There are a lot of tuners out there, even when it comes to tuners that specialize in cars that are already insanely fast and expensive from the factory. But the list of tuners that can turn out 1,750-horsepower cars and then get customers to buy them is not a very long one. So it’s very possible that you’ve heard of Underground Racing before, as it is one of the few tuners that can turn street-legal machines into vehicles that can seriously gun for world records. That is exactly what they’re going for here, a world half-mile record.
We can’t say for certain if there are any caveats to that record, but the car does hit 234.8mph in the half-mile, and that is definitely mighty quick whether there are caveats or not. And in addition to that, UGR brought along a tuned GT-R that broke the half-mile record for GT-Rs at 227mph, not too far behind the overall record set by the Gallardo. Underground Racing has held the half-mile record for Gallardos since 2009.
2011 Lamborghini Gallardo By Underground Racing
The cars used for this were actually customer cars built by Underground Racing but raced by their actual owners. Of course, if you’d paid to have one of the these cars, you’d want to drive it yourself as well. Getting a Gallardo tuned by UGR starts at about $32,000, not including the substantial cost of the car itself. Prices got up over $100,000 and then into the “inquire for price” territory once you start talking about the really big-number tunes. The power numbers start at 700 brake horsepower, but go all of the way up to 1,750, although that obviously requires race fuel. The most you can get with pump gas is 1,050 horsepower, but that same tune goes up to 1,500 with 117 octane.
