The Samurai Speed Nissan GT-R you see above (the one on the right) is a total bad ass. With over 600 horsepower and several other performance-enhancing tweaks, it can do a 10.5-second quarter mile run at a ridiculous 128.42 mph. Samurai Speed has obviously tested Nissan's notoriously finicky Launch Control over 100 times without a single hiccup... until now. The $20,000 tranny recently took a dirt nap on the drag strip with the cameras rolling, and we have video of the carnage after the jump.

You can't hear the tranny fail on account of the other GT-R at the line, but onlookers said the nuclear transmission sounded like a "bunch of metal dominoes in a line and Tiger Woods came by and hit them with his driver." Ouch. It's pretty obvious that Nissan won't be picking up the warranty tab for this GT-R, so Samurai Speed plans to beef up the transmission on its own dime in an effort to continue cranking out incredible times.

YouTube - Samurai Speed Breaks Their GT-R's Transmission!

 

when hearing it rev up then fall on it's face, made my laugh.

 

whooops. there goes another one.

 

"over a 100 times"
I'm impressed it lasted for that long actually.

 

Ouch, gone are the days of the bulletproof trannies of previous gtrs...

 

Whoops!

As long as the clutch is under $20,000, every GTR owner who has a busted tranny will buy it.

 

Haha that sounded expensive!

 

Props to them. They are the world record holder GTR 1/4 (10.53 @ 129) car with a stock tranny (which everybody incliding them know is a serious weak spot on the car). They were testing the limits of the car and found them here. From what I know of that group of guys in FL, they were looking forward to this day so they can improve upon it an make it better. These guys will be in the 9's in a GTR before anybody else in 09.

 

that sucks !!!!

 

that sounds pretty nice as well.