A 5,000 hp engine. And they fulfilled

We are tired of seeing races between countries such as United Arab Emirates or Saudi Arabia to see who has it bigger. The skyscraper, of course. Although we could talk about cities, Like Neomor of authentic pharaonic works that are still difficult to assimilate Like The Line. Or new buoyant businesses, Like data centers.

Herein diversification From the business of the oil countries, in this intention to sell to the world as leading nations in multiple sectors, the automobile market could not overlook either.

And how could it be otherwise, when a Dubaiti company got into the project to create its own car did not think of a simple, practical vehicle for the masses and cheap to produce. You had to think of a hypercoche. Bugatti? Koenigsegg? Who are those?

You had to create a car with power.

With a lot of power.

Were 5,000 CV enough?

An engine without wheels

More than a decade ago, a car focused all the looks of the Dubai Motor Show. His name was Devel Sixteen And his proposal was simplistic: becoming the most powerful car in the world. To do this, they said, they were clear that the recipe had to go through a gigantic engine.

Put to dream, why not dream about the largest: an engine of V16 and 12.3 liters and four gigantic turbos for Generate 5,000 CV of power. The promise is that the car could reach 560 km/h of peak speed. The project, back in 2013 it seemed so demential that it seemed impossible to comply.

Using 16 cylinders in a street vehicle is something that Bugatti had already used since 2005 with the launch of the Veyron. In this case Use a W16 engine. That is, it uses two V8 engines to add those 16 cylinders. And, however, the company reached consider the creation of a V18 engine. The project had to cancel because it was more realistic to “paste” two engines already known within the Volkswagen Group.

However, that Bugatti V18 aspired to put more than 600 hp on the street. To open the mouth in the new decade, Koenigsegg presented the Agera, a car that stayed “alone” in a V8 biturbo engine to fold with the number of the thousand power CV. The Ferrari Laferrarifor example, stayed at 800 hp of power in 2013 and already used an electrical system derived from formula 1.

That same year a completely unknown Dubaiti company arrived to say that a car was going to put a car with a 5,000 hp engine on the market was received Between the joke, the disbelief and the expectation of who trusted petrodollars.

Those petrodollars invested in paying the development of Steve Morris Engines, a specialist in preparing vehicles who just confessed that the car could have come to fruition. In fact, he confirmed that he did fulfill and that, at least, a 5,000 hp engine was seen that only the rest was missing. That is, a car up.

In it videoSteve Morris explains that he used the same formula as the Volkswagen Group. That is, project the union of two V8 engines of general Motors origin for which it created a specific ECU. With her, he says, he could have reached up to 6,000 hp of power, according to his calculations, but finally stayed in a more humble 5,076 hp.

And he knows the exact figure because, in fact, had to buy a specific power bank since I did not have the tools to be able maximum performance to such a beast. He tells everything with a table with a craft tree of huge size, which gives an idea of ​​how far such an experiment could have grown.

The problem, therefore, was not in the engine and that seemed the most crazy. The truth is that it makes sense because the great challenge should not be to develop the propeller, the problem is how to lower that power to the ground and make the car a practicable hyperdeportivo.

It is something that the companions of Motorpasion In 2021 when it was learned that the project continued. Now it seems that it is canceled or, at least, in pause. Not only is it to find the way to stuff such an engine in a car, you have to look for ways to transmit that power to the wheels Without everything jumping through the air and find the chassis rigid enough to tame the envy of it.

In addition, the latest releases of Bugatti and Koenigsegg that they have begun to glimpse that you can Break the 500 km/h border They have put on the table the need to find a formula for tires that can withstand such a power without compromising the safety of passengers.

Yeah, An engine of more than 5,000 hp was achieved For Devel Sixteen. It only remains to get ahead of a car.

Photo | Devel Sixteen

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