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Road Race: 700 HP Whipple Cobra vs Nissan GT-R

When Nissan launched the GT-R, they said that it wasn’t meant just to turn your liver into paste in a straight line, more to pull it out of your body in the corners. However, most people soon realized the GT-R has some of the most impressive launches of any road car out there, and with its 3.8-liter twin-turbo V6, it can also keep up with supercars.
What Nissan also said is that you can’t tune the engine on the GT-R since it’s practically hack-proof. That soon proved to be wrong, and this car has an impressive 586 all-wheel-horsepower from just a remap and some bolt-ons.

That sounds like a lot of power for one car to put down on the road, but it’s up against a 2003-2004 Mustang SVT Cobra convertible which has received the 3.4-liter Whipple supercharger and offers 704 wheel-horsepower while running on e85 fuel.
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About the author: Mihnea Radu
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Mihnea's favorite cars have already been built, the so-called modern classics from the '80s and '90s. He also loves local car culture from all over the world, so don't be surprised to see him getting excited about weird Japanese imports, low-rider VWs out of Germany, replicas from Russia or LS swaps down in Florida.
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