Ford GT record

[a2j]

1700bhp Ford GT sets world record - BBC Top Gear (http://www.topgear.com/uk/photos/ford-gt-guinness-world-record-standing-mile-2012-10-30)

supercharger was replaced with a twin turbo. that is how you make a quick car even quicker.

[j2k4]

Oy - a new, new SM record.

Another Ford GT, too...must be something to that, eh? :)

[IPD]

yeah, hard to find many cars pushing > 1000whp with a supercharger.

[R/T93]

yeah, hard to find many cars pushing > 1000whp with a supercharger.

A guy just wrecked his 1600 hp Ford gt. Procharged.

[IPD]

A guy just wrecked his 1600 hp Ford gt. Procharged.

i'm sure they exist--probably more of them twin-charged than pure supercharger. the thing is, they seem to be so few and far between that i could probably count the numer that exist (worldwide) on 2 hands. 1000hp turbocharged cars are plentiful though. seems like 1 out of every 10 supras is that way.

[wingnut]

yeah, hard to find many cars pushing > 1000whp with a supercharger.

Ok, so how many 8,000hp cars do you find running turbos :D


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XugdIaObfQo&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[MeTarzan]

yeah, hard to find many cars pushing > 1000whp with a supercharger.

the highest HP cars run Roots style Superchargers


but thats crazy that he beat the 2000hp Hennessy that ran 257mph at the TX2012

[IPD]

ok, i guess i should have specified that i wasn't counting cars that run nitromethane and/or cars that didn't come off a factory production assembly line. :p

[fullracegt]

idk if there are turbos that would handle a top fuel car mainly because of the exhaust gas being so crazy

[green-lantern]

I can't find anything that says how quick he did it. (time)

[MeTarzan]

ok, i guess i should have specified that i wasn't counting cars that run nitromethane and/or cars that didn't come off a factory production assembly line. :p

the biggest reason for turbos being put on streetable cars is the Streetable factor...Superchargers will out perform turbo on pure HP and turbos have upper limits due to size and spool time.

[anyonebutme]

This thread makes my head hurt.

[j2k4]

Distilled then, Roots chargers ultimately cross the threshold at which exhaust becomes...uncontrollable - and continue to build powah. :)

I wonder what sort of capacity/size turbos and possible exhaust configurations might conceivably support that level of output - strictly as a paper proposition?

Hint, hint.

[green-lantern]

This thread makes my head hurt.

lol.......

[IPD]

lol.......

isn't that the long-running joke response to every time i pose?

[wingnut]

isn't that the long-running joke response to every time i pose?

only when you do it like this...

http://wlrnunderthesun.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/pose_510.jpg

[IPD]

dammit, i fucking hate this work keyboard.

[green-lantern]

:inout:

[DocWalt]

oh wow. :inout:


http://vimeo.com/52357653

[green-lantern]

Whirley gig :lo5l:

[nodoze]

lol whatsthe whirley gig thing ?? and man that guy has some balls of steele to go that fast i have been close to two hundred in a street car (un verified by means other than gps) and that takes nerve

[CoopKill]

Time = 4.720533333333333 minutes divide mph by 60 :suspect:

[IPD]

lol whatsthe whirley gig thing ?? and man that guy has some balls of steele to go that fast i have been close to two hundred in a street car (un verified by means other than gps) and that takes nerve

if you've got a roll-cage, nomex suit, snell helmet, and a WIDE, WIDE open place to run it, then i wouldn't be too worried. it's not the going fast that kills you--it's the sudden stop at the end.

[nodoze]

yea no shit