After breaking some of the GT-R 1/4 mile speed records at IHRA and FIA certified Dragway 42 this past weekend (2009 Nissan GT-R Switzer P850 1/4 mile Drag Racing timeslip specs 0-60 - DragTimes.com), we received a number of inquiries asking us how our P800 tuning kit for the GTR compared to other cars - like the million-dollar, thousand-horsepower Bugatti Veyron, for example! SO, we sent some of the Road & Track test numbers for a customer-owned Veyron (from the 2007 "Speed Kings" article), to one of our P800 customers. He felt his Switzer GTR would be pretty close, so we sent him out with a DriftBox (by VBox, the same equipment the magazines use) to see what he could come up with ... the results speak for themselves.

BUGATTI VEYRON v. SWITZER P800 GTR NISSAN
0-100 km 3.0 sec v. 2.9 sec
0-200 km 8.9 sec v. 8.4 sec
0-300 km 19.8 sec v. 19.8 sec

Video here:

YouTube - (HD) Nissan GTR P800 (0-300 km/h)

Road & Track also tested the Veyron's 1/4 mile acceleration, reporting a 10.6 sec time, while Car and Driver reported 10.1. The GTR? The car in the video ran 10.4, while other Switzer GTRs have run as quick as 10.193 seconds.

So there you have it: from a standing start to about 187 mph, the Bugatti and the Switzer GTR will be about neck-and-neck - pretty incredible, when you consider the Bugatti costs over $900,000 MORE than the Switzer!

Gotta love that ...

 

awesome Jo

 

Ha ha. Great read. Thanks for the post. Do you know how your Cars performed at the mile event in south Florida a few weeks ago. I know the event was very unorganized an all but I'm still interested to see what personal GPS' were reading.

 

Crazy Russians with one hell of a fast car. Very impressive package you have built,

 

Pretty pretty pretty badass.

 

Very impressive. One question though, what is the elevation differential during the run?

 

The GT-R ran great in Miami - it was gunned at 191, but the VBox shows 194.9 at the mile mark ... on a 100+ degree track!

 

No idea, but we had the Dragway 42 timeslips (back to back runs) showing 141.41 and 141.51 mph trap speeds - Car and Driver shows 142 for the Veyron, so the car is right there!

 

This is the best GT-R I have ever seen or heard of. Your achievment is so great that words can hardly describe it.

But lets be honest, you took the slowest test of the Veyron that ever was.

For example german magazine Auto-Motor-und-Sport, one the most precise and trustworthy mags in the world, gathered a little bit different times of the Veyron during their 0-300 km/h test - 2.5/7.4/18.2 seconds.

 

Totally fair comments, but (as far as I know) this was the only full test of a customer Veyron - not a factory-provided car driven by a pro driver/journalist with hundreds of hours of track experience.

In fact, this is a good time to point out again: Switzer doesn't have "shop" cars, with the semi-exception of DK's GT2 (and even then, DK expects to drive the car, you know!?). What that means is: all those numbers you see for Switzer cars, the 10.4s and 10.1s and 138 traps and 141 traps, are all finished, delivered, CUSTOMER cars.

I'm super happy with those numbers - now we just need a Veyron owner willing to go head-to-head at the next mile event!