Boy Racers - Polish Style

Slig

2L early 90's skyline with a clapped out engine is not a feat of engineering, its a ball of sh1te those interrested in performance will buy the 2.5, those interrested in a RWD that looks like a sports car will buy the cheapest piece of crap around.
Touched a nerve there KONA, how do you wear your baseball cap?

kona

Biro wrote: »

2 revelations!
1 is not all Skylines are GTR's, and
2 is the 2 litre N/A Skyline isn't fast, 6 cylinder or not! Witnessed an R33 Skyline 2 litre V6 balls out and couldn't close the gap to a G40 Polo!

fair enough the GT-R is extremely fast is what i ment to say, the others wouldnt be the slowest things on 4 wheels

i know thats why i said "take ANY skyline"

i know the 2 litre N/A isnt too quick, but id be still willing to bet it would piss all over a diesel passat or the like:D

kona

Slig wrote: »

2L early 90's skyline with a clapped out engine is not a feat of engineering, its a ball of sh1te those interrested in performance will buy the 2.5, those interrested in a RWD that looks like a sports car will buy the cheapest piece of crap around.
Touched a nerve there KONA, how do you wear your baseball cap?

to the side, like the fresh price of bel air.

but when i am driving i dont wear a sssssshchap.

i dont think you could call a skyline clapped out, now there is a vauxhall nova around my way (not a GSi) thats a clapped out sh!tter, and the bloke thinks its a ferrari!

Biro

kona wrote: »

fair enough the GT-R is extremely fast is what i ment to say, the others wouldnt be the slowest things on 4 wheels

i know thats why i said "take ANY skyline"

i know the 2 litre N/A isnt too quick, but id be still willing to bet it would piss all over a diesel passat or the like:D

To be fair, the 2 litre is fairly dismal. Around 153bhp in a car the weight of the skyline - they aren't all that light. It wouldn't take much to piss on a 1.9 105bhp Passat but a 170 would walk away from the 2 litre skyline.

Slig

Fair nuff, thats what I meant, (Seen a 90 skyline in town at lunch with desperate camber on the wheels from a home made lowering job, thats why it was a skyline I put in)

Slig

Fair nuff, thats what I meant, (Seen a 90 skyline in town at lunch with desperate camber on the wheels from a home made lowering job, thats why it was a skyline I put in)

BeardyGit

kona wrote: »

to the side, like the fresh price of bel air.

but when i am driving i dont wear a sssssshchap.

i dont think you could call a skyline clapped out, now there is a vauxhall nova around my way (not a GSi) thats a clapped out sh!tter, and the bloke thinks its a ferrari!

That's awfully sad. Poor illiterate gob****e can't even read the name badge on his car and you go making fun of him on the interweb.

Sam Kade

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=boy+racer
7 definitions of boy racers.

Slig

Someone who thinks its clever to spend £5,000 tarting up a £50 piece of crap that is one MOT away from the junk yard, fit it with a stereo pumping out more power than the engine, remove the suspension, destroying what little handling ability it had, and a set of wheels that look like rejects for the London Eye. The exhaust must look like it's been robbed off an F15 Eagle. I have yet to find out what mod they do to the drivers seat to make them all drive canted over to the left like their spine is buggered.
Most Nova SR's

Absolute genious!!!:D

cpoh1

Slig wrote: »

Fair nuff, thats what I meant, (Seen a 90 skyline in town at lunch with desperate camber on the wheels from a home made lowering job, thats why it was a skyline I put in)

Most sports cars run slight negative camber Slig, the honda s2000 is just one example.

Ive never in my life heard of homemade suspension jobs please elaborate. You can however get coilovers for skylines, mine for example has Tein coilovers with EDA costing over €1000, you can adjust the damping and spring stiffness electroncially from inside the cabin. Also Slig the 2L six cylinder engine in a standard R32 run of the mill skyline has over 200hp with lots of room to play with, double wishbone suspension all round and better spec than most new cars today.

What type of car are you driving?

cianclarke

cpoh1 wrote: »

I was just about to say it Kona, obviously slig has more interest in boats than cars judging by his ill informed posts.

Slig just for the record, im willing to bet my house than the feat of engineering alone gone into my early 90's clapped out skyline engine tops the time spent designing all of your car. I dont know why I even bothered responding to this thread.

Jesus, is Skyline your religion? Tóg go bog é...

S.I.R

nobody in ireland can tune cars, they either come to me or go to england.


regardless of what car or drivetrain you have, with enough money you can make a respectablke car.... but haven said that im only repsonceable for the performance not the looks so yeah, if you have a fiesta with a veilside bodykit.... not my fault

cpoh1

cianclarke wrote: »

Jesus, is Skyline your religion? Tóg go bog é...

No but I do have an interest in cars and have the intelligence to see past cliches and ignorant misconceptions, my interest in cars starts with the engineering behind them with comfort and aesthetics coming second. Most people on here (I swear im not talking about you Slig) couldnt differentiate their arse from their elbow never mind understand the work and feat of engineering that goes into cars like the Skyline.

S.I.R

cpoh1 wrote: »

No but I do have an interest in cars and have the intelligence to see past cliches and ignorant misconceptions, my interest in cars starts with the engineering behind them with comfort and aesthetics coming second. Most people on here (I swear im not talking about you Slig) couldnt differentiate their arse from their elbow never mind understand the work and feat of engineering that goes into cars like the Skyline.

the skyline is a decent car but as shown , the newwer models such as the R34/35 are too heavy, with a rear set-up , if you Know what your doing you can extract 700 hp out of the engine cheapish.... then you just ligthen, 2 way diff and a decent set of tyres.

but the skyline engine is Very highly strung though on stock internals it can be brought up .5 of a psi if a front mounted cooler or some kinda cold air induction is devised.

skylines HATE head gaskets.

cpoh1

S.I.R wrote: »

nobody in ireland can tune cars, they either come to me or go to england.

What company do you work for SIR? What type of rollers do you ahve, what software do you specialise in?

Pretty sweeping statement considering the level of tune and reliablity of Robbie at Trackday Performances Skyline? Ive never heard of a headgaske problems on a skyline either?

BeardyGit

cpoh1 wrote: »

What company do you work for SIR? What type of rollers do you ahve, what software do you specialise in?

Pretty sweeping statement considering the level of tune and reliablity of Robbie at Trackday Performances Skyline? Ive never heard of a headgaske problems on a skyline either?

They come to you?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRr-sNlddRo

S.I.R

cpoh1 wrote: »

What company do you work for SIR? What type of rollers do you ahve, what software do you specialise in?

Pretty sweeping statement considering the level of tune and reliablity of Robbie at Trackday Performances Skyline? Ive never heard of a headgaske problems on a skyline either?

i work off my own back , i tune with spanners and yeah , its a dyeing trade... nobody can do it anymore, everyone Has to use computers ( i generally use them as a last resort ) but yeah , skylines there ok pretty over rated , also nobody has heard these reports mainly because of the simple fact that they very rarely get pushed , they might get a 4-6 k launch from the lights but thats it.

skylines do hate headgaskets though... the engin e is very highly strung... and it needs to be , the favorite model ( the r34 ) is 1500 kg without the driver and usual crap... thats the same as a toyota chaser. its basically tom cruises ego....


i dont doubt anyones tuning ability, but for all-round driving, i couldnt use a skyline , i'd Have to buy a bmw or a toyota. No two ways about it im afraid.... though classics peugeots are a nice alternitive.

cpoh1

S.I.R wrote: »

i work off my own back , i tune with spanners and yeah , its a dyeing trade... nobody can do it anymore, everyone Has to use computers ( i generally use them as a last resort ) but yeah , skylines there ok pretty over rated , also nobody has heard these reports mainly because of the simple fact that they very rarely get pushed , they might get a 4-6 k launch from the lights but thats it.

skylines do hate headgaskets though... the engin e is very highly strung... and it needs to be , the favorite model ( the r34 ) is 1500 kg without the driver and usual crap... thats the same as a toyota chaser. its basically tom cruises ego....


i dont doubt anyones tuning ability, but for all-round driving, i couldnt use a skyline , i'd Have to buy a bmw or a toyota. No two ways about it im afraid.... though classics peugeots are a nice alternitive.

You are a keyboard warrior simple as that. There are enough holes in some of the statements you have just made to sink the titanic.

How the hell do you tune a car without an ecu and computer unless its from the 80's and on carbs or else just advance the timing manually? Have you never seen a drifting event, skylines and sr20 engined cars make up 90% of the machines used, there's hardly a more stressful thing you can do to an engine and ive never heard of a head gasket going on a drift car! Anyway this is going off topic, SIR keep dreaming boy!

BeardyGit

I wouldn't let you tune a fork. Even with your bag of spanners.

peasant

Is it the weather or what ?

Second thread today that's miles off topic and heading towards fisticuffs.

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