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Got owned by a few car lenghts last night by a BMW 320Ci, i dont usually race infact it was my first Fast and furious race since being on p's for over a year, but that BMW was riced up with 20inch mags and hektic exhaust and i knew it has the same amount of cylinder and engine capacity of 2.5 liters......So when i went to foor him on captain cooks bridge i was surprised a stock BMW which on paper has 170hp compared to 197hp skyline flogged me, i was in triptronic shifting at about 6-7 revs, we both started from 30k's i backed off at 100 he was already ahead so i gave up, speed limit was 80 so only 20 k' over i wasnt doing life risking racing btw all straight and not a soul on the bridge at that time.

i dont think its "underperforming", its most likely on the back of a tow truck

so what if 2 motors have the same compacity doesnt mean they will have the same power/ torque, or run the same rods/pistons crank etc, or the same bore & stroke or valve train cams, or even gear ratios diff ratio, tyres etc

your a p plater, and regardless of where it was or how much other traffic there was u shouldnt be racing anywhere thats not a controlled enviroment, otherwise other P platers like myself have to cop the bullshit extra laws they keep adding on because of you and others like minded

Yeah bro, chuck it on a dyno, will solve all your problems. Dunno if you know, but new model dynos have special sensors that are put in your exhaust, helps permanently suck out more exhaust gas. More air out = mor air and fuel in = more powarrrr...

Lol jks seriously though, running your car in a dyno isn't gonna do shit. All itll tell you is your car is making 150-170hp at the wheels... And by the sounds of it (youve described nothing mechanical at all, just winged about how you got beaten by a BMW.) there isn't anything real wrong with your car so a dyno run is wasted money. It's a non turbo skyline, they're not designed to be fast.

Save up and buy a GTT when you're off your p plates.

i dont think its "underperforming", its most likely on the back of a tow truck

so what if 2 motors have the same compacity doesnt mean they will have the same power/ torque, or run the same rods/pistons crank etc, or the same bore & stroke or valve train cams, or even gear ratios diff ratio, tyres etc

your a p plater, and regardless of where it was or how much other traffic there was u shouldnt be racing anywhere thats not a controlled enviroment, otherwise other P platers like myself have to cop the bullshit extra laws they keep adding on because of you and others like minded

There is nothing wrong with giving your car a hit on straight line when there is no cars around............., i do a lot of freeway driving and i purpposely didnt exceed 100k's, the speed limit was 80....like i said im not going to crash at 100k's on a 80 zone, i have driven over that bridge 1000 times on the way home...

no such thing as safe speeding, regardless of how ever u feel the need to justify it, your a f**king tool, and even if you werent caught, you still have contributed to the extra bullshit laws the rest of the P platers who do the right thing all the time have to deal with

20km/h over thats what 4 points and a automatic 3 month suspension for a p plater in nsw?

Yeah bro, chuck it on a dyno, will solve all your problems. Dunno if you know, but new model dynos have special sensors that are put in your exhaust, helps permanently suck out more exhaust gas. More air out = mor air and fuel in = more powarrrr...

Lol jks seriously though, running your car in a dyno isn't gonna do shit. All itll tell you is your car is making 150-170hp at the wheels... And by the sounds of it (youve described nothing mechanical at all, just winged about how you got beaten by a BMW.) there isn't anything real wrong with your car so a dyno run is wasted money. It's a non turbo skyline, they're not designed to be fast.

Save up and buy a GTT when you're off your p plates.

I see, well the cars not perfect it sometimes shakes at idle im not sure why it happens but goes away and comes back, my mechanic suggested it needs new sparkplugs or coilovers, i used to driving my mates R34 manual around when he went holiday about once a week so it has someone to drive it around so the battery and stuff dont die, and it performs way better then mine, but that should be because its a manual and different gear ratio,my car feels like its got no grunt in 3rd or 4th so you could kind of figure out why im not sure its running like its supposed to, but you probaly right i just expect to much from it lol.

no such thing as safe speeding, regardless of how ever u feel the need to justify it, your a f**king tool, and even if you werent caught, you still have contributed to the extra bullshit laws the rest of the P platers who do the right thing all the time have to deal with

20km/h over thats what 4 points and a automatic 3 month suspension for a p plater in nsw?

Im a good driver and i drive to the limit 95% of the time i need my car to get to UNI and Work, so im rarely recklessl, dont bullshit me man im sure you have gunned it past 10-20k's everybody has.

... im not going to crash at 100k's on a 80 zone, i have driven over that bridge 1000 times on the way home...
Famous last words! So many drivers - p-platers and fully licenced alike - have uttered those immortal words,

just before they wrote themselves, their passengers, or another motorist, out.

Non-turbo skylines are generally quite slow. I'm not surprised the BMW beat you to be honest. I'm sure everyone here has sped from time to time man maybe just don't tell everyone you had an illegal race.

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