You want power? The guys at Switzer Performance will give you more than you can handle: 900 horsepower in a heavily tweaked Nissan GT-R running on ethanol.
Spare us the arguments against ethanol and just admit this car is incredible. Tym Switzer calls this beast E900, but we think Matt Hardigree of Jalopnik nailed it by riffing on the GT-R's nickname Godzilla and dubbing the car Cornzilla.
Switzer is no stranger to the engine bay of the GT-R, having already massaged one to put down 800 horsepower. But someone we assume is one step away from a 5150 asked Switzer to go even crazier. Before he could do that, though, Switzer needed a transmission up to the task and so had Dodson Motorsport build a beefier gearbox.
That job done, Switzer focused on fuel.
"We didn't want to just deliver a race-gas package that tethered the client to a fuel drum in his garage, but we wanted to be able to turn up the boost also," Switzer wrote on the company's blog. "E85 isn't without its trade-offs. We had to modify the fuel system to handle the fuel and significantly increase the size of the injectors, also, but in the end we had a fuel that gave us everything we needed to crank up the boost on this car and deliver over 900 hp."
The rest of the mods mirror those of the P800 GT-R that Switzer built -- new turbos, bigger intercooler, new fuel management computer, improved brakes and suspension, etc. The car makes around 900 horsepower at the crank and 806 at the wheels according to the dyno sheet.
Jalopnik says that should be good enough for a zero to 60 time under 3 seconds and a top speed approaching 220 -- in a car that gets better than 20 mpg when cruising.
Cornzilla, indeed.
Photo: Switzer Performance
