First off, Anthony, why do you always get on some righteous totally serious rant on this forum, trying to be the voice of reason or whatever and going on about people starting **** etc.
WHO CARES,
you sound like youre 40 when youre talking like that, let people go at it, its fun!!!
Fun like this, just watch:
RICKY SILEIGHTY said:
I agree, BMW's are great cars but you could never compare one to a Nissan.
Compare? that's right they ARENT comparable. Even Nissan knows that they can't compete with BMW and specifically released the Infiniti brand to do battle with the likes of BMW. Have you even been in a new BMW ? Do yourself a favor and go to a dealer, maybe you will understand after that. And let it be known that BMW manufactures luxury SPORTCARS, not sporty LUXURY cars like lexus and Mercedes. BMW is the ONLY manufacturer to offer a large sedan in the USA with a MANUAL transmission.
RICKY SILEIGHTY said:
Put it like this take your chioce BMW and put it up against a Nismo R tuned GT-R who do you think is going to come out on top??? Maybe an F1 Mclaren but now your talking about a $600,000 car and the Nismo GT-R is a $120,000.
McLaren is a McLaren, made in England by the company originally founded by the late great Bruce McLaren. It uses a BMW engine (hrmm I wonder why?), but it is NOT a BMW, it's simply the greatest drivers car ever built.
You should probably consider cars like the M3 CSL --$70,000 (first OEM car to use combination steel. aluminum, and bonded carbon fiber for mass production),
Or maybe the M3 GT-R, but not too many of them were built and the prices went way up. I think original price was $120,000
But those arent sold in America, just like the Skyline isn't sold here, so let's compare the best Nissan has to offer, vs the best BMW can muster. What can I get at my local nissan dealer today? 350Z track model? Ok deal, and I'll stop by the BMW dealer and grab a Competition package M3 with the SMG transmission, which shifts faster than a Ferrari Enzo.
Wow, my Z makes 300hp from 3.5L while my BMW makes 333hp from 3.2L, thats just amazing.
But wait a sec, the BMW costs more hmmmmm... maybe that has something to do with 5 leather seats instead of 2 cloth ones, or computerized sequential gearbox, or aluminum body panels, or hydraulic variable differential or 6 throttle bodies or a useable trunk or..... yea you get the picture (I hope). You might also educate yourself about what sort of Nürburgring times both of these cars are capable of.
RICKY SILEIGHTY said:
As I said before BMW is a great car but till the day I see a BMW take a D1 or FD tittle it won't mean a thing when you say some BMW took a tittle in a drifting event in Germany or wherever that thing took place.
It honestly doesn't matter. Like other people said in this thread is about the driver, and also when a car is fully prepared as a drift car, almost anything can be competitive (don't think so? wait 6months and see my next project)
RICKY SILEIGHTY said:
If I had a choice I would take a porshe GT3 or 996 turbo and pound the crap out of any BMW and yes I know its also a German car
If your 'pounding' is going to involve drifting, please invite me to watch, and make sure you take out a good insurance policy on that 911 because you obviously have no idea what youre getting into. Short wheelbase is one thing (about 93inch) but rear engine is a whole new world and I promise you it's not easy. Aside from that, Porsche's are some of the most robust cars in the world and WILL take one hell of a beating, especially the air-cooled cars.
I think some of you have smoked a bit too much JDM GranTurismo crack. All these kids in America who would take an elephant c0ck in the @55 to own a skyline are RETARDED, it's not that great of a car.
It's really funny how much better of a car the Toyota Supra is but kids here dont love it because it isnt some rare JDM bul|sh|t.
I'm honestly a pretty unbiased person when it comes to cars and I know them inside and out from every technical standpoint. The Skyline is cool, its quick, and I really like the way R33 and R32's look. They're just plain not as good of a car as a Supra, but they have legend status in japan because it was the first car to have TT AWD 4WS Inline6 (perfection in the mind of the 80's performance car designer), the original 'Godzilla' car.
Now on to the S-chassis, racing, SCCA, JGTC etc etc.
if any of you fools had ever seen JGTC cars in person or detailed pictures inside and out, you would know that they are what is more commonly referred to as 'silhouette cars'. Please google that term and get familiar with it. basically JGTC cars only resemble the real car. They used to be required to maintain the same suspension design and mostly stock body shells, but everyone pushed the limits. The silvias were and ARE pretty much tube-frames with the unibody still tagging along for the ride on top of what was/IS fully custom designed suspension.
Or how bout that AE86 that ran in JGTC all the way until 2001. It was basically a AE86 shell strapped onto an Indycar with the engine moved up front. It broke most of the rules, but was allowed because of the heritage the Ae86 has in Japan.
These days the only requirement is that the cars retain the original shell from the firewall to the rear-bulkhead (or rollbar in most cars). That's it, in front of that or behind it, the car can be purely tubeframe, and even within the 'original' unibody it's all tubes, just cleverly attached to the shell.
If you guys want to compare cars you have to compare similar things here and know what you're talking about, and for JGTC, the only comparable european cars are modern DTM cars, which are one step further than JGTC. DTM requires a full factory outer shell, but the ENTIRE structure is computer designed tubeframe. The drivers sit nearly in the middle and are almost in the back seat of the real car. They all run a spec rear mounted x-trac trans and the suspension is basically F1 stuff. The Audi's dont even have Audi engines since they didn't have a V8 that met the rule requirements, so they have a fully custom built engine, that is based on....... a BMW block.
Anthony is right about the 240sx and SCCA not allowing engine swaps for most competitive classes. But keep in mind that JGTC seems to allow the Japanese car teams to develop their cars more highly, and the only Factory efforts in the series come from..... duh JAPANESE manufacturers. Vipers (factory 500hp) are forced to run in the GT300 class with insanely small intake restrictors to limit their hp to around 300-350. And the yellowcorn McLaren F1 runs severely penalized for having a carbon chassis and also has an intake restrictor
Harri is also right about SCCA World challenge touring class and how badly they handicap the BMW's. (the handicaps change each event according to the race director, but usually the BMW's are running less rpm, worse weight dist, more minimum weight, and narrower/harder tires than the competition)
If touring class said:
1-This is minimum weight,
2-maximum tire size,
3-mandatory intake restrictor size
and gave no penalties for wins,
the BMW's would dominate, the the only competition coming from maybe the Mercedes C230
WHY? the BMW's have better weight distribution than the main competition (Acuras), stiffer chassis, and a more torquey engine.
I personally do not believe in penalty racing classes. Racing should be that you build a car to a rulebook. Everyone has the same rules, same specs, same minimums and maximums and they show up on race day, pass tech and race. That's the way BTCC was and eventually they banned the RWD cars (BMW's) because they wre dominating.
Oh, and if you want to go racing, the only manufacturer that will provide you more support for a factory built racecar than BMW is Porsche.
But hey, what do I know, I drive a diesel truck, I own two S13's and want to buy a Toyota Previa..... Typical insecure biased BMW asshole here.
-Sean