If you had a billion dollars and a machine shop....

[RobDET]

Descripe your perfect Sports car.

Here is mine:

Engine: 3.0L V8340 HP @ 8,600 RPM250 LbFt @ 5,000 RPMRedline 9,200 RPM

Chassis: Aluminum Space frame with carbon fiber body pannels.Curbweight: As close to 1,800 lbs as possible

11 inch brembos in front 10's in the rear. 16 inch Ultralite Wheels (the company from the UK do a google search and be amazed they make them outta a solid billet of aluminum)6 spd conventional transmission

a body something like a cross between the lotus elise, last years Bentley Lemas car, and the Saleen S7.

here are some preformance numbers from one of those calculators...

1/4 mile 10.8 sec @ 156 mph1/8 mile 6.8 sec0-60 2.3 sec (calc said lower but i don't think it's acurate at the extreams i'm thinking about)Road Holding 1.15 Gbreaking 70 - 0 119 ft5-60 3.1 (not a lot of torque)

That would be fun....

[Infamous]

not enough money:(

[AZhitman]

I wouldn't need a car - I'd give you the machine shop and I'd go buy a small island in the West Indies with Sandra Bullock.

[PGZX3]

I would do something very similar to what was posted above but with a turbo inline 6 similar to the RB 26......and I would want AWD.....so basically a skyline on a MAJOR diet:D

[JohnI3laze]

"We can rebuild him... Faster.. Stronger"

And I'd still have $994,000,000 to buy Canada, and I'd still have change.

[Infamous]

why cananda :confused

[S13Ka24e]

Here is mine:

Engine: 3.0L V10850 HP @ 17,800 RPM200 LbFt @ 10,600 RPMRedline 19,000 RPM

Curbweight: 600 kg w/driver7-speed push button/ electronic clutch

Styled like a F1 car (perhaps just like the Ferrari F1 car)

Lets face it, all i really want is Ferrari's F1 car.

[Megaseth]

I'd buy the Mach 5. :0)

[Onizuka]

Id buy a ferrari, buy a nice house, and get down on lots of hot chicks the rest of my retired life...

[JohnI3laze]

I'd buy up every DSM I could find an have the world's largest demolition derby.:pface

[zachosz]

My car collection would be:

TVR Speed 12 Bugatti 18/4 Veyron Koenigsegg CCIsdera CommendatoreFerrari F40Jaguar XJ220MurcielagoLHD R32...and the baddest mother of all BENTLEY HUNADIERES (sp?)

Of course my daily driver would be a 240sx modded to have at least 500 hp (KA24ET all the way!!!)...

I'd have a couple F1 cars of course to play around, the '92 Williams, '88 McLaren, '86 Lotus and TAG Porsche, '94 Ferrari (BTW remember how it sounded?), a '70's Tyrrell Cosworth.

Ok, I have to stop dreaming, for a second there i thought i was the sultan of Brunei.

[wiwalsh]

here are some preformance numbers from one of those calculators...

1/4 mile 10.8 sec @ 156 mph1/8 mile 6.8 sec0-60 2.3 sec (calc said lower but i don't think it's acurate at the extreams i'm thinking about)Road Holding 1.15 Gbreaking 70 - 0 119 ft5-60 3.1 (not a lot of torque)

That would be fun....

Funny how it takes you longer to go 5-60 (3.1s) than it does 0-60 (2.3)....

[kingsoup]

It sure as heck wouldn't be a car, I bet I could make some kind of hovercraft/airplane/Thing that would own for thrill factor.

That or the best VR machine ever, perfect realism, network capability, you go off the cliff on Akagi mountain, you just reset it.Although I guess you would wonder if the thrill would be the same knowing that you could crash with no reprocussions..

[Infamous]

850 HP @ 17,800 RPM200 LbFt @ 10,600 RPMRedline 19,000 RPM

is it just me, or does that make no sense:oface

[Onizuka]

Id rather have 850 HP at like 4,000 RPMs and like 900 torque @ 3,500 rpms (V8 musclecar style)

[Turb0wned]

mclaren f1.....

[Onizuka]

so? its that way because there is displacement regulations and s*** like that, you can have way better power figures, afterall this is the "if you had a billion dollars and a machine shop...." thread.

[wiwalsh]

is it just me, or does that make no sense:oface

No that makes no sence... he would be making 99 hp at 10600 RPM, and making 2880 Ft-Lb torque at 17800.....

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[Megaseth]

nah, the reason its like that is because of the small displacement, and very high revingness (new word), you have very little torque, but high horsepower. i know they get flamed, but this is the same principle the honda engines work on. and the valve trains are so well designed, and the cranks and well just the whole engine that it can rev this high up.

[Megaseth]

Id rather have 850 HP at like 4,000 RPMs and like 900 torque @ 3,500 rpms (V8 musclecar style)

i agree wiht you J-Spec. i'd like a 67 Nova SS 2dr. metallic yellow, full roll cage with cream leather interior and custom dash. nice alum. 17" rims, mustang 2 suspension set up, under cut dual exhuast, and the nicest part, the engine. maybe a 427 with either EFI and a blower, or a TT setup. and 3.90 rear end.:ylsuper

[Gonad]

I swear, these kind of questions are the worst. "What if you had..."

With me, I don't bother dreaming about **** I know I will NEVERhave.

Pfft, why kid yourself?

[89240sx]

I swear, these kind of questions are the worst. "What if you had..."

With me, I don't bother dreaming about **** I know I will NEVERhave.

Pfft, why kid yourself?

:Werd

[WingsNThangs]

Invest in real estate.

[DJ_SpaRky]

'Nad has the point, the deep philosophical point. it would be long of a list to post, & that's just cars, don't get me started on Electronics.

[jEzTeR]

I did this dream thing the other night.The KY powerball was up to 200 million dollars.Of corse I didn't win. If I did then I would be a MotorX paying way too much for a nice Skyline.Then I would buy lots of land and build a museum for high end and rare cars.I would also have a 1/4 mile drag strip and a road coure as well as a large parking lot with a skidpad.This would be a buisness expense and as long as I charge people the whole deal is a nice tax write off.The grand opening would be the largest NICO meet ever!;) /me wakes up!:oface

[Gonad]

Thing with having too much money is you're overwhelmed whentrying to decide on what to spend it on.

As a poor-folk (by that I mean you have to try hard to earnthe sh*t you want), there's some allure to having to save upto get something. As corny as that sounds.

If I won a lot of money, I would buy something I'd feel comfortabledriving around on the streets without worrying about havingit scratched, or stolen or some sh*t.

Although money does have its advantages on other sh*t like(vacation, women, etc.)

[Megaseth]

Hey, Jezter, i agree with you. i'd take an old muscle car and a skyline. and a nice garage/museum to put old race cars in.

oh, and i'll be in Louisville till saturday. where abouts are you located, maybe i can meet you and palmer, if you dont mind an annoying 18 year old kid.

[Tino]

go kart rolling chassis and jet engine. with maybe some make-shift wings.

[jEzTeR]

Hey, Jezter, i agree with you. i'd take an old muscle car and a skyline. and a nice garage/museum to put old race cars in.

oh, and i'll be in Louisville till saturday. where abouts are you located, maybe i can meet you and palmer, if you dont mind an annoying 18 year old kid.

Check out Louisvliie streets.com .The LS crew will be at the Win-Dixie parking lot on Friday night.Fred will most likely be there and if you will i'll try and stop by.I know a few more Louisville members of NICO that may be able to show.

[driftaholic]

i'd have a strawberry 180 with an SR24DET (so is it a 240?) and some sick turbo/ic setup. then i'd buy some real estate and build my own track