Wednesday 25th April 2007

More squirt for German GT

Edo tunes the Ford GT

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Full fat 600+bhp for this GT

German tuning and styling firm Edo Competition has got the spanners out on the Ford GT.

Thanks to the fitment of a 200-cell sports catalyst and a reprogramming of the engine’s electronic brain, this GT now produces 602bhp at 6,500rpm and 590lb-ft of torque at 4,500rpm. The Edo GT also has a stainless steel sports exhaust with cockpit-adjustable silencing so you should be able to hear this GT well before you see it. Edo is quoting a 0-62mph time of 3.7 seconds and a top speed of 211mph.

Edo also has some fun with these...

Adjustable dampers, different wheels, a new rear wing and even a tyre pressure monitoring system is also on the list, plus a three-piece carbon fibre engine bay panelling set. Fancy your GT in a different colour and the company will sort that too.

Edo tunes a wide range of supercars, and is probably most famous for breaking the road car record at the ‘Ring with a 911 GT2 RS in 7min 15.63 seconds.

 

 

[Vodka Margarine]

Beaten to it

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXSeZw_luug

[ThatPhilBrettGuy]

Considering I've seen a completely standard UK GT produce 599bhp, I can't say I'm that impressed. And what are all those plastic bits put in the engine bay? Designed to reduce the rear view from not much to nothing?

I bet they want idiot amounts of money for it too

[RobPhoboS]

Such a cynic !

I think thats good because they haven't gone OTT however Im sure they can if you want it.
It doesn't even say how much it costs to do this, so it could be 20 Euros for all you know

[gottabedone]

I really don't see the point of covering your engine up with those bits of plastic! CF or not, it just seems pointless to have an engine like this and hide it.
regards

Steve

[scoobiewrx]

Vodka Margarine said:

Beaten to it

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXSeZw_luug

Those heffner chaps really seem to know what they are doing with the GT40. Upto 850bhp upgrade for £20K...so £100K for the base car + the upgrade = £120K and you have an out and out monster exotic fruit muncher Looks cheap really compared to Lambo, Porsche, Ferrari. But how does it go around corners??

Nice car though and i bet it's a whole load more reliable than the one TopGear's JC briefly owned.

[qube_TA]

It's nice folks are tuning these cars, they'd be a bit slow otherwise

[andyps]

qube_TA said:

It's nice folks are tuning these cars, they'd be a bit slow otherwise

That was my thought, I hadn't considered buying a GT before because I didn't think it had enough power, might have to change my mind now

[ThatPhilBrettGuy]

scoobiewrx said:

...i bet it's a whole load more reliable than the one TopGear's JC briefly owned.

You don't want to go believing everything Mr Clarkson says. He's a journalist after all

[dieseltaylor]

I know the Radical has been around the Ring in under 7 minutes - so a tweaked Porsche at 7 minutes plus is not that great for establishing any credentials.

[scoobiewrx]

ThatPhilBrettGuy said:

scoobiewrx said:

...i bet it's a whole load more reliable than the one TopGear's JC briefly owned.

You don't want to go believing everything Mr Clarkson says. He's a journalist after all

You're right....i don't believe he's a journo either

[droptheclutch]

dieseltaylor said:

I know the Radical has been around the Ring in under 7 minutes - so a tweaked Porsche at 7 minutes plus is not that great for establishing any credentials.

And the radical is a car that was built for the road, is it? The two cars can not be compared in reality. If you compare Porsche's equivalent to the Radical the wee radical wouldn't see which way the Pork went...

Welcome to Ph BTW, where everyone has an opinion!

PS - do your homework, young man :-)

[Podie]

ThatPhilBrettGuy said:

scoobiewrx said:

...i bet it's a whole load more reliable than the one TopGear's JC briefly owned.

You don't want to go believing everything Mr Clarkson says. He's a journalist after all

Very true..

[danmangt40]

Ford GT plus K&N filer= 40 free hp

or

Ford GT plus Hennessey/accufab pulley = 700 hp

sooo... a 600hp GT= stock GT on a cold day with the passenger seat removed.

= silly mod... oh, and the engine trim? here's my position on carbon, especially where it is visible:

structural carbon: carrera GT, slr, f1, k'egg, mosler, f50, enzo, pagani, saleen s7, parts of murcielago... GREAT. The pinnacle of supercar claims to racing tech (except maybe to carbon ceramic brakes), and if the manufacturer offers a clearcoat unpainted finish of the material, you SHOULD exercise it, or at least not feel silly for having considered it.
>
carbon Body: a legit modification if done to replace a heavy panel, and a nice factory option if there's a cheaper model with merely "glassfibre" or some other "lesser" material... read: z06 fenders, gallardo superleggera, 911 gt3, ferrari challenge stradale, but unless the whole body is carbon (farboud)... don't get a clearcoat over/expose the bare material (except where the OEManufacturer has done so)... it's misrepresentation of being up in that heighest category, and it'll clash with the parts that aren't, and might require a move down to the next category or the one following, since you are showing off what everyone else with your car is modest enough not to "front"
>
carbon fiber trim by the OEM and indicative of special model but not structural or weight saving at all= getting a little nafff but ok, if there are lesser models that have something else, and it marks out yours as something special but came from the factory that way, for some reason OTHER than the fact that it HAS the trim (last part for you audi R8 buyers thinking about a carbon-fiber "sideblade" and the carbon "engine-dress-up" kit, not m3 buyers who bought a CSL or are looking at a new m3... those are legit and belong in the next category up)
>
carbon fiber trim you added to your own car that not only DIDN'T replace a body panel for the purpose of legitimate weight savings, but you added it in a way that couldn't be confused with a stock trim selection, and does NOTHING except ADD weight and consume space and even limits visibility...= "chav-tastic" ( I believe that's the appropriate english phrase... I'm a yank)

[rimmer]

thats not actually an improvement on top speed because they were limited to 205mph and could do 211mph anyway and its not that much quicker to 60 is it really. bet it feels quite abit quicker mid range though.

[sjn2004]

scoobiewrx said:

i bet it's a whole load more reliable than the one TopGear's JC briefly owned.

It was actually the UK fitted alarm system that was the problem, not the "car".

[ThatPhilBrettGuy]

sjn2004 said:

scoobiewrx said:

i bet it's a whole load more reliable than the one TopGear's JC briefly owned.

It was actually the UK fitted alarm system that was the problem, not the "car".

Err, there was nothing wrong with the alarm either. User error.

[_dobbo_]

droptheclutch said:

dieseltaylor said:

I know the Radical has been around the Ring in under 7 minutes - so a tweaked Porsche at 7 minutes plus is not that great for establishing any credentials.

And the radical is a car that was built for the road, is it? The two cars can not be compared in reality. If you compare Porsche's equivalent to the Radical the wee radical wouldn't see which way the Pork went...

Welcome to Ph BTW, where everyone has an opinion!

PS - do your homework, young man :-)

I hardly think that mental Edo GT2R is a nice comfortable road car though is it? I don't get your comment about porsche's equivalent to the radical either - what's that all about then?

[droptheclutch]

quote]
I hardly think that mental Edo GT2R is a nice comfortable road car though is it? I don't get your comment about porsche's equivalent to the radical either - what's that all about then?[/quote]

Well it's not Boxster, is it :-)

Did I say it was a "nice and comfortable road car"? Ummm, no.

The Edo is still based on a car that was born over 40 years ago. Plus, it's a coupe, plus it's got a steel chassis, plus, etc, etc...

Think back to a car that was designed for the track from the very first strokes of the pen...I'm sure you'll get there :-)

[_dobbo_]

droptheclutch said:

_dobbbo_ said:

I hardly think that mental Edo GT2R is a nice comfortable road car though is it? I don't get your comment about porsche's equivalent to the radical either - what's that all about then?

Well it's not Boxster, is it :-)

Did I say it was a "nice and comfortable road car"? Ummm, no.

The Edo is still based on a car that was born over 40 years ago. Plus, it's a coupe, plus it's got a steel chassis, plus, etc, etc...

Think back to a car that was designed for the track from the very first strokes of the pen...I'm sure you'll get there :-)

It's probably worth making sure your postings actually make sense before you liberally apply sarcasm to them.

You criticised the Radical's record as it was built for the track as if that somehow makes it less worthy of the record, when Edo built that porsche with the express purpose of breaking the Nurburgring record. It doesn't matter whether they started out with a track car or not, they built a car for a purpose.

That purpose was to lap the nurburgring fastest, something Radical did without explicitly setting out to do so.

You then made an odd comment about a Porsche equivalent of a radical which doesn't exist, before going on about it not being a boxter. What?

[droptheclutch]

_dobbo_ said:

droptheclutch said:

_dobbbo_ said:

I hardly think that mental Edo GT2R is a nice comfortable road car though is it? I don't get your comment about porsche's equivalent to the radical either - what's that all about then?

Well it's not Boxster, is it :-)

Did I say it was a "nice and comfortable road car"? Ummm, no.

The Edo is still based on a car that was born over 40 years ago. Plus, it's a coupe, plus it's got a steel chassis, plus, etc, etc...

Think back to a car that was designed for the track from the very first strokes of the pen...I'm sure you'll get there :-)

It's probably worth making sure your postings actually make sense before you liberally apply sarcasm to them.

You criticised the Radical's record as it was built for the track as if that somehow makes it less worthy of the record, when Edo built that porsche with the express purpose of breaking the Nurburgring record. It doesn't matter whether they started out with a track car or not, they built a car for a purpose.

That purpose was to lap the nurburgring fastest, something Radical did without explicitly setting out to do so.

You then made an odd comment about a Porsche equivalent of a radical which doesn't exist, before going on about it not being a boxter. What?

Are you sure you are just confused? or have you not put your brain in gear before making ass-umptions. For goodness sake, do some research and actually read the postings correctly.



My comment was (and still is) "And the radical is a car that was built for the road, is it? The two cars can not be compared in reality. If you compare Porsche's equivalent to the Radical the wee radical wouldn't see which way the Pork went..."

Did I criticise the radical? No. However, the actual car that Phil drove was set up to smash the 'ring record, so you're wrong, again. Did I say it wasn't worthy? No. Wrong again my wee 205 driver. I think the record is a great milestone for the radical. my comment was that the two can't be compared. If you knew your pork from your Lamb, you may actually know which cars I am referring to, so again, go have a think, please ;-D. Oh, and as for the liberal application of sarcasm, you do read an awful lot into things don't you? I was suggesting you put your thinking cap on, and I still maintain that as an idea, that really does have some merit.