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What are they teaching kids in school these days?

It was in the Production class. It was standard except for: - Carbon bonnet, carbon boot lid - Carbon mirrors - Wheels and tires - Suspension - Roll cage, race seat, harness, fire extinguisher - Onboard jacks - Bigger oil cooler - Ducting cut into front bar - Exhaust tips - Lexan rear quarter windows - Racing fuel cell What was stock was: - Engine - The body (minus the bonnet and boot) including no extra welding - Drivetrain - Brakes - Much of the exhaust - Most of the windows I'm probably forgetting some things but yeah. To finish the race is a good result in proving the reliability and durability of the GT-R as a production car.

I will explain it all in a sec in detail, gotta run to the shops but in a nutshell the number after the letters denotes the engine capacity. The letters denote the class. ST = Super Taikyu EC = Eco Class IP = International production 4 = 3000cc and over.

Great work so far in recovering some/all the stolen goods. I was extremely pissed when I heard JJ had been broken into and the scale of things was huge. It's good to hear the NSW Police have made such great progress with the investigation so quickly. Hope the recovery of everything inc the Evo goes well. Can't wait to see you guys back to 100% in the near future.

Awesome that you were there. I personally wish I had made it out but travelling just for this race is an expensive luxury I couldn't justify Anyways It's a production car in a Super Taikyu race. Not to mention the tires handicap. 7 seconds isn't so bad. Lot's of dramas and unknowns going into the race. Next time they'll know a lot more in terms of what to expect and what to keep an eye on. The exhaust was basically stock except for cat removal and tips welded on. I'm surprised the brakes looked so good after they pulled them off the car.

We should petition for a re-shoot with launch control being used.

Yes the hub bolt issue would have most certainly been a human stuff up. The race is over the GT-R finished the race in 21st position of 28 cars. To even finish is great news and the team is thrilled to have done it.

woohoo took 20th spot.

They make them now... At least in prototype form. The GT-R is still battling away. Been a few more problems. Drive shafts had to be replaced. Then all the hub bolts broke on a rear wheel but they made it back into the pits some how. Both were fairly long pit stops though. Still out there now clawing its way back up. In 21st place now.

Refueling problems caused a 35+ minute pit stop. It's in last place now.

Not much to say. The GT-R started in 5th on the grid and had an amazing start but has dropped back to 17th now. It can't keep up in the corners with the Super Taikyu ST1/ST2 cars. Race started at 15:00 so it's been going 2:35mins now

It was a privately owned JDM grey import.

actually, Clarkson is right. Each GT-R's transmission is coded for that GT-R's transmission's ECU and if you replace the transmission you must connect to the transmission computer with Consult III w/ the GT-R card installed and update it for that transmission. Of course this isn't necessarily the only way to do it but it's how Nissan say it must be done. http://www.nissan-techinfo.com/dept.aspx?dept_id=23

Video is now online: Top Gear: GT-R vs. Bullet Train - It's Here!

This was posted a while back already. I'll find the thread and merge it.

Didn't you get the memo. Nissan ship GT-R's with these paint "features" built in. They are not defects at all! Nice work!

The costs associated with importing, testing and gaining approval for the R35 GT-R are high. Any entity going into this will have significant outlay which they will only have limited means to recover. The importation and selling of these cars is a risky business venture. Factoring costs of acquiring the test vehicle, test costs, fees etc and then factor in that you can only do 25 of them and even then there is a small number of guys willing to pay top dollar for a grey import vs. waiting for Nissan to bring them in and you quickly see why compliance needs to be $20k for it to even be a worthwhile investment. Will 25 per workshop even sell? Time will tell.

Was a great outing. Some photos up of the 35 but also got some of lots of GT-R's and that widebody GTS-T that got up on two wheels. Paul was this you driving? Cold Tires? Got a few more of you I think i'll look around. First Gallery @ http://www.gtrblog.com/index.php/2008/07/0...hoto-gal?blog=4 Ill upload a lot more soon.

I think you'd find that the ZR-1's Michelin Pilot Sport Cup tires are a lot more suited to setting lap times than the GT-R's shitty run flats.

There are JDM GT-R's in the UK. Quite a few. At least one has been flogged around the TG test track. Not sure if the Stig has had a go around the TG track yet in one though. Hopefully a JDM GT-R will suffice for there purposes or we could be waitin til next season

35 GT-R will do 10's on the stock engine on stock tires with stock interior so obviously a lighter car would do it too.

Which is what he did... His R35 is in Australia already.

Travel.com.au. I don't know of any packages just yet but I generally use Travel.com.au to scope out seat availability because their interface is great then ring around to try and price beat it. TAS2008 I paid big $$'s for ideal flights so next year I wanna be a bit more flexible. If you're in Sydney theres a Japanese specific travel agent near the monorail entrance down from Kinokuniya.

i'd just say "well duh"!

Full photo gallery of this car now up on GTRBlog.com: http://www.gtrblog.com/index.php/2008/06/1...san-gt-r?blog=4