This C7 Chevrolet Corvette is a drag racer and a passion project, one that is a long time in the works and will soon be heading down a drag strip near you. It’s the brainchild of Tim Dutton, who has poured resources into the cool Corvette build to make one of the most powerful and sleek-looking Chevys we’ve seen for some time.
The video is courtesy of FuelTech USA on YouTube which is responsible for some of the upgrades to the heavily-modified sports car, and they also have a dyno on which they will attempt to calculate the colossal power output of this machine.
The 3,100-HP C7 Chevrolet Corvette Drag Racer
The Fastest C7 Corvette is the ZR1, which makes 755 hp and can reach 60 mph in around 3 seconds, but this C7 isn’t your average ‘Vette; it’s a monstrous drag racer with way more power. FuelTech meets the man behind the machine who explains that he will be racing it next at the No Mercy event at South Georgia Motorsports Park.
His car is an awesome blue color, with a Pro Line Racing Hemi engine that has a suite of FuelTech products fitted including the FuelTech FT600 EFI system and various other pieces. The Fuel Tech host and Tim discuss briefly the joys of racing, and we get to see the car begin to get prepped for its shakedown and dyno report by FuelTech.
With the rear axle connected to the dyno, the sound is immense as the engine redlines, and it looks like a monster waiting to get unleashed.
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We see a montage of the car undergoing its shakedown at the end of the video and on the dyno’s output showing on a screen, we can clearly see 2,760 hp – which then becomes 3,145 hp at 6,392 rpm.
The car will take part in ‘Pro 275’-class drag racing events and looks like it will be a formidable machine, with the turbocharged Hemi motor making some out-of-this-world power figures. Up until the arrival of the mid-engined C8 Chevrolet Corvette Z06, the C7 Corvette ZR1 was king, and now the Corvette E-Ray looks like the fastest-accelerating version of the car for now.
It would be good to see what Tim and the FuelTech guys could do with a mid-engined Corvette but for now, this car is looking good and we would love to see what kind of 1/8-mile times it can pull on a stretch of asphalt.