The Art of Underground Racing
This past weekend, I had the opportunity to go out to North Carolina with some folks at Mobil 1 for a weekend filled with automotive insanity. We made a stop to a very famous shop on the outskirts of Charlotte, Underground Racing. It's a shop that houses hundreds of thousands of horses under its roof and is an automotive fan boy's wet dream.
THE ART OF UNDERGROUND RACING
"An automotive fan boy's wet dream"
(Posted 05/25/2010 on SpeedHunters.com)
Story and Photos by: Linhbergh Nguyen
This past weekend, I had the opportunity to go out to North Carolina with some folks at Mobil 1 for a weekend filled with automotive insanity. We made a stop to a very famous shop on the outskirts of Charlotte, Underground Racing. It's a shop that houses hundreds of thousands of horses under its roof and is an automotive fan boy's wet dream.
The shop floor is filled with Lamborghinis, Ferraris, and Dodge Vipers. I heard there's even a few Audi R8s hidden away....
The Ferrari F430 in the foreground has had its engine ripped out for a twin turbo treatment.
This was my first ever sighting of a Lamborghini Murcielago SV... and it also did not have an engine inside of it. The guys at Underground Racing ripped out the Lambo V12 to throw on two turbo chargers. Yeah, you heard me correctly.
The SV may not have its engine but at least the interior was still intact! Oh what an interior it is.
I couldn't help but a bit fan-boyish and stole a moment to sit in the SV's seats. Not the most comfortable seats in the world, but you feel instantly luxurious as it hugs you in with its suede delightfulness.
We'll take a look at this Gallardo in full detail very soon. Grab the desktop wallpaper of it if you haven't already!
Another Gallardo without an engine on the lift.
A stage one twin turbo Gallardo kit starts at a mere $39,000 and you can go all the way to a stage three which would put you down just a little over $100k. But for that price, you get a reasonable and tame 1000 wheel horses. If you want 1600 WHP and fly at 250+ miles per hour on a standing mile in Goliad, Texas, then that'll cost you just a bit more....
Undergound Racing currently holds the record for a standing mile at a sanctioned event -- 250.1MPH!
This past weekend, I had the opportunity to go out to North Carolina with some folks at Mobil 1 for a weekend filled with automotive insanity. We made a stop to a very famous shop on the outskirts of Charlotte, Underground Racing. It's a shop that houses hundreds of thousands of horses under its roof and is an automotive fan boy's wet dream.
THE ART OF UNDERGROUND RACING
"An automotive fan boy's wet dream"
(Posted 05/25/2010 on SpeedHunters.com)
Story and Photos by: Linhbergh Nguyen
This past weekend, I had the opportunity to go out to North Carolina with some folks at Mobil 1 for a weekend filled with automotive insanity. We made a stop to a very famous shop on the outskirts of Charlotte, Underground Racing. It's a shop that houses hundreds of thousands of horses under its roof and is an automotive fan boy's wet dream.
The shop floor is filled with Lamborghinis, Ferraris, and Dodge Vipers. I heard there's even a few Audi R8s hidden away....
The Ferrari F430 in the foreground has had its engine ripped out for a twin turbo treatment.
This was my first ever sighting of a Lamborghini Murcielago SV... and it also did not have an engine inside of it. The guys at Underground Racing ripped out the Lambo V12 to throw on two turbo chargers. Yeah, you heard me correctly.
The SV may not have its engine but at least the interior was still intact! Oh what an interior it is.
I couldn't help but a bit fan-boyish and stole a moment to sit in the SV's seats. Not the most comfortable seats in the world, but you feel instantly luxurious as it hugs you in with its suede delightfulness.
We'll take a look at this Gallardo in full detail very soon. Grab the desktop wallpaper of it if you haven't already!
Another Gallardo without an engine on the lift.
A stage one twin turbo Gallardo kit starts at a mere $39,000 and you can go all the way to a stage three which would put you down just a little over $100k. But for that price, you get a reasonable and tame 1000 wheel horses. If you want 1600 WHP and fly at 250+ miles per hour on a standing mile in Goliad, Texas, then that'll cost you just a bit more....
Undergound Racing currently holds the record for a standing mile at a sanctioned event -- 250.1MPH!
