[1]What do you get when you take an LS6 block, stroke it out to 383 cubic inches, boost it with a big ProCharger [3] D1SC-1 supercharger, and drop it in a lightweight C5 chassis? You get a car that can leave the line really, really hard and nearly get you kicked out of the track for being too quick at the Friday night Test-N-Tune.
That’s just what we get a look at in this YouTube video [4]. The cameraman, Jesse Kleiber, tells us that this video was shot at Cecil County Drag Strip in Cecil County, Maryland earlier this summer. The black C5 reportedly belongs to a gent named Mike Perpetua [2], and has gone as fast as 9.78 at 142 MPH. In addition to the D1SC-1 [5] (..that’s capable of flowing 1,400 CFM and creating 32 pounds of boost…dang!), the LS6 also features a COMP [6] 226/232 .587/.595 115 LSA cam, a set of AFR [7] 225 Small Bore heads, Wiseco [8] pistons, dual Walbro 340 fuel pumps, an Aeromotive [9] boost referencing FPR, a set of LG Motorsports [10] street series headers, Racetronix [11] hot wire harness kit, and a meth kit from ECS [12]. The transmission is a built 6-Speed from RTK Performance [2] that’s also mated to one of their C6Z rear differentials. All that violent shifting you see in the video happens thanks to a SPEC [13] twin-disc clutch and a B&M [14] ripper shifter.
When this ProCharged LSx animal final does let it rip, it’s hard to believe that the resulting E.T. is only a 10.86 at 107 MPH. But pay close attention to the C5’s brake lights at the big end; he gets on them pretty hard before going through the traps. Like most Test-N-Tunes, they probably don’t like too many 9-second cars sharing the track with Honda Civics. Either way, watching this beast launch and struggle for traction is entertainment enough without a jaw-dropping ET to go with it. Don’t you think?
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