Canada’s Sylvain Noel owns and operates one of the most powerful hot rodded big rigs in the world. His truck makes a reported 2,400hp and somewhere in the neighborhood of 3,000 lb/ft of torque. There are videos of it all over the internet doing incredible things and we’re going to share several of them with you, one at a time. There’s drifting, loaded drag racing, bobtail drag racing, and just straight up madness like this video here. In this short film, Noel lines up next to a BMW M5 for a go at the eighth-mile drag races. We’re thinking that this was a strip setup on a runway or an open road. If anyone knows specifically where it was, let us know. Not that the location matters much, because the real star of the show is the single stacked Kenworth that accelerates like it is shot from a cannon, perhaps to the horror of the BMW owner.

We’re not sure what the displacement of Noel’s engine is but we’re going to guess it is a lot larger than the 13 (or so) liter PACCAR mill that was in that W900 to start. You can’t see it very well in this video, but there’s actually an injector hat like you’d see on an alcohol funny car on the hood of this thing! There are no throttle blades in it, but the whole works is offset enough to the side that we believe it is used to snorkle air to the motor. The other thing we love about this truck is the single stack. Twin stacks are cool and we love symmetry, but the velocity that the soot exists from the single pipe is completely insane. This thing throws a column of smoke like 50 feet into the air when it is under load. Sylvain Noel is our kind of madman. This truck is insane and we look forward to showing you just how nuts it is all week long.

We know some guys involved in this scene and we’re going to poke them to see if we can get any general specs regarding this truck. Believe it or not, these guys do keep some stuff under pretty tight wraps, but we just need to know how big the engine in the rig is!

Watch one of the most powerful big rigs in the world outrun a BMW M5 at the drag races –