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Originally Posted by knighty
Personally I would love to see it happen, Audi have several engine platforms which they could throw in at a moments notice and easy be ready for 2018:
GT3 based 5.2L V10 - 570bhp....probably a bit heavy, but the correct capacity for sure
DTM based 4.0L V8 - 500hp.....probably ideal, but lacking capacity compared to Caddys, but its ready
Or just throwing it out there, it would need to have Technology behind it for Audi to compete, so as a wild card I would say Audis new I5 cylinder 2.5L turbo.....it would sound truly epic....and bring back days of the Audi-IMSA cars driven by Walter-Stroll.....the sound, oh the sound.....I would crawl over broken glass to hear that motor - proper race motor.
turn the volume up and listen to this, start from about 2 minutes in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOkeGOJ_dHY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjiM-yIdYic |
dtm 4.0 would be required to push it to 9000rpm or more to get close to 600hp (dtm revs up to 7500rpm) and being an engine almost 15 years old, don't think has a great fuel milliage/efficiency (if memory helps me, audi v8 dtm engine is a reworked irl honda unit). Not great torque release too.
Huracan/R8 engine has DI and pushes over 600hp @ about 8500rpm. Of course, like gibson, it lacks of low end torque, but at least has shown to be very reliable in gt3 trim (that revs up to 8500rpm but about 520hp).
The wisest pick would be the 4.0 V8 twin turbo that powers bentley gt3... but (don't know if engines rules have been changed this fall) as far I know turbo V8 are not allowed in P class