What’s the cheapest way to build a car with 1000bhp per ton?

What’s the cheapest way to build a car with 1000bhp per ton?

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blue al

923 posts

158 months

Tuesday 23rd July 2019
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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



Edited by blue al on Tuesday 23 July 07:45

Nerdherder

1,773 posts

96 months

Tuesday 23rd July 2019
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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



Edited by blue al on Tuesday 23 July 07:45
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.


Evanivitch

19,804 posts

121 months

Tuesday 23rd July 2019
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Nerdherder said:
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.
Needs an American Sprint Car (dirt oval) aero kit!

PorkFan

Original Poster:

291 posts

179 months

Thursday 5th September 2019
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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.

Masiv

267 posts

82 months

Friday 6th September 2019
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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...

MrBMW-Motorrad

1 posts

16 months

Saturday 26th November 2022
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Ok, so here's a thing......buy yourself a BMW S1000RR, an M1000RR or even an M1000R all of which have between 1400 and 1550 BHP per ton from as little as £10,000.......0-60 in well under 3 seconds and can hit speeds close to 200 mph - if you want 4 wheels, get 2 of them.....sorted.

The Vambo

6,643 posts

140 months

Saturday 26th November 2022
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Hey Siri... find old Pistonhead forum threads that I can spam with the topic unrelated bike I own.

ChocolateFrog

24,860 posts

172 months

Saturday 26th November 2022
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Turbo charge a Caterham probably.

bloomen

6,854 posts

158 months

Saturday 26th November 2022
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The Vambo said:
Hey Siri... find old Pistonhead forum threads that I can spam with the topic unrelated bike I own.
That post cured my erectile dysfunction and I no longer need my stents so sicked them up.

Thanks Mr BMW Bikey Thing.

JoeyMc

75 posts

166 months

Saturday 26th November 2022
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Would something like that be such a handful to the point where your risking being black flagged on safety grounds???
Just curios