Comments on: Nissan Releases Images For FIA-GT1 GT-R Race Car

By: Boganhead

Boganhead — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 03:05:00 +0000

looks pretty horn. But you got to ask, is really still a gtr… really

By: toxic_horse

toxic_horse — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:10:38 +0000

V8 Supercars could be capable of a lot more but are limited. They also must use 98 octaine ethanole blended fuel.

By: Mad Max

Mad Max — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:01:39 +0000

Very very true. I spoke to Larry Perkins 3 or 4 years ago and he said that the HMS V8 used in the Commodores will safely rev to 8’000RPM (as run in NASCAR) and he thought that we would see 750BHP without too much risk of self destruction. However our rules in the V8 series tightly controls a lot of areas in the engines in the interest of cost. Larry also said that in the old Group A days, it was not uncommon to rev the old 4.9 litre V8 run in the Commodores to 9’000 rpm in qualifying. He showed me pictures of a block with the 2 rear cylinders split off from the block. He said that they were like hand-granades. The engines would just let go without any warning. It was partialy fixed with the VN Group A with the block having more strengthening ribs. Imagine a Holden V8 at 9’000 RPM…

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:04:14 +0000

Richo : Agreed that the aussie builders are up there with the best, but power figures on v8 supercars is rather locked down. They have certain control components that severely limit the power they can produce. From memory the amount of spark advance they can run is the main limiting factor. Give them free range and we’d be seeing close to 1000hp like that carby-fed Nascars.

By: Rocket

Rocket — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:38:07 +0000

Imagine the howls of protest if this car won the 2010 Bathurst. Ford and Holden do themselves an injustice by not competiting against cars like this. I would actually watch car racing in this country if Ford and Holden had enough balls to take on other brands. Scrap the tired and boring Ford vs Holden racing and develop a new format.

By: Richo

Richo — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:25:30 +0000

So 600BHP out of a 5.6ltr V8..

..V8 Supercars make 650+BHP from 0.6ltr less capacity and “dinosour” spec pushrods… maybe those Aussie engine builders aren’t actually that bad eh?

Reminds me of how Fred Gibson used to get 100BHP more out of his GTR’s in Australia then the Nismo engineers could get out of their Jap GTR’s

By: aaron

aaron — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:49:51 +0000

Daaaayam forget the spec v, the z tune should be based on this

By: Supercujo

Supercujo — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:02:48 +0000

Awesome beast.

By: Baddass

Baddass — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:01:23 +0000

It’s sort of like what the V-Spec should have been…