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[jeep00]

Not a recent one but it was a fun day

[Widewing]

1977 RD400... 72 hp, 288 lb... A genuine rocket. Street legal road racer. Not for beginners. Circa 1979.



1969 BSA... Excellent for beginners.. Lots of torque, very benign handling. Circa June 1971.



My wife and and our MG Midget, circa 1983.



Godzuki... 225 hp Aerio SX. Suzuki Techno Sport suspension, wheels and brakes. Fun, fast, good handling commuter ride. Sold in 2008.

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nice BSA

[jeep00]

1977 RD400... 72 hp, 288 lb... A genuine rocket. Street legal road racer. Not for beginners. Circa 1979.

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1969 BSA... Excellent for beginners.. Lots of torque, very benign handling. Circa June 1971.

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Love the midget. My dad had a 66 austin healy sprite. I owned a 77 mgb in1985
My wife and and our MG Midget, circa 1983.

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Godzuki... 225 hp Aerio SX. Suzuki Techno Sport suspension, wheels and brakes. Fun, fast, good handling commuter ride. Sold in 2008.

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[Reaper90]

I don't think that finding a shop to build something to "crush" a Hennessey or Heffner twin turbo Ford GT be easy. AFAIK, the Hennessey still holds the world record for the standing mile. Nothing has crushed it yet. We're not talking a gozillion dollars... Price of the Ford GT, plus about $80,000 will get you a 800+ hp GT, with the suspension upgrades to handle that kind of power. Add another 5 grand for the N02 system, and you can have well over 1,000 hp. Still in the price range of many European super cars.

I don't know about the standing mile, I'm kinda wary of granting the title of "King of Sports Cars" based on a single performance figure. If you just want to go fast in a straight line, there are quite a few alcohol burning drag cars that will go obscenely fast in a straight line, for less than the quarter million you're talking bout.

I'm sure that completely rebuilt remade GT is a nice car. I'd be interested in seeing what it would do on a road course against the likes of a Mosler MT900R Photon (like Mike Vietro's 1635hp MT900R Twin Turbo "Red Devil") or an Ultima GTR (0-100-0 in 9.4 sec). Or one of the new Superlite Coupes. If we're just talking about sexiness, I'd take a Saleen S7 over the GT. All have dominated on a race rack in actual races, not just went fast in a straight line.

[Widewing]

I don't know about the standing mile, I'm kinda wary of granting the title of "King of Sports Cars" based on a single performance figure. If you just want to go fast in a straight line, there are quite a few alcohol burning drag cars that will go obscenely fast in a straight line, for less than the quarter million you're talking bout.

I'm sure that completely rebuilt remade GT is a nice car. I'd be interested in seeing what it would do on a road course against the likes of a Mosler MT900R Photon (like Mike Vietro's 1635hp MT900R Twin Turbo "Red Devil") or an Ultima GTR (0-100-0 in 9.4 sec). Or one of the new Superlite Coupes. If we're just talking about sexiness, I'd take a Saleen S7 over the GT. All have dominated on a race rack in actual races, not just went fast in a straight line.

Well if we're going to look at limited production cars.... Park the Mosler. The Hennessey Venom GT holds the world record for 0-300 kmh is 13.6 seconds. It goes from 0 to 200 mph in 14.5 seconds. It's also extremely fast on a road course.

Watch the video here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cgMifT1HHgI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=axnaDlUHkGA

Spec sheet for buyers: http://www.venomgt.com/the-venom-gt/specifications/

[Reaper90]

That's a really nice Lotus.

Here's a jet powered school bus. It goes 367 mph, which owns your hot rod Lotus.



The ZR1 still owns the Ford GT on a race track, in case we are ever going to talk about the original thread derailment anymore.

 

[Reaper90]

I wonder how the superLotus would do in a 30 minute sprint race on a road course versus one of these:



Tthe Ultima GTR is the fastest accelerating and decelerating road car on the planet by setting a new world record time of 9.8 seconds for the 0-100mph-0 sprint. This is the first ever sub ten seconds 0-100mph-0 recorded in the world. The GTR stormed from 0-60mph in 2.8secs and 0-100mph in 5.8 secs which are in themselves world record times, and braked from 100mph to zero in just 3.6 secs.


 

[Reaper90]

Since this is the personal vehicle thread



On the way to a win in the H5 class, and a championship trophy, at VIR.....

[Widewing]

I wonder how the superLotus would do in a 30 minute sprint race on a road course versus one of these:

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Tthe Ultima GTR is the fastest accelerating and decelerating road car on the planet by setting a new world record time of 9.8 seconds for the 0-100mph-0 sprint. This is the first ever sub ten seconds 0-100mph-0 recorded in the world. The GTR stormed from 0-60mph in 2.8secs and 0-100mph in 5.8 secs which are in themselves world record times, and braked from 100mph to zero in just 3.6 secs.

Seriously, as tested by Car and Driver, the Nissan GTR-Nismo did 0-60 in 2.7 seconds.... The Caterham R500 (think Lotus Super 7) gets 0-60 in 2.88 seconds with the standard 2.0 liter Duratec 4 banger. Not too shabby for what is essentially, a 60 year-old design, is it?

The Hennessey Venom GT can do 278 mph, probably more than 100 mph faster than the Ultima GTR. Again, it holds the world record for 0-300 kmh and 0-200 mph. The Hennessey Ford GT holds the world record for the standing mile at almost 268 mph. Picture the Ultima at LeMans with either Hennessey. Slow traffic keep right.....

[Reaper90]

Then there was the CRX, and another championship.





I do miss the Vette. Nothing like almost 500 hp at the rear wheels.



Of them all, though, I think I miss my Spitfire the most. Oh to go back to 1986 again.



And finally, this shot is actually my wife, back in the late '90's, co-driving a friend's 64 Corvette on the way to a Ladies Class autocross championship.

[Reaper90]

Picture the Ultima at LeMans with either Hennessey. Slow traffic keep right.....

yawn. You don't win a race by going fast on one part of a track on one lap. The GT may do that kind of speed on the top end, it would never be able to get that fast anywhere other than the salt flats or a looooooong airport runway. Next month's paycheck bets you that the GT couldn't hold that pace for 5 laps straight, much less a short sprint race. If I was concerned with going fast in a straight line, I'd get in a plane.

That Hennessey is a whole to faster than an Audi LMP1 Le Mans prototype in a staright line. You'd think if they're so full of awesome, they'd be standing on the podium in France. Or Daytona. Or Sebring, Mosport, Watkins Glen, Sears Point, etc.

But they ain't.

But Corvette does, regularly, just to bring us back to the original discussion.

[Reaper90]

And here I was about to forget my 1990 Z51 6-spd coupe



By 1999 that car had been completely redone with Morrison Motorsports World Challenge suspension, ZR1 Brakes, TPiS big tube intake and lots of other engine stuff, headers, DynoMax exhaust, etc. only about 400 hp thanks to the L98's intake design but over 550 lb-ft of torque.... only car I've even had that could lift a front tire off the ground when you nailed the gas coming out of a corner. Used to run on ZR1 rear wheels on all 4 corners on track, 315-35R17's race tires on all 4 corners. Damn car would almost break your neck in the corners it turned in so hard.

[icepac]

I don't think that finding a shop to build something to "crush" a Hennessey or Heffner twin turbo Ford GT be easy. AFAIK, the Hennessey still holds the world record for the standing mile. Nothing has crushed it yet. We're not talking a gozillion dollars... Price of the Ford GT, plus about $80,000 will get you a 800+ hp GT, with the suspension upgrades to handle that kind of power. Add another 5 grand for the N02 system, and you can have well over 1,000 hp. Still in the price range of many European super cars.

Hennessey holds the record for the "texas mile".

We beat them to 250mph (Miami) , 280mph (cape Canaveral), and will likely beat them to 300mph next year possibly with 2800 to 3000hp because the surface where we run is vastly superior to the texas mile venue.

The runway is long and straight and is a good place to align your spine.



Also.....it only takes a 3.4 whipple, cams, and more fueling to get 800hp as Isaac demonstrates here in his mustang that I put back together after he popped it trying for 850 on 93 octane pump gas.

It's even easier when you use the 5.4 instead of the 4.6 as a starting point and the ford GT heads have only recently been surpassed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BfhcMPp4ig

He put the supercharger back to stock and sold the car and he was just over to fit a nitrous oxide injection setup to his truck (365hp ecoboost twin turbo) today that injects E85 instead of gasoline because the ecoboost engine runs an insane amount of compression ratio and uses direct injection to counteract preignition by not having fuel exist in the combustion chamber until it is time to fire.

Adding fuel by adding port injectors is out because it will preignite so we used a pro shot fogger and added a separate tank that is filled with e85 for the nitrous system.

The E85 has a much higher tolerance for compression ratio but I'm still not sold on it and expect more broken parts very soon.

Didn't see him at the track tonight when I ran the VR4 so I guess he either blew it up or didn't get it running right.

[nrshida]

1977 RD400... 72 hp, 288 lb... A genuine rocket. Street legal road racer. Not for beginners. Circa 1979.

Very cool Widewing. When I was 18 I had a tuned RD250 I bought for £150 and restored. One of the most exciting motorcycles I've ever ridden. Doing 50 m.p.h. felt like you were doing 90 m.p.h. Some of my later sports bikes gave quite the opposite feeling. Probably explains all of those irritating speeding tickets