Real Street Performance has built some of the quickest and fastest imports in the world so when they decided to build their own car you knew it was going to be wicked. The Toyota Supra they created is a seven-second street car that has been on and survived Drag Week. But last weekend during testing for the World Cup Finals, the Supra grenaded a torque converter in epic fashion trying to reach the six-second zone.
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Geo Castillo and Jay Meagher are the founders of Real Street Performance and they wanted to build one of the most insane Supras ever. Their creation uses a stock 3.2-liter Toyota block that has been upgraded with a great rotating assembly and receives boost from a Precision Turbo & Engine 83mm Pro Mod turbo. Behind the inline-six is an M&M Transmission TH400 and four-link suspension from Quality Chassis. Weighing in at 3,050 pounds, the Supra is still a big car. Castillo and Meagher drive it on the street on E-85.
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The World Cup Finals is the Super Bowl of import racing so teams always show up with their cars set on kill. Previously, Castillo had wheeled the Supra to a best pass of 7.04 at 194 mph and he was ready to punch the car into the magical six-second street car category in pre-WCF testing. Things didn’t go as planned when the car first went into a huge wheelstand and came crashing down, wreaking havoc on the turbo system. After that was repaired, Castillo tried to light the boards up again only to have the torque converter fail, causing a fireball on par with that of a Top Fuel Dragster or Funny Car.
Check out this footage that shows the converter coming apart from several different angles, including from inside the car, from GRS and Real Street Performance!
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