Sixteen Power crashed the SEMA party last month with a custom-designed 14-liter V16 boat engine. The company did not plan to produce a road version of it at first, but agreed to do so after being showered with requests from tuners.
Based on the General Motors LS components, the car-friendly unit no longer has the water-based cooling system and now links to a regular auto transmission. When the production begins, five versions will be made available: naturally aspirated @ 900hp, 1200hp, and 1400hp (671 kW, 895 kW, and 1044 kW), dual-supercharged @ 1,600 hp (1,192 kW), and quad-turbocharged @ 2,200 hp (1,641 kW).
Installing the gargantuan engine into just about any vehicle would necessitate extensive modifications to a number of systems, but the trivial lack of space will likely pose the greatest challenge in most cases. Putting it under the hood (or even taking the hood off, hot rod-style) is not going to be possible; removing the rear seat row and placing it inside the car seems like a viable alternative in comparison.
In its boat version, the Sixteen Power V16 starts from U.S. $100,000. Pricing for the car version hasn’t been revealed yet.