What’s the cheapest way to build a car with 1000bhp per ton?
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I would far rather your swift stays looking stock and "only" achives 750 Bhp per ton
Than ending up looking like an extra for a madmax movie full of chicken wire vents and plastic scratched windows and a moosive splitter/wing to hit your target number, and have something like a few kg of downforce to assist in putting it all down on the road
There is lot to be said for Q-car looks and hidden performance and in my opinion would add far more to your "enjoyment " on a trackday than a few 100 or so extra ponies
Than ending up looking like an extra for a madmax movie full of chicken wire vents and plastic scratched windows and a moosive splitter/wing to hit your target number, and have something like a few kg of downforce to assist in putting it all down on the road
There is lot to be said for Q-car looks and hidden performance and in my opinion would add far more to your "enjoyment " on a trackday than a few 100 or so extra ponies
Edited by blue al on Tuesday 23 July 07:45
blue al said:
I would far rather your swift stays looking stock and "only" achives 750 Bhp per ton
Than ending up looking like an extra for a madmax movie full of chicken wire vents and plastic scratched windows and a moosive splitter/wing to hit your target number, and have something like a few kg of downforce to assist in putting it all down on the road
There is lot to be said for Q-car looks and hidden performance and in my opinion would add far more to your "enjoyment " on a trackday than a few 100 or so extra ponies
Usually I’d agree that a Q-car is preferable, but somehow the Swift lends itself well to the raging mad time-attack (or hillclimb hulk) look.Than ending up looking like an extra for a madmax movie full of chicken wire vents and plastic scratched windows and a moosive splitter/wing to hit your target number, and have something like a few kg of downforce to assist in putting it all down on the road
There is lot to be said for Q-car looks and hidden performance and in my opinion would add far more to your "enjoyment " on a trackday than a few 100 or so extra ponies
Edited by blue al on Tuesday 23 July 07:45
Having been mad about cars all my life, and really into swift GTi's at from the age 10 when my dad bought his GTi in 1990....I have no idea how i never knew about the AWD 700bhp twin engined swifts (cultus as they are called in japan) that Suzuki entered into the Pikes Peak in the early 90's before they moved over to the Insane 'Escudo Pikes Peak' many of us will fondly remember from early in the Gran Turismo series....in fact i'm sure the Cultus Pikes Peak was in at least one of the early Gran Turismo's......cant understand how i missed knowing such a car existed. I'd love to keep it looking as close to a 1990 GTi as possible, lower with some nice wheels......but if it goes as well as i hope it will then it would be a shame to not give it some aero and grip and see what it can do in the right hands.......this is all thoughts for the future though.....once we have the engine mounted and running.....and then the rear diff/prop/shafts etc sorted and running again......and then given some horsepower......well God knows what the plans will be by that point??.........anybody wanting to see how fast i hope it is just search "twin engine cultus pikes peak" on youtube....its the nearest i can find to what we want to build....and will copy the wide arches if we end up needing them....different years have different looks.....think the first version had a standard body, 1990 maybe.
hopefully the engine will be properly mounted and we can give a first real update fairly soon (within a week or two), and get a build thread going.
hopefully the engine will be properly mounted and we can give a first real update fairly soon (within a week or two), and get a build thread going.
Fensport's 200MPH TOYOTA CELICA, FENSPORT’S GT4 X is one of my favourite builds.
We’re talking sub 1200kgs full laden sort of weight here and with 800+bhp going to four wheels, it’s no surprise it is incredibly fast. Top speed is recorded as 202.22 mph, it will sprint a 1/4 mile in 9.74 seconds.
https://www.tarox.com/en/200mph-toyota-celica-fens...
We’re talking sub 1200kgs full laden sort of weight here and with 800+bhp going to four wheels, it’s no surprise it is incredibly fast. Top speed is recorded as 202.22 mph, it will sprint a 1/4 mile in 9.74 seconds.
https://www.tarox.com/en/200mph-toyota-celica-fens...
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