Yesterday I saw an interview with a Dutch guy who has imported several Nissan Skylines. He claims their engines can be tuned to ... hold on to your butt... 1.300 HP!!!!

That's more than a Bugatti Veyron! And only with a 2.8 l instead a 6+ l engine!

Those Japanese engineers are true geniuses!

Now, I won't start about the "need" of such an engine in a sedan, bu still ... 1.300 HP ... pfew...  8)

And most of that can be done with just chip tuning... The engine is designed to take much and much more that the power output that the Skyline has standard.... This because of the pact between japanese manufacturers to limit car power.

Japanese are crazy about mountain racing.... The drift on the curvy mountain roads at night... saw some footage of it... Highly crazy and dangerous but  o so cool!

actually it can

I think this is one of those cases where the motor, if properily tuned with all the super expensive parts and racing fuel might be able to produce 1000+hp, but probably not nearly that amount of torque.

I'm sure the drive train also has to be extensively modified to handle that kind of power.  

I don't care what the say about technology-you get horsepower from cubic inches.  If you do the exact same types of extensive modification to a V8 motor with more cubic inches (say, a 5.7L 350ci V8 ) your going to produce a lot more hp than a 2.7L.

As far as reliable...probably not.  Any racing engine isn't reliable, they are built too hot for that.  As you increase performance and such, you decrease reliablility.

The issuse like woody said isn't the HP itself, but how much is transferred to the road. Buggatti had serious problems getting all of theirs to tranfer onto the road, and ended having to create a new set of tyres, and computer systems to do it. I dont believe you will ever get the full benifit of a skyline with that much power.

Of course, once you've managed to get 1,300 horses poking out of your Nissan could it then out perform the Bugatti?

What about tuning the Bugatti engine? What do you suppose that could produce if pushed?

Naturally the first step in tuning your Veyron would be in removing the speed limiter.

Imageine spending all the money you'd have to spend buying a veyron on a Skyline...... I like skylines!!!

except the bugatti which transfers the whole lot down, fastest road car right now, me want

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The only way that would be possible would be if they only measured the cars power at the wheels.  I personally think this would be better anyway because the power at the wheels is all you can use.  Remember, a car is a machine and therefore cannot be perfect.  There will be a percentage of power lost between the flywheel and the ground, its just a fact of simple physics. 

However, if the "advertised" horsepower was the power measured at the wheels-then yes you could say that all the power was transfered to the ground.

I would imagine the Bugatti (not knowning anything about it) probably had its horsepower measured at the flywheel because that way you get the absolutely highest number of horsepower possible for advertising.  Then, they concentrated on building a really efficient drive train to minimize the power lost.  Could a Skyline (or a Camaro...or any car for that matter) be as efficient?  Sure, its possible with enough money.  Is it worth it...probably not.

As woody said, speed limiter. The bugatti could go alot faster. Plus the koeniggsegg ccx even with the topgear wing, is still and absolute danger to the driver and really not designed for everyday use. The Veyron is more designed as an every day car. I'd take that one over the koeniggsegg any day.

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I often use mine for just nipping to the corner shop just down the road.


Limited to 250 miles per hour cause other wise you'd need reactions like spiderman to stop yourself from hitting that wall that 10 seconds ago was three miles away.

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Exactly!

Matt

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Nah man, nothing sounds better than a vintage American big block V8 with a big cam, headers, and dual exhaust.