So i raced a 1160hp Skyline GT-R ... in my 155hp Skyline GTS

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Hehe, belongs to a fellow www.southernskylines.com member (check out this topic for pics from our last meet - 15 cars including four GT-R's) and pretty much done for the fun of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBZJFHtUcbs

He did a 10.6 (his best), and i did a 17.3 (my best - but best ever is 16.4 at a local event). By the time i crossed the halfway mark he'd been finished for about a second... :D

Rest of the vids, and pics etc from that event coming soon.
Results: http://www.southerndragways.co.nz/1320MaxMPHC.htm
 
not to be a prick, but 17.3 isnt all that fast for 115 hp, my old truck could do that all day long with only a new exhaust and throttle body, and it only had 115 hp. i think if you learn to launch your car the way i did (in the rain, light to light), you might beable to make that 16.4 a 16.0
 
There's no such thing as traction in Australia.

Seriously though, 10.60 @ 139 is saaaaaaad as well, but look at what it did! Spun the first hundred feet or so then hooked.
 
gibson
not to be a prick, but 17.3 isnt all that fast for 115 hp, my old truck could do that all day long with only a new exhaust and throttle body, and it only had 115 hp. i think if you learn to launch your car the way i did (in the rain, light to light), you might beable to make that 16.4 a 16.0
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Eh, where on earth did you get 115 hp from? The car is 155hp factory...
And the best the car has ever done is 16.1 on a well prepped drag strip by the previous owner. Both the times i've raced it haven't been on drag strips, got a 16.41 on a closed public road and the 17.3 above on a VERY slippery airport runway. That place is notorious for no traction.

And as for your launching pratice ideas; the car has no traction in the rain, so it would just sit there spinning. Just like it does in second and possibly third gears.

Rotary Junkie
There's no such thing as traction in Australia.

Seriously though, 10.60 @ 139 is saaaaaaad as well, but look at what it did! Spun the first hundred feet or so then hooked.
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Ummmmm, the racing was in New Zealand. South Island. Otago (Central). Alexandra. ;)
And forgot to mention that the GT-R was only running 20 pounds of boost instead of the normal 40 pounds. And he didn't use nitrous either, both because of a prob that popped up a few days earlier. And this used to be a hillclimb car, so has hard suspension.

Cano
10.60 with 1000+ hp?

Dang, you guys really need a well-prepped strip!
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Was an unused airport runway in the middle of nowhere. :)

Holdenhsvgtsr
Doubt it's 1160bhp looks like the same car here.
http://www.gtr.co.uk/forum/125167-10-6-140mph-i-need-suspension-help-please.html

owner claims 700kw with nos which would be around 938BHP.
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Ahhh, i never did my maths, just copied what everyone else was claiming as the HP figure. And that is the guy. :)
 
SkylineObsession
And as for your launching pratice ideas; the car has no traction in the rain, so it would just sit there spinning. Just like it does in second and possibly third gears.
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Haha, I have the same problem, my mother drove my car once when it rained and accidentally snaked it coming out of a street, I warned her but she wasn't paying attention (no harm done), can't really put my foot down in any gear.
 
Haha, yeah. :D My car also gets the back out quite easy even without accellerating around corners (got King springs and KYB shocks) because the suspension is reasonably firm, also helped by the big metal structural reinforcing thingy bar which rear seat passengers would have to put their feet on (will get a pic one day).
Its a mod i've never seen done to a road car before (bearing in mind i don't normally look inside a car for strut bar type things).
 

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