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As of late i have noticed that every 2nd Skyline i have seen take off from a set of lights will hit the rev limiter in first (just to claify they werent racing me or anyone else). I don't understand why this is so, there is really no need to do it and purely no benefeit to it unless its to look "cool" but at best its annoying. I have asked many people about it but no-one seems to have any answers to it either so does anyone here know why or can make sense of it?
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It's because every second Skyline is being driven by a tryhard that has a need to prove how noisliy they can accelerate from a set of lights.
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twin cam RB engines rev pretty cleanly. coupled with the fact that they are geared short and usually driven by young blokes wanting to show how tuf they are.......
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last night i seen the quickest r32 gtr ive ever seen plates were r32-gtr we were in a 80 zone so i thought id give it some stick and he dissapered when i was mid through second, he must of thought i was still at the lights.
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Most skyline drivers are w@nkers, (no offense to anyone that drives a skyline)
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![]() ![]() Duh, that just doesn't make any sense!!
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I know the R32 skylines can rev to 8000rpm easy and still launch hard without destroying any diffs.
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Actually its quite funny around were I live most of the Skyline drivers are mature chaps in R32 and 33's and even i can 'beat' them taking off at the lights. That being, hell if you had a GTS-T and was under the age of 25, I bet you would take off from the lights fast too, but i do get some of the point, as long as they dont speed down the road above the limit or spin the wheels, it doesnt bother me.
They still arent as bad as commodore drivers ![]()
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i agree some of them are , but theyre not as bad as most of the commodore drivers around here... especially the ones in vns... groups of 4 or 5 of them crammed in, yelling and abusing and trying to start things... just pathetic... at least when the skylines get scared they can race off... the commodores usually just leave a smoke screen...
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Yeah im not trying to labelling all skyline drivers as idiots or anything with this thread as i know a few owners of skylines and they are decent blokes but there are a few, i've just noticed this trend of hitting the limiter at a takeoff and it doesnt make any sense, to me anyways.
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Gotta admit, the RB engines do sound nice, when reving freely though.
I've seen a few do it, but I think the real culprits are idiots in VNs and there's nothing worse then hearing the sound of a Auto rattle box, at high revs. ![]() |
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ive driven an r33, and its damn hard NOT to tramp it off the lights, they sound damn good and that needle spins around a whole lot quicker than you expect it to...
*shrugs* guess im a ******** then?
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Are you sure it just not the blow-off valve that you are hearing? If a Skyline was hitting it's limiter you would not be anywhere near it.
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I've got an EL as well as an AW11 MR2, and the thing is, when I'm driving the EL, there's no point revving it past 4500 rpm as its all over, it just makes a lot of noise and uses a lot of fuel. But in the MR2, its damn hard not to rev it right out to the 7600rpm limiter as its so much fun, and very addicitive. It makes peak power at 6600rpm, hardly uses any fuel doing so, and sounds sweet (and NO I don't have a cannon exhaust on it and I never will!)
Its all in the name of fun. Honestly, 5 years ago, when I got my first car, an '85 XF Falcon, I would never have thought I would own a 4 banger or *gasp* a toyota, but now that I own both, I prefer to drive the MR2, even though its 8 years older, its so much more fun and makes the Falcon feel like a boat. Can't beat a Falcon for comfortable, long haul, effortless cruising though.
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Just the addiction of boost. The most satisfying part of driving is flooring it to the limit. Just as many people with Commodores and Falcons are like that as well.
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last i seen you managed to get that gear change into 2nd done fairly well. no limiter seen there :P
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As if noone here has ever given the car stick off the lights.
Find more interesting things to post about.
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nah thats not what the topic is about dude, its about skyline drivers taking off from almost every set of lights being "cool" hitting the limiter all the time because they have a "cool car"
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good for them.
they obviously got your attention.
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And if you dont like kids hitting the limiter maybe you should stay home.
I bet your just sour because you were beaten by a P plater in his skyline who cant seem to change gears at the right time.
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You are so concerned about skyline owners hitting the limiter in their cars that you ask "many people" why they do it and are so concerned that you post a thread about it and you think I am taking things too seriously? :yeees:
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Im not the one blowing this way out of propotion, i am simply asking the question out of curiosity and to see what other people make of it.
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