Steve0

Jim posted a thread a while back where he stated that guy drove his car to the track. Somethign like 45min if I remember correctly. Regardless, with a super high horsepower turbo car drivability isnt much of an issue compared to something naturally asiprated since you can simply turn down the boost for 93 octane.

Even Ferns car which made well over 1000hp on race fuel was streetable.
http://web.camaross.com/forums/showthread.php?t=245363

Big Red Jim

That car drove the 80 miles home from the track after making low 8 second passes. Yeah, trailer queen.

Heatmaker

Supra's are fast.... but they sure cost $$$$$ to get there....

Bob Cosby

There is no such thing as "running 8s easy". It is certainly possible, and has been done, but nothing does it "easily".

unvc92camarors

i was wondering when somebody was gonna correct that

kick Z tail out

Semantics?


You know what he means... It's not anything near unheard of. If it was difficult there wouldn't be so many of them running 8s all over the country.
It looks exactly like a Supra would be... You can follow the lines.

Bob Cosby

I'm sorry - running 8s is not easy, I don't care what kind of car you have. I never said it was unheard of, and if the metric is how many of them are running 8s all over the country, then I would suggest there are far more Mustangs and F-bodies doing it than Supras, and thus it is "easy" to run 8s with a Mustang or an F-body. Silly thought - but that's where your logic would seem to lead.

Personally, I think he (and perhaps you) has no idea at all of what it takes to run 8s - regardless of the car make/model.

Big Red Jim

In relative terms I would bet not. Only 12,000 turbo Supras ever made it over here. How many Mustangs are produced annually?

The point is that an 8 second Supra isn't any more difficult to build than an 8 second Mustang. It just takes money. It ain't rocket science.

Bob Cosby

About that many per month - but that was not my point.

That's your point, and I don't disagree with it. The original post I quoted stated that there are "single turbos now running 8s easy". My issue was with the "easy" part - IMO, there is nothing "easy" about running 8s for the vast majority of us.

mac16

heh ya i didnt mean to make it seem liek its easy to get a supra into the 8s, it ofcourse costs time and money. just now there are more and more supras doing it, when they used to be considered a car that couldnt eacheive numbers like that with people callign them "dyno queens" and such. the technology involved just keeps getting better and better and supra's times just keep dropping and dropping, but that can be said for any car as technology advances. they just deserve the same respect as and other car out there is what im trying to get at.

kick Z tail out

:blah:

*Bangs head on wall*

We just got through explaining to you that the use of "easy" is not in the sense you keep trying to make it into. Don't think in such simple terms.


Ever heard a saying like:

"Ford sells 10,000 light trucks a month, easy"

It does not mean that it's very simple to sell 10,000 trucks. Oh, and I have no idea how many trucks they sell in a month, that was just an example. Please don't tell me how difficult that number would be to attain.

muckz

I think it's the supercar, which is rumored to have 500HP V10, or possibly V12.

In one of the videos, what transmission did he use? He didn't do any shifting, and it sounded like the car didn't do any shifting either

Evil Turbo SS

I read someplace that Toyota canned the supercar idea as well as a Supra replacement. The only saving grace was the rumor that the IS 300 replacement will get a v8 model and maybe a coupe.

Bob Cosby

Uncle.

Have a Merry Christmas.
Bob

muckz

On the subject of "ease" of 8-second quarter mile. What does it take to get the Supra into 8s? Does it retain its stock bottom end, or is it completely rebuilt?

I know they are very mod-friendly, BPU Supras are quite fast, but I was under the impression that to get some serious power, you have to rebuild the entire engine to take some good boost. How much does it cost to get it into 8s?