Monstrous Supercharged C7 Corvette Rips the 1/8th-Mile

Who needs to see out your drag car when you’ve got a rippin’-huge supercharger and all of the decibels?

The twin-screw supercharger on Mike Decker Jr.’s C7 Corvette looks absurd. We say that not as a matter of calling the car unappealing, of course. Rather, this drag-racing C7 comes across positively weaponized with the blower sticking a foot over the hood.

That massive supercharger and its accompanying parts offset the low, angular lines of the Corvette in an almost-comical way. It’s not quite a Rat Fink Pro Mod, but the Decker Corvette follows that cartoonishly overpowered look.

However, Decker clearly has harnessed the ample horsepower available to him, as YouTuber BigKleib34 shows. The video captures the ‘Vette running a best eighth-mile pass of 4.17 seconds at 190 miles per hour. Some basic digging turns up this: The Corvette has run as quickly as 3.93 in competition. Yep, that’s a serious build.

Not every drag-racing video conveys sound all that well, but BigKleib captures the blown V8’s obvious roar well. Even as the C7 idles up to the water box, people near the startline make earmuffs with their hands. The quad exhaust dumps on each side made a thundering racket and then the earth splits open as the Corvette leaves. With the timeslips he’s pulling, we’d figure that setup must be worth at least 2,000 horsepower, probably considerably more.

Decker competes usually in a variety of Outlaw 10.5 classes, which are for “door cars” running rear tires that are 10-½ inches wide. Various sanctioning bodies will carry similar rulesets, but they typically include minimal restrictions. Inductions systems correspond to weight penalties, and the cars must look vaguely stockish. In the world of race cars with doors, this kind of Pro Mod-style build counts as “vaguely stockish.”

All of that adds up to one mean drag-racing supercharged Corvette.