Their love of going faster than the guy next to them runs in their blood.īut the elder Stevens still got a little choked up when talking about the record his son now holds in the world of professional drag racing. The elder Stevens used to race hot rods and would take his son to car shows. The decision does not seem to have cost him much to this point, especially after the $10,000 prize he received for setting the world record.Įxtreme Racing Engines, in Andover Township, opened in May after operating a shop in Paterson for nearly 20 years.Ĭars and racing have been a part of the Stevens family for as long as they both can remember. Stevens said he originally went to school for mechanical engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, but decided he wanted to get "hands on" with cars and never finished. "We do everything ourselves, so we're kind of unique in that way," Stevens said. The younger Stevens, 32, said that while most racers will hire somebody else to modify a stock engine or to build and maintain their cars, there's a certain amount of pride that comes with running something you created. They created the engine on a computer aided design program before sending the blueprint to a third-party, who custom-built the idea. The father-son duo, along with their team, built and designed the record-breaking 2014 Chevy Camaro in about five months. own and operate Extreme Racing Engines on Stickles Pond Road, where they build custom cars and engines. I really don't know what else you can compare it to. "People ask me all the time (what it feels like to go 230 mph). "It's hard to describe really," Stevens said of his amazing feat. at the Virginia Motorsports Park when he clocked that unbelievable time. 22 at the Professional Drag Racers Association, or PDRA, 2015 World Finals in North Dinwiddie, Va. Only one person actually knows exactly what it feels like, and he would be more than happy to build a race car for anyone looking to try.Ĭarl Stevens Jr. It would also help to have a custom 489-cubic-inch Hemi engine under the hood. Your vehicle would have to be traveling at 230.1 miles per hour to pull it off. ANDOVER TOWNSHIP - Imagine what it would be like to go an one-eighth of a mile in 3.566 seconds.
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