Road & Track did a heads up all out drag racing comparison of 3 cars in the 2 second club; cars that go from 0-60 MPH in under 3 seconds. The contenders include the 1200HP Bugatti Veyron Super Sport, 530HP Nissan GT-R and the 530HP 2011  Porsche 911 Turbo S.

Summary of results:

2012 Nissan GT-R ($93k)

• 0-60 MPH: 2.94
• 0-100 MPH: 7.3
• 1/4 mile: 11.2 @ 123.4 MPH
• 0-160 MPH: 22.0

2011 Porsche 911 Turbo S ($170k)

• 0-60 MPH: 2.84
• 0-100 MPH: 6.7
• 1/4 mile: 10.9 @ 128 MPH
• 0-160 MPH: 18.7

2011 Bugatti Veyron Super Sport ($2.8M)

• 0-60 MPH: 2.52
• 0-100 MPH: 4.9
• 1/4 mile: 9.9 @ 145.8 MPH
• 0-160 MPH: 12.2

Below is the video, while the cars they are testing are incredible, the Road & Track narration is so dull and boring, the guy sounds like he just woke up, too bad Jeremy Clarkson from Top Gear didn’t get hold of these cars for the testing.

Source: Road & Track: 2 Second Club

Here is a great video of a Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 running heads up and from a roll against a Porsche 911 Turbo S PDK. The Lamborghini has intake and exhaust while the 911 is bone stock. As expected, the 911 gets the LP560 from a digg, but surprisingly, the LP560 was able to pull past the 911 at higher speeds.

Take a look at this video of a heads up drag race between the brand new McLaren MP4-12C vs Ferrari 458 vs Porsche 911 Turbo. The McLaren get’s the jump but still powers way ahead of the Ferrari and Porsche.

The new McLaren MP4-12C is powered by a Twin Turbo V8 putting out close to 600HP through a 7 speed dual clutch transmission. Weighing in at less than 3,000 pounds the MP4-12C is set to be a benchmark setting super car.

Here is a close race between a Lamborghini Balboni LP550-2 against a Porsche 911 Turbo EVOMS with the Lambo pulling slightly ahead and holding on to it’s lead throughout the race.  The Lamborghini Balboni is a special rear wheel drive version of the Gallardo LP560 which is clearly demonstrated at the beginning of the video with it’s nice burnouts.

Car and Driver just did some heads up testing with the brand new Ferrari 458 Italia and the Porsche 911 Turbo S.  While these aren’t real world drag racing results, it’s the first we’ve seen for these cars, so we’ll post em up to compare.

The new Ferrari 458 Italia has been hitting the streets for the last few months at some typical new Ferrari premiums, up to $50k over the already super high $270k.  Since then we’ve seen some impromptu street races and dyno results for the Ferrari, but no performance numbers until now.  The Ferrari 458 ended up running a 1/4 mile of 11.5 @ 125 MPH with a 0-60 time of just 3.3 seconds and 0-140 MPH in 15 seconds.

Porsche’s latest 911 Turbo S equipped with the 7 speed dual clutch PDK transmission seems like a bargain at just $162k especially in the performance numbers when compared against the Ferrari.  While the 911 Turbo S is 50 pounds heavier than the Ferrari and has less horsepower, it leaves  the Ferrari way behind with it’s all wheel drive and launch control systems.   The 911 Turbo S ran 10.8 @ 129 MPH with a 0-60 time of just 2.7 seconds.  The 911 continues to pull hard reaching 140 MPH in just 13 seconds, a full 2 seconds quicker than the Ferrari.

When looking at the power and torque numbers between the two cars, the Ferrari produces 398 ft-lbs of torque at 6000 RPM while the 911 Turbo is pushing out 516 ft-lbs of torque at just 2100 RPM.  We imagine the 911 “feels” a lot quicker when driving around town as you don’t have to be screaming at 6-9k RPM to get a decent rush of power.  Take a look through the links below for the complete stats for each car.

2010 Ferrari 458 Italia

2011 Porsche 911 Turbo S PDK

Here are a few real world pictures of a couple of moderately disguised 998 Porsche Turbos cruising the streets of Hollywood, California. The pictures taken by AllanLambo clearly show the side intakes giving away their “turbo” status. The front is unmasked while the rear is heavily covered up from the rear spoiler down to the bumper.

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GTBoard put up a video of a 2010 Porsche 911 Turbo with the PDK transmission running heads up from a roll against the Mercedes-Benz SL65 AMG Black Series. While the race was very close, it was surprising that the Porsche was able to jump ahead of the Benz each time when the race started, especially since the Mercedes V12 Twin Turbo Engine makes a lot more torque than the Porsche’s 6 cylinder twin turbo.

After the initial 1 car or so jump of the Porsche, the SL65 Black Series hangs on and eventually starts pulling on the Porsche, although before it can pass they run out of runway and the race is over.

We have some great pictures and video of what might be the first real world drag racing pass of a Porsche 911 997.2 Turbo with the PDK transmission that making some test runs at Rock Falls Raceway, WI.  This Porsche 911 997.2 Turbo had been modified by EVOMS with quite an extensive list of upgrades.  The car is setup with a set of upgraded 65mm Billet turbochargers along with headers, free flowing cats,  70mm sport exhaust system and a custom tuned ECU by EVOMS to work with the upgrades.

Running on less than optimal 91 octane fuel and a Density Altitude (DA) of 2236 feet, their 911 Turbo ran 10.73 @ 129.7 MPH and hit 130+ MPH traps during another run.  Previously the only 1/4 mile times we have for a 911 Turbo with the PDK transmission was reported by a magazine with a stock car running 11.1 @ 129 MPH, which we seriously doubted was possible in the real world.  Another magazine tested the 911 Turbo with the 6 speed manual transmission running 11.7 @ 121.8 MPH which seems much more reasonable, although we expect the PDK would do better with it’s ultra fast dual clutch transmission along with it’s launch control setup.  We think stock 911 Turbo PDKs will probably run mid 11′s at 125 MPH in the real world.

It’s still pretty early to make judgements on the tuning potential of the 911 997.2 turbo with the PDK transmission, especially given the conditions this car was running in, this same car would be running mid 10′s at 134+ MPH if it had decent fuel at sea level conditions.  Even so, we have to compare it against the $84,000 Nissan GT-R with just tuning and exhaust modifications ($4,000) that runs mid 10′s at 133 MPH.  The current price to get the same performance numbers in the Porsche could be twice as much.  Take a look at the timeslip, pictures and video using the links below:

2010 Porsche 911 997.2 Turbo PDK

About three years ago, John Thomas purchased his first Porsche 928. It was a 1989 Guards Red automatic that came out of a collection in southern California with about 110,000 miles. John bought it on e-bay, flew down to San Diego and drove it back to Washington. He had intended to build a high horsepower engine, and the 928 was a good start. It was already one of the fastest cars of its time.

Not too long after the purchase, he started looking at ways to build power. Stroker, supercharging and turbocharging were the options. All were pretty expensive, and at the time, no one had been able to effectively build a Porsche 928 turbo car for a reasonable amount of money. Squires Turbo Systems (STS) hit FEMA about that time, winning an award for the rear mount turbo (RMT). John contacted them to see if this arrangement would work on his 928. Given the lack of room in the engine bay, the rear mounted turbo seemed like a potential solution. STS thought the idea was a good one, but that lacked enough vehicles nationwide to invest in the necessary R&D for a “kit”. They were willing to work with John with regards to tech support, and let him develop a Porsche 928 turbo kit.

They started with a “base kit”, a turbo, oiling pump and little else from STS that we could use. The 928 engine is pretty unique in its set-up and tuning was an issue as well with a separate LH and EZK for fuel management and timing. Everything else was custom for the Porsche 928.

Not too long into the project, they lost a very old headgasket and spent a year re-building the engine. They bored it out to 4″, just a little over stock, nikicelled the engine, and put in forged pistons and rods, lowering the compression to 9:1 from the stock 10:1. They could have rebuilt it in a month, but the pistons took a year to produce.

In that year however, JDSporsche developed a tuning capability for the Porsche 928, and was a real boon to the development of the RMT for the 928. It gave them the tuning ability which is essential on any forced induction engine. The car currently produces 400 horsepower and 438 pounds of torque to the rear wheels, and runs in the low twelve’s at 10lbs of boost with no intercooler needed. Based on a cost per horsepower basis, the kit is very competitive to both the supercharged and stroker approaches to big horsepower engines.

During the project, they have tested to failure, every component that was a weak link and worked through solutions that kept the installation and modification of the stock engine at a minimum.
The stage one kit is set up for 5 lbs of boost and will see about a 120hp gain from the stock engine at about 260 RWHP stock. The kit uses the stock injectors, mild modifications, custom stainless steel exhaust, boost pipe and a carbon fiber cross over. Future plans include 30# injectors, boost controller, fuel management, methanol injection and other features that should produce an 11 second car in the quarter mile with 460 RWHP and 500 RWTRQ.

Check out some pictures and timeslips for this unique Porsche 928 S4 turbo!