Motors Skyline gtr z-tune 500hp

The twin turbo c5 vette car and driver tested was the 650hp version not the 800hp fire breathing beast that went up against the RUF porsche.

The actual street legal lingenfelter uses regular tread, the one tested with the RUF used slicks as well as the RUF did. Its a known issue with corvettes that they have truble with grip due to street treads and because torque the motors produce. But now there is a new breed of slicks that are street legal is being sold in the US, These slicks have a single groove down the middle and meet tire regulations by a hair.

Nismo as far as I understand is a tuning company, I could be wrong

 

Nismo is a tuning company, but in not in the same sense as Lingenfelter. Nismo is owned (and run) by Nissan the company.
But's it's still possible to order parts from it, like you would from any other tuner.
It's best compared to Mercedes AMG, BMW M and so on and so forth

 

Yokohama have had 'legal slicks' (I think they're the A038R, developed for the Lotus 340R, but feel free to correct that) for years.

Nismo is the official performance and motorsports arm of Nissan.

Like Toyota has TRD (Toyota Racing Developments) and Subaru has STI (Subaru Tecnica International), Nissan has Nismo.

*n

 

it was the 800hp c5 that i was talking about, i know cuz im staring right at it. and i repeat it only did a 11.6 quarter mile

http://www.caranddriver.com/article.asp?section_id=15&article_id=8721&page_number=9

 

Thats certainly strange.
Acording to fast-autos and a old show I saw on super cars of the world that covered everything from the 60's to about 2002 (it was on the speed chanel and also was shown on tlc) the vette did do a under 9sec 1/4mile run on slicks. It was also tested to do above 200mph but never pushed completly.
http://www.fast-autos.net/lingenfelter/lingenfelter427tt.html

But I guess they could have been wrong. More power to ya as you got the text.

 

That could be all good and well, but diferent countrys have a diferent clasification of whats legal and whats not. I just recently heard about these street legal slicks as something new, but I supose they could have been legal for years.

Also I wana say that both the vette and the viper sufer from the same problem as they are RWD cars and have monster tourque at low rpm thus giving them problems with traction when launching as they just spin and spin and get nowere.

 

im gonna do something not typical of me and give more power to you with this http://www.lingenfelter.com/img/press/lpe - 8 sec Vette.mov

my only explanation is that this one is tuned for the quarter mile

by the way, i wasnt being a jerk before and holding out on you, i just found that after your post

 

Actualy thats a the same lpe and also car and driver states that the 427 7L motor is a 428 motor when lpe mentions nothing of boring the motor out. But yes the run you saw was on slicks and it only goes to show how tourqy those motors are if you can drop 2.5 seconds with better tread. And no its not tuned for the 1/4 mile as lpe tunes their cars for general track usage meaning that it is tuned for the 1/4mile but also for the circuit as the handling on the vette also got improvements from lpe. thats why they won against the higher HP porsche by RUF. The RUF porche produced a fiew more horses than the lpe vette but the lpe vette produced more tourque, the RUF if memory served rite was a special edition with 850hp, that made the exaust maniforld glow red hot on the dyno.

Anyway welcome to the forum as I noticed your new here.

 

enough said, end of disscusion

 

OHMYGOD That car is crazyyy... Look at the thing when it takes off, almost a wheelie

 

For a street legal car thats awsome but I have seen some prostreet setups that did rear bumper stand. If you wana check out some amazing stuff check out some of the eraly ramchargers setups. they were the inovators of dragracing shows, they also had 4000lb cars pop weelies and do pumper stands.

Here is a taste of what those guys did in the past.
http://www.diecast-collectible-cars.com/lm-images/h6150086.jpg

 

I must admit I always subscribed to the standard european belief that all american cars are poor handling - that is until last year when I took a road trip holiday acoss the USA. After that I realised how utterly different the two driving styles are. The USA has miles and miles of wide straight roads. Whats the point of having something that handles like an Elise when there arent any curves to go round? Its the same in the cities - everything is laid out in blocks so you can hardly go tearing round a 90 degree bend. Plus there is the distance to consider. If im going to drive several hundred miles in one day, I want to do it in a car that isnt going to fuse my spinal column together with its harsh ride.
I did 4600 miles in a Chevy Impala - and I was quite pleased with it. It drove nothing like my car back home, but the roads were nothing like back home so it all balanced out.
Although it was a bit of a culture shock turning onto a single road that was longer than my entire country "Bear left and stay straight for 400 miles" said the GPS hehe

Oh and that Skyline is sweet IMHO I'd buy one if I could afford it - meanwhile im looking for an Impreza.

 

Dude thats exactly how it is. You rode an impala witch is a decent car, but if you rode in a towncar or cadillac then you would have enjopyed the ride even more.

 

I also drive a ford Expidition when I was in Canada - and that was the worst, slowest, deadliest handling car I have ever driven

Oh and in January I was in Wisconsin driving a Pontiac Grand Prix in 4ft of snow - that was fun!

 

Z-Tuned Skyline GTR R34

First of all the Skyline GTR is an Amazing car!!!! I was reading some of the post in this thread and someone referred to is as rice….a Honda civic is rice …Rice is white and has no taste…you have to add salt or some other kind of seasoning to it to make it taste good unless you like bland food….just like the Honda Civic is a basic car that is not special …you have to add something to it to make it better..and even then its not that much better then when you started out with a stock one ……On the other hand the GTR is like a fine piece of meat …by itself it taste good and if you add some seasoning to it …it makes it that much better. The Skyline GTR is one of the Super Cars of Japan. The Corvette, Viper and Mustang GT are good cars but if you want a car that is made for speed and handles like a Champ then the GTR is your car…"Using the quarter-mile dash as a partial indicator, NISMO might be right. It's probably the quickest. Chat room disciples, you may proceed to whip each other into a foaming, flaming frenzy. Ah, you say, what about the Enzo? Slow. The McLaren F1? Fancy pants Hyundai Excel. Saleen S7R Twin Turbo, quickest car on the planet? Turdlike. If numbers whispered by NISMO staff in the halls of the Tokyo Auto Salon are to be believed, the Z-tune ran 0-400 meters (a little shorter than a quarter mile) in 10.06 seconds during development. That's more than 6/10 of a second faster than any production car ever tested. And this is no drag car." http://www.sportcompactcarweb.com/features/0505_scc_skyline/




Tear that McLaren poster off your wall. And the Enzo lithograph. And the Porsche calendar. Strip the Speed Racer sheets off your twin, mama's boy. There's a new king in town. BMW likes to think it makes "the ultimate driving machine," but NISMO, even more brazenly, titled its R34 GT-R Z-tune the "ultimate road-going car in the world

 

Well you could always fit a Z-Tune in the panel gaps of an American car in case you ever do find a corner

 

Very nice but I'd rather have a 350z And tune it to it's limits cause thats one very nice looking car! (Just been playing NFSU2!!)

 

The 350z (Fairlady Z) is also an awsome car and its not a honda its a real japanese sports car......my cousin has one and I like it ....but I don't think you can tune it as much as a GTR but it will do since we really can't get a Z-tuned grt let alone the normal one unless you have $100k to $170k sitting around to spend on a car .....I live in japan for 6 years so I was able to drive my friends GTR and see many on the roads and street races ..

 

Skyline gtr z-tune is sweet as, but i would rather buy a second had GTR for £30k-£35k and spend the rest on the engine, volk racing 19's and a nice kit with carbon rear wing

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

I agree with you ...here in the us you can get a r32 for around $25K to $30K ..and the r34 for $100k ...If I could I would buy one .....some day ...or If I ever move back to Japan I will buy one ..you can get them for a good price since they are made there.