Idaho Man Supercharges 450cc Barbie Jeep, Does Snow Drifting, Donuts, and Jumps

At the end of the day, why do we spend so much money on our project cars? It's because we want to have fun, right? We want to feel the adrenaline pumping hard. Sliding around a corner or just doing a wide-open throttle pull is enough to make us smile and forget about our daily problems. But we all know that this passion of ours isn't cheap. Someone once said that we should use smiles per gallon when describing our vehicles. And what you're about to see next does seem to have a good SPG (smiles per gallon) rating.

Grind Hard Plumbing Co has been working on their Barbie Jeep for a few years now, but they've just taken it to the next level by adding a supercharger into the equation. The 450cc Honda engine was already providing around 50 horsepower, but with 15 psi of boost, this thing has just jumped to the next level of insanity. In the first 10 minutes of the video, we get to see some last-minute changes on this nutty creation.

As you can imagine, there aren't that many aftermarket solutions for supercharged Barbie Jeeps, so the guys do have to improvise quite a bit. Luckily they've got some VW parts around the shop: "This is a carburetor off of a VW, an old air-cooled VW bus. The main advantage this has is that it's a butterfly type carburetor, so that's a lot harder for the supercharger to lock that open". This solution solves one of their existing problems before they can head out for a test run.

After a bit of tinkering, they hook up a boost gauge, and the results are impressive and somewhat scary at the same time. They hit 15 psi of boost and then proceed to take their contraption out in the snow. What follows next is sort of a home-made Andros Trophy, Northwestern hooning, as we get to see the little abomination drifting, doing donuts, jumping over a crest, and generally speaking just fooling around in the snow.