http://www.motivemag.com/pub/feature/events/Motive_Feature_RKSport_Supercharged_Hyundai_Genesis.shtml

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Part of that squeezing has to do with the supercharger design itself, and just as I start asking questions about that, project manager Mark Shirley joins us in the garage to see how the engine swap is coming along. (Hyundai's garage, by the way, is a car guy's dreamland of tools and lifts, and they apparently benchmark everything — this project Genesis is sitting between a Pontiac Solstice GXP and a Lexus IS-F.) I've been anxiously awaiting Mark's arrival because he's the first guy who can tell me the most important figure of the day — horsepower output. "About 440 at the engine or 385 at the wheels." Mark tells me, though I'm told later by PR guy Dan Bedore that Mark's number was conservative — the official output figure is 460 hp. The dyno run wasn't done at a high boost level out of fear of breaking something this close to SEMA.

But there's a second half to this day of reckoning, and Mark Shirley returns to do the duty of driving the car outside for a few test runs. (You've maybe seen evidence of this, as an Autoblog reader with a camera caught the guy getting gas.) We couldn't go along with Mark, but he returns with an impressive 4.9-second 0-60 time with the car running a conservative 11 pounds of boost. Tests with earlier prototypes and more road returned a quarter-mile time of 13.58 seconds at 108 mph. Still, the Hyundai guys aren't satisfied. "Needs summer tires," Dan Bedore tells me. "Plus, we can't push the car hard. Breaking it at this point would be a real bummer." Indeed it would be — call us after the show, Dan.

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[This message has been edited by 1agswitchin4lanes (edited 11/4/2008 10:52a).]

It's so refreshing to see V8, rear-wheel drive making a comeback. True drivers want rear-wheel drive.

quit tempting me

11 pounds is conservative? I can't wait to find out what the real numbers are.

Flaith is going to chime in at 11:43 and tell us he thinks this car is sweet.

wait for it...

Nice...

How did you do that, it's not even 11:43 yet...

sweet

magic

wichaaaa!

Nice!

Unless they're forging the internals, or changing the compression , I don't see them boosting too much higher on a stock Genesis engine.

jetch, I want pics of one of these all chrome-taped out...STAT!

when will piag appear and say we're being idiots?

when will piag appear and say we're being idiots?
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I never said you were idiots. All I said was, IMO, it was ghey to "brag" about your new toy, then come back a couple days later and announce it again that "look at me, I bought a new car", only in a different format "my wife stole it". I just thought it was a little tired and was busting your bal**.

Still not sure how I was "bragging", but if people talking about their cars is so bothersome to you, perhaps the auto forum isn't the best for your mental health.

I didn't feel like it was bragging. We (STS, Druggist, Myself and others) have been drooling over the new Genesis for a LONG time, and other than the ride and drive event, this was the closest thing we got to being able to check one out.

of course you were bragging, and there is nothing wrong with that, but like I said I thought it was a tad ghey to "re-brag".

BTW, this forum has answered quite a few questions for me. Only about 1% of the posts are the "hey, look what I just bought" type

i'd brag too if i just bought a nice new car.

however, his second thread was pointing out how his wife is taking his brand new car away from him. how the hell is that bragging??

his second thread was pointing out how his wife is taking his brand new car away from him. how the hell is that bragging??

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Let me know when its 450 at the rear wheels. If your going to spend all the money it takes to supercharge a car, you should at least shoot for that number. Don't get me wrong 385 would be fun, but not $6,000-$7,000 fun. Don't they have 375 at the crank stock, that's well over 300 at the wheels?

I think if they wanted to feed more boost to it, some forged internals were going to be needed.

Somebody awesome already pointed that out, 1ag.

How big is the motor, 11 psi isn't that conservative?

4.6L 32V DOHC V8

368 hp On 87 Octane, 375 on Premium.

Compression ratio?

You should be able to get way more than 385 rwhp on the stock internals with a 4.6L 32V V8. Whipple is getting a reliable 475 rwhp on a 4.6L 24v V8 in the mustang GT and that is not with forged internals. At 11 psi, that engine should be laying down at least 450rwhp.

dear santa,

please give me a supercharger for my v8 so that i may pwn this supercharged v8 in to the ground

sincerely,

flaith

10.4:1 but the S/C one is 9.1:1

9.1:1?

DAMN!

They're serious with that shyt!

Good on them.

I'd say, even without some forged internals, 11 wouldn't be a thing for that engine. Anything more, I'd want the security blanket of some forged bottom to get me through the 1/4 mile!

But, at that low of a compression, and with FI, you might be looking at needing some serious octane or massive knock retard. Although, slap on a $300 meth kit and WHAM! BYE!!!!!!!

[This message has been edited by BigRobSA (edited 11/6/2008 10:57a).]

OOps.

Should be 9.0:1 I also here theres supposed to be a 5.0L Direct Injected variant as a 2010.5 or 2011.