Nations Cup 2004: GODZILLA time!!

[Guest INASNT]

hey, just a heads up u can buy the 7.1L Monaro,

but it isn't called a monaro it is somesort of HSV with 427 in it, similar to the monaro use in the race

Your a knob! Holden will never build a 7L monaro EVER!

Nissan need to bring a GT500 GTR over to race, then it will be able to compete fairly with the 427 HRT or this year i mean CV8 monaro

[SS8_Gohan]

yeah that was sooo blantantly stupid. Last year the car was listed as the HRT 427, and this year, Monaro CV8! I hope they don't think we are that stupid

[xRHETTx]

hey, just a heads up u can buy the 7.1L Monaro,

but it isn't called a monaro it is somesort of HSV with 427 in it, similar to the monaro use in the race

Holden were going to sell the HRT 427 but it became too expensive and they called it off. It was going to have a production run of 100 cars or something. I read this in the drive section of the paper about a year ago, so it must be true.

[Duncan]

I understood that Falken GTR rolled at the nismo festival the other week, it'll need some straightening before they can run that one

A GTR ran in nation's cup in 2002, not surprisingly it wasn't competitive. The N-GT class cars are highly modified from their base cars, and in a global sense the monaros aren't actually far ahead (if at all), they are just very well suited to bathurst 24hrs - in fact they were not particularly competitive in Nations cup this year.

And the Nations cup cars certainly do not run stock boost, heads, cams etc etc, they are fairly open and would be pulled back into line only if they faster than the competition.

Finally, the reason the GTRs aren't competitive is 2 fold - too heavy, and the base engine is too small...

[VIPERGTSR01]

to be honest i dont think a GTR would make the 24hours

[Guest INASNT]

Holden were going to sell the HRT 427 but it became too expensive and they called it off.  It was going to have a production run of 100 cars or something.  I read this in the drive section of the paper about a year ago, so it must be true.

They were gonna sell em but not to the same spec as the bathurst!

I think it was all a publicity stunt and they were infact never going to produce 1 for the public.

[rsx84]

i was under the impression that the nations cup was a power to weight deal fixed to different configerations, lets say rear engined sports car above $90,000, along those lines??

P.S. what engine base is the 300kw gts monaro?

[VIPERGTSR01]

5.7L GenIII

[SS8_Gohan]

The stripped down version of the Mongrel is 1600kg from memory

R34 GTR is 1550kg or there abouts stock, stripped down plus full race gear, i reckon would be the same if not lighter. I think a properly and professionally backed R34 GTR, with a good driver would be very competitive.

EDIT: Monaro CV8 Kerb weight: 1640kg (530i 4 door is lighter!, packed with TV's, Sat Nav, full leather, full 17inch spare wheel, 8 airbags, etc...)

R34 GTR kerb weight: 1540kg (wasn't far off )

So yeah, i reckon in full race trim, the GTR would be lighter than the Mongrel. Just make sure the 600 horsies are ready to play, and i reckon u'd do ok.

that's my tree fitty

cheers.

[rsx84]

i for one would go to more nations cup events if there were gtr skylines putting it to the euros and holdens!!

[Guest INASNT]

Plus dont forget holden also got drivers that know the bathurst track like the back of their hands