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Tuned Audi RS 6 Drag Races Tuned Nissan R35 GT-R, They’re Pretty Close

Introduced a whopping 14 years ago for the 2009 model year, the R35 still is a sweetheart of the go-faster community because it’s a beast from the factory and not exactly hard to modify. Aftermarket upgrades range from mild to wild, and this particular GT-R falls in the former category because it cranks out 666 horsepower and 850 Nm (627 pound-feet).
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Photo: Officially Gassed on YouTube
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Those numbers eclipse the factory ratings quite a bit, and they’re also better than the NISMO’s figures for the 2022 model year. How did Lee, the owner, extract this kind of performance from his car? Upgrades include 1,000-cc fuel injectors, a Y-pipe that frees up some backpressure and helps the V6 sound better, a bigger intake, and the obligatory engine control unit remap.

Tipping the scales at 1,750 kilograms (3,858 pounds) and coming in at 380 horsepower per tonne, the Japanese contender takes on a German family wagon in the following clip from Officially Gassed. The Audi RS 6 Avant is much heavier at 2,075 kilograms (4,575 pounds), features a power-to-weight ratio of 337 horsepower per tonne, and sure puts up a good fight.

Thanks to an APR Stage 1 ECU tune, a cat-back exhaust system from Milltek, and a Pipercross air filter that increases airflow by approximately 30 percent over the standard unit, the V8-engined long roof develops 700 horsepower and 1,000 Nm (734 pound-feet) of torque. That said, care to guess which of these muscly machines is faster to 60 miles per hour (96 kph)?

The answer to that question is, unsurprisingly, the GT-R with 2.78 seconds compared to 2.79 for the RS 6 Avant. “Pretty damn close” would be the best way to describe the quarter-mile run as well, which ends in the Audi’s favor in 10.89 seconds versus 10.9 for the Nissan. The more practical of the two cars also beats the GT-R by a whisker in a roll race over the quarter-mile, but the R35 gets revenge in the standing quarter-mile by quite a considerable gap.

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About the author: Mircea Panait
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After a 1:43 scale model of a Ferrari 250 GTO sparked Mircea's interest for cars when he was a kid, an early internship at Top Gear sealed his career path. He's most interested in muscle cars and American trucks, but he takes a passing interest in quirky kei cars as well.
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