There is a rumor locally that a guy is building an AWD Cobra clone using a V8 GMC Envoy drivetrain.
IF it's true I would love to turbocharge the snot out of something like that!
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July 28, 2009 9:33 a.m. The Brown Stig MegaDork
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July 28, 2009 10:31 a.m. Will Reader
Paging Dr. Lingenfelter and Dr. Duttweiler to the OR...
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July 28, 2009 10:47 a.m. scardeal New Reader
I want someone to make an American equivalent to the GT-R...
LS1/2/3/7/9 (or supercharged Ford V8), AWD and a willing chassis (not a truck), IRS, etc.
I guess I want an AWD Corvette, really.
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July 28, 2009 11:42 a.m. xci_ed6 Reader
1000hp isn't that hard anymore. There are a couple street driven Lancer EVO's in town with right around 1000hp.
I watched a street race between one of them and a Yamaha R1 from a 60mph roll, the EVO was immediately in front and stayed there to over 180mph.
If you go to V8's there are 8-10 1500hp+ cars, I think 4 of them are over 2000hp, all in this little town. All large single turbo (mostly SC101) BBC.
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July 28, 2009 12:49 p.m. Ian F HalfDork
It's not difficult to build a 12V Cummins to make 1000+hp... and still be perfectly docile around town...
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July 28, 2009 1:09 p.m. 4cylndrfury Dork
scardeal wrote:
I want someone to make an American equivalent to the GT-R...
LS1/2/3/7/9 (or supercharged Ford V8), AWD and a willing chassis (not a truck), IRS, etc.
I guess I want an AWD Corvette, really.
yes please!! too bad GM dismantled/kaputzed its HiPo unit
Fords still doing their new turbo deal though...alfa, any word on a ford goodie with forged internals on the horizon? what about a awd turbo hemi challenger? do hemis take well to squishing?
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July 28, 2009 1:11 p.m. SVreX UberDork
dyintorace wrote:
MrJoshua wrote:
How do I get it?
You saw the board at Rollins. It's not that hard if you're willing to spend. IIRC, the top HP on their board right now is 1600 or 1800 hp. That's with NOS of course.
And only somewhat related, I had to post this picture. I found it when googling twin turbo V8 set ups. Nice!
Who's car is that?
It looks suspiciously like Lance Styck's outlaw class mustang. Runs 7.4's @ 180 mph+
He's a neighbor!
I've seen footage of that car airborne and upside down @ nearly 180.
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July 28, 2009 1:15 p.m. 4cylndrfury Dork
^^
"I am upside down, this is not good"
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July 28, 2009 1:17 p.m. TJ HalfDork
xci_ed6 wrote:
1000hp isn't that hard anymore. There are a couple street driven Lancer EVO's in town with right around 1000hp.
I watched a street race between one of them and a Yamaha R1 from a 60mph roll, the EVO was immediately in front and stayed there to over 180mph.
If you go to V8's there are 8-10 1500hp+ cars, I think 4 of them are over 2000hp, all in this little town. All large single turbo (mostly SC101) BBC.
First, don't street race. Hopefully you watched it on you tube and not in real life.
Second, if you wantched it in real life how can you really see, Anything going from 60 to 180 covers some ground...where would one stand to watch that?
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July 28, 2009 1:18 p.m. dyintorace Dork
SVreX wrote:
dyintorace wrote:
MrJoshua wrote:
How do I get it?
You saw the board at Rollins. It's not that hard if you're willing to spend. IIRC, the top HP on their board right now is 1600 or 1800 hp. That's with NOS of course.
And only somewhat related, I had to post this picture. I found it when googling twin turbo V8 set ups. Nice!
Who's car is that?
It looks suspiciously like Lance Styck's outlaw class mustang. Runs 7.4's @ 180 mph+
He's a neighbor!
I've seen footage of that car airborne and upside down @ nearly 180.
No idea. I did find it on a Mustang forum though. I just thought it was cool looking.
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July 28, 2009 3:10 p.m. maroon92 UltraDork
The Brown Stig said:
maroon92 wrote: it looks like Turbo boobies...
(sorry, I just woke up)
LOLZ,
How was your trip?
the trip was great, I took it slow and got here in 14 hours. the "Aspire8" drove great, and made it the whole way with no issue. I will post something about the trip later tonight.
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July 28, 2009 3:50 p.m. DustoffDave Reader
You'd have to modify the engine bay a little to get 1000 horse-power. I know, lame.....give me a break we're having record heat in WA and I have no A/C in my office (or windows, for that matter).
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July 28, 2009 4:21 p.m. xci_ed6 Reader
TJ wrote:
First, don't street race. Hopefully you watched it on you tube and not in real life.
Second, if you wantched it in real life how can you really see, Anything going from 60 to 180 covers some ground...where would one stand to watch that?
I knew I'd catch flack for mentioning it, basically the scenario was that I was riding around, and I saw a bunch of people stopped on a bridge over the interstate. I stopped just in time to watch them fly under it, probably at around 120-130mph. It did end up on the internet though.
http://videos.streetfire.net/video/AMS-Video-Contest-6_548451.htm
No street racing for me, but that Evo is nuts. I've seen it at a few car shows around. Fully stock interior & exterior, ultra-light front brakes, definitely not safe for the street, but that is what it is built for. Would not meet the safety requirements of any track. He went through a few engines getting it right, turns out that it pulled so many G's on acceleration it was starving for oil
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July 28, 2009 7:27 p.m. aussiesmg Dork
I used to race in Hillclimbs back in Oz, one of my competitors had a very fast 750 hp R32 GTR, he then went out and spent $80,000 to make 1000 hp.
Sidenote: At every hillclimb after that, he went a second slower, even 4WD has its limits of grip.
He hated my 250 hp RX3 with a passion.....
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July 29, 2009 9:31 a.m. xci_ed6 Reader
Here's another local one, it says 846@21psi, but I heard that he runs more like 45-50, and it puts down somewhere around 1300whp.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/2005-EVOMR-848-HP-Brand-New-Everything_W0QQcmdZView...
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July 29, 2009 9:39 a.m. Rusty_Rabbit84 HalfDork
you could get one of these...
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July 29, 2009 9:49 a.m. Lightning New Reader
4cylndrfury wrote:
scardeal wrote:
I want someone to make an American equivalent to the GT-R...
LS1/2/3/7/9 (or supercharged Ford V8), AWD and a willing chassis (not a truck), IRS, etc.
I guess I want an AWD Corvette, really.
yes please!! too bad GM dismantled/kaputzed its HiPo unit
Fords still doing their new turbo deal though...alfa, any word on a ford goodie with forged internals on the horizon? what about a awd turbo hemi challenger? do hemis take well to squishing?
yep, IIRC Saleen's new gig is making a boosted 750hp Challenger SRT-8 and some 500+hp versions too.
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Aug. 21, 2009 5:38 p.m. kyproset New Reader
don't wake up, or spend a million .
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Aug. 21, 2009 8:19 p.m. EricM HalfDork
maroon92 wrote:
it looks like Turbo boobies...
Teenage fantisy fullfilled
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Aug. 21, 2009 9:22 p.m. MadScientistMatt Dork
We've sponsored a couple of cars which came pretty close to those numbers at the wheels, or went over it. Either would have more than 1,000 at the crank:
http://www.diyautotune.com/cars/customer/gary_hart_studebaker.htm
Merlin 515 inch big block plus a pair of turbos. Gary bought a lot of the parts used to hold costs down. Ran 248 mph at Bonneville this year, but grenaded one of the turbos trying to back it up.
http://www.diyautotune.com/cars/customer/parish_turbo_truck.htm
A built 408 inch LS1 with twin turbos, a small hit of nitrous, and some careful tuning.
The formula's about the same in both cases: Lots of cubes, lots of boost, and some careful tuning.
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Aug. 21, 2009 9:31 p.m. MitchellC HalfDork
How the heck does he launch that truck? That's a new class of sleeper there.
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Aug. 21, 2009 9:57 p.m. Volksroddin Dork
you know I'll happy with 150 hp and a cage for my ACVW. The p71 really dose not need more power, I sure I can get in troble with it if I want to....
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Aug. 22, 2009 12:26 a.m. DoctorBlade New Reader
Last I heard, these guys had this engine in an Impala and were headed to the track...
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Aug. 22, 2009 2:53 p.m. problemaddict Reader
MitchellC wrote:
How the heck does he launch that truck? That's a new class of sleeper there.
Its 4WD and actually looks gentle off the line.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0ZTA3hPcjc
check at about 1:15 into the video for a good shot of the launch.
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Aug. 22, 2009 3:04 p.m. ronbros New Reader
how many of you think you could drive a 1000hp, and be competitive too.
YAH! i know,, you love to try it.
