Complexity for complexity's sake

Seriously, what else is someone going to do with a Caprice convertible on 30-inch wheels, a Hummer with 44-inch tires towing a painted-to-match Predator off-shore race boat or, in this case, an inline-6-cylinder powered, multi-stage-boosted rail dragster on nitrous.

Just so we're clear, let's trace path of intake air through this engine. First, air is drawn into the centrifugal supercharger through the massive intake behind the driver's head where it's compressed for the first time. Then, because single-stage boosting is, apparently, boring, air heads for a plenum where it's split into two paths. Before leaving the plenum, however, it's hit with a shot of nitrous (look carefully) -- cause that's how rail dragsters roll at SEMA. Leaving the plenum through one of two exits, intake air is compressed again by one of two turbochargers -- supercharging is so three feet ago. After its second round with a compressor wheel in less than a yard, the highly combustible mixture is routed toward the back of the rig where it makes a 180-degree turn through one of two air-to-water intercoolers -- cause cool gasses are more more combustible that hot gasses -- before finally making its way into a custom aluminum intake manifold and into the cylinders. The engine itself, a rather normal-looking GM inline 6, displaces four liters, or so we're told.

Somebody standing nearby told me this custom multi-stage set up will make 70 pounds of boost in hopes of producing 2,400 horsepower. Cause you need that.