Hoovey689

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Watch the Venom GT go from 0 to 230 MPH in under 20 sec.

The crew at Hennessey has finally gotten around to showing the world just how quick the Venom GT really is by pulling off a 0-230 mph sprint on runway. The best run took a scant 19.96 seconds to stick the speedometer at 228 mph.

That's the kind of speed that will peal your eyelids back if you aren't careful. Of course, it takes some pretty lofty power figures to generate that kind of velocity. The Venom GT benefits from a General Motors LS9 V8 engine pulled from the wicked Chevrolet Corvette ZR1.

After some healthy tweaking, including abandoning the factory supercharger for twin ball bearing turbochargers, the 7.0-liter V8 spits up to 1,244 horsepower to the rear wheels. We're just happy to see all that thrust get put to task.


http://www.autoblog.com/2012/12/04/w...-under-20-sec/

adamls2

Wow, that thing is crazy!! Sounds amazing!!

Lil4X

Rich mixture aids cooling, but won't make EPA greenies happy.

ARISTOh

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If only my GS could do that...

don

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I wonder how many Gs of force the driver feels.

Hoovey689

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Would love to see this line up with a Pagani Huayra and Koenigsegg Agera R

SC400slide

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I wan't my SC too sound like that!

RocketGuy3

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A little over .5g on average over that 20 second sprint to 230. Probably about 1g or so for the first bit of it (assuming it took less than three seconds to get to 60... and I'm sure it did. I'd say up to ~1.4g. I doubt they went to 60 much faster than two seconds).