VR4 On Track Times - well chuffed !

[Spirit]

As some of you may have seen I took part in my first track day at the weekend - there are photos and videos on the forums already. We have just received the official timings for the day, there were 4 different layouts and these are the fastest laps recorded for each car on each course (many had two or three goes at each course):

LAYOUT 1

Nissan 200SX 23.19
Supra TT 24.34
Impreza WRX 24.36
Skyline GTS 25.03
Skyline GTR 25.16
VR4 25.49
Black MR2 26.51
Silver MR2 28.14

LAYOUT 2

Nissan 200SX 26.44
Impreza WRX 26.59
VR4 26.88
Supra TT 27.19
Skyline GTS 27.34
Black MR2 27.40
Skyline GTR 28.75
Silver MR2 30.27

LAYOUT 3

Nissan 200SX 34.30
Supra TT 34.92
VR4 35.03
Skyline GTS 35.44
Impreza WRX 35.50
Skyline GTR 36.24
Black MR2 37.16
Silver MR2 38.70

LAYOUT 4

Nissan 200SX 27.87
VR4 28.14
Skyline GTS 29.12
Supra TT 29.38
Black MR2 29.69
Skyline GTR 29.91
Impreza WRX / Silver MR2 - retired

[SGHOM]

cracking times Pete, well done !!! showed them scoobys what a proper car can do !!! :-D :-D

[Spirit]

As with most Scooby drivers he was mad :-D Ended up damaging his turbo in the end (hence he retired), to be honest I was more chuffed to beat the Skylines ;)

[Brind]

Certainly did well mate.

What type of 200 was it, the S13 (up to J reg) or an S14 J reg onwards?
You've gotta love 200SX's, superb under rated cars!!!!!

[RAVEN]

Excellent times Pete. You may make a racing car driver yet, huh? :-D Nice one.

[Spirit]

What type of 200 was it, the S13 (up to J reg) or an S14 J reg onwards?


It's an R reg vehicle

[ReggieK]

It's an R reg vehicle

It can't possibly be a standard 200SX can it. I mean they only put out about 200bhp don't they?

[Nick Mann]

197bhp as standard, I believe. But two wheel drive, so if it is manual as well it will lose much less to the wheels than Pete. (Or me, or you!) I guess it's lighter as well. It probably wouldn't be far off in standard form. But it would lose in the wet for sure and it can't carry the family and luggage as well!

[Spirit]

Quite right Nick - was a dry track and a manual - and the guy knew how to handle it for sure :veryangry

[Nick Mann]

And you obviously did as well! It's an impressive list of cars you have with longer times than you!

[Spirit]

I got right into it mate and was very impressed how the car handled and had loads of people comment on how impressed they were - was the surprise of the day for most :-D

[Brind]

R reg will be the latest shape which is much heavier and bigger than the S13.

0-60 in the S13 is around 6 and half seconds and our VR-4's are around the late 5's to low 6's.. standard Vs standard.
The S14 is slightly slower than the S13 but does have more power, I believe it has a very slight higher top end.
S13 can do a quarter mile in around 16 seconds so you will find it quite hard to shake one! if it takes off before you.
As for handling! if you know the car well! you can make it do anything, you take it lightly and it'll kill you! :undecided I have one and managed to spin it coming off of a roundabout near me... much respect for the car now and will never trust it again, that said, if it had wider wheels and better/lower suspension it will be alot better.

Saw one on track at Japfest last year, and it was amazing to watch.

[zedy1]

that great info for comapring the vr4 with the other cars, were the skylines standard and what were your boost settings?

[Spirit]

The GTS is standard but the GTR has a few upgrades like Nismo clutch etc but the guy admits he needs more track practice.

I was running at 1.0 bar - forgot to reset ecu too :$ - track was more of a driving circuit than speed (only reached 70 - 75 on the long straight) - so shows how well balanced the car is (maybe my lower springs helped too) to beat a Impreza WRX on a couple tracks, shame there was no Evo's there either