Someone thought about prepping a Jeep for drag racing

Jeepenstein is alive and launching

Almost any vehicle can be used for drag racing, as long as you have enough money and/or time to go through the painstaking transformation process. So why not work on a Jeep Wrangler for that matter, eh?

That’s what Jeepenstein's owner must have thought before starting this project. A Wrangler’s off-road qualities become handicaps when you plant it on a drag strip. The short wheelbase equals lack of stability at high speed. The high ground clearance contributes to that by raising the vehicle's center of gravity. Not to mention the pitch during hard braking that can lead to spectacular (yet unsafe) stoppies.

Fortunately, Jeepenstein uses a heavy lump upfront — a 6.6-liter V8 engine that’s been turbocharged to the max. The result is a whopping “thirteen forty-five at the wheel”. Hooning a 1,400-hp Jeep sounds as reassuring as playing tennis with a grenade, but someone has to do it, right?

The clip shows a record run of the Jeepenstein — it crossed the quarter mile line after 7.96 seconds at 170.69 mph. As far as we know, it's the fastest Jeep (with a stock chassis) in the world. We'd sure like to see it in a run against one of the Saudi Nissan Patrol sleepers.