Nissan Skyline
The great nissan skyline with its 2.5L engine was a great performance car, Turn up the boost on the turbo, add a bigger exhaust and a intercooler, and you have a fast car at very low costs.
Many people are now importing them as daily drivers for their speed and strength. The Nissan Skyline still is one of the most sort after cars on the modified car scence.
If you get the chance to drive one you will soon see why they are a great car to drive with power to boot!.
R31 Skyline the first of the R range, brought a lot of new technologies like the Apexi Power FC, and many features that were changed in later models.
The HR31 is the first of the Skylines, to come out with the RB-series engines.
The RB series engine is mostly talked about as the red top engine due to it’s tappet cover being red. Another first of the R31 was the 4-wheel steering system, named HICAS. The R31 model like the R33 Skyline were also available as a 4 door hardtop version but in the R31 these were called a Passage GT.
My Skyline has not been running great however it hasn’t been a pleasant experience all round, with day one seeing the clutch burnt out and yesterday I knocked off the side of the front bumper. Lucky for me from UPI was there to save the day, he got the clutch fixed and recons the front bumper wont be a problem
Yesterday was one of those days where I did not have much in the way of work to do. Therefore, I decided the car could do with a wash. Well here is a quality washed picture
The last post made in this section I explain that plans had already been made to remove that monstrous wing replacing it with a smaller M-Spec Skyline wing.
Well after seeing that big arse wing in the flesh I really like it and have decided to get it repaired. It?s a little cracked and needs a new paint job, you wont be able to tell from the below photo but trust me it does!
Cars always look different from a birds eye view I recon so we got on the roof to check out how the Nissan R33 looked from above. Well the car still looks nice and I think I might get in
Well here is one more photo taken last night, we were testing out those intense driving lights!
This single turbo engine, two door car was built from 1994 to 1997, with engines from the 2.5L to the 2.6L twin turbo on the GTR model. With a few changes on the turbo, intercooler and engine computer, this motor can just about double the horsepower. Its yet to be seen just how much horsepower, these motors can make in stock form but its close to 400rwhp.
Increasing the boost on the turbo, and a larger exhausts is the place to start on the standard R33 turbo.
But if your looking for more power, a larger turbo with steel wheels, and better fuel system will be needed. Right from the start, its better to add the whole package, eg: highflow turbo, intercooler, bigger injectors, Apexi power FC, 3 inch exhausts, a larger fuel pump and air intake.
There are many ways to extract even more awesome power from the RB-26DETT engine in your GT-R! We have access to high performance engine parts, turbos, intercoolers, exhaust systems, clutches, gearboxes, engine ECU’s. Also suspension, wheels and tyres, turbo timers, alarm systems.
Some vehicles are imported for use as “racing cars”, these do not have to be modified to meet ADR’s or fitted with a compliance plate. If you are intending to use your GT-R exclusivly for racing, it can still be imported and it will cost less than an ADR complied car.