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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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What do you think?
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The-Educator commented on this article
at 12:06 pm on 25 August 2009
850bhp!!! Sounds like fun. Any news on price???
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AshHorne commented on this article
at 12:26 pm on 25 August 2009
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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TennantsLager commented on this article
at 12:51 pm on 25 August 2009
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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rustymx5 commented on this article
at 12:56 pm on 25 August 2009
God, thats 140 bhp per cylinder! My car puts out half that much on 4 cylinders....
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IronicalBalls commented on this article
at 01:16 pm on 25 August 2009
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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