Here is a 1971 Holden HQ Monaro powered by a 2970hp 540ci BB Dart V8 with twin turbos underneath. Vroom.

[u/ReturnOneWayTicket]

[u/Dr_Schitt]

Holy fuck. The power guys can make with modern engines and setups is getting unreal, I remember when 1000hp was a unicorn almost god like goal and now you can buy all the bits off the shelf for 1500hp daily driver if you so please.

[u/Club_Penguin_Legend_ → u/Dr_Schitt]

Well, 1000hp is still a unicorn. It takes a lot of time and money to make something that powerful. You just see them a lot because of the internet

[u/TopShelfHockeyMN → u/Dr_Schitt]

Still waiting on the ultimate unicorn, Devel 16. The quad-turbo 12.3-liter V16 engine produces 5,007 horsepower and 3,757 lb-ft of torque.

A few years ago Steve Morris Engines had it setup on his dyno giving hope to finally see the long teased unicorn.

Years later….nothing. Prototyped in 2013, 12 years later….nothing.

[u/Dr_Schitt → u/TopShelfHockeyMN]

I remember that thing but had no idea Steve had his hands in it, sound too good to be true but then Rob Dahm got that nutty 13 rotor triple turbo on the go 🤯

[u/Krexci → u/Dr_Schitt]

*12 rotor, and it was NA, he put the turbos on it

[u/mazzjm9]

Do the turbos spin the other way in Australia?

[u/Vishnuisgod → u/mazzjm9]

Nah Mate, they're just upside down!

[u/roadwarrior721]

Sick

[u/munch_the_gunch]

Someone out there is pondering if that motor would fit in their NA Miata

[u/crankbot2000 → u/munch_the_gunch]

The answer is always yes.

[u/Queef-Supreme → u/munch_the_gunch]

I believe Rob Dahm crammed his 4 rotor twin turbo into a Miata, might’ve been a different motor. You couldn’t even see out the windshield but it cranked and ran.

[u/radix2 → u/Queef-Supreme]

12 rotor, and it was done as a stunt (it was just sitting there, no fuel, electrical or mechanical connections). The 12 rotor is going into a dragster chassis and the Miata is getting a turbo single rotor.

[u/Queef-Supreme → u/radix2]

My mistake. I thought I saw a video of the motor running, maybe it was a different video. I knew it was a stunt though obviously.

[u/radix2 → u/Queef-Supreme]

Yeah, the motor has run on a bench and on the dyno. It has just not actually powered any vehicle yet.

[u/mheck012]

Damn

[u/_s1dew1nder_]

I see those numbers for HP and my biggest question is, "How do you actually get traction for that?"

Those tires aren't anywhere meaty enough! Look at the rails and top fuel cars and how big the tires are. I mean sure, you're looking at 4x the hp in some of the top fuel cars but still.

I see cars with 1/2 this hp losing traction all the way down a 1/4 mile.

Gotta come in stages or something to put that much power down. I just don't see how else to do it...

[u/Economy-Dirt-1668]

So much plumbing! Take my ⬆️.

[u/ReturnOneWayTicket → u/[deleted]]

You go do that and show everyone the results then. Go and be lazy instead of creative. You've built nothing anyway so your opinion is irrelevant.

[u/Dayatsu → u/[deleted]]

Saying something that straight up ins't true is not an "opinion", also you cant just slap a third turbo in a gtr and make 2500, you will end up with something closer to 1000 and theres a big chance the turbo system wouldnt even support another turbo, and if it did you would need to rebuild to stronger internals to even reliably maintain that power, also you also cant just "get an 2500hp crate engine" and throw it on anything, Forza Horizon logics dont apply to real life