Re: 20.8 KM Nürburgring in 6 Min 55 Sec + Video

[nocones77-vw at yahoo.com (nocones77-vw@yahoo.com)]

I'm surprised nobody mentioned the engine yet. All it says in the article is that it is "a 2.6-litre high-revving V8 engine, built in-house by Powertec, developing 360bhp"...
 
 So, any of you into sport bikes at all? Divide those numbers by two. Think of the most bad-ass 1.3L four cyl bike out there, developing around 180hp...but with two of 'em mated to one crankshaft...with the same six-speed, shared sump, sequential transmission. Yeah...you got it: a V8 Hyabusa! The whole engine and transmission assembly weighs next to nothing...literally like 150lbs or something  (i don't remember). Now, strap it into a car that weighs about 1100lbs, and you can go set track records even on street tires.
 
 The engine was in Race Car Engineering last year sometime. All I have to say is Oooohhh-yeah!!
 
 Neal

----- Original Message ----
From: Blake Irvin <blake@clockworm.com>
To: Adam Carroll <vr612valve@yahoo.com>
Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 08:47:31
Subject: Re: 20.8 KM N?rburgring in 6 Min 55 Sec + Video

i checked out the last record-breaking lap - something like 7.25 a  
few months ago.  feeking way too fast.

a friend of mine just was over in germany and got to drive his german  
buddies new corvette (ewww) - and got toasted by the audi/beamer  
wagons on the autobahn.

blake/



On Oct 28, 2005, at 9:37 AM, Adam Carroll wrote:

>    Those Radical SRs ain't nothing to f- wit. EVOmagazine rated it  
> as one of the best track cars you can buy for the money. There is a  
> US dealer based somewhere in the east, I believe.
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