I remember when Nelson Hoyos drove the Pro FWD Chevy Cobalt for GM Performance. Nelsons Cobalt had the motor and trans mounted East-West and it was EVIL to drive but he still managed to get into the 7's. The North-South engine and trans seems to be very manageable to drive. These guys will be in the 6's before we know it! Thanks again for bringing the racing from Brazil!
Passatb5 1.8t I can only imagine growing up here in America, then going somewhere that the English they speak is very proper. It’d be a difficulty to change up. We say some stupid shit sometimes.
Ecotec is no joke....💪 Just put it in perspective that 2.2 liter is making proximately 1900 horse power and that's not even the best block... the 2.0 LSJ is a fuckin' beast Honda Shmonda...... 👈
Its good to see that car again. That guy bought two of the nearly identical cars. One of them was a car I knew every nut and bolt on. It's awsome to see these cars are still going down the track.
@ROB112 Lest us not forget that the federal government allows this to happen and has no plans to change it. Sounds pretty deliberate to me. What's this crap we keep hearing about the US being an independent nation?
For real dude, I have no idea how these guys even afford this sport tbh. Average person makes 1500-2000$ a month. Mortgage is 1000$, then internet, heat or A/C, cable, electricity, food, gas, truck/car payment, phone bill. Then they go buy a 20,000$ race engine the next week lol. They are either rich as hell or in debt really bad.
@@johncuervo3019 Yeah, but them they overtax who want to produce and the consumers have to pay for overpriced shit... that is Brazilian automotive industry and Brazilian folks paying new Camaro's price for obsolete 1000cc cars
@@johncuervo3019 Yeah no, its better to import from someone who has the experience and quality and price, and focus in what the country is good and has comparative or absolut advantages. Simple rule of economics, australia doesnt make any cars cuz importing them is way cheaper, so the money that people save can go to more local industries instead of 1 big eneficcient.
I had a 2.0 LNF cobalt with a big turbo and all the goodies. Killed unbelievable cars on the street, had insane torque steer. When I first got it was all stock and everyone thought it had a ton of work done to it lmao. Best car I've ever owned. Miss it
@@MafiaboysWorld you gotta realize your wrong as fuck 1320 kyle was over 20 years old and pfi kyle was 7 or 8. It peaked I'd say mid 2000s and slowly died when the manufacturers backed out. Back in the day GM literally told everyone exactly how to make a 1000+hp ecotec. Right down to a part list
We had cars like this in the states like 15 years ago. Christian Rado built a Scion TC with this same engine and Xtrac transmission setup. It’s a shame nobody remembers or acknowledges where this sport came from.
In my country we pay 280% on cars. The new Mustang GT with the V8, and lowest possible options is around $35.000 in the US. In my country, that would be $101.000. For some reason, the 2.3 Ecoboost costs roughly the same.
the way the engine and the trans sit on the chassis always intrigued me, closest thing I can related to is to grab a mid-engine car and then moving the front axle to the back, and then just take the body and drop it in place
Austin Johnson I was involved in that era as well. I still have a loaded 93 prelude pro fwd chassis sitting at my house. I actually live near Rado. He’s from Reading Pa. Man those were the days. Steph has a badass RU-vid channel building Supra motors and stuff. Matt Hartford used to race pro rwd in a cobalt and now he’s racing pro stock. Crazy.
Chevy has a catalog to build a 2.2 up to around 2000 maybe even up to 2500hp. I know a couple were built for Bonneville speed runs as well. Crazy how a little motor like a 2.2 can be built up from a 145/150hp to well over 1500+ hp
Search: Gol Fld 7.38seg @303km/h fastest FWD in the World, made the récord in velopark Brasil, but the car is from Argentina. Engine 4 cylinder, 20 valves, biturbo, watercooler
Vw Gol 2.0 16v FWD, viturro racing team from Argentina, stock vw factory built block & head, steel chassis 1500+ whp. 1/4 mile pass for 7.3 sec! Speedfactory use engine that in reality have nothing in common with honda, Dry billet block engine that have ZERO Honda designed & produced parts.
It was very popular going back many years ago. Specially around 2000 and after Fast and furious came out. Regardless of what people say about the movies. It had a very big impact. Then about 2008 NOPI took a big hit and they started canceling events because of a combination of spectator size fell off, the state of the car industry at the time, gas prices were much higher and the list goes on. I was never big in the import scene as far as owning one but I did cages, turbo kits, nitrous, tuning and drove for others. I remember how big it was at one time. I had the pleasure of helping on Vinny 10 on his supra when he was the first in the 7s like almost 20 years ago. (Yes it was RWD I know) I've always respected the cars and the scene was huge but I don't think it will ever be as big as it once was. Not here in the U.S. anyway.
@@waynebollentin989 GM like other companies just don't do things because they like to. They do it to sell cars/trucks. When almost nobody from the Honda Fan Boi community made the switch unless paid by GM to race like Hunt and Ballard, they pulled the plug. Late 2007, car sales took a nose dive and the rest they say is history.
Bothwell Motorsports helped develop the Ecotec Engine almost 20 years ago with their Hot Rod FWD Sunfire doing 7:70's and The Pro FWD Cavalier in the high 6's!
100% taxes and 400% increase from the currency’s rate. So, a 2000 dolars turbo costs us 16000 💵. That is enough to buy a brand new 250cc Yamaha motorcycle.
You should compare how many working hours you need to get it. Comparing like this means nothing, you can buy a 350z with $3k so... minimum wage in US is $7,25/h, you need to work 275 hours for that turbo. In brazil minimum wage is around R$5,60/h = $1,4/h , so you would only need 1428 hours of hardwork to buy that turbo... BUUUUTT OH WE FORGOT THE 100% TAX. Have a good 2800+ hours of working grind, believe in your dreams.
Holdy 1us$ = $133 Jamaican dollar a turbo for $2000US plus taxes US$4000 * JA$133= JA$532,000 Shipping @ 896 per lbs size turbo average abt 75lbs Minimum wage 7500 per 40hr work week don’t even want to go any further but the rich folks can ship it in for free
That trans axle looks like it wouldn't be out of place on a mid engine RWD open wheeler. It was also a good demo of why and how FWD drag cars need wheeley bars.
A couple of the cars went to South America, remember the NHRA Sony Xplod series went under around the time of the 2008 Financial Crisis. GM wasn't getting the ROI out of the program so they pulled out, but so did everybody else and then the NHRA said without them and without Sony we have no series. Now it's Honda all day, everyday like nothing ever happen.
@odzadze123 The car in the video only traps 188mph and has a a wheelie bar on the back the size of the car itself. The SF civic is stock chassis, no wheelie bar, runs on straight Methanol and traps 215 mph. I don't know what point you’re trying to prove by posting the link you posted but the car you posted is definitely not the fastest FWD car in the world.
@odzadze123 to start of it's not estimated time. Its elapsed time. And all I said was that the civic deserves respect. Fastest and quickest are 2 different thing. The car in this video is "quicker" then speed factory's civic. The civic however is "the fastest" (mph) in the ¼ mile.
The speedfactory civic is more impressive to me. Manual trans, and I don’t even think they’re on a huge tire like this Chevy. Those two factors one this car and it wouldn’t even go 7’s in my opinion. Still impressive but fwd drag racing is still dominated by imports, so they have more to prove and represent
That Corn Fed 12A guy the tires are the same size, and the VW engine originally has muth less tecnology than the Honda, less power (1500hp in the VW), stock VW block (Honda runs with billet block), etc... Out of the cost to have and develop a drag car like this over her. We usually manufacture the parts themselves, both for price reasons and for not existing in the market. By the conditions you have, is would be more than the obligation for you to have the world record. And not with all these favorable conditions you have the record anymore. So learn to respect and value what we can do here with so many difficulties that you can not even imagine 🤙
Dude, you're showing your age! I was with Saturn Motorsports on the retail side when the Profwd ION piloted by Lisa Kubo was the first in the 7's in this kind of setup. 7.2's at over 200mph. Search youtube for the vid and there it is. FWD drag racing tanked quick once drift showed up and Saturn Motorsports shut down ops and the car mysteriously came up missing (no doubt all the viable's sold after being stolen and the body destroyed).
Thats innovation right there, though I don't know if anyone has ever built a front wheel drive car like this but Nissan did something similar with the GTR LM car.
Would like to see a special video on the current fastest fwd stock chasis turbo car, the vw gol from Viturro Speed who went 7.388 on the 1/4 past weekend.
@@akwan108 I thought so but I couldn't really understand the guy in the beginning. It does seem odd to me for them not to mention that this car has the quickest fwd pass ever under it's belt
