Turbocharged Ferrari Enzo to take on the Bonneville Flats

The Bonneville Speed Week in Utah attracts the daredevils of the world who bring their own super machines to hit incredible speeds thanks to 142 kilometres of flat dessert sand under them. The salt flats have played host to various successful land speed record attempts.

One Ferrari owner decided to give it a go with his V12-engined Ferrari Enzo. Now before you think that he’s bastardized this classic, you should know that his car was previously a wreck as he crashed it in a rally back in 2006.

Along with a new body from the one-off Pininfarina P4/5, Richard Losee has went the forced induction route. The car now makes 850hp, at boost levels of 11 to 12 lbs. He says boost levels could be taken up to 18 to 20 lbs which could produce a power output of a 1,000 horses.

Helping with the vehicle dynamics, the car has been lowered and fitted with slimmer tires. A new carbon fibre nose is also fitted as they found the old one wasn’t stable at speeds of above 362km/h. No official details have been released of its performance figures, but it’ll definitely be faster than the Enzo’s top speed of 364km/h.

We eagerly await to see what the results are!

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Jacob Alexander

Jacob Mathew Alexander has been a motoring nut for as far as he can remember and has recently turned his passion into writing. After spending some time in the same industry in the UK, Jacob's work is from a slightly different perspective.

 

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  • a6mar on Aug 19, 2010 at 5:49 pm

    cool!!

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  • crazyyy….

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  • Haw Teng Kar on Aug 19, 2010 at 6:15 pm

    Nice car.

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  • droll on Aug 19, 2010 at 6:17 pm

    huh? he raced an Enzo in a rally????????? offroad rally?!?!

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  • malaysia memang boleh on Aug 19, 2010 at 6:29 pm

    Hey,you should check out the kizashi too,a turbocharged one reach up to 337 km/h there.

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  • dukeKTM on Aug 19, 2010 at 6:40 pm

    Crazy…. doing that to the very2 limited Enzo… well its his car anyway… and has tonnes of money that can never finish I think…. :)

    Wonder if there is any Veyron owners that is still not sufficient with his ride performance… and end up souping up the already monster Veyron…. hmm…

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  • wonder wut the boost… hp… torque.. on dyno chart… me too…can wait to see da result!!!

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  • theanswer on Aug 19, 2010 at 7:11 pm

    crazy ppl with lots of money…the rim looks plain..aerodynamic?

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  • EVOXXX on Aug 19, 2010 at 9:14 pm

    Nice car n nice number…

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  • carsut on Aug 20, 2010 at 12:56 pm

    Bugatti Supersport already enter Guinness Book of Records with an average top speed of 431 km/h (267 mph). So whats the point of this Enzo trying to do??

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    • alpha0201 on Aug 21, 2010 at 12:34 pm

      This is different la. This is attempt of official land speed record. This car are made to go as quickly as possible in a straight line on salt flats which is difficult to achieve compare to tarmac run.

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