’69 Dodge Charger 440 on the Dyno
Modern Muscle Customers Show off their Rides at Our Fall Open House
Over 200 car enthusiasts came out to enjoy a day at the Modern Muscle shop for our Fall open house. Highlights of customer rides and Dyno tests can be found in our video gallery.
Modern Muscle Launches www.9SecondCamaro.com
Modern Muscle recently launched 9SecondCamaro.com – a vlog side devoted to documenting the evolution of the shop’s monster 1000 HP Camaro build for SEMA 2009.
Modern Muscle will be handling the full drive train, tuning, Peddler’s suspension and the overall mechanical performance. Rick Bottom will be handling overall project management, paint, body, interior and final assembly. Sound Decision of Montgomery, Illinois will install a full state of the art sound system.
This project will be the platform for Modern Muscle’s new turn-key ‘Supercar’ builds – delivering customized high performance cars.
Popular Hot Rodding features Modern Muscle’s Twin Turbo ’64 Chevelle in their “Cars of SEMA 08″
Popular Hot Rodding features Modern Muscle’s Twin Turbo ’64 Chevelle in their “Cars of SEMA” section of the March ’09. The Chevelle was one of only 13 cars featured in the article along side others built by Foose Design, Ford Racing, and Mopar.
Hot Rod Magazine: “His Other Job”
“HIS OTHER JOB”
06/08 – “You know him as Ryan Diem, right tackle for the Indianapolis Colts, but that’s just his day job. Seems Ryan’s teamed up with a close friend and engineering classmate to open a 10,000-square-foot high-performance/fabrication/restoration shop called Modern Muscle in the southwest suburbs of Chicago. The shop’s first project on the books is a ’64 Chevelle SS designed to be an all-purpose Pro Touring car. Here’s a quick rundown: a 1,000hp twin-turbo 6.7L Gen III; coilover suspension with tubular upper and lower control arms up front and a custom fabricated four-link and Strange Engineering 9-inch in the back; big six-piston Wilwood cross-drilled discs; huge 20×12-inch Billet Specialties Stilletos wearing Mickey Thompson S/R radials; a 10-point chrome-moly rollcage; power everything; and a high-end sound system inside. Not bad for a first try, but the best part is that it’s not for a customer. Ryan says it’s the shop project car and will be abused accordingly. We can’t wait to see the proof.”
- Hot Rod Magazine, June 2008
First Ever 6-71 S/C Direct Port Injected ETC on a Charger
Modern Muscle’s 426 Strong Arm Series Stroker
Modern Muscle Thumper Cam
Charger SRT8 Burnout at Modern Muscle
Tony Ugoh’s Supercharged 426 Charger SRT8 by Modern Muscle
Tony Ugoh, Colts Left Tackle, said he wanted more power, so we put together a forged 426ci Stroker with a ProCharger supercharger kit – it made 680 rwhp!
Modern Muscle Twin Turbo Chevelle on Dyno
Mike’s Dodge Daytona
MM Sweeps Awards in Chicago ’09 World of Wheels Show
A clean sweep for Modern Muscle – 5 cars and 5 awards. We took “Best of Class” in 4 categories and one “Outstanding in Class” because it was in the same category as one of our other winners. Vehicles on display:
1. Our Twin Turbo ’64 Chevelle
2. Brad Fleck’s ’04 GTO
3. Pete Scarpiniti’s ’06 Charger SRT8
4. Todd Czworniak’s ’06 Magnum SRT8
5. Pat Taylor’s ’07 Charger Daytona- The Hulk
Popular Hot Rodding features Modern Muscle’s Twin Turbo ’64 Chevelle
Popular Hot Rodding features Modern Muscle’s Twin Turbo ’64 Chevelle in their “Cars of SEMA” section of the March ’09. The Chevelle was one of only 13 cars featured in the article along side others built by Foose Design, Ford Racing, and Mopar.
