GS400 V8 twin turbo in Autoweek
05-28-04, 04:40 PM
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Originally posted by SoCalSC4
They were sponsored? This is certainly news to me...
Anyway, the car is awesome!
They were sponsored? This is certainly news to me...
Anyway, the car is awesome!
05-31-04, 01:07 PM
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Photoshoot / Article : AUTOWEEK MAGAZINE
AUTOWEEK MAGAZINE Article TTGS400
I haven't actually seen the magazine artcle yet, but I thought you guys might wanna check this out
I haven't actually seen the magazine artcle yet, but I thought you guys might wanna check this out
05-31-04, 01:18 PM
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Your late. We already discussed it in this thread. Your GS is bad @$$
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sho...hreadid=121470
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sho...hreadid=121470
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05-31-04, 02:00 PM
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Re: artcle
Originally posted by flashgordon
Sorry guy's ; didn't know you discussed it, I've been out of town the last couple of weeks
Sorry guy's ; didn't know you discussed it, I've been out of town the last couple of weeks
05-31-04, 02:19 PM
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Originally posted by Hameed
What a monstor! Those wheels look very familiar.............
What a monstor! Those wheels look very familiar.............
06-01-04, 04:10 AM
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EV ftw!!!
Originally posted by bitkahuna
Article also says he's got StopTechs and Tein Flex - great choices, huh?
Article also says he's got StopTechs and Tein Flex - great choices, huh?
We are in the right company - we have so much in common with the monster - HRE 447R, Tein Flex, StopTech's ........
06-01-04, 05:39 AM
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Hey guys I wanna clear up a misunderstanding. HRE did not sponsor me. I repeat, HRE did
not sponsor me. I've already pm'd Mike and RU-INAW about it. Just a misunderstanding
not sponsor me. I've already pm'd Mike and RU-INAW about it. Just a misunderstanding
06-08-04, 03:06 PM
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Damn!! TT GS400 in Auto Week...congrats!!
Don't know if this is a repost....but just thought I would give some props to Mitch...
http://autoweek.com/search/search_di...59006&record=1
(08:30 May 31, 2004)
Swift Racing Technologies Lexus GS 400
The New Supra?
By RICHARD CHANG
SWIFT RACING TECHNOLOGIES LEXUS GS 400
ON SALE: Now
BASE PRICE: $70,000 (est.)
POWERTRAIN: 4.0-liter, 500-hp, 515-lb-ft twin-turbocharged V8; rwd, five-speed automatic
CURB WEIGHT: 4000 pounds (est.)
0 to 60 MPH: 4.25 seconds (mfr.)
>> “THERE AREN’T MANY GS 400s THAT ARE twin-turbo,” bragged Mitch Gordon, a small- business owner from Ellicott City, Maryland, as he slid his sedan into traffic for my firsthand lesson in Lexus turbo tuning. We were 30 minutes outside Washington, D.C.—close to Swift Racing Technologies, the Lexus specialist that built and tunes this car. Gordon says he visits SRT daily, so I’m assuming he knows the roads well.
“For the horsepower and money, right out of the box this car was the most bang for the buck,” says Gordon. “And having Swift Racing in my backyard—initially, I was going to go supercharger, but SRT said it could do a custom twin-turbo. And my eyes lit up.”
Speaking of lighting up, without warning Gordon hammered the living daylights out of the gas pedal. If this were the Olympics, I’d say he was going for gold. My stomach had an out-of-body experience, and I tried to look cool, like, As a journalist, I’ve seen it all. But Gordon didn’t let up. The auto five upshifts, and it was on to Plan B: Grab for the door handle and avoid looking out the windshield.
Gordon, on the other hand, had gone into a Linda Blair-like trance, one I liked to think implies concentration rather than madness. Red light ahead and he put the Stop Tech brakes to the test. Warp drive ended just as quickly as it began, and Gordon, a former Army reserv-ist, went into full debrief mode.
“I’m still running the mass [airflow] sensor,” he explained, “so I’m only able to run at 14 psi [of boost]. I usually drive around on 10 to 12, but 14 gives me a little over 500 hp at the rear and 515 [lb-ft of] torque. Right around 14 psi, [the mass airflow sensor] starts to lean everything out. It just can’t handle it.”
Gordon says the transmission can’t quite handle the twin Turbonetics T3/T4 hybrid ceramic ball-bearing turbocharger, either. It is reinforced, with fully built internals. The nuisance lies in the Lexus electronics. “It has trouble transferring all that power to the drivetrain,” Gordon says. “Back there, it kind of hung up a bit.”
I nodded, thoroughly unable to relate.
This is how sophisticated Lexus performance tuning has become, taking over where Supra tuning left off and spawning monster-horsepower street rides and ever better performance. SRT was able to solve Gordon’s transmission problem simply by applying new software to the car.
Three years ago Muhammad Choudhury launched SRT out of his parents’ house. These days, SRT (swiftracing.com) manufactures turbo kits and tunes from a full-service facility that functions as a production line and tuning garage. On hand are client cars in various states of radical tune, including a GS 400 owned by import drag racer Christian Rado.
The setup in Gordon’s car is an SRT Stage IV kit, a custom formula with no limit. It includes turbo manifolds for each bank, Spearco front-mounted intercooler, Blitz blow-off valve and boost controller, and GReddy e-manage engine ECU. In other words, the whole ball of wax.
On the homestretch back to SRT, Gordon revealed another attraction of the tuned luxury sedan: “I like the sport and the luxury,” he says. “Eventually, I’ll cross all the way over to luxury. But I’m holding on to that sport thing right now.”
This is where the Tein Flex coilover suspension comes in. It allows for the control of damping from inside the cockpit and on the fly.
“If I set it to the softest setting, I still have my luxury GS ride,” Gordon explains. “But if I hit the stiffest setting, [the coilovers] get stiff. And if I’m going through the twisties, I make it nice and firm. With a big car like this, I get these little guys coming up on me. They think they can get away from me because I have a big GS. They’re in for a nice big surprise, you know what I mean?”
I nod. This time I can relate.
http://autoweek.com/search/search_di...59006&record=1
(08:30 May 31, 2004)
Swift Racing Technologies Lexus GS 400
The New Supra?
By RICHARD CHANG
SWIFT RACING TECHNOLOGIES LEXUS GS 400
ON SALE: Now
BASE PRICE: $70,000 (est.)
POWERTRAIN: 4.0-liter, 500-hp, 515-lb-ft twin-turbocharged V8; rwd, five-speed automatic
CURB WEIGHT: 4000 pounds (est.)
0 to 60 MPH: 4.25 seconds (mfr.)
>> “THERE AREN’T MANY GS 400s THAT ARE twin-turbo,” bragged Mitch Gordon, a small- business owner from Ellicott City, Maryland, as he slid his sedan into traffic for my firsthand lesson in Lexus turbo tuning. We were 30 minutes outside Washington, D.C.—close to Swift Racing Technologies, the Lexus specialist that built and tunes this car. Gordon says he visits SRT daily, so I’m assuming he knows the roads well.
“For the horsepower and money, right out of the box this car was the most bang for the buck,” says Gordon. “And having Swift Racing in my backyard—initially, I was going to go supercharger, but SRT said it could do a custom twin-turbo. And my eyes lit up.”
Speaking of lighting up, without warning Gordon hammered the living daylights out of the gas pedal. If this were the Olympics, I’d say he was going for gold. My stomach had an out-of-body experience, and I tried to look cool, like, As a journalist, I’ve seen it all. But Gordon didn’t let up. The auto five upshifts, and it was on to Plan B: Grab for the door handle and avoid looking out the windshield.
Gordon, on the other hand, had gone into a Linda Blair-like trance, one I liked to think implies concentration rather than madness. Red light ahead and he put the Stop Tech brakes to the test. Warp drive ended just as quickly as it began, and Gordon, a former Army reserv-ist, went into full debrief mode.
“I’m still running the mass [airflow] sensor,” he explained, “so I’m only able to run at 14 psi [of boost]. I usually drive around on 10 to 12, but 14 gives me a little over 500 hp at the rear and 515 [lb-ft of] torque. Right around 14 psi, [the mass airflow sensor] starts to lean everything out. It just can’t handle it.”
Gordon says the transmission can’t quite handle the twin Turbonetics T3/T4 hybrid ceramic ball-bearing turbocharger, either. It is reinforced, with fully built internals. The nuisance lies in the Lexus electronics. “It has trouble transferring all that power to the drivetrain,” Gordon says. “Back there, it kind of hung up a bit.”
I nodded, thoroughly unable to relate.
This is how sophisticated Lexus performance tuning has become, taking over where Supra tuning left off and spawning monster-horsepower street rides and ever better performance. SRT was able to solve Gordon’s transmission problem simply by applying new software to the car.
Three years ago Muhammad Choudhury launched SRT out of his parents’ house. These days, SRT (swiftracing.com) manufactures turbo kits and tunes from a full-service facility that functions as a production line and tuning garage. On hand are client cars in various states of radical tune, including a GS 400 owned by import drag racer Christian Rado.
The setup in Gordon’s car is an SRT Stage IV kit, a custom formula with no limit. It includes turbo manifolds for each bank, Spearco front-mounted intercooler, Blitz blow-off valve and boost controller, and GReddy e-manage engine ECU. In other words, the whole ball of wax.
On the homestretch back to SRT, Gordon revealed another attraction of the tuned luxury sedan: “I like the sport and the luxury,” he says. “Eventually, I’ll cross all the way over to luxury. But I’m holding on to that sport thing right now.”
This is where the Tein Flex coilover suspension comes in. It allows for the control of damping from inside the cockpit and on the fly.
“If I set it to the softest setting, I still have my luxury GS ride,” Gordon explains. “But if I hit the stiffest setting, [the coilovers] get stiff. And if I’m going through the twisties, I make it nice and firm. With a big car like this, I get these little guys coming up on me. They think they can get away from me because I have a big GS. They’re in for a nice big surprise, you know what I mean?”
I nod. This time I can relate.
