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just mulling over some future plans - I've got a fairly complete set of supporting mods; I could slap on 800bhp worth of turbo straight onto my engine, map, and be done.
However, what specific upgrades for 1000+bhp Skylines are done that I haven't done? Quad plate clutches? Transmission (I'm guessing no one has run a grand of bhp on the stock tranny?). Drive shafts? Diffs? 1600cc injectors, or two injectors per intake runner?
now I've never driven a 1000bhp Skyline, but I imagine lag would be a bit of an issue (although videos seem to indicate otherwise). And then here is where I perceive the limits of the Skyline to be.
When I first got into the GT-R, my goal was to match or exceed the power of the extant king of the hill at the time, the Ferrari Enzo. Getting over 620bhp has been achieved, and now I think I can safely run with or pull away from any "supercar".
But with stock saloons well into the 500s in terms of horsepower, full-on sports cars also have stepped up a level - the hypercar.
There are Skylines that outpower a Bugatti Veyron. But is it honestly quicker?? We are handicapped by displacement in a big way, and getting the same horsepower numbers entails greater amounts of turbo lag - am I wrong here?
So a good, tuned Skyline can handle supercars, but one tuned to match the power of a hypercar...just wouldn't be streetable, would it?
However, what specific upgrades for 1000+bhp Skylines are done that I haven't done? Quad plate clutches? Transmission (I'm guessing no one has run a grand of bhp on the stock tranny?). Drive shafts? Diffs? 1600cc injectors, or two injectors per intake runner?
now I've never driven a 1000bhp Skyline, but I imagine lag would be a bit of an issue (although videos seem to indicate otherwise). And then here is where I perceive the limits of the Skyline to be.
When I first got into the GT-R, my goal was to match or exceed the power of the extant king of the hill at the time, the Ferrari Enzo. Getting over 620bhp has been achieved, and now I think I can safely run with or pull away from any "supercar".
But with stock saloons well into the 500s in terms of horsepower, full-on sports cars also have stepped up a level - the hypercar.
There are Skylines that outpower a Bugatti Veyron. But is it honestly quicker?? We are handicapped by displacement in a big way, and getting the same horsepower numbers entails greater amounts of turbo lag - am I wrong here?
So a good, tuned Skyline can handle supercars, but one tuned to match the power of a hypercar...just wouldn't be streetable, would it?