Most powerful mass production N/A V8

spaz said:
Caparo T1 engine? Pips them at 575hp and only 3.5L too
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We're into that horrible territory of whether we consider them mass production or not however.

Its basically a race engine, in a road car, and production is 20 per year (Source )

So i'd have to say that it doesnt count, any more than the cobra kit car with the chevy big block engine and 1350hp does, or the Pro Stock drag racers mentioned above.
 
MrLOL said:
I'd say to be "mass production" you'd need at least a 1000.
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I would suggest full production is better, ie the engine and car it is in conforms to full homologation requirements including emissions and crash testing.

The Mac F1 was full production car, yet fewer than 100 road examples were made.
 
I dont know how you'd define it tbh.

How do you distinguish between that cobra kit car with a massive power chevy big block engine in it with 1350hp, and a Pagani Zonda

Both using engines made by another manufacturer, both with very small numbers of production

yet the Zonda somehow seems more "mass production" than the Kit car.
 
curiosity mainly, not planning on being able to afford an SLS amg any time soon.

Conversation came up chatting at work about how N/A engines are going to be a thing of the past soon, what with AMG planning on moving back to supercharging, and BMW turning to turbocharging for its M cars.

This in turn brought about a conversation about what a great engine the 6.3 V8 is in the AMGs, the pinnacle of which can be found in the SLS AMG. Will be a great loss to petrol heads everywhere if (when ?) that engine goes.
 
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MrLOL said:
I dont know how you'd define it tbh.

How do you distinguish between that cobra kit car with a massive power chevy big block engine in it with 1350hp, and a Pagani Zonda

Both using engines made by another manufacturer, both with very small numbers of production

yet the Zonda somehow seems more "mass production" than the Kit car.
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A Cobra kit car isn't homologated though and couldn't be sold or built in many European countries. It is only our SVA/IVA rules which allow self built cars to be road registered, and limited volume type approval which allow things like Caparos and Radicals.
 
You don't need to worry, Chevrolet will continue with a line of high-output NA V8's for some time, as will Ferrari.

As an extreme example, you can buy crate V8 engines from Chevrolet that are rated at 720 horsepower and 685 ft.lbs - naturally aspirated.
 
Alibaba99 said:
A Cobra kit car isn't homologated though and couldn't be sold or built in many European countries. It is only our SVA/IVA rules which allow self built cars to be road registered, and limited volume type approval which allow things like Caparos and Radicals.
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The Weineck Cobra is German

http://www.pistonheads.com/doc.asp?c=47&i=14850

i presume being from Germany it would meet all european type approval rules ?

Lashout_UK said:
As an extreme example, you can buy crate V8 engines from Chevrolet that are rated at 720 horsepower and 685 ft.lbs - naturally aspirated.
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is that the 780 cubic inch one in the Weineck cobra ?
 
MrLOL said:
no just interested in most powerful for the moment :)
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Making more power by just adding more volume is easy up to a point, making power via clever things is hard.

With most of the engines listed here you can probably easily make an extra 100+hp if you redesigned the cams, oil system, etc
 
rypt said:
Making more power by just adding more volume is easy up to a point, making power via clever things is hard.

With most of the engines listed here you can probably easily make an extra 100+hp if you redesigned the cams, oil system, etc
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You've missed your calling mate, Best get on the phone to AMG and tell them they are doing it all wrong and you know better.
 
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