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Really don't know why we haven't seen more of these as it is so simple. What a fantastic sleeper.

It may not be diff bushes but I'll wager it is. I have owned my car for 228,000 of it's 250,000k's and I know it backwards after three engines and sorting it out through every little problem of it's mods. I have removed and replaced so many parts I have forgotten a lot of what I've done. Diff bushes. If you look on the LS1 or Harrop site you will eventually come across exactly the same problem which was solved by installing a Harrop diff brace. Makes for interesting reading. Stop wasting money on shocks and springs and different tyres. Although, there is another way to fix it, set up a diesel spray above your rear tyres and mount the tank in the boot. Axle hop cured.

Not sure if that's the one but just ring the various bush suppliers and ask them to make absolutely sure. If you look under the diff you will see what I'm talking about. The ones at the rear are a pain as the hicas has to be unbolted and left to the side. I did this myself and takes a while to undo the drive shaft and axles but I kid you not, this totally eliminated my axle tramp. I tried tyre first and that made it worse. Then springs and shocks, which helped a little. Replaced outside arm bushes after suspension proved to be giving too much positive camber, slightly improved but if on the edge of traction would shake violently. Was going to replace tie rods with rose joints but stopped off at a place with quite a few race cars out the front and made some inquiries, they said what I just did, start at the center and work your way out. As the old guy there said, "a building is only as strong as it's foundations". If you start with your tyres you will be chasing your tail looking for the culprit. Get the diff nice and solid first.

You have forgotten the basic laws of mechanical diagnosis, get the basics right then go from there. In other words your car is ancient in regards to your stock bushes so you might want to replace everything you can with urethane. I have said it before and will repeat it yet again, your differential is in the center so replace those bushes first. Every time this comes up the first thing someone suggests is the springs and shocks and yes it may well be but I can tell you now your differential bushes are flogged to death, replace them. Unfortunately it is a diff out situation for the rear bushes but at least do the front ones closest to the drive shaft. Think about how many times you accelerate and back off and how the diff goes up and down with it and you can see my point. If a stock car with new bushes everywhere doesn't axle tramp ( and yes I know some do but not skylines ) then right there is your answer, things have worn.

Maybe not the intercooler but Jim Richards was using this same technique for his fuel. He mentioned there was a considerable amount of power to be made but the advantage was racing with the aircon on.

Also I have been to my favorite tuner and he did a good job but every time I started playing on a wet day it would light up the engine check light. Took it back to him and he trimmed some timing in the top end, easy fix. These days if someone tunes my car and screws up I am a pain in the arse till he fixes it. Just keep going back till he gets it right. Thats called customer service and you have a right to it. Even one of the very tuners we have mentioned here blew one of my engines through neglect on his behalf. So if you judge a workshop by how many impressive cars he has in his shop waiting to be tuned just remember, he may not have time for yours to be done right. This particular workshop has the largest collection of drag and circuit records to it's name and he couldn't diagnose a slipping timing belt cause he wasn't working on a $50,000 engine and he stopped working on a big dollar circuit car and squeezed mine in with my pissy little stock engine and hi-flow turbo.

Hey hold on for a second, don't get rid of your VCT, I think you'll find you will lose some bottom end. OOPS, sorry, just saw previous post by Nismoid. Every tuner I have spoken to recommends keeping it.

I think Nismoid said it best, "Anyhow... Who is the best? Its totally subjective. Everyone will have thier own view, some people have bad stories of places, good stories of others." I have been around classic Chevys, speedway and hotrods long before I got into late model turbos and can tell you if you ask 50 people who have been to the same big name workshop you will get at least 10 that thought they were ripped off. Any tuner can have a bad day. Some make an appointment and get caught up with another car with a problem and it can get annoying when you have been waiting so long for this big day. Then again, I went to a big name tuner a few years ago to have my Unichip installed and tuned. They didn't start till 3.00pm then finished it in 30min. I drove it home and no change what so ever. I took it to Jim at Croydon and he tells me the wiring isn't right so he fixes that then 2hrs on the dyno later I couldn't believe the difference, just amazing. You would be shocked to know the Unichip installer.

Just discovered this thread, damn, that is so gay. I want you to picture yourself as an R35 sitting in a showroom. Now a slimy lookin' turd burgler walks in with gangster basketball singlet, track pants, Nike air runners, gold ring on every finger and, yeah, you guessed it, gold tooth caps to work in beautifully with his gold necklace carrying a large clock. He says to the dealer, "yo' my brother, sup' wit' dat'". Dealer says, "That'll cost ya' a half kilo blood". They get down an' do dat' shit. Right about now poor R35 is saying, "Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo". Think about it, would you like your arms hacked off and made to work backwards ? How would you like it if someone sliced off your man appendage and sewed it back on above your poop chute ? Then they paint you up like a Smurf and make you parade around in public. Blasphemy ! Love the dish though, yeah, gives me wood.

Since the ABS is designed to kick in when there is a loss of traction on any wheel, perhaps your tyres are letting you down. I found when I did my suspension it seemed to do the same as yours. When I went to a better tyre it went back to normal. It is important for me because on track days I brake with full peddle pressure till the ABS does all the work. I'm amazed the ABS hasn't been worn out.

Definitely get a 20mm spacer to get good clearance for the comp cover. So obviously you will need 20mm longer bolts or studs. Yes you can keep your bell mouth but will need to modify it a bit as I did to allow for the considerable size difference between the .82 and the standard turbo.I just welded a 3" pipe onto the flange for the turbine outlet then a 2" pipe for the waste gate and joined them together with a bit of grinding and cutting. Works a treat. What I'd like to do though is start with the 3 and 2" pipes then into 4" dump to cat. You'll need a new suction pipe in 63mm or just get some 3" pipe in 90deg. and weld a couple of fittings on in 10mm and 19mm I think from memory. These are for the blow off and oil mist from valve cover. Then get a silicon connector for intake to AFM and intake to turbo. Oil and water I used a piece of wire to cut to length and shape of hose and went to local brake guy to make up new lines and connectors. Or go to Pirtek but they will over charge you. Come to think of it, the water line was the original and I just bent to suit. Don't forget 3" hose clamps and because of the 20mm spacer you will need 2 gaskets. Oh and the turbine inlet is different to the spacer size so prepare to grind the spacer to suit for best flow. Don't try to keep blow off return pipes in original position, cut old metal pipe from just above the exhaust manifold and this will make it easier to put new rubber hose on new fittings on the intake. Hope this helps. Just do a search on 3071 or 3076 and should be heaps of advice. If you have the PFC or some other management plus injectors and cooler then go the 3076 as my 3071 is at the end of compressor flow at 264kws and I recently went for a drive in a same setup but 3076 and practically no lag difference but 278kws @ 16lbs versus my 264 @ 18lbs.

All the guessing in the world won't make any difference in your life unless you actually do it for real. What is happening with you guys these days ? What's next, asking if you could sprint 100mtrs in 7sec if you were wearing so and so shoes and had your hair parted in the middle for less wind resistance ? Perhaps if I tell my phone I weigh 100kilos and can leg press 600lbs for 12 reps @ 8% body fat I could get that down to 3 seconds. These guessing gadgets are useless. Get out there and as Nike would say, "just do it".

Well said. As most of you have also made true and positive comments. I guess you are all right in some way. This journo has also expressed everything that we here have said. Never in the history of motoring has any car caused such a stir. Yes it is fast, only a fool would deny that. Yes it is heavy, no denying from me. It's looks ?, well, that to is subjective. Does anyone remember the release of the Honda NSX many years ago and the same outcry it caused among the Porsche and Ferrari fraternity ? Here was a car that had no power and idled like an electric motor. It was whisper quiet and fantastic on fuel, yet it lacked that fire breathing noisy, smelly, tingling alive feeling you would get from an Italian car. Yet it was just as fast or faster. Yes, you are all right. If you like it, buy it. If you can't afford it, admire it. If you don't like it, look elsewhere. My real concern is it's afford ability to those who may quite conceivably wrap it around a gum tree at a speed that would rival the space shuttle explosion for shock value. Now move that vision along another couple of years when these cars are now $70-$80,000 and see who may be driving them. For all the power lovers and fast car drivers out there look back to the Phase 1V falcon GTHO's of 74'. The government canned the whole project. I see a dim future for turbo cars when this occurs. We might get away with one or two fatalities but at three or four I can only see misery for us all. Nothing grips the road like a GTR R35, true. But nothing will hit a gum tree harder when some idiot eventually finds it's limits

I have the 3071 with .82 Garrett housing and the best I can do is 264kws @ 18lbs. You need the 3076 or bigger but bigger means lag. 3076 is perfect.

I've bookmarked that topic and will be tracking it as this is what I was talking about. Would like very much to see this car at Nurburgring. Let Porsche do as they want when this baby lets loose.

This is a bad situation but some good advice. Your so close to getting it right I wouldn't give up now. Your a champion for sticking with it. Maybe you can't change anything from the past now, but for others be aware, on these forums there are so many proven formulas that are guaranteed to make 370kws. Even if it was only $15,000 I would expect the guy to say," this is going to make blah blah power but if you want more you will need to spend $5,000 more." He should know, not guess the final ballpark figure. That's why people get "professionals" to do the work. Finish what you started or you will be five years down the track wondering what could have been.

Another quote from me. "Just so you understand, at no time did I say it wasn't a supercar or it didn't handle, by waddling pig I mean it's weight and only it's weight."

"Uninformed ? I doubt it. an opinion can never be uninformed, it is an opinion. Read my posts, I never once said the bloody car couldn't perform. Nor do I care that it's weight has not detracted from it's performance, I said, it is merely my opinion it is heavy. I couldn't care less if it can drive up walls carrying Batman and Robin and change direction faster than a crack dealer on the run. Does anybody even remotely remember the whinging going on just a few years ago when our beloved Commondores and Falcons hit over 1600kgs ? 1700kgs is not light for any car. A Lotus is light, an F1 car is light, a GTR is not and yes I know they are a completely different type of car. I have an opinion, I am not opinionated.

I really feel for you. A lot of us hear have been through the same thing. At least yours is still in one piece. I think "Cubes" might be able to give some advice as he has done well with his combination. Looks to me like you will need a bigger exhaust housing. Not a serious problem. Quite cheap really. Injectors I think for sure. 370kws needs to be fed. How many Rb's has he built ? Maybe he just hasn't done an RB30 before. Five months sounds about right. It is always funny when you ask a builder how long and he looks you straight in the eyes and says, "yep, that will be three weeks". That's usually when you walk away. There are guys on here that can actually do it in 6 weeks but you would have to confirm with them. I remember a 55' Chevy I had and was getting an engine built for it. I think the promise was a month. 4 months later I pulled into his workshop with a crate motor from the states and told him to have it running by the end of the week. My old engine was still sitting on his engine stand with the carby, dizzy,headers, everything. It hadn't been touched in 4 months. Threats were made let me tell you.

Here's another word for you, "obsessive". Because clearly you can't read. Look at the posts, not every fifth word, a quick scan, but read them. I would like to see some weight shed from the GTR for curiosity's sake. No more than that, no less. I don't want it to be lighter than a And those friends that used to have punch ups over their cars and who's is best ?, over thirty years ago when my elder brother used to hang out with a guy some people might know in drag racing circles called Freddy Dudek. Look up the name, I suppose he is uninformed to ? After eight years owning my Skyline and reading this forum almost every day no matter where I am in the world I can honestly say I am amazed at the eagerness some of you are displaying to start an argument over someone's post which you clearly have not read. Oh, and since you didn't read the last one I'll explain again, "opinion", don't have to explain it, it's an opinion. Like my opinion of you right now, not much. I hope you do buy a new GTR and it loses it's value going off the showroom floor faster than a virgin in a whore house.

Uninformed ? I doubt it. an opinion can never be uninformed, it is an opinion. Read my posts, I never once said the bloody car couldn't perform. Nor do I care that it's weight has not detracted from it's performance, I said, it is merely my opinion it is heavy. I couldn't care less if it can drive up walls carrying Batman and Robin and change direction faster than a crack dealer on the run. Does anybody even remotely remember the whinging going on just a few years ago when our beloved Commondores and Falcons hit over 1600kgs ? 1700kgs is not light for any car. A Lotus is light, an F1 car is light, a GTR is not and yes I know they are a completely different type of car. I have an opinion, I am not opinionated. An opinion is just that, light hearted comment on a particular subject. I wasn't speculating, I'll leave that for the Stock Market. Speculating would be more of, "I reckon that GTR's a heap of shit, and I'll bet it's because it's too heavy". Though to be saying that I would have to be wearing my King of the Mountain Brocky T-shirt. I'll leave it there and wish you all well with Targa and the GTR's success. God help anybody else with an opinion.

How about a Cayman Golf ? Mid engined Porsche power in a shopping trolley with wide guard treatment. Or if you want green, how about a joint venture into gas diesel twin turbine V10 power ? Or if Renault merge with VW then we can have a GTR R35 with a mid mounted V10 twin turbo diesel.

So the mind boggles of a situation where the GTR's get more grip "and" less weight. Man, I'd like to see that. You begin to understand why Porsche is very worried. I was watching SBS this morning and they are still doing remarkably well in the world market, but at the pricing of $170k they might not lose the very well healed as they don't care how good a Nissan is, they wouldn't be caught dead in one, but may lose their other customers in the lesser categories. OK, enough of that ! Hey Roy, you have just wrecked me. Because of that first photo I finally know true love. Seriously, Robby Brand is a god among us.

Thank you. Well said. I'd like the more knowledgeable among us to donate some info on tyre wear during the rally.

FINALLY, someone with some maturity. Thank you. As a discussion this topic, like others on this forum has become quickly heated over a simple statement on weight. You don't have to be an owner to know that something is heavy. Just use your eyes and read the facts. What's next, a supercar that weighs 2 tonnes ? Oh yes, I forgot, the Bugatti Veyron. I expected more from you Mr. Donnon since I've read almost everything you ever wrote. I seem to recall quite a few times criticism over the older GTR's and their weight. Weight is speed you said. La de dah, so what, you have a new GTR. Perhaps if you all weren't so quick to try and put anybody down that dares to criticize the mighty GTR then you would see I believe it to be a great car, just heavy. It doesn't matter that it is cheap compared to it's competitors, nor that it is just amazing to drive and is faster than an R34, I agree whole heartedly in all that. It, like most supercars are heavy. I do understand the simple fact that in order to have 500hp tamed and drivable you have to have a chassis strong enough and the technology to control it. No problems. I guess for me I'd simply like to see a road registered GTR that is produced by the factory in the same vain as the Porches. Stripped out, no air con, Stereo, sound proofing or anything to slow it down, then we will see just how good it could really be.