ZR1 Smokes GT R Chevy Corvette ZR1 vs Nissan GT R

A video of the american icon and the japanese icon gtr

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[originaldriver]

Woaa... Calm down there sparky. Dont get tampon twisted. Its not like a slapped your grandma or something.

Ahem... I stand partially corrected. The duramax is indeed an Iron block motor. It was the ill-fated 4.5l that was to use a compacted graphite block. My mistake...

PS. Chill the fuck out.

[raptor660cc1]

Idiot!!!!

-Bosch designed the common rail injection system, which is used on the Cummins, Duramax, and Powerstroke

-The Duramax is a iron block, Fords new "Scorpion" 6.7 diesel uses compacted graphite.

-The car your thinking about that was in Diesel Power is not a fox-body

Get your facts straight before you open your mouth.

[originaldriver]

They had swapped a GM built, non-intercooled Duramax Diesel V8 into the Mustang that your describing.

It was a pretty awsome machine. It took some awsome fabbing skills to get that swap done.

[redhot916spd]

during hot rods drag week a sn95 mustang was running 9's reliably and avg'ing 38mpg over the whole week of street time and racing, they travelled a 1000 miles that week

[originaldriver]

Whaaa?????Who the hell told you that?!?!

A stock TT supra gets no more than 22MPG hwy and 15 MPG city.

Exactly how the hell does a car making twice the power and requiring over TWICE the amount of fuel to do so get 30MPG??????

Find whoever lied to you, and slap them.

[whisperingprinze82]

TT Supras at 600hp get 30mpg highway

[originaldriver]

Yep...Isuzu designed the constant pressure common-rail injection system that was used to derive the Duramax engine.

Funny enough, the duramax is made of compressed graphite which makes it light enough for use in smaller street-cars.

Theres an 11 sec Fox-body Mustang that uses a Duramax and still gets 30mpg cruising.

[originaldriver]

As a builder/ hotrodder, I am only concerened with the ability of an engine to be cost-effectively modified for other applications, AND to do so while maintaining ease of repair, depenability and longevity.

In this, the chevy LS motor is un-surpassed.

This isnt to say that the VQ/VR engines are not excellent, but they lack the wide platform compatability and cost-effectiveness of the LS engine.

I dont condemn Nissans products, but understand, I need "practicle" hardware.

[originaldriver]

Its not the car, but the drivetrain that I was exhaulting.

The point that I was making is that the Chevy LS has the durable design and dependable nature needed to even permit a daily-drivable 2500hp car to even be built.

There are not a lot of motors on this planet that posses the versatility and ease of modification of the Chevy small-block. The engineering is bulletproof.

Mosler, Factory five racing, koenigssigg, Ultima and quite a few other kit-car makers chose chevy for that reason

[whisperingprinze82]

Holy Crap! I just found out that the DuraMax Deisel was designed by the Japanese!(Isuzu owned by GM)