---
title: "Watch This Quad-Turbo Junkyard Build Camaro Run the Quarter-Mile in 11 Seconds"
description: "One ‘Maro maniac attempts to turn a pile of junkyard parts into a drag racing monster."
date: "2016-11-30"
modified: "2016-11-30"
authors:
  - name: "Will Sabel Courtney"
    job_title: "Contributor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/will-sabel-courtney"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/muscle-cars/6255/watch-this-quad-turbo-junkyard-build-camaro-run-the-quarter-mile-in-11-seconds"
categories:
  - "Builds"
  - "Culture"
  - "News"
  - "Watch This"
tags:
  - "Camaro"
  - "Chevrolet"
  - "Coupe"
  - "drag racing"
  - "sports car"
  - "Texas"
---

# Watch This Quad-Turbo Junkyard Build Camaro Run the Quarter-Mile in 11 Seconds

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Given enough time and money, a skilled builder can turn pretty much any car into a drag racing monster. But transforming a hunk-of-junk [Camaro into a dragster that can run in the 11-second range](<https://blog.dupontregistry.com/aftermarket/bugatti-budget-quad-turbo-ls-powered-camaro/>) using only junkyard parts? That’s some serious MacGyver-level work.

And that’s exactly what one man managed to do, as you can see in the [video from YouTube drag racing channel *1320video* posted below](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVveg2sE3CA&feature=youtu.be>). According to the car’s owner, the rustbucket ‘Maro packs a 6.0-liter LS V8 culled from an old GM truck, with no fewer than four 48-mm Borg Warner K03 turbochargers affixed to push more air into the smallblock’s combustion chambers. (Interestingly enough, that’s the same turbocharger used by [Ford on the Focus ST](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/4511/2016-ford-focus-st-quick-review>).)

The parts, the owner claims, have been harvested straight from the junkyard, and it shows; if the Camaro’s weathered patina and rusty rat’s nest of an engine bay weren’t evidence enough, the shop-vac hose reappropriated for powertrain use is fairly demonstrative of the car’s [*Mad Max*](<https://www.thedrive.com/culture/2364/15-surprising-facts-about-the-making-of-oscar-winner-mad-max-fury-road>)-ian origins.

The car, the owner claims, is capable of running an 11.3-second quarter-mile on pump gas, thanks to a guesstimated output of around 600 horsepower at the flywheel and some rather extreme weight-reduction measures (i.e. lack of hood). Filled up with racing fuel and with a hot set of tires, however, the car went on to rip off a 11.0-second run at 123 miles per hour at the Hennessey-owned Lonestar Dragstrip during this year’s Street Car Takeover Houston. That, for the record, is almost as fast as [a brand-new Corvette Z06](<https://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/4122/quadriplegic-racer-sam-schmidt-to-conquer-pikes-peak-in-modified-corvette-z06>). Not too shabby...especially for a car that’s probably worth as much as a set of Z06 wheels and tires.

https://youtube.com/embed/DVveg2sE3CA

## Author
Will is the former managing editor of *RIDES Magazine* and the former online editor for *0-60 Magazine*. He has worked for *Time Out New York* and *Rolling Stone*, and was the creator of *College Cars Online*, the first automotive blog specifically targeted at college students and young professionals.

### Author social links  
[Instagram](<https://instagram.com/willsabelcourtney>)  
[Twitter](<https://twitter.com/willscourtney>)