On the occasion of our company's 40th anniversary in 2008: The Irmscher GT i40. V8 Power to be enjoyed

Irmscher constructs the GT for GourmeTs

It's the ingredients that make the difference! And here is the menu:
A 6,0l V8-engine with 480PS in an Opel GT-body for excellent driving performance.
Perfectly prepared and served à la maison.
For 40 now Irmscher has been providing proof of its competence in matters of vehicle construction and individualisation.
On the occasion of the company's 35th anniversary the most powerful and strongest of the Opel Vectras had caused a stir by reaching a speed of more than 300km/h. However, that which is emerging from the factory floors in Remshalden for the company's 40th anniversary is a vehicle for the true connoisseur: the Irmscher Opel GT i40. The figures in the model's number stand for the data of the company: Günther Irmscher senior started up in1968 in Winnenden with the first vehicle modifications. In the person of Günther Irmscher junior, the second generation is at the fore of the company in 2008 and is proof that 40 years of company history should be celebrated properly at this anniversary.
The Remshalden company is starting its anniversary with a world premiere in Geneva. Here, the GT will be making its first appearance and is sure to cause a stir at the company's stand in Hall 2.
V8-engine and a driving performance that puts it in the company of thoroughbred sports cars male the experts sit up and take notice and connoisseurs tingle with anticipation. As it is known that appearances also matter, the GT is optically enhanced by means of a discreet modification to the car body, and, on the interior with an exclusive leather fitting.
For desert, Irmscher serves the news that the vehicle is to be produced in a small series. The appropriate attention is being paid to this already. The menu therefore also exists in takeaway form.
The GT i40 currently stands in a long tradition of elect vehicles.V8-engines have always had an important role to play at Irmscher. In this line of history stand the Senator V8 and not least the successful races in the Omega V8 with the F1-driver Johnny Cecotto at the wheel, who was able to win the championship twice.
The models with the "i"".
Special models with the "i" in their name have always had their place in the company history. The GT i40 here lines up with a whole row of other vehicles, from the i120, i130, i200...via the i500 to the i35 which appeared for the company's 35th anniversary. At that time, a compressor helped enhance the performance of a V6-Motor. The result was the fastest Opel limousine in series production in the world. 5 years later it is a V8 that will cause a sensation in a Roadster.
All that remains to be said in conclusion is:

Dinner is served!

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Ever since Maximum Bob took the wraps off his Solstice gearheads nationwide, as they are wont to do, have been dreaming about shoving a V8 under the bonnet. Of course the fact that the right wheel drive Solstice is built off the C6's frame rails might have had something to do with that. Mallet Cars, Ltd. was the first to pull off this trick on a wide scale when they released their LS2 Solstice. Right, they crammed a 6.0-liter LS2 engine in the kinda small Solstice. They even got an LS7 engine to fit, but apparently you had to replace the rear tires every 500 miles. Iif you pay attention to the tuner world long enough you will learn one very important maxim: absolutely bonkers is never enough. With that in mind, Mallett is offering up the Pitbull Solstice.

Yeah, it still comes with the same 400hp Corvette mill, but the bulging fiberglass body panels widen the car substantially (4" up front, 5" out back) so you can bolt on your favorite mega-meats and lay sizzling 13-inch stripes all over creation. You can even have it in carbon-fiber. Too bad you'll have to be seen in it. And we doubt all that flub on the rear increases luggage capacity an iota. – Jonny Lieberman

Mallett's wide-body Pitbull Solstice with V8 power [motorauthority.com]

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We heard a rumor from somebody that Chuck Mallett was going to premiere an absolutely obscene GM Kappa-platform vehicle at SEMA. (Okay, we heard it from Chuck himself.) This isn't it. What it is is Stainless Steel Brakes' Michael Jonas' LS2-powered Solstice, fresh from Mallett's shop. With a claimed 0-60 time of 4.4 seconds, a shorty wheelbase, and a couple of hundred pounds over the front axle that weren't there when it was Ecotec equipped, Jonas comments, "It's a real handful to drive with all this power on such a short wheelbase. This car definitely isn't for the faint of heart." Knowing what we know, we're positively terrified at the prospect of what caliber of weapon Chuck'll be hauling out to Vegas.

2006 Pontiac Solstice - One For the Guys [Popular Hot Rodding]

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Skiny maneuvers the A6 Avant into proper takeoff position in San Diego.

Generally, when you wake up in the morning at a deluxo hotel in beautiful downtown San Diego and find out that your next destination is in the 909, your first inclination is to break out in hives, go into a seizure, mess yourself, and then put on a straight-brimmed baseball cap, take a hit off the glass dick, climb into a lifted Avalanche, get a slew of tribal tats and crank up any and every Fred Durst-related project you can get your hands on.

Dave Green (left) used to be pretty. Somehow we doubt Richard Rawlings ever was.

Instead, we had eggs that were quite good, drank a fair amount of coffee, and sat down at a table with a group of people, all of whom, except for Jennifer Nicole, had varying models of Motorola RAZRs. Ours was even admired for being "old school," despite the fact that we only bought it last fall. Emil's was gold, Keri's was pink, and Claus had one in some crazy dark finish we'd never seen before which is probably only available to owners of Brabus-tuned cars.

But much in the manner of ninjas during one or another of those Shogunates they had in Japan back in the time, we and our RAZRs would all soon be hurtling toward California Speedway in Fontana. Little did we know, but those of us in the black Audi A8L would also be headed toward our finest hour on the 2006 Bullrun.

The intersection was a madhouse. Danny Coyle was pulling mad donuts and block-long burnouts in the Mallett Corvette. Jen couldn't figure out which way to point the Audi until Emil pointed out to her that she'd be driving out over a curb. Skiny and Bret were about to enter a world of hurt and emerge unscathed, but with their time shattered. Emil was shooting back and forth like a shuttlecock. And Claus? Well, Claus kicked back with his feet up on the open door of his Brabus and made use of his RAZR. Peter Kolb was undoubtedly being more German than anyone else. In fact, we're starting to wonder if he'd actually shrunken the state of Bavaria down to pocket-size when nobody was looking and was carrying it in his pants, simply for added precision. A little extra Weissach never hurt anyone, after all. Except for James Dean.

And then, suddenly, we were off. And miraculously, we were really off. After blowing past Los Matadors on the 163, we didn't see anyone until we got onto the 15, blasting past Skiny and Haller in their A6 Avant. And then the crackle started on the radio. The heavy hitters were quickly moving up behind us. Tove Christensen. the Lehman-Haupt/Ferretti GT with Noah at the wheel. The Team Chris 911. And of course, Danny Coyle wheeling the Chuck Mallett 'Vette.

They blasted past us, with Danny the first to arrive, but not without Jen getting a crack in to Danny over the CB about how it felt to be behind a girl. More chatter, including some worrying news from the well-tuned scanners in the GT regarding Chippies searching for Bullrunners. And sure enough, not long after, the news came over the radio that Team Chris and the GT boys had been snagged. We attempted to get a shot as we drove by, but our imprecise Japanese camera did not allow us such a luxury. We knew we should've bought a Leica. Peter Kolb is no doubt laughing at us as we write this.

Then we flew past Chuck Mallett on the side of the road, refuelling the 'Vette, which only had a 66-mile range. Keri commented, "Watch, in five minutes, he'll come flying past us." Guess what? He did, doing well over a buck on the hard shoulder. Keri put out an APB to all Bullrunners within range, pointing out that in California, the hard shoulders are often filled with tire-and-air-dam-destroying detrius and that we all should be careful.

Meanwhile, just a few miles before we hit I-10, we got stuck in massive traffic. We're not quite sure how we got past Tove, but with the traffic locked in and the GT boys and Team Chris stuck behind us due to their run-in with law enforcement, we knew we had a real shot. Especially if Chuck and Danny ran out of gas again.

On the 10, we made good time, and on the offramp to the Speedway, Jen made use of her looks and got us up in the line. We drove carefully, as the fuzz tend to hang out around the entrance to the speedway, and then hauled ass to the staging area, where we pulled up third behind the Magnaflow RS4 and the Mallett Corvette. The RS4 guys had voluntarily disqualified themselves because they'd left 20 minutes earlier, due to the co-driver not feeling well, putting the nearly bone-stock A8L in behind the 900hp Corvette.

Which just goes to show that on the Bullrun, horsepower is far from everything.

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Pretty much anyone into late-model GM performance cars knows who Chuck Mallett is. Those people also know that Chuck builds random and radical development models to push technology as far as it can go. And then he pushes beyond that, with occasionally humorous results. This C6 was no different. Having had no problems with the stock 'Vette fuel tanks, Chuck utilized them in his massively-turboed, 400-inch Corvette. 900hp? No probalo, right? Click through for the probalos.

Chuck Mallett's attempt to flip the bird at CARB in San Diego. Think it worked?

Mallett claims the car will do around 220, and judging from the burnouts he left in San Diego (see the above pic for the aftermath), we've got no reason to disbelieve.

However, the 'Vette's got twin tanks. One of them failed, leaving Chuck and his co-driver Danny Coyle with only eight gallons of capacity, and since the sending unit for the gas gauge was in the dead tank, they had to listen for the sound of a stuttering fuel pump to know when it was time to pull over and dump more gas in via the lo-tech jerrycans they'd picked up along the way.

Chuck checks the fluids before the heroic blast from downtown San Diego to Fontucky

But here's the best part. On the way from San Diego to the California Speedway, with Danny at the wheel, the Mallett boys blasted past us while we were in the lead, followed by Noah Lehman-Haupt in the Ford GT and the Team Chris 911. There was crackle over the CB about serious police activity, but the relative stealth of the "Question Our Blackness and We'll Get All Stokely Carmichael on Your Ass" A8L kept us safe. Somehow, the Mallett boys ran the gauntlet, but Christian, Christopher, Noah and Rob got busted. Ironically, the Chrisses actually weren't speeding, and the officer who pulled them over in tandem with the GT (hit by another Chippie) didn't want to write them a ticket. But the guy who nailed the GT ordered him to write Team Chris a ticket.

A few miles later, we saw the yellow 'Vette on the side of the road, with Mallett pouring gas into the tank. Not five minutes later, the overhuffed Plastic Fantastic blasted past us on the hard shoulder doing well over a buck. We joked that we'd see them 500 feet from the entrance to the Speedway with the hood up (the only time the car's hood seemed to be down was when it was moving) and Chuck furiously praying for the laws of fluid dynamics to work at twice their normal speed.

Instead, we pulled in to see the ass end of a seriously fast C6. We were second. But y'know, after that performance, we didn't feel all that bad about it. Plus, Chuck's a good dude.

More on the Bullrun [Internal]

Sure, the Pontiac Solstice is an attractive roadster in bone-stock trim (um, where the heck its it already?), but its Miata-fighting Ecotec powertrain leaves us a little, er, clammy. That's why when we heard the boys at GM aftermarket juicer Mallett Cars was putting an LS2 into Pontiac's two-seater, we did a little victory dance (on the inside). The Mallett Solstice V8 made its debut at SEMA, and now it's on the cover of this week's print AutoWeek. According to AW, the Mallettization, which includes, at base, a 400hp Corvette mill, a Luk Gold clutch and short-throw shifter, Mallett-Penske shocks and performance-grade brakes, makes for "one monstrously fast little roadster." The base kit adds $18,000 to the price of the roadster (around $20,000), but a top-line package includes a supercharger (600hp total!), six-speed Tremec tranny, 19" alloys, a worked-over suspension and other goodies for an extra $39,000. It's a lot, but then, it's far less than the lukewarm BMW Z8 it resembles. Now, if Pontiac would go ahead and deliver the thing...

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Jalopnik has obtained Chuck and Lance Mallett's Christmas list for the Pontiac Solstice. You may know the Mallett boys from their blisteringly fast Corvettes and CTS-Vs, but prepare to love them a little more as they now offer an LS2 conversion for the small roadster. The full option and price list follows after the jump.

Mallett SolsticeV8 Performance Package - $18,000.00
400 HP LS2 V8 Engine (OEM GM LS2 Block)
Exclusive Mallett seat headrest and body ext. graphics
Mallett serial number plaque
Luk Gold Clutch
Non-Adjustable Mallett-Penske Shocks
Short Throw Shifter
High Performance Brake Pads
Stainless Steel Brake Lines
Show car detailing: interior and exterior
Professionally installed, tested and tuned
**Mallett 2 year / 24,000 mile warranty Emissions Legal**

Additional Options - Parts + Labor

19 inch Alloy Wheels and Tires (powdercoated, your choice of color) $ 4,800.00 + $ 150.00

Mallett-Penske Double Adjustable Shock Upgrade $ 1355.00 + $ 200.00

Coil-overs (requires Dbl. Adj. Shocks) $ 1,200.00 + $ 1000.00

Transmission and Differential Coolers $ 995.00 + $ 200.00

Stainless Steel High-Flow Exhaust $ 1,195.00 + $ 450.00

3.73 Limited Slip Differential $ 2,200.00 + $ 500.00

Heavy-Duty 4 Core Radiator $ 829.95 + $ 100.00

Available Fall 05:

Supercharger
Turbocharger
6 Speed Tremec Transmission (with 3 different gear-ratio options)

Mallett Cars

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