Redline Motorsports Revs Up With Lingenfelter Installer Program

It’s been almost three years since the C8 Corvettes rolled out into the streets, which by no means has been an easy task. A union strike, a pandemic, and numerous supplier delays have pushed the patience of many Corvette owners. During this time, the C8 has been slow to achieve the power upgrades many Corvette owners passionately enjoy about owning America’s iconic sports car. Although several tuner shops have grabbed some attention from pumped-up internet builds, South Florida’s Redline Motorsports seems to have a C8 program to change the game for the masses.

In early 2021 Lingenfelter Performance Engineering and MAGNUSON Superchargers partnered to develop a fully integrated TVS2650R Supercharger for the C8 Corvette coupe and hardtop convertible models (HTC). A system that is calibrated through the factory ECM and is CARB pending. It was realized early in development that, based on the sophisticated nature of the C8 platform, the installation of the complete program needed to be performed professionally. The concept of an Authorized Installer Program was born to meet the customer demands for the new system.

We are super excited, after over a year’s worth of comprehensive development and real-world testing, to finally be able to announce the program’s start-up. –Howard Tanner, owner of Redline Motorsports

The LPE/MAGNUSON team contacted Redline Motorsports to consult in the program’s development phase. “We are super excited after over a year’s worth of comprehensive development and real-world testing to finally be able to announce the program’s start-up,” Howard Tanner, owner of Redline Motorsports, told us. “We have always had a good relationship with LPE going back into the mid-80s, ” Tanner stated. “Mark Rapson, Lingenfelter’s  COO/VP of Operations, was very welcoming of us being involved, and we appreciated the opportunity.”

Rapson explained some of the challenges with the system focused on the fitment into the HTC chassis. “The convertible is very limited in space, and the original design had us at the edge of those limits. The new billet lid design now fits both chassis and actually yielded an improvement from the original design,” Rapson stated.

Getting everything packaged into the C8 engine compartment was a trick. But the engineering and design team at LPE/Magnuson, along with help from Redline Motorsports, created a complete package that looks…