Challenge’s most staunch supporter. Not only has he been on board as a sponsor of the event since its infancy, but he also never misses an opportunity to join in on the fun as an entrant.

Over the years, he’s competed in an LS1-powered Sigma, a 10-second VS Commodore ute with a Ford Barra in the engine bay, and a super-cool, sleepy LT1-powered HQ wagon. But the spiciest of all his Drag Challenge steeds is his Barra-powered Fox-body Mustang, which ran as quick as 9.20@154mph with a stock-bottom-end six-pot, G42 turbo and 235 radials. Now, with help from MPW Performance, the Mustang is getting cranked up to 11.

Gone is the stock Barra, replaced by the built one from our Carnage Mazda MX-5. The head has now had a tickle and a set of cams were added by the wizards at Dandy Engines, and it will now be fed by a dramatically upsized Pulsar turbo atop an MPW Pro Mod-style manifold.

The Hughes Turbo 400 transmission now sports a bolt-together converter, and the rear end features a Mood Motorsports chrome-moly housing and anti-roll bar, along with a Race Products floater kit and an MPW four-link.

“It’s a brand-new car, other than paint,” says Jason. “It’s gone much further than it was meant to, as these things tend to do! Adam at MPW likes to do things properly the first time and not have to revisit them, and that suits me fine.”

The rear end has been built to accommodate 315 drag radials, though Jason will likely contest Drag Challenge 2025 on 275s. Considering the car made over 900rwhp and ran deep into the nines on stock internals, smaller tyres and a far more basic chassis set-up, bigger things are expected of the new and improved version of FOXSAKE.

“Adam plans for the car to end up in the sevens, but I don’t think we’ll have the testing time under our belts to run those types of times at Drag Challenge,” Jason says. “I think if we work towards bottom eights during DC, we’ll be doing really well.”

1. The Weld Magnums pictured here are placeholders, with a set of custom-order Keizer wheels on order for the car. The rear end is set up to run either 275- or 315-wide drag radials, depending on track conditions and class requirements.

2. FOXSAKE’s engine is the very same unit that powered our Carnage MX-5, but it’s had the cylinder head fettled, some cams added, and a filthy great big PSR snail strapped to the side of it.

3. A far more comprehensive rollcage was deemed necessary for the quicker ETs Jason is shooting for with FOXSAKE’s new guise. Here you can see the tinwork necessary to step up from the little 235 radials while maintaining a suitable ride height.

2025 Drag Challenge class:

Speed Pro Six-Cylinder