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"The Grand Parkway toll road outside Houston, Texas, has lived a hard life over the past month. This is mostly thanks to the crew at Hennessey Performance, and the decision to use that particular stretch of road to top out some of their tuned Chevrolet creations. In early December, Hennessey became the first to take a Corvette C7 past 200 mph, and now, the company has taken a Chevrolet SS to 163 mph. Hennessey fitted the car with its HPE600 Supercharged package, which takes the stock V8 from 415 hp to a whopping 600. Upgrades include a TVS2300 supercharger, HPE air induction system, a fuel system upgrade, and HPE engine management. The options list includes upgrades to the brakes and suspension, transmission, as well as headers and exhaust. Judging by the sound, I&amp;#039;d say that Hennessey definitely went with the exhaust mods for this video shoot. Sadly, the top speed of the SS in the video was limited by the wonky six-speed transmission, which only allows the top speed to be reached in fifth gear. Had it not been hindered, we could have been looking at many more miles-per-hour. Nonetheless, turn the speakers up and enjoy the video.      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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