sonza68
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http://jalopnik.com/5495631/video-1400-hp-ford-gt-sets-252-mph-standing-mile-world-record
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The Ford Granada is the unsung hero in the company's portfolio. It's completely unassuming, largely unknown, and capable of accepting any drivetrain a Mustang can swallow and more. Here, some nutter has put a Koenigsegg-style, 1700-hp twin-turbo V-8 in one.
Dumb? Awesome? Death-defying? Utterly absurd? A treatise on how to be amazing? This Granada is all of those things. A well-funded forum member over at PassionFord decided his extremely hot Ford didn't deliver enough juice, he considered buying a Nissan GT-R but then decided to make do with what what he had, kinda. To rectify his power deficit he went on a serious metal binge, completely re-engineered his car and dropped in a mega-built Ford modular V-8 patterned after the utterly bonkers twin-turbocharged mill in the Koenigsegg CCX.
The picture on top is of the car before the insane V8 conversion. The rears are much fatter now.If a Ford GT with 1400hp on slicks spins tires at 125mph, I imagine that Granada on its dinky little tires and with 1700hp will not get traction... well, ever. It will run out of gears before it can put the power down. Both are impressive as hell though.
788cu V8 Pro Mod Ford engine. Twin turbos, 1700 hp...
I do not want a car that spins tires at 125mph. That is just not good . Still an impressive engine built, just nothing to drive on normal roads or racetracks.
TBH you are talking about cars that are meant ONLY for pro drivers and ONLY on race tracks. Something like that on a street would literally kill you.Oh so 1980s F1 cars, Can Am cars and late Group C racers are useless then. Good to know!
That's actually the intercooler, the radiator is behind that.... All radiator. Seriously. That thing must weigh about 200 pounds.
TBH you are talking about cars that are meant ONLY for pro drivers and ONLY on race tracks. Something like that on a street would literally kill you.
That's actually the intercooler, the radiator is behind that.
Its 252.97 MPH standing mile is a new production car world record.
How would they define this being production? Yes the GT was a production car but it was a s/c v8 not a TT V8.
What mods would have been allowed to be made before it loses the production car status?
I am certainly not taking anything away from the effort put in, just a question.
Power is only dangerous for morons who don't understand how to use it.
I do have a very soft spot for the Ford GT, I can't believe Ford stopped building it.
Sounds good too.
Question to those who may know, it says on the link that it was a new production car record?
How would they define this being production? Yes the GT was a production car but it was a s/c v8 not a TT V8.
What mods would have been allowed to be made before it loses the production car status?
I am certainly not taking anything away from the effort put in, just a question.
It's somehow typical, that remarks like that almost only come from the youngest forum members with presumably the least driving experience
Yet they are absolutely correct. The power doesn't just jump out and attack you, it's the driver who has control of the right pedal. If he uses it too much for his own skills, that makes him a moron.