Potental Return To Power To Weight Rule

[R TUNE]

Saw this on R31 skyline club and didn't notice it here, so thought i would post it up.

http://theage.drive.com.au/motor-news/new-technology-making-nonsense-of-vicroads-pplater-car-restrictions-20110327-1cbxb.html

for comparison the FT 86 team is aiming for 150kw and 1200kg and the r32 GTST was 157kw and 1230kg. so both would be close to power to weight but the line would lose due to having the turbo under current law. Yet the 86 would be almost as quick.

[Mohsen]

If it goes back to 150kw/t I'm going to stab some people...

[Astro Bear]

If it goes back to 150kw/t I'm going to stab some people...

Lol. You poor bastard.

[PENGUYEN]

If it goes back to 150kw/t I'm going to stab some people...

Thought it was 125kw/t?

[KURAUN]

yeah it is, but either way even a manual 32 gtst 4 door will pass that 125kw/t

[joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo]

OMG i am going to laugh sooooooooo hard at mohsen if it goes back

i'm gonna schedule a week off work for all the laughin i'm gonna be doing

[PENGUYEN]

hope they do it this july! I get my P's in october xDDDDDDD

[Mohsen]

OMG i am going to laugh sooooooooo hard at mohsen if it goes back

i'm gonna schedule a week off work for all the laughin i'm gonna be doing

I would get back into another r32 taxi quicker than you can say I have an epic beard

[Birds]

Mohsen, we told you many times to buy and keep the R32.

[Nee-san]

I highly doubt it would be retroactive such as what happened up here.

They added pretty much these exact regs but it only applied to people becoming P platers after a certain date july 1 a couple of years ago.... I made it by 6 months.

[joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo]

personally i hope they dont do it.

p platers are not great drivers, sure many of them are good steerers etc... but as for being a safe driver and understanding the roads, that takes a long time.

what thy realy need to do is cut out all 6 cyl cars... that way p platers would never be involved in commodore culture, which is responsible for like 99.98% of road deaths

[StealthX]

personally i hope they dont do it.

p platers are not great drivers, sure many of them are good steerers etc... but as for being a safe driver and understanding the roads, that takes a long time.

what thy realy need to do is cut out all 6 cyl cars... that way p platers would never be involved in commodore culture, which is responsible for like 99.98% of road deaths

This man speaks the truth!

Unfortunately it's a cultural thing, young people need acceptance, and the quickest easiest way to get that umongst their peers is by having a fast car. Then coupled with that, a commodore seems to cement you a chunk of masculinity, you are instantly transformed into a man in the eyes of your fellow bogans if you drive a commonwhore.

Then you see these f**kheads getting behind the wheel with a few mates, they think they're all hot shit, then they end up wasting lives.

Makes me sick.

I'm all for p plate restrictions, but I still think it's the wrong way to go about it. Driver training and education first, but that takes effort, so there's no chance the gumbyment will do that!

[Mohsen]

personally i hope they dont do it.

p platers are not great drivers, sure many of them are good steerers etc... but as for being a safe driver and understanding the roads, that takes a long time.

what thy realy need to do is cut out all 6 cyl cars... that way p platers would never be involved in commodore culture, which is responsible for like 99.98% of road deaths

I agree 11ty would be good if Awd cars were permitted. Breaking traction is so easy in the VT, was real hard in the 32

[blk94r33]

personally i hope they dont do it.

p platers are not great drivers, sure many of them are good steerers etc... but as for being a safe driver and understanding the roads, that takes a long time.

what thy realy need to do is cut out all 6 cyl cars... that way p platers would never be involved in commodore culture, which is responsible for like 99.98% of road deaths

LOL, maybe they should just be banned from driving the top 2 groups of "hoon" vehicles. But then we'd get more getting caught speeding or upside down in skylines.

I like the way they create what, 5 sets of P Plate laws yet the statistics don't move?

125kw/T won't stop a car doing 200km/h into a tree, or remove the drivers "want" to drive at 200km/h, or prevent them driving the speed limit in fog and rain.

[Jezza-gtR]

what thy realy need to do is cut out all 6 cyl cars...

Why you be hating on my 31 Hamish, u jelly?

[boostn0199]

Even if they do go back to a power to weight itll probably be more tight than 125kw/t like before so as you still cant drive turbo skylines and such cars.

[PENGUYEN]

120kw/t and i'm happy. Rules out the R32. But can ddrive a S14a.

[KezR33]

p platers are not great drivers, sure many of them are good steerers etc... but as for being a safe driver and understanding the roads, that takes a long time.

It's driver attitude more than anything. Understanding roads, reading traffic etc, doesn't matter what car your in, so long as they're not driving recklessly.

[Downforce]

I've always said it's about the driver's attitude. Not about whether or not you can drive well. Experience or not, it's the choice of the driver behind the wheel to do something silly/dangerous.

[R TUNE]

Some more for thought on a power to weight.

My old camry sprotivo had 116kw 1400kg yet easerly reaced 150km/h R31 skyline 114kw and 1250kg yet was almost over the power to weight rule (well was when i moded it).