3500HP Eighth-Mile Monster Vette

March 1st, 2016

This may be one of the baddest looking cars ever to scarf up the pavement. It’s a 2014 (C7) Chevrolet Corvette owned by Andrew Alepa and piloted by Rob Valden. With plenty of help from Rick Steven’s Race Cars, Pro Line, and RK Racecraft, the team showed up at this Duck X lights Out 7 event (South Georgia Motorsports Park) in search of a $50,000 payday. This behemoth has the best of everything it takes to make it go really fast. It is powered by a Pro Line built Outlaw 548 cubic-inch HEMI with a Fuel Tech FT500 fuel injection Read More

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2400HP Twin Turbo Corvette

June 5th, 2015

Every once in a great while I see a car that inspires me to build a faster car and to be a better driver. The C7 Chevrolet Corvette in this video is just such a car. This nightmare on wheels is built and campaigned by Northshore Speed Shop (Slidell, Louisiana) in conjunction with D3 Performance Engineering (Houston, Texas). Our videographer caught this monster, called the “Devil-‘Vette”, on the streets of Texas during the TX2K15 gathering, last month. What you will see is a rolling start, followed by bone chilling, head snapping, death defying acceleration. Powered by a 6.2-liter V8 engine Read More

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