The F50 was introduced in 1995 to celebrate Ferrari’s 50th anniversary. It was given a 4.7l naturally aspirated v12, giving it a maximum power output of 513 bhp & 8000rpm and max torque of 347 lb-ft @ 6500 rpm. This enabled it to achieve a 0-60mph time of 3.7 seconds and an overall top speed of 202mph. Naturally, this was not enough for Koenig.
With only 349 of these cars ever made it takes a brave man to take it down to a shop and have a biturbo conversion put in it, but in this case you would be taking it to the right place.
Koenig has a history of making twin turbo kits for Ferraris. Willy Koenig began back in 1974 with the first Ferrari 365 BB supplied to Germany. He raced cars when he was young and passed all his racing knowledge to his son, Walter Koenig.
The team has made some incredible cars but its F50 takes the cake. It is very impressive that they even attempted to make a car, that was already an incredible machine, even better. Koenig boosted the power output, with a twin turbo setup, to a huge 850hp at 7,200 rpm and up to 590 lb-ft at 6,500rpm. This set-up results in a power to weight ratio of 1.47 kg/hp, giving a 0-60mph time of 3.0 and a top speed of 232mph.
The F50 was designed with three power settings; 600, 700 or 800hp and the user could select the power setting using a button situated in front of the gear shifter.
This kit is not at all cheap, with the side vents (to supply air to the side intercoolers) alone coming in at a cool 6,700 Euros.
Back in its day the F50 was the leader of its class, and I don’t think that Koenig gets the credit it deserves as one of the top tuners of Ferrari out there.
