The 2010 Nissan GT-R, now with...

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RE: Video... it's quite clearly stated in the previous manuals that turning the VDC off is for off-road use only, for rocking the car out of mud. The issue is that turning it off for drag-launches allows too much wheel hop, thus, destroying delicate parts of the transmission, as the shock of having no resistance - full resistance - no resistance as the wheels bounce up and down while huge amounts of torque go through them is too much for the gears.

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the things is with the gt-r the engine and transmission are hand built so if you got a transmission from a different gt-r it would not work so i think nissan have to take it bck to the factory too build a new transmission so 20k is not that bad in comparison
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yeah... they hand-sculpt the molds and break them after every casting... just like they did in the middle ages. Stupid Nissan. :lol:

but they should inform customers if they abuse the lc that it will void the warranty i no if they turn the traction control off the warranty is then void
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Just like every other high-powered sportscar in the world.

Drag-launching a manual transmission lamborghini just a few times costs you a $15,000 clutch.

A dozen launches on a mid-engined automated manual Ferrari with the European launch control will destroy the transmission, which costs more than that.

Heck, even on Top Gear... just one afternoon on the salt flats saw Jeremy Clarkson strip a synchro on the new supercharged Corvette. And tales of broken differentials on drag-raced Corvettes abound.

Put into that perspective, a $20,000 bill for replacing a GT-R transmission every 50-100 launches done with the VDC off (which the manual tells you not to mess around with) doesn't seem so bad, now, does it?

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As for journos being sued... a tester may tell you a car can do over 1g on the skidpad, hit speeds of up to 200 mph and etcetera... but if you break something doing so, it's your own problem. Caveat emptor. That's why it's nice reading non-mainstream titles like Evo/Performance Car/Motor or tuning/racing titles like Sport Compact Car / Grassroots Motorsports and the like... they'll come out in the open and tell you... if you flog it, you might just break it... no matter what kind of car it is.
 
No I think that was the initial rumour that all 2009+ GTR's wern't going to have it, instead Nissan revised their LC.

I think Nissan should but a warning on the multifunction display when people turn off VDC, warning them not to launch with excess revs. Especially considering now with the 2010 spec it can do 3.3 0-60 without VDC off and a 4500rpm VDC off launch does nothing extra but possibly damage drivetrain.
 
Yeah, a warning would be good... actually... should be standard.

Though that's usually what the flashing orange triangle with the exclamation point is for (most cars have this display set to stay on continuously if you deactivate traction/stability control)... though it's so commonplace now that people probably take it for granted.
 
Launch Control damaged the tranny over time, everyone claims after 100 launches, so i'm not suprised they're taking it off. It actually made it faster around the ring, closing the gap between it and the ZR-1.
 
They're not taking it off, infact you can do a 3000rpm launch (3.3 second 0-60 capable) with VDC still on.
 

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