Don't let this car's near-stock appearance and understated elegance fool you: this is very likely the fastest street car that you have ever seen, let alone driven. No bull, no drama: just pure, gut-wrenching, mind-blowing speed of the sort that makes you feel queasy way down in the pit of your stomach. If you're an adrenaline junkie, or just want to drive the penultimate king of the hill Corvette, this is definitely the car for you.

This gorgeous Lingenfelter was built and driven only by a Washington state fast car fanatic who also happens to be a close personal friend. It was his dream to build, and after many revisions over many months, it finally turned out perfectly. Unfortunately, as these things often go, now he doesn't have time to spend with his creation, so he's looking for the perfect new owner to come along and give it the attention that it deserves and has entrusted me to help him find that person.

This car is equipped with the already incredible LPE 427 TT build based on the famous C5R block which can be viewed here: http://www.lingenfelter.com/pack_cor_c5_725.htm but, because incredible just wasn't good enough, it also has some special sauce to make it even faster, more capable, and more durable:

RPM Level V Transmission with closer 5th and 6th gear ratio
DTE Stage 5 Super Duty/Racing Rear Differential with 3.42:1 final drive
DTE Differential Strut
Custom Coilover suspensions with JRZ components
Exedy Triple Carbon Clutch
All polyurethane suspension bushings, engine, and transmission mounts
Upgraded anti-roll bars (T1 front, Z06 rear)
Fikse wheels, Front 18x10, Rear 18x12
Brembo Brakes ("F50" brakes, 14" front and rear with parking brakes)
Harness bar w/ fire extinguisher
B&M short shifter
Cooling is upgraded with Ron Davis radiator with built in oil-cooler (used for power steering cooling because there is an external oil cooler for engine oil).
liquid-to-air intercoolers
boost controller
boost gauge
engine oil cooler
power steering fluid cooler
HKS recirc blow-off valve
FAST intake
90mm throttle body
slightly reduced compression for more boost on 92 octane fuel
rear battery relocation
mini-tubbed rear to make room for wider rear wheels and tires
This car was dyno'd and produced the following power figures at the rear wheels through a full exhaust and catalytic converters: (dyno sheet is available for viewing)

594hp/690tq at 9-10 psi with 92 octane pump fuel
719hp/793tq at 12-13 psi with 92 octane pump fuel
807hp/919tq at 15 psi with 104 unleaded fuel
Given traditional rule-of-thumb 15% drivetrain loss, that puts this car in at 950 horsepower and 1081 lb/ft! If you want to get aggressive, it has more left in it!

At the drag strip, this car ran the quarter mile at 11.001 @ 137mph at 12-13psi and cold tires. The combo is capable of 9s and has been driven there by Lingenfelter. This car isn't NHRA legal to go that fast (no cage, etc.), so running it flat out at the track more than once in a great while isn't really an option.

Approximating the current base price of a 2000 C5 ($25,000) it would cost ~$120K to duplicate this setup today.

A bit of LPE history on this awesome car: This car was originally a 650TT car, sent to LPE in 2000 with 3,000 miles on the clock. When the LS6 intake became available, the car went back for the intake, a new cam, and tune. After that, the car went back to LPE for a lower compression 346 build to be capable of running higher boost on 92 octane pump gas. The latest set of upgrades to the 427TT were done in 2005 with 37,000 miles on the clock. Always more power.

For those worried about how the car has been cared for: it's driven by a car expert who deeply understands the needs of turbocharged and ultra high performance vehicles. The car has been driven, but has never been beaten. When it is driven, it's on the low-boost (9-10psi) setting about 70% of the time. The rest of the time, it's run at 12-13psi, but the power is so silly and traction so unavailable that that's usually unnecessary. The high boost (15psi) setting has never been run on the street - only when the car was tuned and dyno'ed at LPE.