The Tuatara's engine completed its final testing and validation earlier this month. SSC pushed the V8 to the limit in dyno testing in an effort to identify any weaknesses. It then rubbered the ...

The SSC Tuatara is motivated by a bonkers twin-turbocharged 5.9-liter V8 co-developed with Nelson Racing Engines. On a steady diet of E85 gasoline, the SSC Tuatara is pushing 1,750-horsepower to ...

You might not know much about SSC or its supercar, the Tuatara, but that doesn’t exactly matter. No, what matters is what powers the supercar—a 1750-hp V8 developed by Nelson Racing Engines.

The oiling system is dry sump design with a heavily baffled oil pan to enable the extreme track driving the Tuatara ... this development engine has survived so long, and why SSC has enough ...

The $1.9 million Tuatara has butterfly doors and a turbocharged V-8 engine. SSC says the model’s aerodynamic design was inspired by fighter jets and took more than a decade of research and ...

The SSC Tuatara has been a long time coming. The company unveiled the hypercar in concept guise more than seven years ago, but a series of financial issues put the project on ice. However, SSC ...

All they have to do is be brave enough to open the taps on its Nelson Racing Engines-sourced V8 and keep their foot in it. SSC Tuatara, SSC North America Nelson Racing Engines isn’t like other ...

SSC will indulge us with this massive engine’s specs at the official reveal of the Tuatara at Pebble Beach. Take note, however, that the original output figures of the SSC Tuatara prototypes ...

When we covered the SSC Tuatara back in 2011, the plan was to upsize the 6.4-liter twin-turbo V-8 engine it designed for the SSC Ultimate Aero, the Tuatara's predecessor, to 7.0 liters.

American supercar manufacturer SSC, formerly Shelby Supercars ... key assemblies that will feature in the Tuatara, namely, its 1,300-horsepower engine. The engine is a twin-turbocharged 7.0 ...