350Z Twin Turbo 700+ WHP

[Groover]

I hope Quikz gets his car on the road soon. Maybe it will be something like this...


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[kfresh]

Thats a lot of HP...
WayyYyY too much for the daily driving...

Its over 520KW!!!!

[Groover]

One of my favourite sayings...

"Too much power is just right"

[dkmesa300zx]

That was awesome...dude may want to throw some 305s on the rear

[sentry65]

that was BigBri's car back when he still owned it.

As it turned out he wasn't making 700whp, but more like 570-600whp, and he's even running 295 drag radials in the rear
http://www.my350z.com/forum/showthread.php?t=222576

[Groover]

Yeh he reckons he normally runs 23lbs on the street and it was pulling 570 @ 18lbs so he's got to be gettin' at least 600+ in the vid. That's still pretty good and it gives an indicator of what quikz should expect (APS extreme TT setup on fully built motor). Csn't wait to see the results.

[sentry65]

yeah, i just don't understand the point of so much hp though i guess if you can't really use it. I mean, he was running 295 drag radials - the only thing better would be an actual racing slick. Sam @ GT Motorsports was reporting that the chassis actually feels like it's twisting pretty bad at 855whp - like the windshield wants to break out as you step on it. And you can't get traction until like 5th gear.

Just seems weird when you think about professional long nose drag cars that have a crazy long wheel base and really HUGE slicks in the rear with the engine in the rear, and only 2 gears instead of 6 and many of them have 700-800hp. My friend had one for awhile until he blew the engine. It seems to me, you'd want something like that to make full use of 700whp. Otherwise you're just spinning tires and showing off your whp numbers ...IMO

[TommyP]

pfft too much...lol

horsepower is like birth control. rather have too much and not need it all the time than to need it and not have enough.

[DevilZ]

yeah, i just don't understand the point of so much hp though i guess if you can't really use it. I mean, he was running 295 drag radials - the only thing better would be an actual racing slick. Sam @ GT Motorsports was reporting that the chassis actually feels like it's twisting pretty bad at 855whp - like the windshield wants to break out as you step on it. And you can't get traction until like 5th gear.

Just seems weird when you think about professional long nose drag cars that have a crazy long wheel base and really HUGE slicks in the rear with the engine in the rear, and only 2 gears instead of 6 and many of them have 700-800hp. My friend had one for awhile until he blew the engine. It seems to me, you'd want something like that to make full use of 700whp. Otherwise you're just spinning tires and showing off your whp numbers ...IMO

There is no such thing as too much power.

[sentry65]

i guess, I just think there's a difference between a good design for lots of power and a bad design for lots of power mainly having to do if the chassis can handle it and if you're not just spinning tires. You want to be able to hook up that power otherwise it's all pointless and actually dangerous

for instance, I think the veryon is a good design for 1000 hp with AWD and rear engine and 365mm wide rear tires, but I'm not so sure about the RWD 350Z being that great with using 1000hp especially with such aggressive gearing, even worse would be a FWD civic

so far switching to a 3 speed racing TH400 transmission has resulted in people with TT's going around half to almost a full second faster than anyone with the stock 6 speed manual - even with a 3.36 final drive