The Tesla Mannequin S Plaid is at all times a worthy adversary to any gasoline-powered muscle automobile or supercar, with its tri-motor setup that sends a whopping 1,020 horsepower to all 4 wheels.
With this being mentioned, it’s not precisely light-weight, tipping the scales at about 4,745 kilos (2,152 kilograms), so to make it even quicker on the drag strip, the best approach could be to take away all the things that’s not wanted throughout racing, which is what the blokes from the BoostedBoiz YouTube channel did, albeit turned as much as eleven.
First off, they purchased a wrecked Plaid for $60,000, which is nearly half the value of a brand new car, after which type of mounted it by throwing some elements at it and utilizing a tow strap looped round a tree to straighten it out.
A run on the drag strip quickly adopted, and the black Mannequin S Plaid managed to go down the quarter mile in 9.66 seconds, which is admirable for a inventory automobile. However as you may think about, a workforce of people that modified an excellent outdated Honda Civic to pump out 1,800 hp to the rear wheels weren’t precisely glad by the primary results of their EV, so straight it went to the storage, the place its excessive weight loss plan was set in movement.
Off went the doorways, the entire home windows besides the windshield, rear hatch, roof, carpets, frunk, inventory seats, and heart and rear pillars, leaving simply the unique dashboard and yoke steering wheel.
After the load loss program was accomplished, the EV was placed on the scales once more, and the consequence was a slightly spectacular 3,850 lbs (1,746 kg), all whereas retaining the unique high-voltage charging infrastructure, so the batteries can nonetheless be replenished at a Tesla Supercharger.
A roll cage and racing seat have been then added, making the so-called “Cyber Kart” prepared for its first drag racing expertise, which got here in a subsequent video, the place the BoostedBoiz ran an 8.83-second quarter mile.
An identical experiment was completed on the B is for Construct YouTube channel, the place a broken Mannequin 3 Efficiency was gutted to realize increased speeds.
As at all times, we’d wish to know what you concentrate on this, so after watching the 2 movies embedded above, head over to the feedback part under to offer us your ideas.