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[QUOTE]Originally posted by duffman
"a HKS 100 shot turbo kit with a super charger"
what does the skyline have? a supercharger, turbo charger or nitrous?? it could have a supercharger and nitrous or a turbo charger and nitrous but i have never heard of all three, it would be way overkill and pretty pointless. [/QUOTE]
Let me shed a little light on this, seeing as I've spent an awful lot of time wrenching on Skylines (and driving them). Yes, real ones. No, I'm not kidding.
The Skyline GT-R (R32, R33, and R34) has a Nismo RB26DETT Twin Turbo engine (2.6 liter inline 6), followed by a Getrag 6-speed, and power is put to the ground through the Atessa/Hicas electro-hydraulic all-wheel drive. While you could put a nitrous kit on the car, there really isn't much point. The HKS part he is talking about is probably a large, single turbo setup. A large single turbo is FAR more effective in the Skyline than any nitrous shot. I can assure you the car does NOT have a supercharger. To say "100 shot turbo kit with a supercharger" is one of the most outlandish contradictions in terms I have ever heard.
While there are Skylines with HP numbers in the 1000-1200 range, I would be suprised if this car was there. You are talking $40,000 of performance work on TOP of the $70,000 price tag the R34 gets here in the US (you can get them in street-legal trim bone stock from MotoRex for about that, although we shipped ours straight from japan, not street legal at all but only cost about $35,000).
To say that it had "modified headers" doesn't make an awful lot of sense either. Its an inline engine, what he might have meant is that is has a custom exhaust manifold (to accomodate a large single turbo).
A Skyline's exhaust, while throaty and certainly unique (almost a "tinny" exhaust note, and exagerrated by the fact that it revs to over 8000rpm stock), is not at all the loudest exhaust you will ever hear. Virtually any american V8 with a flowmaster will produce twice the noise a Skyline will.
You do not "shift with your right foot" in any car, foreign or domestic. The pedals are placed exactly the same as any other car, right foot gas, left foot clutch, brake in the middle. You do shift with your left hand, which is disorienting at first, but really only takes a couple hours of driving in traffic to get used to.
I don't doubt that your friend has a Skyline, I've certainly spent an awful lot of time in, around, and under them myself, but the description makes almost no sense, and the numbers might be just a bit over stated. I'm not bashing you man, congrats on the car, they are wicked vehicles, but I just couldn't let some of that stuff slide.
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