This video we found posted to YouTube by Stage 9 Productions features our favorite 5th Gen Drag Car, the white Camaro from Lingenfelter Performance Engineering, doing exactly what it does best. This very well-produced video gives us a look at their fastest pass of the day at the Muncie Dragway in Muncie, Indiana. After getting the turbo spooled up, the LPE Camaro trips the tree, and when the light turns green the white 5th Gen shoots off the line like it was shot out of a cannon. After a very quick trip to the finish line, the board on the big end lights up 8.71 at 162.5 miles per hour.

As you’ll remember from our previous coverage of the white LPE 5th Gen, including our interview with Chief Engineer, Graham Behan at the LSX Shootout, this car has a lot of special things going on under the hood. The power plant is a smallish LSX with just 358 cubic inches, which utilizes a unique flat plane 180 degree crank shaft for ultra-fast revs. The LPE 5th Gen also uses a small 76 mm turbo because of class regulations in LSX Real Street. Even though the flat-plane LSX has barely more cubes than a stock LS1, it is still pretty big for just a single turbo of that size, and boost control could be a big issue. The guys at LPE utilize a PCS D200 Boost Controller to control both the wastegate and the exhaust back pressure to limit the surge speed of the turbo, and in turn to limit the amount of boost.

Check out Lingenfelter’s website for more info on the LPE 5th Gen Drag Car, or to check out their other engineering marvels.