Jump to content
SAU Community

1992 Bathurst R32 Gtr Skyline

DoriftoTengoku
 Share

Recommended Posts

DoriftoTengoku Contributor

DoriftoTengoku

Posted
Posted

Hey all

I don't know if this would interest any of you, But i'll do it anyways.

I had a contracted job to do at the Nissan factory in Dandenong early this morning.

Made my way down there, On site at 7:50am on a Saturday morning, What do I see in the display part of the main front office?

This beauty:

post-64700-1247874959_thumb.jpg post-64700-1247875091_thumb.jpg post-64700-1247875160_thumb.jpg post-64700-1247875198_thumb.jpg post-64700-1247875232_thumb.jpg post-64700-1247875291_thumb.jpg

Majority should know of this car; I can just remember that it won the 1992 bathurst? Driven by Skaife and Richards. This was the Skyline that put the V8's out, And became hated by every V8 enthusiast possible yes?

Anywho, It looked fantastic in the flesh; Looked cool too in the front part of the Nissan Head Office, Because if you can see in the pictures, There are small Japanese emblems and ornimants(sp?) around it... Looks traditional Jap.

Got to start her up momentarily and sit in it.. Can't get over how clean and what condition its in.

Enjoy :thumbsup:

Link to comment
Share on other sites
  • 2 weeks later...
  • 2 weeks later...
Jetwreck Grand Master

Jetwreck

Posted
Posted
Got to start her up momentarily and sit in it..

Cool....you actually got to sit in and start it.....how did you get the OK for.......... :down: ......is it still there I might have to go and check it out as I'm down in Vic next week.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
GTRNUR Grand Master

GTRNUR

Posted
Posted

Im curious to know at what point the V8 super cars started lapping bathurst faster than this R32 was back in 1992. I cant remember which year they shortened the main straight too, so I presume it would have been before that due to them running 300k's down conrod straight.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Jetwreck Grand Master

Jetwreck

Posted
Posted
Im curious to know at what point the V8 super cars started lapping bathurst faster than this R32 was back in 1992. I cant remember which year they shortened the main straight too, so I presume it would have been before that due to them running 300k's down conrod straight.

Well the V8's qualified quicker than it in 1993...so 1993......but it took em until 2001 to really start making a difference in lap times.

As said in Wheels Magazine this year.......If Skaife was to use his 92 Oran Park qualifying time he wold have qualified 5th for the V8 round in 2008(providing there fact were right)....not bad for a car made 16 years earlier.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
GT-R32 Grand Master

GT-R32

Posted
Posted
Well the V8's qualified quicker than it in 1993...so 1993......but it took em until 2001 to really start making a difference in lap times.

As said in Wheels Magazine this year.......If Skaife was to use his 92 Oran Park qualifying time he wold have qualified 5th for the V8 round in 2008(providing there fact were right)....not bad for a car made 16 years earlier.

And the V8 Supercars have nothing to do with the bodies they carry around underneath, plus have more power.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
GTRNUR Grand Master

GTRNUR

Posted
Posted
And the V8 Supercars have nothing to do with the bodies they carry around underneath, plus have more power.

Makes you wonder what the old Gibson cars would do with modern tyre technology then, considering the advancements made there in the last 10+ years.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
brodie7 Apprentice

brodie7

Posted
Posted

this thing is crazy!

i found this vid of Mark gibbs it in around bathurst, soo fast, watch it eat up the first corner,soo much mid and turn in corner speed, v8 supercar's today have nothing on it.

and i found this on wikipedia about the R32 gtr in general, made me laugh

"The GT-R name was revived in 1989 with the Skyline R32. This car was nicknamed "Godzilla" by the Australian motoring publication "Wheels" in its July 1989 edition, a name that sticks to this day. The R32 GT-R surprisingly dominated the motorsport in Japan, winning a 29 straight victories out of 29 races. The GT-R proceeded to win the JTC Group A series championship 4 years in a row, and also had success in the Australian Touring Car Championship winning from 1990-1992, until the GT-R was outlawed in 1993."

kinda seems suitable

Link to comment
Share on other sites
GTRNUR Grand Master

GTRNUR

Posted
Posted

Its very impressive heading down from the top of the mountain to.

So there goes the rest of my evening... watching 92 bathurst footage.

The Johnson vs Scaife battle at the start of the race is great. Its like watching Scaife trying to pressure Johnson into making a mistake. Smat move letting him pass. Less taxing following the guy thats setting the pace.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMhj22QLH1Y

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share
Go to topic listing


  • Similar Content

  • Latest Posts

    • Nightmare_mistress_R33
      CD009 RB Conversion

      By Nightmare_mistress_R33 · Posted

      I am currently going this route. I am curious how much horse power you put behind the cut bell housing? Collins was telling me I am going to crack it and bluh bluh bluh. Because I didn’t buy the custom fly wheel from him. I am looking for somewhere around like 500 hp
    • Beanie
      Hello from the UK

      By Beanie · Posted

      Forgot to mention that these are the before pics when I first got it!
    • Beanie
      Hello from the UK

      By Beanie · Posted

      Thanks @PranK for the updated member status, much appreciated! 👍🏼 Now, about those pics… Unfortunately I could only find ones that I took in the dark. I was soon to discover that underneath it wasn’t in the best shape, but it was mine and that’s all I cared about at the time 😆
    • r32-25t
      PRP RB26 cast block + head prototype running

      By r32-25t · Posted

      Buy one
    • GTSBoy
      A little PU bush story

      By GTSBoy · Posted

      Oh, and only having done this task yesterday, I've now driven the car ~60km since, and while it is hard to avoid placebo effect and confirmation bias, I reckon that some annoyances I had with the way the car has been behaving have improved. Which....kinda makes sense, I guess. If the bushes were really stiff and resisting rotation, they would have been contributing to the effective wheel rate. And if it was more so on one side (which it was, because one side was worse than the other) then.... you might imagine that the additional rate would be asymmetric, and potentially even different between compression and rebound. And so... the car has been twitchy at higher speeds - like freeway on ramps. It really shouldn't be. The wheel alignment is good and there are no (other) known problems elsewhere in the suspension. But at 90-100 on a long sweeping ramp, tiny steering wheel motions would make it feel like it wanted to rear steer. Quite nervous. At lower speeds it would heave about in a manner that it didn't use to. Didn't want to put power down, etc etc. Now...seems to behave better. Am going to have to concentrate on the various corners where it has exhibited weirdness, on the rare occasions when I can get a decent run at them without Methanial getting in the way in his D-Max/Ranger/LDV Van/etc.
×
×
  • Create New...