StanceWorks Is Building a Ferrari F40 With an 812 Superfast V12 and a Hand-Built Chassis

Mike Burroughs, founder of the long-running build channel StanceWorks, is building a one-of-a-kind Ferrari F40 around genuine period body panels — but almost nothing else about it is stock. The road-car clamshells have been swapped for genuine F40 GT1 race-spec aero, reportedly raced only once in period, making the bodywork itself effectively one-of-one. Underneath sits a fully custom, hand-fabricated tube chassis rather than the F40's original monocoque. "Technically this is a StanceWorks original," Burroughs has said of the chassis.

"Technically this is a StanceWorks original." — Mike Burroughs, on the F40's hand-built chassis

Power comes from an F140 — the 6.5-liter V12 used in the Ferrari 812 Superfast, rated around 800 horsepower in stock road-car form — a very different unit from the F40's original naturally-aspirated F106, which Burroughs has noted weighed around 850 pounds fully dressed. Suspension is sourced from a Ferrari 458 Challenge Evo, with 3D scan data used to map the pickup points onto the new chassis.

Burroughs has said he doesn't intend to turbocharge the F140 — at least, not yet. The build is being done in partnership with sponsor SendCutSend, with a SEMA 2026 showcase as the target; by Burroughs's own estimate from mid-2026, full completion is still roughly three years out. It's a build defined as much by what it's borrowing from Ferrari's own back catalog — a race car's aero, a modern flagship's engine, a track car's suspension — as by anything genuinely new.