25 August 2009 - 10:00
GT-R hits 850bhp
It's a question we're sure you've all asked yourself at some point: what happens if you fit a Nissan GT-R with big new turbochargers and a fat exhaust... and then fill it full of race fuel?
You get Switzer's 850bhp GT-R, that's what you get.
Catering to Americans who feel the GT-R is a bit slow for proper track stuff, tuning firm Switzer has given the 3.8-litre V6 a thorough working over, and then treated it to a tank full of high-octane race fuel.
It adds up to 850bhp and a massive 820lb ft of torque. Switzer hasn't released any performance figures - or indeed confirmed whether its R850 GT-R will be even vaguely road legal - but don't forget that the stock GT-R hits 62mph in around 3.5 seconds and will run to 193mph.
It's a bit of a cliché, but this thing could nail the Bugatti Veyron over a quarter-mile.
Which makes the Switzer GT-R a complete surfeit of excess. But we can't help applauding the sheer lunacy of taking a near-perfect supercar and trying to double its power.
Take a look at Switzer's GT-R on the dyno... and make sure you keep watching until about a minute in.
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Sorry, don't like it. But then again, the old Skyline GTR R34 was often abused (Sorry, I mean 'tuned') to over 1,000bhp, sometimes more, so it wasn't going to be long before people started doing this to the R35.
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If God has orgasms ... this it what they sound like.
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Holy ****, what an evil noise. If I hadn't known better, would've sworn it'd break the machine. Not surprised the tuners are starting to work on it. The question's going to be where it'll stop and how much the car, which is undeniably phenomenal, can stand from the turbo nutter brigade without bad side-effects.
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God, thats 140 bhp per cylinder! My car puts out half that much on 4 cylinders....
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Switzer's tune to 850bhp costs no more than $16k. Their work with the R35 is more getting their name out than getting profit for now.
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Sweet mother I thought it was going to take off through the wall!
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I have just three words to say about that: I want one.
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Wow what a car!!!!
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maybe it really is the real godzilla, not the previous Skyline GT-R's. its as powerful and ugly as Godzilla. in previous Skyline's the power was there, the.. lack of looks were not. too bad the R35 doesn't look any better in reality either :(
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I have heard exactly the same noise before. It's the sound of an approaching train in the St.Petersburg underground.
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Whilst i'd never do that to my own (hypothetical) GT-R, I commend these guys for trying to match the extremes of the Skyline GT-Rs, one of which managed 1600bhp! Past the halfway mark guys...
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I read an article in evo magazine the other week in which a GT-R was pitted against a Veyron. Whilst the 987bhp Bugatti obviously blitzes it in a straight line, guess which ended out coming on top? The sub-£60k Nissan. Being a GT-R fan, I consider that a triumph.
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@ rustymx5 - Is your car, perhaps, an Evo?
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Is this only the start? I think so. If there was people loony enough to extract 1600bhp from the old one imagine what they could do with this one; turbo upgrades, increased cylinder capacities, racing fuel (maybe the methanol stuff they use in top fuel dragsters) etc. But what will that do to the car??? The chassis is probably designed to be toyed with somewhat, the engine also, but what about the fancy computer controlled stuff??? All that'll need reprogramming or the car'll be dangerous. Which can only be a good thing. BTW Who do you think would win in a fight round the track; banzai GT-R or Stig(zilla)??? Either way it could go terribly wrong.
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To comment on the GT-R's looks - I like them. A lot. Not the same way as I like the Masers like the GC & GTS that I've nigh on fallen in love with but they fit the car very well indeed - it's high performance and function over form without being ridiculously pumped up imo. In other words, bang on for a Japanese supercar. I don't expect everyone to like it as it's a bit like marmite, but those who do will do so immensely.
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There's a Russian street racing video circling youtube. The Swizter 800bhp GTR v. Evotech 997 GT2 Porsche. The Switzer wins. If the "cheap" 800 model walks a tuned GT2 Porsche imagine what an extra 50bhp will do.
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The only flaw I can see with this being road legal are those turbos. They'll be so many lost kittens, puppies, babies, small children; the turbos will suck all of them up like a vaccum sucks up dust bunnies: in a very easy and scary way. part from that the only other problems are turbo lag and fuel costs
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Finually... the GT-R up to its true performance!!!!
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do the same fettiling about to a veyron then it has more power. and its better again. thats why tuning is silly because one car can be made better than another by adding something, then do the same to the other car and its faster. what really matters how the car handles, looks and feels to drive.
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this is awesome!! love the r35 gtr one slight problem if the standard car's gearbox struggles to put 476(?)bhp down in race mode/no launch control, how can it cope with 850bhp?!?
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In the old R34 that much power usually facilitated the need for a whole new transmission (Veilside GETRAG 6-speed sequential most commonly). What that kind of power does to the one-off custom jobs in the new GTR is anyone's guess, but my immediate concern would be seeing if the clutch can live more than a few days with that much torque on an AWD set-up.
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Rawrrrrrrrr...
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@Mikeado: In that case, in a lap race the Veyron would be left scracting it's head on the line while the GT-R sneaks up behind it!
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850bhp!!!then that'll b a completely different car coz nothing in the standard GT-R s' gonna last a minute in there.everything will be flying out the moment u hit 200mph.past 140bhp per tonne is just staggering.they gotta change like everything in the standard car inorder to achieve that misetry.going from 200bhp to 300bhp or from 400bhp to 500 bhp can never be compared to 700bhp to 800bhp.it takes so so so so so much to even come up with a fully functioning prototype.
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They have gone and turned the insanity-o-meter to eleventy apparently.
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woah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i want one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Jesus that sounds like an f1 car! 1:00-1:15
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S'crap I reckon the very least that could be done to big up this car is a picture of it running over Jordan (twice) just to make sure. At least then we could be sure it had some purpose - unless it can go over the humps it don't count for a lap remember!
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They should have just done loads of weight reduction and made it weigh about 1200kg. then put on one turbo. That would have been very cool.
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I think from 1:00 to 1:15 it sounds like a ferrari fxx. Which i think sounds like it's running on pure testosterone.
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25 August 2009
850bhp!!! Sounds like fun. Any news on price???
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