Listen to the world's first twin-turbo Corvette Z06 start up for the first time.
, going as far as to mount parts of the system to the car. Now, with the charge pipes in place, she's able to give us our first taste of what a twin-turbo version of the 5.5-liter flat-plane-crank V-8 sounds like. The high pitch rasp remains, but now it's accompanied by the whooshing noises created by the spooling turbos. Hartford even gives the camera a few revs for our aural pleasure.
Hartford is no stranger to twin-turbo C8s. She made a name for herself modifying her Corvette Stingray with twin turbos, managing tofor quickest C8 in the quarter-mile. We have no doubt she'll be chasing similar goals with this build. This Z06 is far from ready to hit the drag strip, of course. It still needs a ton of upgrades and additional parts to run reliably, like upgraded axles and a methanol injection system to compensate for the lack of an intercooler. We can't wait to see what sorts of numbers it can put up once it's running properly.
Road & Track staff writer with a taste for high-mileage, rusted-out projects and amateur endurance racing.
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