This Is What The SSC Tuatara’s 1750bhp V8 Sounds Like

SSC has released a video showing the Tuatara’s 5.9-litre twin-turbo V8 in testing, and it sounds pretty mean
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The SSC Tuatara, which is aiming to be the first production car to crack 300mph, has taken a huge step forwards as its monstrous engine hits the testing and calibration stage.

The 5.9-litre twin-turbo V8 built from scratch in cooperation with Nelson Racing Engines is said to be good for 1350bhp on regular roadside unleaded fuel. On pure E85 racing fuel that rises to 1750bhp, with around 1500bhp available if you mix fuel grades.

This Is What The SSC Tuatara’s 1750bhp V8 Sounds Like

It cleverly uses two injectors per cylinder to get enough fuel into the engine to produce the slightly mad outputs. Of course, revving to 8800rpm helps spin the go-juice through nice and quickly.

The car will weigh just 1247kg dry, we understand, and with a production-spec drag coefficient of less than the recently-publicised 0.279, SSC is confident that the Tuatara, however unfortunate its name sounds to British ears, will exceed the 300mph target using E85.

This Is What The SSC Tuatara’s 1750bhp V8 Sounds Like

Hennessey is also looking at over 300mph with the Venom F5 – although customer cars won’t be able to match the speeds set by the development car, rendering any such achievement void.

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Comments

Barrechor

11/22/2018 - 13:39 |
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“That’s cute”

11/22/2018 - 14:11 |
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Hold my beer…..

11/22/2018 - 15:45 |
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Well, Jerod Shelby looks like CvK’s slimmer brother

11/22/2018 - 20:37 |
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Mazda Fanatic

Murica!

11/22/2018 - 13:50 |
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Martin Burns

1247kg?? So what like 2/3 of that is that hellspawn of an engine haha… that’s some next level engineering, the weight is more impressive than the power.

11/22/2018 - 13:58 |
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That’s the dry weight of the car….

11/22/2018 - 14:46 |
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Freddie Skeates

Is it “Too-a-tara” or “Twat-ara”?

11/22/2018 - 14:18 |
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Or tu-atara

11/22/2018 - 14:49 |
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I always thought of it as “twi-at-churra” for some reason

11/22/2018 - 17:34 |
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It is 100% the first one you said, too-a-tara. A tuatara is a lizard native to New Zealand from the Mesozoic Era, around 200 million years ago. There is a really famous (famous in New Zealand) tuatara in Invercargill called Henry who is currently over 100 years old.
The name is derived from the Maori language, and means “peaks on backs”.

11/23/2018 - 09:22 |
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LEitner

About 300 hp/l in a road engine really aren’t for the faint hearted engineers 😅

11/22/2018 - 15:13 |
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Robert Homann

In reply to by LEitner

Is hp/l actually an important number?
I mean you don’t ignite all the cylinders at once…

11/22/2018 - 17:35 |
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RWB Dude

That is impressive

11/22/2018 - 16:14 |
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Tito_Not_Richard

Sounds amazing

11/22/2018 - 20:00 |
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Anonymous

Is going to production tho?

11/23/2018 - 08:07 |
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Wheel Nuts

Wow, that sounds horrible.

11/23/2018 - 14:57 |
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Shane Koshie

NRE does some amazing stuff as well as Steve morris engines… definitely worth checking out if you haven’t

11/23/2018 - 21:27 |
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