Salaam bros, thought you guys might like to see this, it’s a Ferrari 550 Maranello tuned by the famous Garage Saurus (famous skyline tuners in Japan)
Tuners of the famous Garage Saurus GTR
Here’s the history behind the car
Narutoshi Hayashi is one of the most respected tuners in Japan. His shop, Garage Saurus has built some of the craziest machinery to terrorize the streets, drag strips and road courses of Japan. No matter what racing discipline in which his cars have participated, they were always victorious. He’s a Skyline GT-R man through and through, but last year he decided to embark on a slightly different project, something that would have the Garage Saurus treatment applied to a non-Japanese car. Enter the indomitable Ferrari 550 Maranello you see here.
Hayashi was approached by the owner of the 550, who got fed up at the lack of tuneup parts for Maranello’s V12 flagship (this was before the 599 GTB was announced). He concluded that his only option was to go the custom route, so he sent his pride and joy all the way to Japan, from his home in Jakarta, Indonesia. Hayashi was instructed to “go crazy with the car.” The owner wanted the first and only twin-turbo 550 on the planet. A target of 800 hp to 900 hp was set, but the most important factor was to keep the car driveable as it was to remain a primarily street-oriented ride.
So the work began. The engine was stripped and parts examined to see what components needed to be upgraded to take the additional stresses that forced induction would bring to the equation. Upon close examination, Hayashi concluded that the Maranello’s 5.4-liter V12 was a tough old motor and needed only a few upgrades to be ready for the turbo treatment. He contacted OS Giken, one of Japan’s better-known engine component specialists, to have custom parts made.
OS Giken accepted the challenge and built extremely tough cylinder liners and a set of forged lightweight pistons. To assure the best possible performance under the harshest conditions, it was also deemed necessary to upgrade the gears of the dry-sump oil pump. The engine was further sealed up with tough metal head gaskets and finished with custom camshafts.
Then the work of fabricating the headers and various piping began. The two HKS turbo-chargers would be mounted between the banks and wheel arches, while the HKS GT wastegates and their atmosphere-venting screamer pipes were snugly positioned below the headers. ARC fabricated the twin-entry aluminum intercooler and the titanium exhaust system.
It was a tough job, but Garage Saurus did an amazing conversion from both an aesthetic and a mechanical point of view. In fact, the finished engine bay looks so clean it could have rolled off the factory production line at Maranello.
Next up was the driveline. OS Giken stepped in again with a custom-made triple-plate clutch, an item designed to take in excess of 1000 hp and the brutal torque this twin-turbo V12 would generate. The transaxle-type gearbox was taken apart and fitted with a rugged limited-slip differential, again built by OS Giken.
The final step was the creation of a full body kit to give the 550 that FIA GT race car look. Then the car was shipped off to Jakarta, where the owner was more than impressed with it. In fact, he has gotten so used to the power, he wants to up the boost and shoot for a bunch more ponies!
For those not interested in forced induction, Garage Saurus has just put the finishing touches on another 550 Maranello. We went to see the first run of this new car at Fuji Speedway, where it was rocketing around the Formula One circuit with amazing speed.
The not-so-extreme series of modifications includes a custom intake system with cone filters, cooling upgrades in the way of a larger radiator and oil cooler, full exhaust system, the aforementioned OS Giken clutch and diff, and a racing suspension kit.
It is great to see such a well-established shop go out of its usual area of expertise and build something so unique. Best of all, as Hayashi says, is how “damn good” the twin-turbo car turned out. It is apparently “so easy to drive, you can use it to go grocery shopping!”
Pictures to come"
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