Anyone who has heard the howling wail of V8-swapped Nissan 240SX knows that this is no exaggeration.

Here is but first, please, just listen to how good this thing sounds. It’s an LS7, but technically a custom block with 7.3 liters of displacement. Horsepower is 800, torque is 750 lb-ft, and that’s leaving the nitrous out of the equation. In any case, the sound:

It is a shredding kind of sound, like sheets of canvas being torn into long strips. Hm. That doesn’t sound dramatic. It’skind of like a sail on a ship getting ripped open by a storm. Yeah, that’s better. It is somewhere between a roar and a howl, angry and just this side of sounding like it’s going to blow itself apart.

This thing was purple when it competed in Formula Drift a few years back, always something of a wildcard, an underdog of a very simple formula executed perfectly (V8 up front, four-speed dog box going to a Winters rear diff, not much else in between), going up agains the more wild builds of FD’s largely unrestricted series.

Stoneback wants $55,000 for it, which is more than what ,but Stoneback’s car is significantly more conventional, and presumably more manageable for someone to own.

There’s certainly a feeling that someone will buy this as a top-level competition car, but if it were me I’d get it just to hear the engine wind out. It’s so good.