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Originally Posted by sspolo
Lol some of you guys are a though crowd if its not GM related. Cadillac comes out with a turbo 6 420ish HP car and its amazing. However Nissan comes out with this and its not impressive.
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I tend not to be impressed by forced induction in general. Of
course you can make a lot of power when you force more air into an engine. Thats pretty basic. So they're running twice the boost of a normal turbocharged street engine, thats not all that difficult to do. Especially when you don't have to worry about cost or emissions, and can use 130 octane racing fuel.
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Originally Posted by StanTheMan
Guys it all goes together. It's one package. You say 400hp from a 1.5l isn't impressive but 400hp from 88lbs is? They're both as impressive when you take into account the weight. How many production cars do you know of having that kind of power from the kind of motor even leaving aside the weight. NONE! And before you say it's a racing engine, no it is not a racing engine. As some else said, what better way to test an engine than running it at 100% for 24hrs straight. They're testing technology that will be put in road cars sooner rather than later. Even F1 cars are used to test technology for road cars. Flappy pedal gearbox, carbon ceramic brakes, carbon fiber chassis, tires, KERS... It's all thanks to racing so stop saying it's not impressive for a racing engine.
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How can you say its not a racing engine when its getting put into the Zero Emissions On Demand
Racing Car, for the 24 hours of LeMans. Last I checked that is a very famous
race. So if this little 1.5L engine is not a race engine, I don't know what it is.
Also, that engine is not being run for 24 hours at 100% (besides the 1 lap per fuel run under electric power, you usually have to let off the gas in the corners), and even if it were there are worse endurance tests for engines. Such as running at wide open throttle for 270 consecutive hours (a week and a half), like what the LSA did. Or the Dakar Rally, thousands of miles through rough, dusty terrain. A 24 hour endurance race is tough, sure. But its not extreme abuse either.