You’d expect Hawaii to make a person complacent, but there is just no real substitute to fast driving. Knowing this, Alex Silva tuned his old Toyota Corolla so hard that it ended up requiring a brake chute.
The car, which was released in the distant year 1981, had its engine rebuilt and boosted to 750 PS (740 hp / 552 kW). The tuner says he basically took the top half of the legendary 2JZ mill and combined it with the bottom half of Toyota’s other classic, 1JZ. He rounded things off with a new injection system and a massive Precision turbocharger. As a result, the car was able to complete its quarter-mile drag strip run in 9.5 seconds – faster than even the Dodge Demon can do despite its 100-horsepower advantage.
The mandatory brake chute notwithstanding, the Corolla dragster is completely legal to drive on the streets of Hawaii. If you were wondering what that protruding fin at the front end does, the author says it is basically only necessary to trigger the laser sensor at the end of the drag strip. The racing regulations admit all cars whose noses do not protrude farther than 4 feet (1.22 meters) from the front axle. Per Silva, it would be odd not to take advantage of that rule.