I wanna see a pic of it next to your 8.

 

hmm haha, i always wanted to see a skyline, saw my first one drove it, and wasnt impressed. a lot of hype
btw it was a gts wasnt a gtr.

 

Thats what we were actually discussing the other day. He had to of spent atleast 80 grand on it total at the minimum but he says he has sponsers blah blah I dont care. He's saying hes painting it now I donno. He's working on a 240 now and says when he has a chance to get up to his brothers place (where the skyline is) he'll snap some more shots for us.

 

Having spent a few years in Japan myself, I still don't get the big deal about this particular car. I like Japanese rides and have ridden in a few skylines but they feel a bit too much like a freight train (the same way I feel about American pony cars). They are very quick but to my UNREFINED way of thinking, they don't seem light and agile at all. Any they do look pretty plain in my opinion. Reminds me of the guys with the 8-10 sec civics, sure is it possible... but why?

Kane Tomlin
US Army Deep Sea Diver

 

well. i like skyline but only the R32. you have a very good point Kane. they are really not that of a big deal. In my opinion, they are the japanese version of american's muscle cars. They are heavy and huge and look like a box. This especially ture for 33 and 34 (very heavy car). Moreover, according to best motoring, skyline r34 v spec 2 lost in a 1/4 mile against the STi (can't remember which version and year).
so there you go.
above all, skyline has fake AWD system like most of it's power goes to the front when the car is not in control (yeah the super HICAS system). so to drift the skyline, you have to cut it and make it rear wheel drive or change the computer.

however, i still remain as a lover for the R32 GTR

 

My friend on my street has a 91 skyline GTR twin turbo I can tell when he is passing by my house cause I can hear the turbos kicking in when he shifts pssst pssst, sick car left my 8 in the dust without even thinking about it

 

I know the guy that has the yellow one around here, his parents are loaded beyond loaded, he bought it from japan and had it imported here in pieces so he could claim it as a "kit" car. That is how it's legal. All in all he told me it cost him about 70k for disassembly, importing, and all the stateside costs of putting it back together and all the different certs. he had to get.

 

Does he come to NYC often? I know someone around my neighborhood that has the exact same R33 GTR. I've been seeing quite a lot of Skylines lately around NYC...

 

I wouldn't think so because he told us he literally finished the car a few days before he showed us. That car would probably get damaged in the city with the citys roads the way they are.



P.S. He's coming this thursday I be sure to snap some nice photos with the 8. Maybe a little test drive too. I can't wait!

 

I think you've mixed up the Skyline's system with the Haldex system. The Skyline's system, ATTESA-ETS (and ATTESA-ETS Pro in the R33 and R34) has a 0:100 f:r split when conditions are good and can then send torque to the front axle when the rear wheels begin to slip (the Pro can also vary the torque split between the left and right rear wheels). One of the great advantages of this system is that you can power oversteer with it, if you so desired, but since most drifters have no intention of regaining traction once they start to slide, many will completely disable this system to make it easier to keep the wheels spinning. HICAS, on the other hand, has nothing to do with AWD but is instead a hydraulically controlled (in the earlier versions) or an electrically controlled (in the later, Super version) four wheel steering system.

The Haldex system does what you describe, which might be the source of confusion. It is 100:0 f:r torque split all of the time and then sends some of the power to the rear wheels. The Mazdaspeed 6 uses a similar system to this, where it can get up to 50% of the power to the rear wheels under certain conditions. I have read that there's no center differential in the Mazda (besides the one splitting the torque f:r) so this 50:50 f:r split cannot be maintained on turns. Does anyone know if this is true?

 

nice pic. but is it only in US where ppl get excited for r32-r34? i like skyline, but i rather have FC over gt-r. i guess maybe since i see them all the time once a year when i go visit family. its like mustang to me in US. to many ppl have gts-gtr. but op nice pic man. i hope i dont sound like im bashing the gtr. its really nice car.

this is the only Skyline i get excited about. I love hearing it go by, the engine sounds so sweet.

 

I saw one on the BQE but i couldn't chase it down (i was entering from the Manhattan bridge and it was flying down the left lane already). That was probably the skyline thats in my neighborhood. R33 GT-R blue with white VOLKs.

 

It is only in the US that people get that excited over the skyline, we had a similar thing here before they began to be imported in large #, people like exclusivity being the only one with one thats all, and the movies had help a bit

 

^Yep, it's exclusivity. Like how some FD owners go nuts for right hand drive version.

 

My rx-8 is right hand drive as well as my cosmo, when I tell people that Im goin to make the conversion to lefht hand drive, they go nuts, one went as far as insulting me, he told me that right hand cars handel better, that I was an ignorant