Who currently owns a GTR?

[R33]

At the time of writing this post, my GTR is being fitted with the ETC and also a new ignition management system! Will report the performance gradually, especially after next Sunday (my track day) Pray that it work

[Racer 20]

I hope so. I'm sure it'll work well. HKS always has nice stuff. BTW, How many inches is your fart pipe?? And, if you don't mind me asking, do you even like fart pipes? I mean, they are more efficent but aren't they a little stupid looking? I'd much rather have 4 normal pipes. But then again, turbos work of the exaust... does that even make a difference??

[R33]

Hi Racy, I'd got the Electronic Torque Split Controller installed on trial. I am now running the car on AWD all the time. Still experimenting with the percentage of torque at the front. Currently trying 20% of tirque in front. Cornering feels much better with a lot of grip when coming out of the corner. But have not tried it on track yet. Will report after track day this month.

The ETC comes in 2 small boxes - one is mounted somewhere in the car (connected to the drivetrain I suppose) and the other one (the controller) is mounted at a place accessible to the driver. The controller has 3 knobs (silver colored - plastic!!!). The left knob is for on/off/auto mode. The middle one is to control the percentage of the torque to be split to the front (to the nearest 10). Up to 50% can be split. The right knob is for fine tuning. If you choose 20% through the middle knob, you can increase it to say 23% by turning the right knob to 3.

The Auto mode - well I don't know how it work yet! The mid knob also has an "option" output. If you are using the Drag Controller (another box!) than the mid knob has to be turned to "option". The Drag Contoller is about USD 180. What it does is to enable you to decide when to release the whole torque to the rear in a drag. I don't do that much drag so I don't install this one. My friend uses this and he clockes 4.2 sec!

Usage is easy. The only problem is the ETC cannot be "on" when you are u-turning! The car will stop in the middle of u-turning or when you are side or reverse parking:o :o So, you always have to remember to switch it off before doing those stuff. That's a bit of a drag!

Will report the performance once I get used to it and also after my track day this month. Track day scheduled this Sunday is cancelled

Ciao.

[Racer 20]

Thanks. I guess I can deal with the plastic but... it the time when you switch it off and on in nano seconds or is there a lag of a few seconds?
Thanks.

[R33]

Racy, there's absolutely no lag between switching on and off. The torque transfer is immediate and smooth except when the car already stops midway through a u-turn - if you switch it of at this time, the car jerks a tiny wee bit when the torque is transferred to the rear. Nothing dramatic though. But the stopping in the middle of the u-turn is dramatic
I have no problem with the plastic knobs as well. But let say your fingers are wet,or oily or sweaty, (for whatever reason), it's quite an effort to turn the knob

[Racer 20]

Cool. My hands used to get sweaty while on the track sometimes but I just got some gloves that don't let my hands slip.

[boostin_calais]

I own a vl commodore with a gtr engine if that helps

[Racer 20]

whats a commodore? Is it a Holden?

[boostin_calais]

holden (gm in Australia), released the VL in 1986, it had a nissan RB30E and RB30ET. This engine was chosen as a replacement as the holden 3.3L six ran on leaded and it cost way to much to convert to unlead. Holden designed the turbo engine though, as the skyline that had the same engine never had a turbo variant (in Australia atleast, don't know about the rest of the world though), and since all the RB series engine have the same shape bottom engine and most of the parts are interchangable, engine conversions are piss easy. The gear boxes, heads etc, is interchangable. The RB26DETT bolted in took about a 2 months to do (didn't work all the time), only problem, the gearbox and diff shit them selves. Along cam the Getrag speeder, had to modify the tunnel (used a big hammer HEHE :P), diff is now another vl turbo, as I think the prob was the the 5 grand clutch drop. :bandit:

[Racer 20]

Cool. My freind who lives in Austrialia has a new HSV GTS or something. Badass car with a Corvette LS1. Very fast. But not faster than my car. lol

[Initial_E]

I ordered my R34 V-spec II 2 weeks ago and I will have it in August.:licker:

[igor@af]

Welcome to AF Initial_E!
Where are you at?
US? Australia?

[Initial_E]

I live in Canada, but I travel back and forth to Hong Kong a lot since my family is there. My car is ordered in Hong Kong.

[igor@af]

ah,
are you going to bring it to Canada afterwards?

[Initial_E]

I don't think I could.