Highest BHP/Litre NA production car?

I think it's the Honda S2000 at 240bhp with only a 2000cc engine.

That's 120bhp/Litre.

Can anyone advance on that?

There's a few differant Hondas over the 100bhp/Litre mark.

 

Radical SR3? 173bhp 1.3 Bike engine???

 

Whats the top Spec Rx8 got 225bhp? that's only a 1.3 (does a w***el count?)

 

lol @ w***el in the swear filter.

 

I think that is similar as a BMW M3 CSL....360bhp 3.2 litres.....

 

Bike engines don't count and i don't think thats classed as a regular production car.

As for the RX8 it can't be equated to a regular piston engine so that doesn't count either.

 

ferrari f50 gt1- 159

caterham super 7- 125

other caterhams.........

 

Makes me think of a little story told to me by a CGTi member with a certain 2L 16v mk2 GTI....Kept side by side with an S2000 all the way up to 120MPH. When they had backed off & slowed down to a stop Honda man shouts across:

"WTF is in that??"

"2L 16v with a few tweaks!"

"I want it!! I cant believe it! Ive just paid 25K for this piece of sh1t & a mk2 Golf GTi is as fast!"

Honda man then drove off shaking his head

 

thats because the japs rely on you hitting 9000rpm every gear to wring its neck lol

 

What about the new V8 bike engines? Not 'bike engines' as they're not on a bike. Not sure about their 'production' qualities but Motopower Firehawk RST, 1979cc, 320+ bhp, that's over 160bhp/L

 

s2000:

250bhp - 1997cc = 125.2 bhp/l

 

Yes of course remember that the bhp quoted is the peak power and in the case of the vtec that means getting the revs up very high. Could easily believe a non-vtec engine could keep up with it if tuned correctly.

 

is that serious? what was the 2l 16v kicking out? the s2000 is a rev monster!

 

Caterham R500 Evo is 'only' 250bhp from 2L

 

Honda build the engines with the most bhp per litrre, have done for years

 

S2000 is ~237 not 250

 

anyone know how they extract that much?

 

no sorry.

You're all wrong

The answer clearly is a 1.2 nova wiv a sub and a (can't believe I'm about to use this "word") zorst....urgh.

at least 200 "brake" can be had from this engine, even more if the "zorst" diameter is more than 5 inches.

Sorry. back to reality I thought the Honda s2000 was the normal production road car king.

 

revs. and more revs. and then some more.

power is a product of torque and RPM. you can have a high power output with p1ss all torque if you can rev enough.
Edited by: darnold4

 

by getting it to rev to 9000, good flowing head, high compression, and race spec cam, same as everyone else does