don't race this guy from a roll.

[91notch]

that car rode the hell out.

[Mike]

That was bad ass. Great Video.

[bwelch]

That shit is fast. Had to be sprayin

[Pesce Nero]

saw that video about a year ago. that is freaky fast

[Matts94Z28]

Wow!

[red99pony]

fast!!

[79bluebird]

if i am right thats a turbo car.

[s14.5gonewide]

i hate to say it but its got a shute and is proably purpose built.. it better hook from a 20 roll. car is proably a multi link/panhard bar/laddar suspension minitub.. in which case its not that impressive... not saying the car did not roll out or that it was fast i would just expect it from something with a shute.

[BigdaddyDupree]

ima put a schute on the s-10 and expect no one to mess with me. lol

[jmd]

that shit is fast.

[Illusions]

Now since it was on the street would be classified as a street car? just curious

I can't afford a chute so I'm thinking a walmart grocery sack wadded up with chute lettered on the tailgate with an arrow pointed at the grocery sack. That should scare them.

[s14.5gonewide]

thats like when titan took their 7sec supra out for lunch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHFotBmxDIQ

or when darian took out the 800whp 8sec street car.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIkB6Zl1wc8

heari s the car al il whle later same setup breaking the stock 6 speed record.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2a1d...eature=related

and again beating it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLHbX...eature=related

[91notch]

I see your supra and raise you........

[s14.5gonewide]

lol yup its faster.. just saying if u se a car with slicks and a shut it better be fast.. or it might as well be in the garbage

[dkbmxer002]

Originally Posted by s14.5gonewide

thats like when titan took their 7sec supra out for lunch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHFotBmxDIQ

or when darian took out the 800whp 8sec street car.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIkB6Zl1wc8

heari s the car al il whle later same setup breaking the stock 6 speed record.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2a1d...eature=related

and again beating it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLHbX...eature=related

except up until recently Darin actually drove his car out the meets on a regular basis. he has a true street car...


and that fox probably was too.

[s14.5gonewide]

i raise ur mustang with the worlds fastest street car

Going from zero to 60 mph in one second will make people stop and stare, but Rod Saboury need not drive his 2,400-horsepower, twin-turbo-charged Corvette that fast to grab attention.

Sometimes, the Millers resident and National Hot Rod Association driver cruises along Carroll County's streets or pulls up into a McDonald's drive-through, and then heads turn - fixated on the Corvette's dragster-engine sound, fire-red exterior and hot-rod designs.

"It's like driving a UFO on the highway," says Saboury, 58, whose 1963-model Corvette is widely regarded as the fastest street-legal car on the planet. The car so impressed the editors at Super Chevy magazine that the 35-year-old publication named Saboury's Corvette as its inaugural Car of the Year in its February issue.

In fact, Super Chevy editor Jim Campisano is among those who have seen the Corvette's performance up close. He was there when Saboury posted eye-popping practice-run times in the Corvette during last summer's O'Reilly Auto Parts Super Chevy Show at Summit Motor Sports Park in Norwalk, Ohio.



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Today's Sun photos Photos Saboury clocked his car at zero to 60 mph in one second. Moreover, the track's Compulink timing system (which doesn't measure miles per hour until the eighth-mile mark) clocked him reaching the eighth-mile mark at 4.56 seconds (159.27 mph).

Then the Corvette reached the quarter-mile mark in 6.95 seconds at 210.54 mph - the fastest-ever recorded drag strip run by a street-legal car.

"You can tell that he was so exited that he almost forgot to brake," said Summit race director Nettie Damon, who clocked Saboury's eighth-mile and quarter-mile times.

The feat was the accomplishment of Saboury's much-sought-after goal of running a quarter-mile in the six-second range with a car that meets all requirements necessary to pass an inspection and be registered and insured in a state. That includes working headlights and tail lights, working doors, windshield wipers and turn signals.

Saboury's efforts also silenced detractors in hot-rod circles who claimed that such speeds were not possible in a 1963 Corvette.

"Think of a plane getting catapulted off the deck of an aircraft carrier; it was insane," Campisano said of Saboury's feat. "And the tires he uses are street legal tires. His car runs on pump gas. It's not unusual to have a fast street car, but his has cup holders and power windows."

All this from a full-time roofing contractor who has been designing and racing cars as a hobby for 40 years. Though he lives quietly on farmland in Carroll County, Saboury is known worldwide for the 15 supercharged cars he has designed and the speed marks they've set.

He's also credited with helping to take an illegal activity - street racing - to the safety of the closed track, bolstering its popularity.

To get an idea of the impressiveness of Saboury's ride, consider the Shelby Super Cars Ultimate Aero, which is listed in Guinness World Records as the fastest production car. It can travel a quarter-mile in just under 10 seconds.

Yet Saboury's four-speed-transmission car has twice as much horsepower as the Ultimate Aero.

The Corvette took two years to design and five years to build at auto-builder Lowdown Hotrods of Cambridge, Ontario. Saboury declined to say how much the car cost.

The car takes off in first gear, then shifts into second gear at 8,200 rpm. The car is designed to transfer power from the engine to the wheels in a way that promotes traction and prevents spinning at takeoff.

That means that as quick as you can say "one Mississippi," Saboury's Corvette goes from the starting line to 60 feet, or a distance of nearly two-thirds the length of a regulation basketball court. At takeoff, its front tires go airborne.

Upon reaching 210 mph, the car requires a half-mile of braking distance to come to a stop, which Saboury does with the help of two parachutes.

"This is not a street car that you can race. It is a race car that you can drive on the street," said Saboury, whose other vehicle is a 1992 Ford F-250 truck. "We have designed and built this car to leave the starting line as fast as possible to get the forward momentum going. When you drag race, the first eighth of a mile is where you pick up all your miles per hour."

Auto racing experts say that going from zero to 60 mph in a second is nothing new. Indeed, an August 2002 issue of Car and Driver magazine highlighted vehicles in the funny car class of drag racing that have been clocked going from zero to 100 mph in 1.2 seconds and in less than 100 feet.

[s14.5gonewide]

Originally Posted by dkbmxer002

except up until recently Darin actually drove his car out the meets on a regular basis. he has a true street car...


and that fox probably was too.

yup sat across from him/jessica for a b day party last year where they both drove their respected supras to the dinner.

[dkbmxer002]

Originally Posted by s14.5gonewide

yup sat across from him/jessica for a b day party last year where they both drove their respected supras to the dinner.

i was making fun of her last time i saw her. she wouldn't run me from a dig. but they are cool, darin is quiet and humble.

[namewastaken_0_0]

Kinda like dis?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpX8pnlvsoU


oh yeahhh