---
title: "Watch a 1000-HP, Turbo V8-Powered Mitsubishi Evo Run an 8.9-Second Quarter Mile"
description: "This Evo VIII appears to have just one purpose alone—to annihilate drag times."
date: "2017-05-10"
modified: "2017-05-10"
authors:
  - name: "Aaron Brown"
    job_title: "Staff Editor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/aaron-brown"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/watch-this/10130/watch-a-1000-hp-turbo-v-8-powered-mitsubishi-evo-run-an-8-9-second-quarter-mile"
categories:
  - "Mitsubishi News"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
  - "Watch This"
tags:
  - "drag racing"
  - "evo"
  - "LS Swap"
  - "Mitsubishi"
  - "Quarter Mile"
  - "V-8"
---

# Watch a 1000-HP, Turbo V8-Powered Mitsubishi Evo Run an 8.9-Second Quarter Mile

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/images-by-url-td/content/2017/05/screen-shot-2017-05-10-at-10-04-55-am.png>)
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Strip a car, cage it, drop a turbocharged LS V8 under the hood, and call it a day. Sometimes, when watching drag clips, it seems like those things are pretty much all owners have to do to create one hell of an impressive drag car. Though there are a couple other things that are also vital to making a car launch well, when watching drag videos—like the one below of the sub-9-second Mitsubishi Evo VII—everything just looks so easy and effortless.

If you follow the Facebook [page for this car](<https://www.facebook.com/EvoVIII.V8/>) and its [Polish builder](<https://www.facebook.com/poweredbyVTG/>), you'll see that this Evo VIII has recieved a ton of modifications (and continues to be developed) in order to push the car faster and faster down the drag strip in the quarter mile. Currently, it's powered by a turbocharged 5.3-liter LSx V8 engine with an 88-mm turbo attached, which pushes power to all four wheels through a three-speed automatic transmission. Thanks to all of that, the car was able to manage to fire off an 8.973-second quarter mile at 153.21 miles per hour, [according to Engine Swap Depot](<https://www.engineswapdepot.com/?p=16057>).

Quick, yes?

https://youtube.com/embed/89yq9FaU_kE

## Author
Aaron was previously a contributing writer with Jalopnik and has also written for Business Insider covering cars. When he's not in the office writing the news, you'll probably find him thrashing a beater car around a RallyCross.

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