Insane All-Wheel Drive LS-Powered Oldsmobile Cutlass

This epically awesome LS-powered Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme from the 1980s is a unique work of automotive art that combines a modern drivetrain with Regan-era styling for a vehicle unlike any other.

We’re here to show you what all this awesome power does to all the  tires. It’s a gloriously pointless exercise and that’s exactly why it has to be one of favorite burnout videos so far.
Brian King has owned the very 1982 Cutlass for twenty years. It was his sole mode of transportation through high school and college, and has been a project that has kept his time and money in limbo for over the last decade.

“A friend of mine owns an EVO and I raced him, and I lost pretty badly,” says Brian King, when discussing the motivation behind building what we think is the wildest G-Body you’ll ever see. This wicked 1982 Hurst/Olds Cutlass is now home to a Lingenfelter Performance Engineering 403 cubic inch LS2 engine boosted by a ProCharger D-1SC supercharger pushing 15 pounds of boost – and it runs 10.70 at 130 MPH, spinning all four tires on the launch.

“Some of the parts came out of an ’07 Trailblazer SS, and some of them came from an Oldsmobile Bravada. It was a lot of welding and a lot of frame fabrication to make everything fit. It was pretty basic, I thought. A little bit of time and a little bit of patience,” he says.

“I bet I only have about 40 hours into the frame build. Once I had everything lined up and welded into place, it was pretty easy to put the parts in from there. It was more or less locating the parts,” he continues.

“I put the LS2 in it initially, and still wasn’t able to beat the EVO, although it was a pretty close race. A friend of mine had a used ProCharger laying around, but nobody makes a bracket to fit this supercharger into a G-body car. It was more work building the supercharger bracket than it was to actually build the frame. And once I got it onto the car, I was trying to self-tune it and figure it out and blew the damned engine up – it threw a rod right out the side of the block,” he explains.

That led to a phone call to Lingenfelter Performance Engineering, and a few months later a brand new bullet showed up. “Three months after I ordered it, it was delivered and I was off like a mad scientist trying to get the car back together,” says King.

“It took me about a year to find a really good tuner to work with the HPTuners software – Tom V in California – and it’s only over the last few months that we’ve figured it out and gotten it running well,” he says.

See folks, all it takes is a little bit of brainstorming and skill to turn a less desirable machine into a lovely rocket ship. After all, when was the last time you’ve seen an AWD Cutlass do a burnout in a driveway?

So go ahead and check out the video below. Check out this fine example of American Badassery.
You know you want to.