Tag: drag race monday

We’ve all seen funny cars powered by Nitro Methane, jet cars powered by Kerosene, but the wildest of all drag racers were the rocket cars. These cars were powered by rockets, similar to those used by NASA and the US Air Force and used a variety of fuels. One of those cars took home a […] More »

This week’s Drag Race video features a 4th generation Camaro Z/28 packing a monster motor mated to the original transmission and rear end to blast down the quarter mile in the high 10 second range. The details on this Camaro build are a bit sketchy, but in reading through the comments it appears that this […] More »

This week’s Drag Race video features a 4th generation Chevrolet Camaro powered by the engine from a Corvette C5R race car. This race bred engine measures 427 cubic inches and like the C5R Corvette, this beast is naturally aspirated. Fortunately, the engine is still stout enough to allow this Camaro to rip the wheels off […] More »

This week’s Drag Race video features a Chevrolet Camaro which the owner claimed was the fastest stock LS1 on the East Coast with a run of 9.69 at 142 miles per hour. Oh, by the way, that “stock LS1” is fitted with an aftermarket cam, a 200 shot of nitrous and a tune. I would […] More »

If you have done any drag racing in a high performance American performance car with a V8 engine, you surely know the pleasure of having some slow import performance car with a fart can pull into the staging lanes next to you – as you prepare to hand out a muscle car beating. Well, this […] More »

While I generally don’t like to feature videos of an LS1-powered vehicle getting beat up on the drag strip, this week’s Drag Racer video has one LS1 car getting beaten in a win-light-only grudge match “King of the Street” event. The participants are a 4th gen Chevrolet Camaro SS and a 4th gen Pontiac Firebird Trans […] More »

This week’s Drag Race video features a 4th generation Chevrolet Camaro powered by the LS1 V8 featuring an unspecified aftermarket camshaft. The only other modifications to this Camaro SS is a set of drag radial tires and after seeing how well this car gets down the quarter mile, it is no wonder the 4th gen […] More »