Alpha 12 Heading Down Under

[Mick_o]

Wow!!!!! Very spoilt man indeed your GTR would make me very happy in the pants at the front possibly very brown and smelly in the back when that baby hits full noise! Extremely drool worthy!!!!!! Dont know if i added enough exclamation marks so heres few more

!!!!!!!!!!

[Munro]

Welcome to the AMG club.........Thats a mean looking machine.

That pipe is going to sound good, will have to put a louder one on my 6.2L so I can still hear my engine!

[MattR]

Welcome to the AMG club.........Thats a mean looking machine.

That pipe is going to sound good, will have to put a louder one on my 6.2L so I can still hear my engine!

when are you getting a G wagen munro??

[Munro]

Nah, Im happy with my E63 AMG.

Besides, I've got a new metallic black Land Drover Discovery 4 on 20s for towing duties. Martin just tuned it to around 640nm.

Seb has pretty much bought the craziest 4WD money can buy....................its going to look sick down Rundle St.

Dare you to get some mud on it.

[domino_z]

congrats on the g

i drove one last month (non-amg), along with a few other 4wds, but all were a bit too ott for me - i bought and sold an RR Vogue Supercharged within a few weeks because the body roll was really unnerving and had this weird driving position where i felt i was sliding forward out of the seat when braking and turning

i ended up going with a 12 FJ, surprisingly little body roll, and this way i wont be too upset when i hit the rocks and come away with bruises - first time doing the whole off -road thing

Edited February 15, 2012 by domino_z

[Martin Donnon]

Its in and ready to rock

[Martin Donnon]

Love tuning those Kompressor engines too, they respond nicely with a better intercooler setup, some more boost, and a full remap of the Bosch Motronic

[domino_z]

Vid of first start up

Surprised you're not going with a larger plenum

Edited February 15, 2012 by domino_z

[Martin Donnon]

Not sure if there are too many advantages to be had with a larger plenum domino

The jury is still out on that one with VR38. There are companies making them, but look for some hard data

(GTR manifold is a pretty nice thing out the box)

[SHOWOFFR32]

Omg!! I'll give you my 500rwkw R34 GTR, my dog, my missus AND my mum for this!!?

Swap? Hahaha

[drag-on silvia]

Must admit it is an epic car in the making... But to trade for a dog, big call :-p

Edited February 23, 2012 by drag-on silvia

[Ultimategtr]

Words simply cannot be used to express how great this is!

I got goosebumps when I saw that pic above ^ in the engine bay, looks stock!

I dont think theres anything on the roads that will be able to match or come close to it!

[MrBlonde]

The twin turbo conversion Lamborghinis can match or overmatch a hot rodded GTR .. but the price differential is on our side.

[evade]

What an awesome build..Always loved the AMS cars, and we have one here!

Re Lambos..theres a youtube vid of the AMS 12 GTR vs UR TT Gallardo ..which must be rediculous.

[alex182]

+1 for startup vid

[domino_z]

The twin turbo conversion Lamborghinis can match or overmatch a hot rodded GTR .. but the price differential is on our side.

reliability is on our side

Edited February 26, 2012 by domino_z

[MrBlonde]

reliability is on our side

Sam, agreed. From what I've seen on YouTube and US boards the Lambos are geared for 100-200 MPH runs etc whereas R3s are pretty much good at everything you could conceivably want from a street car: drag, circuit, street. Personally I am not interested in the flying mile type of events.

What intrigues me is the G6 tranny. I've never had a car with two pedals ...

Edited February 26, 2012 by MrBlonde

[Martin Donnon]

There should be an UGR TT Lambo in Australia to test against soon enough. Watch this space

[handbrake]

come on boys, the engines been in for 11 days, you must have something for us desperado's lol

[Martin Donnon]

Building the rest of the cars support systems around the engine at the moment Mark - god only knows you must know the feeling!

Carrying out centre exit exhaust system, twin mount rear vent coolers (trans/rear diff), secondary front mount oil cooler

Triple pump fuel system, all new lines, transmission bracing, front differential bracing, the list goes on.

Turning the key on it and tuning it should be the simplest part of the equation.