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On the 0-60 front for my Skyline, in practice it's more like 5.5 seconds, unless you're reving it to buggery, drop the clutch and red line it in 1st. I'm more inclined to keep my car in one piece and reduce my service interval!

As Dazzag said though, it's not really the 0-60 that does the business, in my opinion. It's the overtaking speed ranges 40-70 for backroads, or 60-100 on the motorway, for example. That's where I absolutely love my car. It never stops accelerating, and never lags (twin turbo means no turbo lag as its staged and turbos kick in from 3000rpm). 1st is a lunatic gear, but 2nd, 3rd and 4th all keep pulling and don't want to stop and 5th doesn't really hang around either.

When I've just joined a motorway, and I'm in the inside lane at 60-70, and I spot a gap to get into the middle lane, I am at 100 in the blink of an eye. Won't guess at figures, but in the time it takes for me to look from the right wing mirror, to pull out into the middle lane and to look down at the speedo, it's 100mph, with plenty more pull if I need it. That's where it's really useful and satisfying.

As for handling, unfortunately I still can't really comment. I have this fairly significant tracking/alignment problem with my front right wheel. Drives fine on the motorway, but lorry rutts and dips which give my front right more traction, knocks me about a bit. It's no way to drive a fast car. My steering wheel is a good 5 degrees to the right on the straight, so I'm getting that fixed next week. Then I'll start to get a feel for things.

Also, Skyline's are 4wd, but most of the power goes to the rear. The front wheel drive kicks-in when the back starts to step out (there is a front torque guage which spends most of its time on 0). At the moment, with my tracking problem, plus n00bness to the car, plus lack of wide enough round abouts () in my immediate area, I haven't pushed it hard enough to test the Hicas, or the front wheel drive torque split. Something I will have to learn later. All I've heard from other Skyline drivers is, just as you feel you're losing traction on the corner, the front wheel drive kicks in and it feels like you've got a tow rope on the nose, pulling you round the corner. Can't comment yet!



Same. For me, personally, they add more danger. I spent way too much time looking at my speedo, and potentially missing hazards in front of me, all because of the paranoia of speed cameras and cops. It's a double edged sword.

I still don't see going from 2L to 2.2L giving it so much extra power that the tiny engine would reach 178mph. Maybe the high RPMs contribute to its top speed.


I'll agree there. But when I said that I was thinking more along the lines of a civic si with a vtec, a car my grandma's buick could beat.

Nah, the engines in S2000s are pretty good (although the weight of the car helps a lot). Something like 6 secs 0-60mph. Vtecs are quite varied basically. And engine size wise, it seems these days you can get a hell of a lot more out of smaller engines. And don't forget the RX8 which is about 6.2 secs 0-60mph (think the US version is very slightly faster even) with something like a 1.3 engine (ok is totally different design, but hey...).

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Dazzag, you w.ankel!!! (language censor actually caught that!)

Yeah, weight is a real bonus to performance. I didn't realise how heavy the skyline was until I drained the battery flat this week, and had to push it out of the parking space to get it close enough to the other car to jump it. Only a slight hill, and it took 4 fat boys to move it. Now I see why people strip them down to the bare bones and stick in a rollcage.

Don't leave it much more than a week without starting it either. Two weeks tops. I had a holiday for 2 weeks once and only started it once to go to the shops half a mile away. Near the end of the 2 weeks the battery was dead enough to not start the car. RAC bloke said he constantly gets called out for performance cars because the batteries are drained really quickly by the trackers and alarm systems.

Luckily these cars can really recharge a car battery in no time!

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Good call mate. Always the option to get another car battery and wire it up in parallel (I think that's how its done) to double the juice for long periods of sitting about. Also good for running a big old stereo.

Heh, nice. And make sure it can support MP3. I had an old MP3 effort that was a 10 disk CD multichanger. For the time it was awesome to have something like 6.5gb of tunes If only someone would come out with an iPod dock that didn't look like a dock. I mean I don't want it sticking out looking stupid. Either have a square are that it can clip into, keeping it flush with the dash, or a credit card type effort where you plug it in and you basically can't see the iPod anymore. All controlled by the stalks on the wheel obviously. Failing that I suppose one of those wireless solutions through the radio will do, esp. if they could totally have the screen of the iPod shown on an LCD screen. And the battery doesn't die after 2 minutes...

Heh, I remember at a party once there was a friend of a friend who worked for one of these MP3 companies, and he brought a device that was just about to come out (because there was a lot of us well paid young geeky IT people there basically). Was something like a 5Gb drive (was a while ago) in a DIN stereo housing. Was well nice before I actually saw iPods and the like (before they really got going or even existed probably). Was going to cost about £1000+ to the public when it came out and he could get us some pre-production units on the cheap. Strangely no-one was impressed that much (beer and women mainly), and while his back was turned someone poured a load of salt, and later beer, into it's grill. Hmmmm. Gotta laugh though. Bring a pre-production dead expensive bit of kit from a company where you are basically the junior programmer to a party where there is a lot of beer and drunk people? Good idea. Must have had a good monday morning back in the office...

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I had a little black plug thing that had a long wire which would always keep the battery trickle charging while the car was in storage.

But eventualy the battery gave in all together and since replacing it I've not had problems with not driving for long periods of time.

My advice on Halford Heavy Duty Calcium Batteries is don't go there. They sound like they will be stronger and better but in my experience they die within 3 months. I returned 3 of them until switching back to normal lead acid and had a happy car again