Hennessey Hennessey Venom GT
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Hennessey Performance Engineering (HPE) is an American hypercar manufacturer and high-performance vehicle creator. In addition to building the Venom F5 hypercar, the company specializes in 'making fast cars faster' modifying sports cars from several brands including Chevrolet, Dodge, Cadillac, Jeep, Ford, GMC, and Lincoln. Established in 1991 by John Hennessey, their main facility is located 45 minutes west of Houston in Sealy, Texas.
sako97
Autotechnik Ace
He couldn't careless about that, he just wants the speed record and attention in Texan fashion... even it means if the car distentigrates in the process.
The footage is gone, but you should've seen when the Guiness committee rescinded his 270mph world record because he was unable to get the Venom to hit the speed in both directions, as mandated. They even lowered the criteria of # built because he only "sold" 12 units.
25+ units is considered a production car.
The Veyron Supersprt has held the record for 7 years now (12 if you include regular Veyron), matching the number of years the Mclaren F1 held the title.
Honestly who are these people trying to fool?Speaking of the devil... someone is still salty about their previous WR attempt. Re: Ksegg's attempt
WBarnes
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Hennessey's 1600-HP Venom F5 Engine Is Two Massive Turbos With a V8 Attached
Look at this thing. It's flat-out ridiculous.
HENNESSEY PERFORMANCE
Hennessey revealed the Venom F5 last year at SEMA as a replacement for its wildly powerful Venom GT. While it was said to be making 1600 horsepower, we weren't sure how. Now, we know: A fully custom V8 with a pair of absolutely gargantuan turbochargers. This thing looks ridiculous.
Let's get specs out of the way first. The engine is claimed to push out 1600 horsepower at 7200 RPM, and 1300 lb-ft of torque at 4400 RPM. Unlike the Venom GT's engine, which is based on a Chevy LS V8, a Hennessey spokesperson tells us this one is totally bespoke. It has billet-aluminum machined 7.6-liter block with steel cylinder sleeves, a 9.3:1 compression ratio, and a dry-sump oiling system. The turbos are precision ball-bearing units, with billet aluminum compressor wheels. They run at 24psi of boost.
Power is sent to the rear wheels via either a single-clutch automated transmission or, thankfully, a good old fashioned six-speed manual.
Hennessey Venom F5 Engine Specs - 1600-HP Hennessey Twin-Turbo V8 Revealed
Look at this thing. It's flat-out ridiculous.
HENNESSEY PERFORMANCE
Hennessey revealed the Venom F5 last year at SEMA as a replacement for its wildly powerful Venom GT. While it was said to be making 1600 horsepower, we weren't sure how. Now, we know: A fully custom V8 with a pair of absolutely gargantuan turbochargers. This thing looks ridiculous.
Let's get specs out of the way first. The engine is claimed to push out 1600 horsepower at 7200 RPM, and 1300 lb-ft of torque at 4400 RPM. Unlike the Venom GT's engine, which is based on a Chevy LS V8, a Hennessey spokesperson tells us this one is totally bespoke. It has billet-aluminum machined 7.6-liter block with steel cylinder sleeves, a 9.3:1 compression ratio, and a dry-sump oiling system. The turbos are precision ball-bearing units, with billet aluminum compressor wheels. They run at 24psi of boost.
Power is sent to the rear wheels via either a single-clutch automated transmission or, thankfully, a good old fashioned six-speed manual.
Hennessey Venom F5 Engine Specs - 1600-HP Hennessey Twin-Turbo V8 Revealed
martinbo
Staff member
With 1300 lb-ft (1762 Nm) is the above to be believed? Can't see how any such transmission can handle so much torque without shredding itself. A manual especially - imagine how heavy that clutch will be???
WBarnes
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It's not new for a manual. Tuner Skyline GTRs and Supras were running that kind of torque with a manual a long time ago. Agera One:1 already runs 1000+lbft with a single clutch manual. Making a DCT that can handle that torque is a far more complicated engineering task.
KiwiRob
Autotechnik Ace
Who really wants to go that fast in what is basically a modified lotus Elise, Bugatti spent over €1billion to make sure the Veyron and Chiron could safely do those numbers, they have the brakes, cooling and safety features a mongrel car like this will never have and most importantly have tyres specifically developed for the car and it’s intended top speed.
sako97
Autotechnik Ace
Yeah, I alluded to that a bit in another thread. People with deep pockets at Pebble Beach paid little attention to this and the SSC. Although they were protoypes/showcars, you could see the panel gaps and general lack of craftsmanship from a good distance.
When they're spending that kind of money for a car, they expect the upmost craftsmanship and detailing.
If top speed was all that mattered then all units of the Hennessey and SSC would be sold out, and Ksegg would be building way more than 3-4 Agera's a year. It's the opposite situation right now
That Venom F5 has an ugly cheap looking rear wing. The diffusers also look like plastic that comes off a toy car.
The SSC interior looks plasticky and dated, especially those round vents and ugly early 2000's looking steering wheel.
The craftsmanship and quality of the Chiron body and interior is a million times better than these two. At least it will be worth 5 times its value in 10years ttime whereas these 2x ice cream boxes will probably be worth 10% of their current value.
The SSC interior looks plasticky and dated, especially those round vents and ugly early 2000's looking steering wheel.
The craftsmanship and quality of the Chiron body and interior is a million times better than these two. At least it will be worth 5 times its value in 10years ttime whereas these 2x ice cream boxes will probably be worth 10% of their current value.
bmwz4coupe
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Why can't americans do nice quality interiors? I have been wondering about this many years.
sako97
Autotechnik Ace
The Singer is built America... but yeah, I get what you’re saying. The only brand with interiors that are alright-to-good are the very latest Lincolns.
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Hennessey Venom F5 Engine Rated At 1,817 Horsepower
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Tourbillon
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0-229.907mph= 19.96 seconds verified by Racelogic, in 2012 and a manual transmission at that. Benchmark it against ANYTHING.
^ Very rare footage.
Also as later confirmed. The World's first One:1 power to weight ratio car. Yes it was based on a re engineered Lotus Exige chassis. So what? ~As Club Lotus representative once said! That's not an issue that's a win win situation. Anyway a gem.
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