We’ve already shared videos with our readers of heavily modified examples of the 2019 Corvette ZR1 making 9.5s passes (and even sub-9s passes) at the drag strip. While certainly impressive, it’s almost a given that a lightweight car tuned by a company like Hennessey will run deep into the 9s in the hands of the right driver.
Via Farmer Machine Co Racing on YouTube
Now we’ve stumbled across a 2019 Corvette ZR1 quarter-mile record that is a bit more surprising. According to Corvette Online, Will Farmer managed to lay down a 9.84-second pass at 142.79 mph in his stock 2019 Corvette ZR1. The only modification he made to the car is the Chevrolet Performance cold air intake, which is available for the LT1, LT4 and LT5 Small Block V8 engines. It allegedly adds as much as 17 horsepower to the LT5 engine, and Farmer’s tests confirm a noticeable performance improvement. Prior to installing the factory General Motors intake, Farmer’s fastest pass in the car was a 9.93s at 140.30 mph.
Not only does the intake provide a surprising performance boost for what it is, it doesn’t void the factory warranty of the 2019 Corvette ZR1 or any other C7 Corvette.
LT5 V8
Farmer wasn’t done yet, though. Curious just how fast they could get a 2019 Corvette ZR1 with a stock powertrain to go, his Farmer Machine Co Racing team removed the car’s small rear wing (it was not ordered with the ZTK Performance Package) and took out the passenger seat. This resulted in an incredible 9.64 pass at 147.15 mph. As Corvette Online points out, this is faster than the fastest recorded time for a stock Dodge Challenger Demon, which sits at 9.65s.
Check out the pass in the video embedded above.
Source: Corvette Online
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The title says “Stock”, but you can clearly see it’s wearing slicks and skinnies.
That corvette isn’t at all a car off the factory floor. I’d say with the CAI it also has long tube headers probably a bigger fuel injector and who knows maybe a smaller supercharger pulley with those slicks and skinny’s up front
9 second passes with little add ons is amazing. This era of muscle cars is so much more impressive than the 50s, 60s, 70s!!!
Corvette isn’t a muscle car though, it’s a track beast a super car on a budget.
Lol stock? What a load of BS top to bottom. Slicks and skinnys and it’s 5mph faster than every other ZR1?
Then removed the passenger seat and wing and it picks up 7mph?!? Do tell us where that extra 150hp came from. What a load of crap.
He also had the car tuned which on 93 octane alone can add with the intake 80+HP!!
So quit the BS, not stock at all.
I e seen this all to much, also did he even still have his cats or were they also deleted?
Was the car on 93 or race gas or E85 would all explain it as well.
What a bunch of whiners it’s little modifications you can do to a stock car and nobody said it has drag radials on the back which of course we all know the Dodge comes with…
You evidently dont understand much about how power is obtained in these cars or the fact that the video clearly shows a ZR1 with rear slicks and skinny drag wheels up front and the sound of it, def had exhaust work and a pulley swap. Simple air intake is not going to add 12 mph to a 1/4 or drop the time from 10.7 to 9 6 sec, that takes over an extra 120 hp. A pulley, full exhaust, cooling and E85/100 octane will do it. Going from 91 to 93 octane wont add more than 12 hp at most and a air intake upgrade wont add more than 10 hp, both those alone wont do anything but drop from 10.7 to 10 5 sec and add possibly 2 mph.