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Emelia Hartford Breaks Corvette C8 Horsepower World Record

Emelia Hartford has grown a massive following on her YouTube channel over the past few years amassing over 660,000 subscribers. Focusing on high-performance modifications, she’s been able to gain incredible credibility within the automotive world and this has given her plenty of access to manufacturers, cars such as the new Hummer EV, and incredible projects. Her latest project is a high horsepower Chevrolet Corvette C8, which she has twin-turbod.

Now, it’s been put on the Dyno to see just how much power it’s creating.

Chevrolet Corvette C8 World Record Modifications

The C8 was just reaching customers when Emilia bought hers a few months ago, and already, as you can see from the thumbnail above, it’s been hugely modified with a couple of turbos now mated to the already powerful 6.2-litre LT2 V8.

The exterior has also been given a going over with orange racing stripes, a race number, and her name down the side of the mid-engined sports car. But more importantly, it’s been given nitrous injection, meth port injection, and the supporting mods to take the resulting power to the floor.

The Aim Of Her Mods

Emilia had 1,000+ horsepower in her sights, which would break the horsepower world record. The power almost reaches out through the screen and slaps you in the face it has so much of it.

Initial runs saw the car produce around 700 horsepower before severe tuning and the addition of race fuel.

How Much Horsepower In Total For This C8 Corvette?

With race fuel lacing its tank and the car being tuned to pull plenty of horse, a dyno run saw 980 horsepower. After a few more goes, Emilia saw a world record of 1,022 horsepower, making it the most powerful Chevrolet Corvette C8 in the world so far.

How long will it stay at number 1?

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