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02gzm
17-12-2009, 11:03 AM
This seems very interesting.


AS REPORTED LAST month, Honda had reportedly been exploring ways to slot a track-only version of its next generation NSX concept into Japan’s SuperGT racing series.

New reports today suggest that the Japan Automobile Federation has given the green light for Honda to sidestep the code’s homologation rules, which require each participating car to be available in a roadgoing form available to consumers.


According to US website Inside Line, a loophole in the SuperGT rules which allows cars that are production-ready but not ‘in production’ to compete was the key to Honda’s success in its bid to enter the NSX concept in the series.

Officially known as the Acura Advanced Sports Car Concept, the next generation NSX project was cancelled earlier this year when Honda President Takano Ito declared the carmaker would focus on front-wheel-drive platforms.


According to reports from Japan, the front-engined race car will be powered by a 3.4 litre V8 rather than the 5.0 litre V10 rumoured to motivate the cancelled production car.

The push to field a race-only version of the cancelled NSX successor is believed to be due to a SuperGT project that Honda had been running parallel to the development of the new NSX.

With new rules that will see mid-engined cars banned from the series, Honda would have been left without a car to race in the top GT500 SuperGT class in 2010.

Source (http://www.themotorreport.com.au/47450/new-honda-nsx-to-race-in-japans-supergt-series-thanks-to-legal-loophole/)

fasthonda
20-12-2009, 10:24 AM
I've also read that the 3.4 V8 produces over 600hp and revs up to 10,300rpm.It 's power will be limited to 500 hp if it enters the competition.
Very interesting.

02gzm
20-12-2009, 05:40 PM
Well round 1 starts in March so Honda have 2 and a bit months to get the car ready if it is going to happen. Hopefully they announce it officially soon.

van @ jdmst
22-12-2009, 02:46 PM
ffffffffffuuuuuuuuuu

http://www.themotorreport.com.au/47875/honda-nsx-hsv-10-gt-supergt-race-car-revealed-in-leaked-image/

Leaked image. HOT!

http://www.themotorreport.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/honda-nsx-hsv10-gt-supergt-racecar-01.jpg


HONDA’S 2010 SUPERGT entry has been revealed in the form of the HSV-10 GT, developed in parallel to the cancelled NSX supercar and now approved for competition next year.

burak213
22-12-2009, 03:22 PM
lol HSV??

fasthonda
22-12-2009, 05:38 PM
I'm still skeptical of the image.
It does look like the old NSX racer.
The engine is now supposed to located at the front for the 2010 Series.

d15z1SUX
22-12-2009, 08:56 PM
ffffffffffuuuuuuuuuu

http://www.themotorreport.com.au/47875/honda-nsx-hsv-10-gt-supergt-race-car-revealed-in-leaked-image/

Leaked image. HOT!

http://www.themotorreport.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/honda-nsx-hsv10-gt-supergt-racecar-01.jpg

mummyyyyyyyy i wet my pants!!!

blk_shadow
22-12-2009, 09:03 PM
I c, so this is why....

van @ jdmst
22-12-2009, 10:15 PM
mummyyyyyyyy i wet my pants!!!

You and me both!

jks24
24-12-2009, 11:19 AM
mmmm nsx, hopefully they get it ready by march

fasthonda
25-12-2009, 10:06 AM
Scroll down the page to have a look at the very short clips.
The second clip is my favourite.:)
Although heavily "disguised" with aero parts it makes the GTR look like a big Datsun:D



http://www.vtec.net/news/news-item?news_item_id=870726

^^v
26-12-2009, 08:13 PM
Scroll down the page to have a look at the very short clips.
The second clip is my favourite.:)
Although heavily "disguised" with aero parts it makes the GTR look like a big Datsun:D



http://www.vtec.net/news/news-item?news_item_id=870726

fark... F1 tone much...

drsilliez
26-12-2009, 08:20 PM
fark... F1 tone much...

yeap

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCqY-vAX4EA


i think this was posted on another thread here recently

HSV...honda sports velocity

SHOGUNOVDDRK
26-12-2009, 08:23 PM
hmmmm, FR nsx..

Ponder what the diffs are like

9large
27-12-2009, 11:51 AM
fark... F1 tone much...

The engine is apparently based on the HR09E - a 3.4L V8 used in their Formula Nippon cars - which is similar to those used in the IRL.

moo moo nel
02-01-2010, 01:25 PM
finally

burak213
02-01-2010, 03:53 PM
does the engine have vtec?