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well if the "brakes were locked up for 5 seconds" that could explain it.. overweight, underbraked tanks. A skyline can stop from 200km/hr in less than 5 seconds. and they say imports are dangerous.

Yeh when it hits a car doing 60kmh....do u have proof of this braking time?

no offence. just wanna know these things

cheers Ant

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But...but that would involve breaking "the oath"..!

Seriously tho, I speed a bit here and there, but nothing excessive and basically when no-one's around and not even close to being on my or the car's limits. As for racing, drifting etc...it's just stupid, 0-60/80 drags at lights are fine but the rest I wouldn't do with my car just because I wouldn't want to risk my CAR, let alone my LIFE.

I think tho that saying "take it to the track" kind of misses the point though, because if these people DID just want th thrill of driving that fast, work on their drifting etc then sure, they'd go to a racetrack. The problem is they have something to prove - to their mates, to the guys in the other car, etc. That's why most of them don't, and won't, take it to the track. If someone revs them at the lights they prolly don't have the courage to back off and be thought of as a chicken or whatever by the other drivers.

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Go prove it at the track...

Silver'sR33, You seem to have a very immature and niave view on things my friend...me thinks it would be a good time to put the opinion in the closet until some experience is there to back you up...mmmmkay

As a newbie now would be a fine time to bite your tongue, step outside and find something else to do than spage all over the forum.

You wanna street race and you even come close to my car, then you better have good insurance and a thick skull...

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OPM: You seem like a pretty scientific person, why not test the hypothesis yourself?

simple question, or was he exaggerating?

i dont own a skyline so i dont know, why dont U test this theory!!

my guess would be on standard brakes, NO.

the only other way would be how i described. u tell me otherwise, until then it cant.

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Silver'sR33, You seem to have a very immature and niave view on things my friend...me thinks it would be a good time to put the opinion in the closet until some experience is there to back you up...mmmmkay

Really? I thought he raised some valid points and made them in a very mature manner... something thats sorely lacking on this forum as a whole :S

Always nice to see a post thats had some thought put into it, so I'm happy to see (and read) SilverR33s posts that are appearing.

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Yes I may have miscontrued what your intentions are SilverR33...Krawler we have discussed it already bro.

My point still is the law is there for a reason, some aspects yes are unreasonable...some of the public would disagree with that statement.

the fact is that you bought an import and there are always going to be tools that want the traffic light drags. My point is that I thought most of us were of the level of intellegence whereby we know it is wrong and don't do it...and do not encourage the bahviour.

Don't encourage it and it will decrease, it won't go away as there are always other wankers to take their place...

I think that we need to be proactive, the fact is if you want to drive fast there ARE places to do it...you bought the car with the ability to go fast, use it in a safe environment, if you bought it as just a daily driver then I think your choice of car needs to be re-assessed.

I just really think the SENIOR members, not just in time but age, should really set an example...

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I must live in a totally different world to everyone else... I very seldom have dickheads trying to race, and if someone does want a squirt I find that 9 times out of 10 they try once or twice and then leave when you ignore them. The other 1 times I race them :rofl:

I also dont get hassled by cops at all... I drive like a testical yet the only times I've ever been pulled over is when I was actually doing something wrong. Speed traps, every one. Damn them. Never been randomly pulled over for a breath test, and the one time Erin was they were polite and had a look at the tires (plenty of tread) and left us to it.

How do we manage to avoid all this angst that apparently exists in the import scene? (or ar scene as a whole)... We go to all the places everyone rides around on their high horse about, proclaiming them to be full of hoons (Hello M1 Fun Club!), and generally drive like the twits most people on here complain about (yet 90% of the time are one themselves, hello hypocricy) in cars that are just as unroadworthy as everyone else with any modificiations...

Oh well one day I'm sure I'll get done up the bum by all these coppers everyone else has found, and I'll walk like a cowboy for a week or two and then take my number to line up in the queue for whinging on teh intarweb.

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I must live in a totally different world to everyone else... I very seldom have dickheads trying to race, and if someone does want a squirt I find that 9 times out of 10 they try once or twice and then leave when you ignore them. The other 1 times I race them :rofl:

I also dont get hassled by cops at all... I drive like a testical yet the only times I've ever been pulled over is when I was actually doing something wrong. Speed traps, every one. Damn them. Never been randomly pulled over for a breath test, and the one time Erin was they were polite and had a look at the tires (plenty of tread) and left us to it.

How do we manage to avoid all this angst that apparently exists in the import scene? (or ar scene as a whole)... We go to all the places everyone rides around on their high horse about, proclaiming them to be full of hoons (Hello M1 Fun Club!), and generally drive like the twits most people on here complain about (yet 90% of the time are one themselves, hello hypocricy) in cars that are just as unroadworthy as everyone else with any modificiations...  

Oh well one day I'm sure I'll get done up the bum by all these coppers everyone else has found, and I'll walk like a cowboy for a week or two and then take my number to line up in the queue for whinging on teh intarweb.

lol u have so just done yourself over. Everytime you go out you'll probably be done up the ass now :( But I do agree with you to some extent. PPL winge about the cops at bwcp almost all the time however I am yet to see anyone getting done that couldnt have avoided it. Even when they block it off...YOU CAN STILL GET OUT! So I dont see wat the ppl are winging about (police wise) as for the rest of it....I usually get rbt'd or pulled over when on the m1, in fact almost everytime so far, even when driving normal :(....

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one of my mates who had an R32 for about a year never had any problem from the cops at all.........random pull overs, defects (the car was stock). couple of speeding tickets that's it........

i know from my own experience that you dont need to be doing something wrong to get pulled over. but i'm starting to see straight through a lot of comments that people post saying that the cops target the youth and they've been pulled over umpteen times and they drive like a granny in their skyline.............there are exceptions, but not on a whole.

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I never got pulled over on the M1 in my old R33, and my car stood out like dogs balls..

havent yet in the R32 either, touch wood, but it is after all fairly stock, and I intend on keeping it *looking* that way for a while to come. You can push out probably around 250 at the treads and still have it pass any cop inspection..

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