Nitromethane is pretty interesting stuff. When it’s mis-handled or inhaled, it can be extremely toxic - turning lips and skin blue as it displaces the oxygen in your veins. When it’s burned deep in the heart of an expertly blue-printed and balanced Switzer-built racing engine, however, nitromethane can be a wonderful thing. How wonderful? Try …
By now, some of you have probably checked out the amazing (and official) Chadbee photo gallery over at GTR Heritage covering the TX2K13. Having seen the coverage there and on the Revvolution website, you know that the Switzer-prepared “Red Katana” R1K-X GTR was at the event, and that the car ran strong - posting 3 …
When the Switzer Performance-tuned “Red Katana” R1K-X GTR broke cover for the first time last summer, it was an immediate sensation. With its two-tone paint job, beautifully appointed and quilted-leather interior, subtle (but effective) body mods, and window-rattling audio system, it should come as no surprise that the Red Katana got plenty of attention … …
Does this R1K look familiar? It should. This satin-black beauty was the very first 1000 HP R1K GTR development car, which we featured here, last August … and it’s headed to the TX2K13. With more than 1000 Switzer-trained horses making their way to this R1K GTR’s sticky tires, this car will be one of the …
Long-time followers of this blog will no-doubt recognize the car shown here as one of Switzer’s R911-spec Porsche 997.1s. In full-tilt boogie mode with the VP race fuel pumping through its 6-cylinder, twin-turbocharged heart, the R911 is easily capable of putting almost 950 horsepower to the ground through all four wheels, blitzing the 1/4-mile somewhere …
Yesterday, we brought you news about Boulder Nissan’s incredible, Switzer E1K-X GTR - an absolute beast of a 1300 AWHP track-day car built to take advantage of everything the R35 platform (and Switzer’s engine program) has to offer. There was something else, though, that we didn’t mention … because we didn’t notice it ourselves until …
When we started talking about which cars were heading down to this month’s TX2K13 event a few weeks ago, you had to know that the Boulder Nissan Switzer E1K GTR was going to show. If you missed this post highlighting the car’s build threads on GTR Heritage and GTR Life, however, you’d be forgiven for …
That? That’s just one of the Switzer Porsche development cars putting the dyno through its paces. That sort of thing has been happening a lot around here, lately, as those of you who have been paying attention to the bits and pieces of Switzer Porsche news updates that have been steadily leaking out of the …