Nissan Skylines Thread

Watch Ryder

Finally got my dream machine; a Nissan Skyline R34.

It's not the twin turbo one but the single turbo is fast enough

Here's a car show video of it and others. Mines the black one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOJWucwshAw

A bit pricey on fuel (30 mpg) but a nice machine all the same.

Matt Simis

Strange music in that video.
Do you really get 30mpg on average (not some end to end motorway trip)? Much higher than I would have thought, yet you seem to have expected more?

JHMEG

Congrats.

Single turbo is a GTT, and RWD (yes/no)?

30mpg is good. I never got 30mpg out of my Integra.

TheColl

very nice, congrats and best of luck

Muckie

Fine car, nice to see something different
out and about on the roads, bet the kick from
the turbo has you smiling!

Mini-E

I also have an r34, gets closer to 15mpg on road, and about half that on track:o

The-Game

Congratulations would love to pick one up myself at some stage.

Any pics?

Midnight_EG

Not believing this until I see pics :cool:

Watch Ryder

Midnight_EG wrote: »

Not believing this until I see pics :cool:

Ok midnight man....

Just for you here's first my facts page about them, featuring my machine:

http://www.squidoo.com/nissanskyline

And some pictures too:





Inside the beast:



Enjoy

Matt Simis

Needs more screens and radio buttons IMO.


:pac:

mickdw

Heavy on juice at 30 mpg? You are in for some shock when you figure out what it really burns!
I like those cars for what they can do but christ its bad inside.

DonJose

mickdw wrote: »

I like those cars for what they can do but christ its bad inside.

I've seen worse

Atomic Pineapple

whats wrong with the inside?

The-Game

draffodx wrote: »

whats wrong with the inside?

I see nothing wrong inside either, lovely car it looks immaculate Watch Ryder

Matt Simis

draffodx wrote: »

whats wrong with the inside?

Come on now, stop trolling..

Atomic Pineapple

Matt Simis wrote: »

Come on now, stop trolling..

It has a typical double din jap stereo in it, easily changed if its not your style.

It then has a turbo timer, essential for making sure the turbos are cooled down properly.

It also has gauges installed that are also essential for monitoring the state of the engine.

I can also see an Apexi controller which allows the manipulation of how much boost the car is using.

The inside may not be as pretty as you like but it all provides functionality that is more important in such a car than some pretty curved dash.

Its not like some piece of **** that has neons built into the dash or something

Matt Simis

draffodx wrote: »

The inside may not be as pretty as you like but it all provides functionality that is more important in such a car than some pretty curved dash.

Its not like some piece of **** that has neons built into the dash or something

You are crossing functionality with aesthetics.
No one is saying it isnt functional and no one needs to hear the whole "but I only care about car's technical merits debate again". The only comment we were making is the outside looks pretty sweet (visually) and the interior looks pretty naff (visually). Functional, expected, doesnt bother the owners, whatever, its just an observation and it doesnt diminish from the fact its a Skyline afterall (ie a good thing).

I like to have my cake and eat it, there is absolutely no reason why good aesthetic or ergonomic interiors cannot be married with technical readouts, except the limits of interior designers imagination (or budget). This interior is fine but overshadowed by the rest of the package.


EDIT: Hmm, just remembed I actually put swirly LEDs into my interior, prolly not the one to be making this case.

Atomic Pineapple

what I was trying to say is I'd rather it was functional and ugly than done up to look like the inside of a spaceship.

I mistook your initial post to mean you thought the functional elements in the interior were what was wrong and not the way they were displayed

Mini-E

I agree with both of the above, the interior is fuctional but a little bland, but no different that any other japanese car of the same year. Iv had so many japanese cars all the interiors are similar, a basic dash and steering wheel.

The skyline i have now is by far the best interior out of all iv owned, but that came at a very high £££:o

Matt Simis

draffodx wrote: »

what I was trying to say is I'd rather it was functional and ugly than done up to look like the inside of a spaceship.

I mistook your initial post to mean you thought the functional elements in the interior were what was wrong and not the way they were displayed

Ah no, I had similar boost and pressure guages in my S4, had to put them in myself though.

Watch Ryder

Good to hear

Alls well ends well

Happy New Year all!

Midnight_EG

I still can't believe this until I see personal pics, such as an Irish reg or Irish street etc :cool:

Watch Ryder

Midnight_EG wrote: »

I still can't believe this until I see personal pics, such as an Irish reg or Irish street etc :cool:

Sorry midnight man but I blot out reg plates for privacy matters and the fact I don't want criminals tracking down numberplates to houses and stealing skylines!

Just for you here's another pic though



Interior is fine for me. Some might like ultra chic and overblown interiors but spartan functional with a dash of chic does the trick for me with these machines...

Midnight_EG

Even the year and county shall do mate, so until then I cannot believe this car is in Ireland

Mini-E

Midnight_EG wrote: »

Even the year and county shall do mate, so until then I cannot believe this car is in Ireland

Haha, why is it so hard to belive

Darragh29

Should this not be in Modified Motors?

Matt Simis

Watch Ryder wrote: »

Sorry midnight man but I blot out reg plates for privacy matters and the fact I don't want criminals tracking down numberplates to houses and stealing skylines!

You need to think like a criminal, not an IT nerd.
If I was going to steal a Skyline I would very simply go to a Jap Car meetup, do a bit a social engineering (ie talk to you) then follow you home and take it from there. Seeing your reg plate, in person or on some random forum, wouldnt really help much now would it?
When a seller sells a car in the US, not only do they show the Reg Plate, they also provide the Chassis Number (VIN). Trying to sell without a VIN and it raises red flags. Merely ask for the VIN from an Irish seller and they are liable to hang up and run to the Garda staton.

TJJP

draffodx wrote: »

what I was trying to say is I'd rather it was functional and ugly than done up to look like the inside of a spaceship.

I mistook your initial post to mean you thought the functional elements in the interior were what was wrong and not the way they were displayed

You can never have too many well placed clocks (mind you the pugly quad rack turbo timers are out of shot here).

ronnie3585

Not a jap car fan at all but that's very nice.

Love the wheels.

Gary ITR

Midnight_EG wrote: »

Even the year and county shall do mate, so until then I cannot believe this car is in Ireland

Nobody cares if you believe him or not. The nature of this forum means we have to take people at face value

Midnight_EG

Onkle wrote: »

Nobody cares if you believe him or not. The nature of this forum means we have to take people at face value

I, ehm....don't remember asking did anybody care?

Was just voicing my opinion o_O

james1410

thats really nice! a great combination with the black and them rims! im not really into jap cars either but i do like the nissans and old school supras ect.. but that is one nice motor!:D

Watch Ryder

Matt Simis wrote: »

You need to think like a criminal, not an IT nerd.
If I was going to steal a Skyline I would very simply go to a Jap Car meetup, do a bit a social engineering (ie talk to you) then follow you home and take it from there. Seeing your reg plate, in person or on some random forum, wouldnt really help much now would it?
When a seller sells a car in the US, not only do they show the Reg Plate, they also provide the Chassis Number (VIN). Trying to sell without a VIN and it raises red flags. Merely ask for the VIN from an Irish seller and they are liable to hang up and run to the Garda staton.

LOL! You'd have to catch me first Matty boy!

Watch Ryder

james1410 wrote: »

thats really nice! a great combination with the black and them rims! im not really into jap cars either but i do like the nissans and old school supras ect.. but that is one nice motor!:D

Cheers for that James

Mini-E

TJJP wrote: »

You can never have too many well placed clocks (mind you the pugly quad rack turbo timers are out of shot here).

Iv a gtr so no need for any gauges:D
Just flick to whatever you want on the mfd screen....

Plug

Mini-E wrote: »

Iv a gtr so no need for any gauges:D
Just flick to whatever you want on the mfd screen....

I have a Bugatti veyron:P

Mini-E

Plug wrote: »

I have a Bugatti veyron:P

Fair play:rolleyes:

Graham_B18C

Midnight_EG wrote: »

I, ehm....don't remember asking did anybody care?

Was just voicing my opinion o_O

I dunno why you doubt it so much, granted they're no the most common car but it's not like he's saying he has an R35 GTR, like here's an R34 GTS-T for 8k.

http://hiltonmotors.webzone.ie/usedcars/index.cfm?fuseaction=car&carID=201001196424655

I've driven by 3 R34's in the last 3 weeks, one of which was a blue GTR (could of been a Spec V but it was pretty dark)

LIGHTNING wrote: »

The only gauges you need in a sportscar are a oil pressure and RPM anything else is just showing off!

A boost guage is nice too to be fair. And if I had a Skyline i'd be showing off too

Midnight_EG

Grahamo999 wrote: »

I dunno why you doubt it so much, granted they're no the most common car but it's not like he's saying he has an R35 GTR, like here's an R34 GTS-T for 8k.

http://hiltonmotors.webzone.ie/usedcars/index.cfm?fuseaction=car&carID=201001196424655

I've driven by 3 R34's in the last 3 weeks, one of which was a blue GTR (could of been a Spec V but it was pretty dark)



A boost guage is nice too to be fair. And if I had a Skyline i'd be showing off too

I just can't believe it because of the video's and pictures posted.
The first video, as we are told, was held at Haigh Hall, and after some googling tell's me is in Wigan. Then I followed the video back to youtube, to Watch Ryders account, which tells us he's in Thailand?
That 'Squidoo' site is just an online blog of sorts and has no real truth/standing behind it, and at that it barely has anything about the OP's 'Skyline'.
Now this is where it gets fun, I also searched that site for skylineowners, and found out that GT-R you apparently own is a GT-T, as I suspected from the GT-T badge on the side, and no visible GT-R sign on the front grille nor any rear photos.
And my evidence?
Here you go

Graham_B18C

He never said it was a GTR, he said its a single turbo not a twin, look at the OP.

The single turbo is the GT T or GTS T. The twin turbo is a GTR

Midnight_EG

Oh sorry, referred to the wrong poster, I saw Mini-E's reply about a GT-R screen thingy whatever.

Still, the car is in Wigan or somewhere else at least, whereas our OP is in Thailand apparently?

btkm8unsl0w5r4

And these post on a thai forum in 2008 with the same pictures from the same photobucket account.??? and some guy who is in the UK and asia on skylineowners (who post about thailand a lot) has that same car since 2008.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Skyline-t187368.html&mode=linear
and here
http://www.skylineowners.com/forum/showthread.php?p=930893

Watch Ryder wrote: »

Finally got my dream machine; a Nissan Skyline R34.

....:rolleyes: Shenanigans, on the chronology at least, I was finally born yesterday.

Plug

This is all very confusing:D

Mini-E

LIGHTNING wrote: »

The only gauges you need in a sportscar are a oil pressure and RPM anything else is just showing off!

I agree, not on a sports car, but a tuned high performance car is a different matter. Gauges are really only a matter of safety for your car, if something is wrong you'll know about it and be able to prevent anything very nasty happening;)


@midnight_eg; holy moly your really looking into this, so much for the previous post "The nature of this forum means we have to take people at face value"

Its a nice car for whoever owns it:D

Watch Ryder

If I would of encountered such a nanny attitude from some of you folk I don't think I'd of bothered with such a thread here.

Did the Spanish Inquisition just get here or something?

Tell me what is the problem with having more than one thread about Skylines and also why I'm not allowed to travel around the UK with it or Asia for that matter?

Am I somehow bonded to IE forum and must keep everything here? That's not what life or the internet is about.
So I'll keep doing what I'm doing and the nay-sayers can just push off and get a life for all I'm concerned.

To the folk who've been supportive and provided vital feedback thanks. I'm getting the lens to a brilliant shape and will be inserting an aknowledgment module in shortly

Ok, back to the flow of things.
One thing I do want to eventually do with my Skyline is get a multi-function display.
Having the multi-clocks is cool and everything but the display is the way forward.
Getting these onto a GTT isn't easy but is doable by a specialist.
Are the multi-function displays on the GTR reliable or do they have any flaws or niggles etc?



Cheers.

Midnight_EG

Watch Ryder wrote: »

If I would of encountered such a nanny attitude from some of you folk I don't think I'd of bothered with such a thread here.

Did the Spanish Inquisition just get here or something?

Tell me what is the problem with having more than one thread about Skylines and also why I'm not allowed to travel around the UK with it or Asia for that matter?

Am I somehow bonded to IE forum and must keep everything here? That's not what life or the internet is about.
So I'll keep doing what I'm doing and the nay-sayers can just push off and get a life for all I'm concerned.

How come you don't have personal pics of the car is my problem?

And I don't need anybody else jumping on me about not believing him, right!

btkm8unsl0w5r4

You have to admit that this car is not a new car for you as per the OP (if you own it at all you have had it since 2007-2008).....so why are you misleading boardsies, do you crave our attention? It asks me what else you are fibbing about...

I declare Shenanigans

Mini-E

Watch Ryder wrote: »

Ok, back to the flow of things.
One thing I do want to eventually do with my Skyline is get a multi-function display.
Having the multi-clocks is cool and everything but the display is the way forward.
Getting these onto a GTT isn't easy but is doable by a specialist.
Are the multi-function displays on the GTR reliable or do they have any flaws or niggles etc?



Cheers.

The MFD is a nice bit of kit, i keep mine on the main display which gives various readings(no gauges on screen), this includes boost, throttle, injector, oil temp, water temp, egt's and intake temp. Mine is a vspec so has egt's and intake temp as extra, non vspec wont have these. Also, the pic you posted is from a higher later spec gtr again, and would be available on cars such as nur spec gtr's. These has a higher boost reading and a few other extra bits, its available as an upgrade on any mfd from nismo but is quite expensive. I find the display most useful on trackdays as you can preset maximun limits with which will warn you once the limit is reached, eg; oil temp being the main one, but also handy to keep an eye on boost and egt's.

I also use my standard cd player through the mdf too which is cool, it also has a tv and sat nav, but both are japanese so dont work. It also has a shift light which can be preset to whatever (mine@8000rpm). All in its pretty cool but id imagine it would still be difficult enought to set up in another car, as dont forget you'll need all the sensors for everything aswell as the mfd itself, although it is possible as iv seen pics of them installed on r33's.

kennethk

beast of a car!..only ever drove a gt-st (i think:p) say it puts a smile on your face every time you drive it!

CianRyan

Lovely car alright.
This all seems like bollocks, though.

Are Mini-E and Watch Ryder, the same person?

Watch Ryder

CianRyan wrote: »

This all seems like bollocks, though.

Are Mini-E and Watch Ryder, the same person?

What are you talking about?

That's like me saying you an Fitz are the same poster you muppet

Tell you what, you two can think the car isn't mine and I'm just some fan posting pictures of sportscars I don't own.
If that keeps you happy then who am I to argue :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: