Travisty!

I saw somthing yesterday that was the most horrid thing I've ever seen on a car.

Me and my friend were out driving around in his WRX when this old body style 5.0 mustang pulls alongside us. I glance over to see a huge tach sitting on the dash, usuall bad tint job. A mile or so goes by and I glance over agian for some reason when somthing catches my eye. Looking closer I see, below his driver's side view mirror, a GTR symbol! Wtf I'm thinking:confused: So I roll down my window and ask the guy at the next stoplight "Did you know you have a GTR badge on your car?"

Him:"Yes"

Me:"Umm... You did know that Nissan makes those right?"

Light turns green, wonderfull smartassed conversation cut short :(

I donno, it kidna pissed me off though:devil:

NNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

He's dreaming of what he should have bought or would buy if he could afford it.
Instead he drives round in a pushrod, carby, 2 tonne brick.

I like my push rod, EFI, two ton brick(actually 3196lbs), but unlike him am not goin to put a GTR badge on my Mustang. I'll have one on my R33 GTR:D

When are you getting yours, CA31_JR?

That really is a Travisty, I will give you that.

I have seen Civics, Sentras, Sunbirds, and Camaros with them as well. At least the sentra is a Nissan:D

Originally posted by SkylineUSA
That really is a Travisty, I will give you that.

I have seen Civics, Sentras, Sunbirds, and Camaros with them as well. At least the sentra is a Nissan:D

For real, Civics and the like are one thing, but on a Stang... Its two opposite ends of the spectrum! You don't get much different then a Mustang and a GTR. 'Cept mby a lotus 340R and a Viper :D

So as long as its stays RICE, it OK?

Ya, Civics are very close to GTRs in performance.:)

Drifting a GTR would be cool but too much liek hard work... :)

I don't think a GTR badge would look very good on the Cefiro though.

You would need a torque splitter to get it to work. I have never seen a GTR do it, has anyone?

GTRs like to drift too :) It really just takes a big set of balls and some skill as you have to keep the pedel more planted then your brain wants you to. It's the whole thing of watching the tree come up on your driver's side window knowing ATTESSA will figure it all out and get you some traction when you need it.

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R32s Drifting (http://www.club4ag.com/videos/Club4ag%20R32%20Drift.avi)

Hey Gonthrax,

I figure since the front wheels want to go into drive when the rear start to spin, you would have to need the splitter. Like an other car, just need some seat time to figure it out.

Just would like to add, I went through Bowling Green last weekend, very nice place you live in. I even walked into, ahm, ahm, The Corvette Museum.

The 4WD Skylines drift alright (just ask Darkness, who has an R32 GTS4). You just need bigger balls and more speed (or a wet surface) than you do with RWD :D :devil:

GTRs drift! I have seen some awesome drifting R32 on the net! And during JGTC last year, some drifted (a bit) although I think it was unintentional!
It's correct. Drifting in a GTR needs lotsa balls! I am still trying a full blown drift in mine. Right now I could do a bit but gimme another 5 or so track days and I think I would be able to do a decent one! Hopefully!:) Yeah...keep the right foot planted....thta's the advice!:devil:

I don't know a thing about drifting an AWD GTR. I do know about mustangs with GTR symbols on them. There is at least one, maybe two out here with them. First one I saw was at a movie theater. could have sworn it was white. It had a billit grill w/GTR dead center, and again on the fenders. I almost died laughing. Saw a second one (mayeb the same one?) at a body shop, only this was red. Got pics somewhere. Again, much laughing. This was a '99 or 2000, so it was an OHC two ton brick.

Originally posted by DreamsofaCobra
I almost died laughing. Saw a second one (mayeb the same one?) at a body shop, only this was red. Got pics somewhere. Again, much laughing. This was a '99 or 2000, so it was an OHC two ton brick.

Yup, me and my friend died laughing too :D :D


And like R33 and Moon said, you can drift a GTR. Apparently they argee with the original assesment that very large balls are needed:cool: I guess you just have to get it real sideways and smoke the rear wheels and let the fronts pull you in the right direction...

It was easier with the R32s because you could just pull the fuse on the ATTESSA system and go to RWD. I seem to remember someone telling me they installed a switch to it so if they wanted a little sideways fun, just flip the switch.

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SkyUSA: Glad you enjoyed your visit to BG, did you stop by the Vette Plant too? Its rather interesting :)

Unfortinatly for me there isn't much of a car scene here, aside from a few Mustang/'Marrow/Trans Am guys around here, so my tastes don't go along with theirs much :( They arn't open minded mustang owners like you, they stay in keeping with the stereotype 'stang owner. "Screw that little rice burner, I don't care if its got them turbo charger thangs, it's only got an inline 6, I gotta V8!"

"But Billy Bob... It has big turbos... And 600 Horses... At all 4 wheels..."

"Its 4 wheel drive? Like them wagons Crocodile Dundee makes adds for?"

"No... Not like them wagons Crocodile Dundee makes adds... Nevermind:finger: "

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA that last conversation is really funny man....

As afr as I know the 33 could also be turned into RWD only. Remove the fuse and the front shaft at the transfer cage. 5 min job but the car must be lifted. Alternatively, install the HKS ETC (like I did) and preset it to RWD. Did it once for burnout...absolutely boinking good!:D

Originally posted by R33
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA that last conversation is really funny man....

As afr as I know the 33 could also be turned into RWD only. Remove the fuse and the front shaft at the transfer cage. 5 min job but the car must be lifted. Alternatively, install the HKS ETC (like I did) and preset it to RWD. Did it once for burnout...absolutely boinking good!:D

Mmm, didn't know the 33 was like that, I wonder if it can be done with the R34? Or if you need the HKS bit?

Am not too sure about the 34 though! But on my 33, it has been done a couple of times.

I've seen some video footage and photos of GTr's drifting. Definitately a sight to behold....

:bandit:

CA31,

I would like to behold. Can you post them?

The video footage I saw was in the video High performance Imports Volume 2, I need to double check this to be 100% certain though...

The photos were in a magazine. I'll try to scan them on the weekend and then post them.

There are some Skyline videos here:
http://skylynr.tripod.com/skylinegtr/id6.html
the drift one is not the best though...

Cool site, never been there.

That would rock if you could scan those babies in and post em.

I found the article. It's an R32 GTR with some funky paint. I'm upgrading my PC this weekend so I'll be able to use my scanner after that (major computer woes...)

Basically though it is 4WD with a centre diff control module which doesn't allow more than 10% of power through the front wheels....

The R32's "primitive" version of ATTESSA allows more sliding than later GT-Rs. A lot of people don't like it. It's one of the reasons the R32 is my favorite. Yes, pulling a fuse on the R32 will put ATTESSA to sleep. Same deal on the R34. The R33 does force you to remove the driveshaft for a dyno run (unless you have a AWD dyno). I have not actually seen a GT-R drift (plenty of powerslides, but no actualy drifting), but I'll bet you could do it. The general rule with the GT-R is, do what you want to do, trust the car, and it will intervene only if needed. I'll bet a lot of these modded GT-Rs could drift pretty easily. It doesn't really matter if you divide 1000 hp between 4 wheels, does it?

Originally posted by Holyterror
I have not actually seen a GT-R drift (plenty of powerslides, but no actualy drifting), but I'll bet you could do it. The general rule with the GT-R is, do what you want to do, trust the car, and it will intervene only if needed. I'll bet a lot of these modded GT-Rs could drift pretty easily. It doesn't really matter if you divide 1000 hp between 4 wheels, does it?

Aye, you can drift any AWD vehicle it just takes a little different style. I was talking to heep, he said there is a Legecy that does 4 wheel drifts on a roundabout on campus like every day. I managed to hold a little drift in a wet parking lot in a WRX the other day too :D

That should be fun Gonthrax......:bandit:

Originally posted by R33
That should be fun Gonthrax......:bandit:

It was :D I've found a word for how the WRX drives, it scampers :p 'specialy on launches:rolleyes:

Here are the pictures I said I would post...
It's from the High Performance Imports magazine volume 20.
:bandit:

here's the first one...

I've posted them to a website instead... You can see them at:
http://www4.tpgi.com.au/wmoore/gtrdrift.htm

You da Man!:D

Did you guys notice the paint job on that R32? Its a Mustang color, Mystic Cobra, BASF color. If its not, its really close.

Hey, I just call it like I see it:D

nope - it's a custome flipping paint, with a fancy flake-thingy going on as well. It hasn't come out well in the magazine pictures, but if you see video footage of it in the sun.........

Have you seen a Mystic? Check it out;)

http://www.dinotheo.com/car.htm

The magazine pictures show it ok, but it seems to get lost in the translation from hardcopy to softcopy....
The paint is PPG green to violet colour-flip with metallic flakes of red, blue and yellow to give a rainbow effect. (That's what it says on page 3 of the article...)

That Mystic effect is what we seem to be calling colour-flip. One of my mates raced a V8 Commodore with this paint. Talk about expensive to reapir when your in a crash :D

Like I said it is very close. The Mystic is a BASF made in the mid 90's, PPG basicaly copied it. I spray PPG, and plan on using their coy on my wife's Jag.

If a Mystic would get into an accident, they would fly over the paint from Europe with one of their body men to fix the cars. Every drop would be accountable for. Looks like PPG made a very good copy.

So what your really saying is that if we think the PPG paint is expensive then don't even look at the price of Mystic?

:D

Ah, yep:p