2001 mustang v6

i was reading road and track and the shelby GT500 as you all know v8 supercharged 500 hp, when i came across the GTR and i noticed the specs claiming a v6 turboed pushin out 450 hp. how is v6 GTR pumpin out so close to the shelby and why isnt the shelby putting more hp out?????

RedAlertlb

you cant really compare those thats freakin skyline and a mustang....although hp might be the same they are totally different categories. And as far a the v6 pushing out 450 thats not unbelievable. The 350z pushes like 289 or something like that. Seeing as how its a GTR add all the high quality nissan and nismo stuff for performance and throw on a turbo and there you go. But regardless you cant compare. A mustang will always be a muscle car and a nissan will always be an import. Imports try to do all this electronic stuff to make a car faster while muscle cars just beef the engine up and usually have huge amounts of TQ because we throw big engines into massive cars.

2001 mustang v6

yea i totally understand but i was just thinking about it and wondering what was up.

ThisBlood147

Tell ya what......check out what rpms the GTR makes its max power at and then compare that to the rpm level that the GT500 makes its max power at. That's the difference between a 400+hp V6 and a 400+hp V8........it's called Torque. hehe. Plus, you have to figure that the Nissan is a turbocharged car....vs. the GT500 which is a supercharged car. There will be differences there too, and if Ford had made the GT500 a turbocharged 5.4 V8 powered car instead of supercharged........you'd be looking at a 700 to 900hp monster

chris94stang

Well something that you have to realize is that the gtr is built and enginered for fast acceleration and the gt500 is mostly power and top speed so of course the gtr is going to be turbocharged. if it was super charged it would only push like 300-350 so mustang hands down

1996mustangGT

yeah
the other thing to remember is that from what ive read the GTR is twin
turbo. another thing is that this is based of the design of the car that help the lap record of
Nubring (spelling) over the italian and german supercars.
that car is like the "holy grail" of rice-wanna-be-tuners.
but it still doesnt have a v8.....

NoWay

Don't be surprised if you are surprised ... by the performance of the Nissan GTR Skyline. We haven't had a Japanese-made car of this caliber imported into the US, yet. It is one fast mother.

superiormirage

Agreed. The older Skylines were monsters, and from what I've read, the new one will be no different. While I would never take one over a Mustang, they are nice cars.

zarins04stang

what i want to know is how a RX8 1.3 liter engine makes close to 240 hp and my 04 mustang 3.9 liter makes only 193! HOW DAMN IT! DAMN THEM IMPORT MAKERS! ok now im juss hating

1996mustangGT

because your v6 isnt near as high strung as the rx8's engine
is, also its a completley diffrent engine (rotory)(spelling)
that engine can rev to the point where any mustang engine would be
throwing up its internals...