Just wanted to come in and clear a few things up......
Both of those cars in the video you posted are located right here in albuquerque, new mexico. Where I LIVE. The white camaro driven by "trmin8tor" or whatever is Sean and he is part owner of a shop down here called solidtech. Ive been to his shop more than once for barbecues and what not. He also owns an 03 Viper. While Sean is abit of an ignorant SOB his car is fast. On a 275 shot plus a big cam, M/T slicks, stalled auto and bolt ons his car went 10.03 at abq national dragway. I was there for the passes he made. I also know that it has since went 9.9x as well. However, his car did not do this on a stock ls1 motor. He melted a piston with the 200 shot along time ago and it has since been forged and completely built for several years now.
Those are the facts.
Something you also need to know about all the turbo cars up here including the cobra he ran in that video. One thing hellion(based right here in albuquerque) likes to do to advertise their turbo kits is that when they dyno the cars they post corrected dyno numbers that should not be corrected for altitude because they are turbo cars. Turbo cars dont lose very much power at this altitude. They lose maybe 5%. Same goes for nitrous powered cars. They make their own atmosphere so the power loss is very low even at high altitude. However, all the dynos around here are calibrated for the high altitude. Naturally aspirated cars and supercharged cars lose about 30% power due to the altitude here vs at sea level. I have personally proven this at the track. A stock mach 1 will dyno roughly 30% higher than a stock 99-04 gt will. Guess what? My stock mach 1 ran the same times that a bone stock 99-04 gt does at sea level. In fact it dynoed the same at this altitude as a typical 99-04 gt does bone stock at sea level.
So the correction factor is pretty dead on. The dynos automatically calculate based on actual altitude what the car would have made at sea level and it displays on the dyno graph two sets of numbers. One is the corrected set which the dyno shows what the car would have made at sea level and then it shows a second set of numbers of what the car ACTUALLY made at this altitude. The problem is, the dyno doesnt know when its reading a car thats naturally aspirated, doing nitrous pulls, supercharged or turboed. Unless the tech changes the readings then it will still display a 30% correction factor for a nitrous or turbo powered car.
Seans white camaro(trmin8r) made 601 rwhp at this altitude which means thats without a correction factor. Motiva performance is where the hellion twin turbo cobra in the video was dynoed. Its where hellion dynos all of their cars and motiva is a 10 minute drive from my house. The cobra didnt make 850rwhp at this altitude. With the setup it had in that video it wouldnt have even made that at sea level, but because they applied the dynos 30% correction factor it provides some really impressive numbers. In truth, that cobra only made about 595 rwhp at THIS altitude and it wouldnt be much higher than that at sea level.
If you dont believe any of what I just told you then go watch the video you posted again. See how close the race was? The camaro never got more than half a car ahead of the cobra and then the cobra started pulling back and then the pull slowed again. It was a very close race. Pretty accurate results considering the ACTUAL power both cars were making and their similarities in weight(the camaro has a full cage).
The faulty corrected dyno numbers of the cobra just make the camaro look that much better.
I know the owners of both cars and they can be seen regularly at Sonic on eubank and montgomery on a friday nite where all the immature racers hang out. Sean even has his viper there from time to time.
