High horsepower GTM test drive

[Kempo]

A friend sent me this video this morning.

http://youtu.be/JvGuL5dJj6A

[Mad Dog]

Cool video! Thanks for sharing!

[Demthios]

Wow that is pretty nuts, hope they can find a transaxle that could hold the power. Also like the fact that they low mounted the turbo's most I see try and go up high.

[crash]

Wow that is pretty nuts, hope they can find a transaxle that could hold the power. Also like the fact that they low mounted the turbo's most I see try and go up high.

Why is it that you like low mounted turbos? Seems to me that since heat rises, mounting the turbos low means that everything above them gets hot because of them. Mounting them high means no heat soak into things like dry sump pumps, engine blocks, transaxles, etc. Please explain.

[fastthings]

He doesn't seem to have any problems with heat. He has many videos of cruising around town. All kinds of majic in his intake, and coolers. All the cooling and fuelling is integrated into the parts. The guy has it going on, he has quite a combo.

[The Stig]

Isn't this the car that was at SEMA in 2011?

It must be pretty cool to live in a city with no speed limits... :cool:

If I pulled that here in Charlotte, there would be a SWAT team after me.

Good luck!

[crash]

He doesn't seem to have any problems with heat. He has many videos of cruising around town. All kinds of majic in his intake, and coolers. All the cooling and fuelling is integrated into the parts. The guy has it going on, he has quite a combo. If your comment was in regards to mine I'm not suggesting that he did have issues with heat. I am asking Demthios why he has an opinion that turbos should be low mounted as opposed to high mounted, and opened the conversation up with a reason that I thought would be, all other things being equal, why the high mounted turbos would be better. Just trying to understand another point of view.

[kabacj]

I spent lots of time around this car at SEMA last year. The engine bay is super nice. Very hotrod with everything hidden. The interior is also very nice. Looks like they kept improving on it since SEMA. Not sure if you guys noticed, but he was running it without a rear window during the video. That will definitely help the cooling.

I have heard that low turbo comment before and I don't understand it either. Id think that radiant heat would be harder to deal with down low, but what do I know.

I know this car was built as a street/ show car and its a very cool one, however I always want to see how fast it will go. I would like to see what it could do on a 1 mile top speed run. Clearly it has way too much power to get it to the pavement at street legal speeds.

I think we will have a few turbo powered and big HP GTMs doing top speed runs in the near future. I cant wait to see how fast they go.

John

[Demthios]

Crash, not claiming that it might be the best option but after all it is an option. I like the fact that they were able to get them lower so that they could put the intercoolers up by the heads and have a shorter intake track from the intercooler to the throttle bodies. Agreed that they would probably heat soak more lower, or even more rearward then the ones that are mounted up by the heads.

[fastthings]

Well, it would seem that NRE can do the impossible. His stuff is so cool. He can stuff 1600 to 2000hp in about anything. Run them around on pumped feul, idle like a kitten, low temps. I love how he makes his own stuff, intakes that have feul and cooling intagrated into them, mirror image turbos, his alien intake, hardly any tubes. It's a thing of beauty. I was wondering when one of those winds up in a GTM. I bet he gets a hundred grand for that setup.

[mikespms]

Nothing like stuffing 10 pounds in a 5 pound bag,NRE does an awesome job. The turbos are in the same general location as the catalytic converters that start working at 400 to 600 deg F and operate at 1200-1600 deg F and running low boost on the street with no long sustained power runs should not be much hotter.

[VRaptor SpeedWorks, LLC]

Pretty cool stuff. Yeah......I doubt that anyone would have much for heat issues if everyone ran with no hatch or diffuser installed. ;-)

[Taz Rules]

The term "killer engine" may actually be appropriate here!

Seriously impressive engineering, and I want one!

That said, is there actually any street car capable of truly harnessing that kind of power? More importantly, is there any non-professional driver capable of handling it? Some people I see on the road shouldn't be trusted with so much as a 25 year old Chevy Sprint, much less 1000+HP in a feather-light platform!

Where do I send the cheque?

[Fugly_Old_Cowboy]

next step is a TTS.... (twin turbo/supercharger)... {I actually built a TTS diesel with my old man mannnnnnnnnnnnny years ago, got the idea from a marine application in a tug boat... was one hell of a fun 1 ton dually truck}...

[taeo999]

Hello dude i watch the video with the help of this link.I was watching that turbo speed is so high with out any awful.when you start the testing drive is there road empty?What is the main purpose of this video?