Moash wants to beat Bugatti Veyron with a Cerbera
Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 2:13 pm
We don’t often feature readers’ cars, but a 1000bhp Cerbera, with which its owner, Mo Ash, hopes to challenge the Bugatti Veyron’s road-legal speed record, seems worth a look.
Known as Project Phoenix, with the development work being carried out by Austec Racing, the car is much changed from a standard 4.5-litre Cerbera. The V8 has been both bored and stroked to increase its capacity to 6 litres, and it also has new pistons and conrods, a substantially strengthened block, a specially made crankshaft and a race-style dry-sump lubrication system.
The key to the power increase will be a centrifugal supercharger, while a lot of work is going into reducing the intake air temperature, with a charge-cooler and NOS induction intake cooling. The exact power output should be verified by the middle of September.
The propshaft, driveshafts and rear differential are all beefed-up to cope with the increased output, and while the Phoenix presently runs with a six-speed ZF manual gearbox, Ash is also considering a drag-spec automatic.
Southampton-based Carbon Design Technology is responsible for the reshaped bodywork.
The car is no relation to the Cerbera Speed 12 powered by an 880bhp 7.7-litre normally aspirated V12, developed by the TVR factory and featured in evo 079
source www.evo.co.uk
Known as Project Phoenix, with the development work being carried out by Austec Racing, the car is much changed from a standard 4.5-litre Cerbera. The V8 has been both bored and stroked to increase its capacity to 6 litres, and it also has new pistons and conrods, a substantially strengthened block, a specially made crankshaft and a race-style dry-sump lubrication system.
The key to the power increase will be a centrifugal supercharger, while a lot of work is going into reducing the intake air temperature, with a charge-cooler and NOS induction intake cooling. The exact power output should be verified by the middle of September.
The propshaft, driveshafts and rear differential are all beefed-up to cope with the increased output, and while the Phoenix presently runs with a six-speed ZF manual gearbox, Ash is also considering a drag-spec automatic.
Southampton-based Carbon Design Technology is responsible for the reshaped bodywork.
The car is no relation to the Cerbera Speed 12 powered by an 880bhp 7.7-litre normally aspirated V12, developed by the TVR factory and featured in evo 079
source www.evo.co.uk