1700bhp Ford GT sets world record - BBC Top Gear
supercharger was replaced with a twin turbo. that is how you make a quick car even quicker.
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1700bhp Ford GT sets world record - BBC Top Gear
supercharger was replaced with a twin turbo. that is how you make a quick car even quicker.
Oy - a new, new SM record.
Another Ford GT, too...must be something to that, eh? :)
yeah, hard to find many cars pushing > 1000whp with a supercharger.
A guy just wrecked his 1600 hp Ford gt. Procharged.Quote:
Originally Posted by IPD
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by R/T93
Ok, so how many 8,000hp cars do you find running turbos :DQuote:
Originally Posted by IPD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XugdI...e_gdata_player
the highest HP cars run Roots style SuperchargersQuote:
Originally Posted by IPD
but thats crazy that he beat the 2000hp Hennessy that ran 257mph at the TX2012
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
idk if there are turbos that would handle a top fuel car mainly because of the exhaust gas being so crazy
I can't find anything that says how quick he did it. (time)
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by IPD
This thread makes my head hurt.
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.
lol.......Quote:
Originally Posted by anyonebutme
isn't that the long-running joke response to every time i pose?Quote:
Originally Posted by green-lantern
only when you do it like this...Quote:
Originally Posted by IPD
http://wlrnunderthesun.org/wp-conten...1/pose_510.jpg
dammit, i fucking hate this work keyboard.
:inout:
oh wow. :inout:
http://vimeo.com/52357653
Whirley gig :lo5l:
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
Time = 4.720533333333333 minutes divide mph by 60 :suspect:
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by nodoze
yea no shit