In the truth, the engine is to the rear axle front, to favor the distribution of weight of the machine. One is about the excellent RB26DETT! Laiest they must ask: e from there! Well, the RB26DETT is nothing more, nothing less of the one than the engine that equips the Nissan Skyline Gt-r34, and that in the plant configuration it produces 280 horses (320 horses extra-official), but that diverse Japanese preparadores obtain to extract without much work, powers of the order of 600 horses. It has companies bolder than they more produce units of this exactly motor with 1000 horses or, as it is the case of an impressive version of the Veilside of 1300 horses!
The RB26DETT is one six cylinders in line of 2.6 liters (2568 cc), with block in steel and headstock of 24 valves DOHC in aluminum, bi-turbo, that in the Skyline has front and longitudinal setting. In the ZZII, its displacement it was modified for 2.7 liters (2699 cc), the turbines had been retrabalhadas to favor its wadding and reply and the setting of the engine was modified for transversal position in such a way for space question, as to improve the exploitation of the power and torque. The result is that in the ZZII, it it produces 550 54,5 horses to the 7300 rpm and kgfm of the 6000 torque rpm.
But it is not only the engine that was loaned of the Skyline. All the motor set was adapted for the super-machine of Tommy Kaira. The excellent exchange of six marches, was installed to produce at the same time acceleration levels next to the fastest cars of the world, as compatible final speed. To contribute with low times for acceleration, the system of integral traction (this exactly, in the four wheels) Attesa-ets, with intelligent electronic control of distribution of torque in the four wheels. Thus, the ZZII would be capable to very tracionar better that its competitors with traction only in two wheels.
But the "trick" did not finish for there. The lesser dimensions of the car in relation to the Skyline, had consequentemente favored the adoption of carbon fiber axles, diminishing the weight and the mechanical inertia and losses of the traction mechanism. The sub-chassis is a tubular structure in aluminum, that added to the low weight of would carroceria of fibre glass, produces an car of only 1000 kg! Everything this contributes to more produce worthy numbers of performance of célebres and expensive competitors: only 3,3 km/h and 336 the 100 seconds are necessary to reach km/h of maximum speed, being that in less than 20 the 300 seconds already he is km/h!
Mainly had to its predicates of performance, the Tommy Kaira negotiated a partner for produziz it in England, a time that exists a restrictive legislation how much the power of the vehicles produced in Japan. Only 100 units of the ZZII would be produced, to the price of about USS 100.000,00. However, difficulties in making right a partner, as well as others of financial order, had made impracticable the car and its production. Thus, this apaixoanante super-machine was restricted to the archetypes constructed for homologation or in the maximum a simulation of that the car would be capable, through the Gran game Tourism 3, where also a unit of the "Machine of the Dreams" can be found!
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