Jeremy Whips a GT-R...?

[SyDias]

Jeremy Clarkson, drivers a JUN tuned (1000BHP) GT-R!
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- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US24vU6PQj4

Found this surfing around on the tube, thought it was pretty kool for JC to drive a heavily modded & tuned import. Enjoy

[Danny Lee]

I have to say, I love the resonation on the inside of the cockpit, I'd never get tired of that on boost.

It's obviously only a drag machine though, it's got huge power but it seems to drool out of the bottle like treacle, and then you always have that little bit too much overdrip on your pancake.

[ThaiTanium22]

Wow...it's reliable, has what appears to be an intact interior, and it's fast. I gotta get me something like that. I wonder how reliable HPA R32's are...

[(_8(I)]

Impressive. Shame about the colour though.

[Papero]

Yeah, it looks like shit, but that's my taste.

[DarcSystems]

Nice ride, but I hope all that money in the engine went to engineering it, not to parts. 150,000 pounds is like 295,000 us dollars or some shit.

[Papero]

Nice ride, but I hope all that money in the engine went to engineering it, not to parts. 150,000 pounds is like 295,000 us dollars or some shit.

Darc, you would know.

What the hell actually costs these cars that much to hit the 800HP -1000HP mark?

On carforums.net years ago, there was a guy named CScraig, he bought a 5.0 Mustang for 900 bucks, and I believe it was just under $8,000.00(don't remember exact) he had an unreliable 801HP Mustang.

Now let's say a Supra, they come with like 320HP from factory and all a lot of people do is upgrade the turbo and a tune for under $2,500 and add another 100HP.......

Fuck it, I'm making this really complicated, how the hell did it cost almost $300,000 for that car to get where it is? I can't seem to put two and two together, if a Mustang owner can get that for under $10,000. How the fuck does someone who has a Supra, which internals are good for 1000HP if I'm correct, cost them $50,000.00 for the same damn thing? It's just very confusing.

[DarcSystems]

Well, in the case of smaller engines, you can put up the numbers, it's just harder to do. A guy working with an engine twice the size can put up a number, like 1000 horsepower, and a guy with half that engine size could get 1000 horsepower, but obviously not as easy. There's a lot of engineering and design that goes into it. It's not just "slap on the most expensive parts, and it'll all work".

It still kinda feels to me like the engineering, and time going into a lot of the smaller motors is in relation to the price of gas. A well engineered larger motor can put up twice the numbers, and maintain the reliability. If anything, I imagine the power output, as high as it is, is a lot harder on these smaller engines.

Naturally, with track performance, you don't want a big ol' weight under your hood pulling your light little car through all your turns, but back to engineering, they could easily come up with something that doesn't weigh much. For some reason, no one's really doing it. Everyone's too hung up on the notion that big engines are for straight lines.

I got nothing against smaller engines, or their performance, but I'm no rich man, so I try to get as much as I can for my dollar.

[Ginish]

Well, in the case of smaller engines, you can put up the numbers, it's just harder to do. A guy working with an engine twice the size can put up a number, like 1000 horsepower, and a guy with half that engine size could get 1000 horsepower, but obviously not as easy. There's a lot of engineering and design that goes into it. It's not just "slap on the most expensive parts, and it'll all work".

It still kinda feels to me like the engineering, and time going into a lot of the smaller motors is in relation to the price of gas. A well engineered larger motor can put up twice the numbers, and maintain the reliability. If anything, I imagine the power output, as high as it is, is a lot harder on these smaller engines.

Naturally, with track performance, you don't want a big ol' weight under your hood pulling your light little car through all your turns, but back to engineering, they could easily come up with something that doesn't weigh much. For some reason, no one's really doing it. Everyone's too hung up on the notion that big engines are for straight lines.

I got nothing against smaller engines, or their performance, but I'm no rich man, so I try to get as much as I can for my dollar.

^ What he said, Well put.

[EeekiE]

Yeah, an engine that's twice the size only need's to be half as tuned. Big engines are good for big BHP, but big BHP doesn't always mean a faster car.
A small highly tuned F/I engines as an example will return better MPG when offboost than a bigger engine of the same power but of lower tune.
My G40 goes anywhere from about 16 to 40+mpg dependent on how I drive it. But as Darc says, the initial cost of getting the same power is massively different, and the more tuned an engine gets, the more it costs to get that little bit more out of it. Plus it will require more maintenance as it's being strained far more than the bigger engine of same power level.

Both styles of engine have their uses.

What would be good, is a flat-8 :lol: Big ol' engine, but with it's weight distributed better.