Another two liter screamer... :p

niky · Jul 19th, 2003, 11:00 PM

first, the Tommy Kaira (SR20) ZZ, and now, this!

it's rumored to have an SR in there, but i haven't found any engine bay shots... supposedly 180hp, so it might be an SR20VE... all i know is that it is a Nissan 2 liter.

so when do you think we're getting it?

Garaiya Page

Choopsticks · Jul 19th, 2003, 11:06 PM

The first words out of my mouth were holy shit. Um.. I think that's all I have to say for now.

niky · Jul 19th, 2003, 11:10 PM

by the way... that's front-engine... rear-wheel-drive...

be interesting to see how it compares to the tommy kaira and the lotus elise...

Psch91 · Jul 19th, 2003, 11:12 PM

When do I think were getting it? Uh, NEVER! Or it will be 115 hp!

But wow, that thing sure is unique and nice looking. It even looks fast standing still. It looks like some Top Secret stuff with the black color scheme and those looks. I would defenitely cop me one of those.

OmegaManEX · Jul 20th, 2003, 12:12 AM

umm ,... nissan? i see honda on their jackets .

front engine / RWD ? please explain the following pic (also from the same site):::

niky · Jul 20th, 2003, 12:18 AM

whoops... crappy low res-pic... thought that circle was a head light!

...but it definitely is a nissan... several websites have positively id'd it as a 1998cc Nissan engine, but nobody's saying what engine or variant it is... all pure speculation at this point... but i think if it were a honda engine, someone would have speculated B18 already... hard finding info on this in english!

sethwas · Jul 20th, 2003, 01:03 AM

BTW,
That is too tiny a car to ever be on this side of the atlantic. If it did come over it would be like the elise, for race track only.

Seth

Code13 · Jul 20th, 2003, 06:33 AM

It's a Sr20VE

Here's a link in English:
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babel...Ff5406b4641%2F

niky · Jul 20th, 2003, 10:02 AM

hmmmh... finally confirmed! thanks!... Lotus is doing some work (last i heard) on making the elise street-legal for the US... maybe the japanese will follow? unfortunately, the projected price of the Garaiya is around $35,000 (this is very preliminary, so don't flame me if it's wrong) versus around 25-27 thou for the Elise, so it's going to be a bit harder to sell...

Choopsticks · Jul 20th, 2003, 12:25 PM

Did anyone notice that in the 4th pic, the tires aren't touching the ground? Or i'm just going blind.

landlord · Jul 20th, 2003, 02:30 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Choopsticks
Did anyone notice that in the 4th pic, the tires aren't touching the ground? Or i'm just going blind.

UpChuck · Jul 20th, 2003, 05:42 PM

Its on page 125 of Aug. Car and Driver, too. Its called the ASL Garaiya RS-01.
"Powered by a mid mounted Nissan 2.0 liter four (remember the fast-revving engine in the Sentra SE-R?)....."

In english:

201 bhp @ 7K
155 lb-ft @ 5200
1750 lbs
6 Speed manual
1/4 14.0

It is NA so like what the site says its got to be a VE. So its not exactly "the fast-revving engine in the Sentra SE-R"

Straight from the magazine, for whatever its worth.

sr20dem0n · Jul 20th, 2003, 09:33 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Choopsticks
Did anyone notice that in the 4th pic, the tires aren't touching the ground? Or i'm just going blind.

yep it's cornering hard and the inside rear wheel is lifting off the ground. The stock spec-v does the same thing