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

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

Ahhh....so I was a little optimistic in my estimate. 600kg = ~1300lbs.
 
 Still, damn cool! And I bet the engine will last longer than 2 50min races. :)

----- Original Message ----
From: Dan Bubb <dan.bubb@gmail.com>
To: "nocones77-vw@yahoo.com" <nocones77-vw@yahoo.com>
Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 11:00:48
Subject: Re: 20.8 KM N?rburgring in 6 Min 55 Sec + Video

I've been reading about this for awhile. As you say, basically two
Hyabusa engine on a common crankcase. But, for this application the
tranny is seperate from the engine crankcase (i.e. not a motorcycle
configuration). The tranny is a transverse setup and is a custom
design by Quaife.
Weights on the Radical website are 36.3 Kg for the tranny and 92.6 for
the engine.
Pretty sweet although a little short of the 720 Hp the new 2.4L
Formula 1 V8's ;^)
BTW, car weight is only 600Kg!!

Dan

On 10/28/05, nocones77-vw@yahoo.com <nocones77-vw@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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