hennessey performance GT-R!!!!
 

http://www.hennesseyperformance.com/...ctionReq=Where

cant wait for the parts list and details! this will be awesome1!!

yeah, i'm curious too

i'll keep it in mind

anyone going to call them?

I'll definitely give them a call once I have my GTR in hand. By the way I was at the dealer preview for the NY auto show, and all i have to say is that I should of worn a diaper because I almost you know what. The car is beyond beautiful, when you sit in the drivers seat you feel like a Formula 1 driver.

Knowing what they do, I am sure we are going to see a 1k hp GTR in the future. Should be pretty crazy...and pricey

I'm sure we'll see people *****ing because they've sent him thousands of dollars gotten ripped off with boxes of junk parts and a car that has no more horsepower than a stock car. Hell, maybe even less.

why's that?

Research any Viper or SRT8 forum and you will
 

find countless of people that have had those experiences - lost thousands and thousands of $$$, worse performing vehicles, vehicles in the shop for months and months on end - it goes on and on. Some forums I have read, Hennessey himself posts and, well, how should I put it......... He's not earning any more customers from how he acts. I would NEVER send my hard earned $$ or any vehicle of mine to him - ever.

dang. thats good to know. im glad more than one person responded to that.

i guess he is only good for the one trick pony that is his showcase car. selling parts isnt his specialty.

This was what I found in about 5 minutes of looking
 

and trust me, there's a lot more out there. Just FYI - I wouldn't want to see anyone get their GT-R to turn around and get it ruined -

http://www.cherokeesrt8.com/forums/showthread.php?t=622
(he has since been banned from this forum)

http://www.viperalley.com/forum/anyt...tswingers.html
(disclaimer - there is some language)

http://www.forzacentral.com/forum/sh...ad.php?t=17015

http://www.300cforums.com/forums/gen...own-board.html
(very entertaining read)

that's too bad, but i guess reaffirms the points of these forums, as a wealth of knowledge.

and from knowledge comes power/security

Thanks for the heads up on "John Hennessey". Based solely on his own posts I will never purchase a part from him. I used to think highly of that name. Now I think of him as a criminal.....

-Nate

If you send your GTR to Hennessey, I will come over and kill you myself.

jeeze

Opinionated are we?;)

++111

same here
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DT-2

Just from what i read id like to know how he keeps in business with all of his raging rants because it is very unprofessional and nothing i would have ever expected after all of the magazines and etc. that i have seen his work featured in over the years...im just surprised that word hasnt spread around enough that everybody knows the way he truly is

In my opinion I think they are noticing
 

I don't think he receives as much press as he has in the past - word is getting around

oh alright thats good then

Thats easy, just go to viperalley and read his foul-mouthed posts.

I respect what he has done with the Vipers, but if he think hes God's gift to the tuner's world, he can eat $&*! and die. He talks crap about others without any basis at all. I cant stand him. :waglleybo

yeah the word is definately getting around on the forums but I meant that im just surprised that word hasnt spread around more outside of the forums

Oh oops, guess I didnt read it right!

Well there is really no way to tell. Everyone talks good things about em, and what can be more terrifying than an 8.4L big block with 2 hulking turbos and 4 digit dyno numbers?

As someone said, the mags still talk well about him.

I'm sure hes a good tuner, but too bad hes an ******* to boot!

haha yeah i guess i couldve made myself a little more clear but oh well...he is definately an excellent tuner cuz everything in the mags and everything else explains for itself with the numbers he puts up and how well they perform but then again im just going by what is said in articles and shows...theres a fine line though when it comes to being an ******* and being unprofessional about it

Wow, it seems Hennessey is getting a pretty bad wrap, I have heard alot of the stuff that has been going around and about all the drama in the past. We have done business with the guy since 98 and he has always delivered on time with much satisfaction. We had a 08 Viper shipped to him and come back to us with a 650RR package in less than a week. We are getting 2 GTR's and both are most likely going to Mr. Hennessey himself. You guys can say whatever you want but when it comes down to numbers he does hold the world record for the standing mile !! Even through this tuning drama you have to admit he knows how to tune a car.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2322/...3b370f.jpg?v=0http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2181/...d725bb.jpg?v=0

Well from what I understand is that he takes care of his Texas friends but outside of TX you are "fair game"

Good to hear some positive stuff...we look forward to see what they can do for the GTR!

any backup or examples of this?

I say wait for


http://www.haltech.com/

check it out.

They already ran an 11.1 at 124 mph with just an ECU and have not finished tuning it.

Wait a few weeks and they will release it.

“If you were out of state, man you were fair game,” said Kyle Kent, a former employee at Hennessey Motorsports. When an out-of-state car came in it was sometimes parted out, with the wheels, tires and whatever else looked good going to other cars waiting to be finished or sold outright, according to Kent and others inside Hennessey Motorsports. Then Hennessey would call the car’s owner and try to sell him an upgraded kit. If the customer balked, Hennessey would take parts from other cars in the shop, or just let the job sit.

This is from the second page of the Cherokee STR8 thread.
Here is the link

that really sucks, why difference in customer treatment? distance and you can't complain as easily to his face?

From what I've read on forums the guy is perfectly happy making baseless insults about anyone online, even admins. Others say that he is really nice in person until he gets your money. Then he uses your money to buy a home and doesn't finish the car.

that sucks, you hear so much about his cars and then find this stuff after idolizing his work for years

Hennessy is very expensive, and many people had negitave feedback about him. I had a friend who bought a JEEP SRT8 Turbo from Hennessy, and it was just a BS for the price he paid!! $27K for turbo kit...its for nothing!!
others tune/mod thier cars with less than $10K and their cars are faster than Hennessy JEEP SRT8. you may check at Cherokee forums.

I would not buy from him a single part. I would rather keep my GTR stock if he is the only one in the world to mod GTRs..

Plus since when he knows about GTRs? its just BS

lets wait a bit, and i am sure a good tuning shops will come back with many things for us.

those guys do good work, i've always been a fan. Can't wait to see what they come out with for the R35

Ok so my point exactly. What do I do if I want to make my GTR run faster - Hennessey, setting aside the rep, wants $37,000 to basically change the turbos, change injectors, add a mid pipe and exhuast system and reflash the ECM:confused:

How do you make these cars like 50hp better without spending 20% the value of the car?

I dyno'd mine made 400 and 400 3 times in a row