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Originally Posted by TexasF355F1
You get a Ferrari, which has a strong racing history and heritage. An S7 will not rip an Enzo apart. Look at the stats. 0-60 times do not mean shit on the track. The enzo handles far better on the track. Besides if you wanna talk overpriced...who wants to put down 450K for what's basically a Ford. With a design that has aspects from all previous supercars.
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Well, the Saleen S7 has won nearly 40 races around the world, but the Enzo-based Maserati MC12 has won several races since 2004. Ferrari isn't into sports car racing like they used to be. Saleen Mustangs have won sports car races, but obviously not to the level of even recent Ferraris 550s/575s.
The Saleen S7 was an all-new design. A 1,000 hp Saleen S7 Twin Turbo is now available from the factory.
Road & Track June 2003:
As the factory tour continues, it starts to become obvious why the S7 costs as much as it does. Billy Tally, Saleen's enthusiastic vice president of engineering, holds up a front suspension upright that's been CNC-machined from a solid aluminum billet, its elegant latticework of openings designed to admit cooling air to the brakes. It's one of hundreds of like-machined parts that are hand-assembled, welded and jigged up on the premises. Only the immaculately done carbon-fiber bodywork is done off-site, though it's painted in Saleen's booth. Saleen admits that the English Midlands is the epicenter for this work: "The weave pattern is better-looking, it's lighter, and it's stronger."
We move to engine final assembly, where Steve clears up the misconception that the 7.0-liter V-8 is Ford-based. The aluminum block is a Saleen-exclusive lightweight casting that has small-block external dimensions with big-block capacity. "I did borrow Ford bore centers so I didn't have to reinvent head gaskets and some other bracketry," explains Steve. Tally points with obvious pride to an S7 cylinder head and pokes a finger in the gaping ports, the exhaust valve seats done in beryllium. "It has the best heat conductivity of just about any metal on the planet," he says, adding that with ultra-precise computer machining of both ports and combustion chambers, most heads are within 0.5 percent of one another on the flow bench.
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Saleen S7 and S7R