Its owned by the F1 Renault boss!!! Think the Movit carbon ceramic brakes are north of £25k too

 

I saw the Forge one somewhere on the GTR forum, looks good. They do a finned tranny sump too, but not sure how much air that see's hidden above the rear diffuser...


Litchfield sell the forge kit

http://www.litchfieldimports.co.uk/s...roduct=FMTCR35

 

mocal/motul close haha

thats the kit, deffo, remeber fitting it. will ask tomorrow for you,

 

yeh good point Anders! Trying to keep these cars cool is their only weakness, i like the idea if oil coolers because that increases capacity too, having said that highest i have got the gearbox was 126degrees at brands hatch after 10 hard laps, Silverstone only got upto 117, tyres get pretty warm too, these cars are too heavy to do sustained track time.....

 

Here's a thread on the forge cooler

http://www.gtr.co.uk/forum/143262-fo...ed-tested.html

Good point on tyres after fitting the oil cooler to keep transmission temps down, do the tyres go off anyway?

 

it was the forge cooler kit,

a very good piece of kit app, he said he used to peak around 130 degrees on track, the cooler fitted he never got higher than 109 degrees, so a considerable drop.

he uses an america oil for the gearbox around $60 per litre, but when he canged it out last time, when fitting the kit it was actually still in very good condition,

he sold the cooler kit for £1500 last week lol so some one got a bargin, he did say the circulation pump was noisy but doesnt kick in till 100 degrees anyway

hth

 

Any good oil cooler for transmission is good cooler,i've run 4EAT(autobox) with tiptronic and paddle shift on my Impreza and i've fit Mocal Oil cooler for gearbox and temps has significantly drop.

For Oil coolers i would suggest Think Automotive,i bough from them



Jura

 

cheers for all the comments! Now up to 580 miles, after 600 the rev limit goes up then got to get to 1200 for the optimisation service....

Some more pics
Exterior
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/24070925@N08/6056238095/http://www.flickr.com/photos/24070925@N08/6056238095/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/24070925@N08/, on Flickr

 

Engine bay

 

Interior

 

25 miles till 600 miles.......... CANNOT WAIT!! My manual even states "Drive with engine speed kept relatively high, shifting is recommended between 1 and 4 gears".... does that mean try to stay in gears 1-4??

 

Nice pics

That fuel flow gauge should have a small pound sign on the left and massive one the right, lol.

The manual is p1ss poor for such an important part of the cars life. Wtf does 'relatively' high mean? What rpm will 80mph motorway give in 4th?

Anders

 

Hahahaaa.... I have yet to see it go very high on fuel flow.... going out to do the final 25 miles and see how high the fuel flow goes

Yeah, a little vague!! Going to go with yours, 6K rpm

 

I'd Keep the boost down (if that's possible) when your doing the 6K. And sign this virtual disclaimer that it ain't my fault if it blows up!

Anders

 

Hahaa...

598 miles done

 

Friend of mine sent me this clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtrUS...eature=related

 

That's pure laziness (or great self control) not doing an extra two mile.

Good vid, looking forward to testing LC

I'll head off the dealers this afternoon, they said my cars there and need to scratch that itch.

Anders

 

Done like that so the last 2 miles are done today. Keeps me calm while all the oil warm up sufficiently

Ooohhh!! Someone else is going to be rather happy soon!!

 

The oil was already warm at 598 miles

 

GTR vs American Muscle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNT2U...eature=related

 

well 30 miles with some decent revs, NO full throttle (all partial throttle), but WOW that 3rd to 4th gear change is brutal!! I normally have my head thrown back on the a launch (in the impreza) but I had the same feeling changing from 3-4 in the GTR absolutely brilliant!!! lots more noise, but still quite quiet...

 

Here's a few of my machine with no name. Still shrink wrapped. Sooooo 'kin excited

You'll be having your optimisation service about when I pick mine up.

 

£72K GTR vs £340K LFA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTTF1jAGRU4

 

Looks great!! Blue looks better than the 2010 blue...

Seen that before, better LC and 50bhp more makes a lot of difference

 

they have done a recall on the headlamps, app a short production on the 11 cars mean some are fogging up, not all have been effected, just putting it up so if it happens you know nissan will stand on

they look stunning it that blue

 

The LFA is decent, but tuning the engine past it's stock 552bhp is going to be difficult, they've done a good job already to extract 145bhp per litre. Where as throw another £2K at the GTR and it will have close to 600bhp and eat the LFA for breakfast, any model.

Anders

 

The noise though

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogSgC...eature=related

TX.

 

Agree

but is it worth the price tag?? I dont think so....

 

I thought the new GTRs all had colour added to the trim over the inlet manifold? Or is it extra?

Looks like their parking got a bit tight next to the lift post, I'd be worrying about that like a wuss. Can just imagine the tech moving it off and getting it snarled up on the lift.

Mind you I'd be worrying about everything buying a new car.

Where did you buy from? I don't think I could bring myself to buy from anyone apart from someone like middlehurst. My mind would just be working over time thinking of all those goons at nissan dealers wanting a shot. Nice PDI 'test drive' it'd be like someone de-flowering my daughter

Although I guess I'll never have to worry about things like this, unless I have a lottery win

Enjoy!

 

I'll be inspecting the whole car with an electron microscope before sign off

I doubt the dealer would go crazy on the PDI test drive, there's a black box on the GTR that records telemetry and they know that (about 40 hours worth apparently).

I recon they will run the car harder when it's in for service to make sure it's not been tuned...

Anders