SR8LM technical data

Performance
Max speed 179.8 miles/h (290 km/h)
0-100 km/h -
0-160 km/h -
0-200 km/h -
0-300 km/h -
Quarter mile -
0-100-0 mph -
Engine
Power 335 kw (449hp / 455 ps)
Torque Nm (- Lb-Ft)
Displacement 2.8 liters
Engine type V8
Engine location
General data
Gearbox
Drive
Mass 650 kilograms (1430 lbs)
Weight distribution -
Year of introduction
Home country England
Calculations
Power to Weight ratio 690.42 hp/tonne
Power per liter 120 kw/liter
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FL Rank Position - 1089/1387, 0 points
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Car submitted by Slonya

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Radical SR8LM

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Community comments (19)

Slonya 27/06/08, 01:58:12
The fastest car in the world!

Heyhuub 27/06/08, 09:45:17
uhmm, is this a street legal version?

Anonymous 27/06/08, 15:09:20
Not as quick as caparo t1 but quick enuff to make your pants brown

Kevin 30/06/08, 08:02:23
This is such a killer car. I have loved it forever. If the 363hp SR8 could lap Nurburgring in 6:55 what could a 455hp one do? Time warp!

Anonymous 30/06/08, 10:29:57
cars like this should only be able to compete at track days. its totally useless anywhere else and its stupid that it legal on roads..no offence to anybody

Slonya 30/06/08, 18:33:04
Yes, it's street legal. Radical SR8LM is much faster, than Caparo T1. Just compare track times of different cars on Bedford(EVO Mag) and Top Gear track. Radical SR3 Turbo faster than Caparo, but it isn't on Nurburgring. Caparo founders sad that Caparo's time on Nurburgring less than 7 minute, I think it's closer to truth. But Radical SR8LM much faster on Nurburgring too, Radical's time is about 6:30. Caparo has more power per weight, but it's very pure car - i think it's the reason. And Radical develops similar models more than 10 years.

Anonymous 30/06/08, 19:03:30
how how how is it faster than a caparo it has more power less weight lower 0-60 and a higher top speed just how...

Slonya 30/06/08, 19:22:50
To anonymous: 1. I think Radical's 0-60 is about 2.2-2.3, it's faster, but it isn't important. 2. Top speed isn't so important, because max speed in most tracks less than 290. 3. The important thing is that Radical's aerodynamics is much better. So radical has more downforce (it's one of the most important thing for timetrack), more stable, more reliabity. And Radical's handless is much better.

Anonymous 29/09/08, 02:03:53
caparo Will eat this.

Anonymous 06/10/08, 16:24:20
CAPARO is SLOWER at Bedford Than SR3 TURBO, this is much much more Faster. CAPARO is fast on the paper more than in the track

Slonya 06/10/08, 17:45:24
To anonymous: no, no, no Sr3 turbo was on track tyres (-5 sec) and on old bedford (-3 sec), so Caparo is 5 sec faster than sr3 turbo

Anonymous 28/10/08, 16:36:33
If the sr8lm is so much faster, why are the normal sr8's beating them in radical european masters???

steve_1979 28/10/08, 21:42:31
I wouldn't like to say which one will be the fastest as I think they will be very close. Caparo has more money and ex-F1 engineers but Radical has effectively been designing and evolving this car for 10 years. Mind you, Chaterham and Ariel are also developing 1000bhp per ton road legal race cars which might come close too. Radical SR8 LM, Caparo T1, Ariel Atom 500 V8 and the Chaterham RST-V8 Levante. Now that would make a great group test...

Slonya 31/10/08, 23:42:52
To anonymous: I think cause it's harder to drive maybe and it's new.
To steve_1979: Caparo has less money.
And Caterham and Atom have no chance because of aerodynamics.

steve_1979 02/11/08, 22:35:58
I read in EVO magazine that Caparo is a huge multi-national company with over 5000 staff and a £1,000,000,000 turnover. They own AP Racing, several alloy casting and composite companies, make engine blocks and brakes for Aston Martin, engines for NASCAR, brakes for Land Rover, racing yachts and even structures for buildings. I do hope that the SR8 is faster than the T1 though, apart from flying the flag for the small British car company it also looks really cool.

Slonya 10/11/08, 04:06:54
To steve_1979: Thanx for info. I really didn't know it.
But firstly radical works with another compamys.
Secondly it's business suicide to spend much money for caparo. 420000$*75=30.50000$ - maybe about 30-50% is profit - so about 10-15 million dollars to design. Maybe they want to be more famous,so they made Caparo T1, so maybe 50-70 million. Radical has spended more for their cars.

Slonya 10/11/08, 04:11:45
And as i understand Radical spend much more money than they can make so it's not so small company as it seems to be

Slonya 10/11/08, 04:29:00
No, i was wrong, it seems to be that radical don't works with another companys, but all the same...

steve_1979 12/11/08, 16:06:19
I think your right about Caparo building the T1 just to boost there profile rather than to make a profit.
Radical also has a sister company PowerTEC that builds their engines and other machanics. Thay have been doing well selling their products to other people in the racing industry.
I also think your right about the Caterham and Atom being slower because of inferior aerodynamics but I bet they wont be far behind.
Does anyone know if the SR8LM and T1 has ever been tested on the same track so that there lap times could to compared?

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