This SEAT Arosa Mk2 was built by Darkside Developments in Barnsley, United Kingdom. Under the hood sits a 2.0 L 16v turbo diesel inline-four built by Darkside that makes 406 horsepower and 500 lb-ft of torque or 528 horsepower and 680 lb-ft of torque with nitrous. The engine features modified stock pistons, Rosten H-beam rods, ported head, race camshafts, custom intake and manifold, 2000 bar injectors, Darkside GTD2872VR turbocharger, and Revo direct port nitrous system. Power goes to the wheels through a billet flywheel, sintered clutch, built 02M six-speed transmission with a Quaife LSD, and custom driveshafts. The car reaches 0-60 mph in 2.26 sec, a quarter-mile in 10.49 sec at 130.27 mph or 9.722 sec at 146.74 mph on nitrous, and reached 164.031 mph in the half-mile on 30% nitrous. For more specs on the car please visit the project’s homepage.
Source: Darkside Developments, Mk1Kieran, and VeeDubRacing
Nitrous is for cheaters.
Zedd your stupid and or ignorant hot take is stupid and or ignorant.
What the fuck are you even talking about?
Who and what is being cheated? How? Using a chemical compound to introduce more oxygen into the cylinders as opposed to a compressor? That’s cheating? Yeah ok.
The USER is cheating themselves. Any dipsht can spray nitrous at an engine and make huge power for a short time. It takes SKILL to make power legitimately.
That’s the most asinine thing I’ve heard in a long time.
So I suppose turbo and superchargers are cheating too. Same concept…
Yes, you are retarded.
LOL. I once thought the same thing about turbos. The bottom line is all this stuff is available to anyone who wants it. Additionally, it takes skill to build a motor that can stand up to the abuse.
Give credit where it’s due. This car is a tiny monster.
Turbos and superchargers take skill, time and money to install and tune. Any idiot can throw a bottle of nitrous at an engine and give it 100+hp boost for a few seconds.
Ever heard of nitrous backfire? I’d like to see someone do a 400 shot on a lawnmower. Sorry, there’s no ‘idiot award’ in Oscar. A for effort though.
Zedd is right. If it was only diesel + turbo then …may be OK, but personally, i dislike very much that smoke. That’s really “Dark side” shit. That’s too much polution for ANY race car.