Hennessey Will Crank Your McLaren 600LT Up To 1001bhp
Straight-line performance was never the point of the 600LT. It’s best thought of as McLaren’s GT3 RS: this is a car that’s all about going as quickly around corners as possible, and if you want more go, well, perhaps you ought to look at the YouTube Drag Race King otherwise known as the 720S.
Alternatively, you could give Hennessey a ring, as the Texan tuner now has a having your cake and eating it solution, turning the already rather quick 600LT into an absolute monster.
The company has revealed a trio of tuning packages for the car, starting with the HPE700. This relies on the stock engine and turbochargers, using ECU tuning, a stainless steel exhaust, and high-flow air filters to uplift the 592bhp stock figure to 708bhp. The torque gain is even more impressive: with this option, it shoots up from 457lb ft to 635.
Go for the HPE800 pack, and that torque figure rises to 722lb ft, while the power jumps to 805bhp. It’s made possible via the same breathing modifications, as well as new intercoolers and unspecified modifications to the factory twin-turbo setup.
Or if you’re feeling particularly unhinged, there’s the HPE1000 kit, which will give you 1001bhp and 865lb ft of torque to play with. This includes all of the goodies from the HPE700/800 kits, plus a new set of turbochargers with stainless steel manifolds, a Motec engine management system, and a beefed-up gearbox.
It will cut the 0-60mph time from 2.8 to 2.1 seconds, while also making a 9.6-second quarter-mile time possible.
So, which will it be for you?
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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Tubular Bells starts playing in the background
(As in the theme from The Exorcist)
Kinda pointless TBH
McLarens are about pure technology and engineering, not brute power
But a combination is nice for Americans.
Correct. Which is exactly why we need a roadgoing soapbox car from mclaren.
All of the pure technology and engineering, none of that speed garbage.
i wouldnt leave my car with hennessey even if they paid me, scam artist…
Agreed. Too much bad rep
Just in case if your McLaren is too reliable, here’s a solution
I’d buy it if my McLaren had to many un-chopped parts
Why is their no tunner who thinks about a build that put reliability first ?? It’s always power power power
Because nobody drives these cars for many miles. Get in, hoon, get out, repeat a few times in the summer. Supercar power from “little” displacement with loads of boost just isn’t built to last. There are exceptions, but only that.
Overbuilding is expensive, but can be done at a cost. There’s a tuner of snowmobiles in Canada that can take your 1.1 liter Arctic Cat 2 cyl. and push 58psi of boost and ~560hp with antilag - and they have them going back five, six, seven years now without the engine being rebuilt at 500hp/L!
If I had the money, I”d like to build something to about 1000hp capability but only run 550-600hp max.
yeah man awesome car
It doesn’t really matter if it’s ‘reliable’ or not, because this wouldn’t be a daily driver, so I say hell yeah to 1,000 hp!