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unfourtunately the skyline wasn't there. i was looking forward to that. and as far as the white "silvia" goes, it was just a 240sx with silvia badges on it that you can buy off ebay. silvias are only sold in japan. not sure if he had a swap or anything. it was a nice car but i'm not a fan of putting jdm badges on usdm cars.
'91 Nissan 240sx Fastback Superhicas
My cardomain site
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i read on the winnipeg forum that he did not have his suspension yet, the skyline.
as for the silvia..well i saw badging and called it that. since i am far from knowing the difference of JDM or USDM. it was pretty clean though.so is this skyline legit then?
where i read about his suspension he was saying he had an STI before the skyline and its AWD was superior.Monty
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i suppose advancement help out a bit.
he was talking about the proportions and when they were applied.
whatever though.Monty
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will have to find that thread and link it.
i do not recall exactly what he said so i will not comment.
and well i did not even know til verry recently that skylines were AWD. tells you how much i know about the imports.Monty
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wannabe wrote:
do r32s have electronically adjustable power distribution? didn't think so!Yeah but GT-Rs are 100% RWD until the car has some rear wheel slipping then they switch to 50/50 power distribution... I dont know for sure, but I dont think an STi can do that?
I do beleive the skyline is still hailed as having the best power distribution to date... and no one has re-created it yet.
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As far as i know the best awd system to date is the audi quattro or the vw 4motion. As well as the Evo 8 has an outstanding stabuity system in it. The quattro system was banned from many racing events because they far superior. As for the Subaru having a good AWD system (they do) but is has been campared to the 70s verson of the Quattro system.
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meh, skylines arent all their cracked up to be.
hooraw. saw an R34 at HIN. didnt jaw drop or anything.
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Hatchling wrote:
As far as i know the best awd system to date is the audi quattro or the vw 4motion. As well as the Evo 8 has an outstanding stabuity system in it. The quattro system was banned from many racing events because they far superior. As for the Subaru having a good AWD system (they do) but is has been campared to the 70s verson of the Quattro system.Depends what you want your AWD system to do for you. Subaru's AWD all the time which makes them a great candidate for WRC type events compared to AWD systems that only apply power to the front wheels when they detect wheel spin. Subaru pretty much pioneered the modern AWD system and is considered by many to be the only real competition that Jeep has for AWD/4WD design and enginuity and reliability. I'm not saying the Quattro is a bad AWD system as I've never driven a quattro, just stating what I have read/heard, so take it for what its worth
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well hopefully this link works to his thread
http://www.wpg-autox.org/cgi-bin/yabbnew/YaBB.pl?board=news;action=display;num=1120925080i would assume AWD is good period. no matter who makes it. as it gives you more drive wheels in the event of wheelspin. but that is just my guess.
Monty
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While that is true, some AWD is better than no AWD, I tend to follow the school of thought that its nice to have predictable AWD w/ power going to all the wheels at all times rather than the computer thinking "don't need to power the front, don't need to power the front.....shit!!!!..spinning.....immediate power to the front......BAM understeer....shit....front is spinning.....BAM over steer due to lack of front wheel power allocation.....BAM guardrail"
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That's why the DCCD is a beautiful thing
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i would hope it is not that bad to adjust for wheelspin.
as that would suck bad. not only serious chance of accident, but revved up and slamming in cannot be good for parts. at least not to have a long fun life from them.Monty
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musthavemuzk wrote:
i must have been hearing things then. when that duster went across it sure sounded like free spinning wheels then a big chirp as he hit asphalt again.
could have been the heat making me delirious though.Monty
Hey monty you may be correct, but in my 4200 pounds of dodge, i didn't get air, at least nothing compared to the air i got in the gsx last year, so other cars may have, but not mine!!!
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well in all my years i have been wrong a time or xxx.
from where i was at i did not have a totally clean view of that area. so i was just going by what i thought i was seeing and what i thought i heard. as the heat increased i think i became dillusional.Monty
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well the skyline awd system was designed way beyond its years. the computer can adjust the power setting from 100 percent rear to all the way up to 50/50. the computer is very sensitive and VERY VERY fast to react to wheel spin (hundreths of a second). wouldn't this also get rid of the top end problem that awd systems have since when tires aren't spinning it is putting all power to just 2 wheels? here is an article scan down to transmission then attesa-ets.
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