Take a Wild Ride in LMR’s 1,500 HP Twin Turbo C8 Corvette

This twin turbo C8 Corvette has been fully built for ludicrous power, and yet, it’s also perfectly tame on the street.

While there are many twin turbo C8 Corvette models running around these days, Late Model Racecraft was among the very first to create and sell such a thing, and as such, has quite a bit of experience doing so at this particular point in time. Currently, the company offers an array of performance packages for the mid-engine model, ranging from a ProCharged setup to a pair of twin turbo C8 Corvette packages with outputs of up to 1,500 horsepower. Recently, the YouTube channel Front Seat Driver got a chance to check out this top-tier offering in the flesh, and took a pretty wild ride in this Rapid Blue beauty as well.

This particular car is fitted with what LMR calls its “Fereday Edition Package,” which includes a fully forged bottom end couple with a top mount twin-turbo setup, a catback exhaust, fuel system and cooling upgrades, a unique engine management calibration, a built clutch, and a transmission controller to ensure that everything functions together properly. The results are quite impressive – 1,500 horsepower and 1,250 pound-feet of torque, which is enough to transform the C8 from fast to total rocket ship.

As LMR points out in the video, this particular setup is actually good for as much as 2,000 horsepower, though the C8 is limited by things like its transmission and clutch. Regardless, it doesn’t take that much to put up good numbers at the track, as this particular car – with “just” 1,200 wheel horsepower – recently ran a 9.1-second quarter-mile at around 160 mph.

During normal driving situations, the twin-turbo C8 acts like, well, a stock Stingray, but when one gets into the boost, things change quickly. There’s an auxiliary fuel tank on board filled with methanol for max power, and as our host points out, everything here works perfectly. That’s an important distinction in a world where many of these cars are built yet throw up various codes and don’t drive the way they should, which is in an OEM manner when you’re not hard on the throttle.

That much becomes quite clear when the pair take this twin-turbo C8 Corvette out for a test drive – in traffic, the clutch is a little aggressive, but nothing overbearing. The car is quite tame in these circumstances, but when you give it a little gas, well, it quickly transforms into an absolute monster – providing its owner with what one can truly call the best of both worlds.

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