Driving A Skyline R34 GTR - Are they worth over £150,000?!

The Nissan Skyline R34 GTR, is it good? There's nothing more iconic to PlayStation generation kids like us than this one, a Bayside blue vspec 2 that sounds a bit like that. Is there a chance it's overrated, even though we've all spent too much time on it? in Gran Turismo and Need for Speed ​​to the point where we have put the sky line on too high a pedestal. I'm using today and this road in Deon to find out, but first let's go back to this morning when I lifted the car off torque. GT something we can't ignore when we look at whether the R34 is overrated or not is the pricing of these cars today, this one right here, this vspec 2 is for sale here at our good friends Tor GT for 14,000.

I was too young to realize it. where these cars bottomed out in the past, but Torque GT owner Tristan said he bought an R34 for just 18. Grand Nostalgia bites so hard with cars like this that the price is so high it will blow any fan's mind. of Japanese cars. There is essentially an R34 Skyline wall over that side of the showroom, chief among them being the vspec 2 Nur which is there on the right side with its carbon fiber hood. There's no way we're allowed in today, but go more extreme than that. Nissan made 18 Zune cars, those are essentially race cars with a factory 500 horsepower race engine.

Those things will be the 250 GTOs of the JDM world because of the value of this car. What I'm not going to do is fool Lewis Hamilton with it and by that I don't mean drive it at full speed on a Grand Prix track. I mean

driving

it like this what I'm also going to try to avoid is doing this okay come on let's have a Drive I had a quick chat with Bane Collins in preparation for

driving

this car just to put his VI on it considering he was a fast stunt driver and furious and his response, I suppose, was quite predictable for a racing driver.

He said yes,

they

are fast, but

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have too much grip for him, he is more of a rear wheel drive Superman, he likes pointy and feisty cars, but the engineering that has gone into this car, the atessa four wheel drive system and high-cast four-wheel steering, all of that. He is meant to make the car very fast but also stable in the corners, maximizing grip, that's what I like. I like to feel like a car is crouched against the asphalt so I can see a corner, judge my entry speed and then just settle it in, I don't want to fight a steering wheel and it's not that kind of guy.

I like knowing that some Nissan engineers put some effort into this car. Oh, you have to rev it up, like you might think of with a biturbo. car where you let the turbos do everything Talk, you let the torque take over, that's just not the case in one of these, you have to rev it, you have to use them over the square pistons to get those horsepower that the turbos. which feels like a full second or two to accelerate so you can get the power early and even once they start turning you can let the systems keep you locked in the corner before they throw you out the other side because of that dynamic. of these versus a 996 911 Turbo would make for an incredible dust stop.

What is quite unique for a GT sports car is that the pistons are too square, meaning they are thicker than they are tall, making the engine really Ry compared to the 2JZ May. It means there is a lack of torque compared to other engines, but it can maximize horsepower through revs. Does this car feel like it has 276 horsepower? No, that whole gentlemen's agreement is a bunch of crap easily over 300 easily over 300. Today's video is sponsored by Zen Market, if you've ever wanted to buy rare JDM cars or even Pokémon cards, Japanese snacks and clothing, but You're not in Japan, you don't speak Japanese, and the store doesn't ship to your country, then Zen Market is an easy way.

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Account registration. It's free and you will get 750 free Zen points when you use the promo code driv tribu which can be used as 750 yen international shipping. Click the link in the description below to register and happy shopping for rare gdm parts. So what does the rb26 make? engine is so amazing, so well, to start let's use the full name of this engine, rb26 D which means RB, just an internal engine code 26 2.6 l d, double overhead camshaft and electronic ignition TT biturbo, this engine was found on the R32, R33 and R34 Skyline. GTRs are always compared to Toyota's 2JZ engine, what do they have in common?

Well, they're both straight-sixes and they're both comfortably over-engineered. If you ask Nissan, they'll tell you they stuck to the gentlemen's agreement of 276 horsepower, but in reality these engines were designed for 600 horsepower before you have to start scoffing at changing the block and modifying parts. internal. The rb26 is a cast iron block with an aluminum head bolted on top and this is what is called a closed deck block, which means both the material. It is kept as much as possible around each cylinder rather than machined to have large cooling jackets. Instead, the passages are much smaller for the cooling oil and cylinder head bolts, meaning the block is much stronger and power can be increased and then added in parallel. turbochargers with ceramic bearings for good heat dissipation, forged crank and connecting rods.

You even have oil passages in the piston crowns for cooling and sodium-filled exhaust valves. It's all a trick, despite all those tricks, at the end of the day it's simple. six in a row which means I imagine you have great access to it Paul you work on these cars day in and day out what's a Skyland GTR like working on these isn't that bad obviously I've done quite a few of them so It is not like this? It's really a problem, but you know a lot of people look at them and they do well, it's quite complicated, but you know they're good once you understand how everything works and what's happening with this one, it looks modified and I really mean.

How many cars pass through GT torque gates that are still absolutely original? Has everyone received this type of treatment? Yes, it's rare that we get old ones to be completely standard, but it's rare that most have modifications in some way. Yes, and what is this package? It's hard to say exactly, but I think clients are looking for five to six and that doesn't take too much work. five you start investing a little money into it and then obviously after that you're watching Forge build turbo replacements and things like that and the rumor is you know they kept the gentlemen's agreement but the rumor is that the actual engines From the factory they could reach 320 is correct, yes, yes, quite easily, yes, I would like to say minimal modifications.

You know, you can just change the exhaust and the air filter and get to easy, easy, 320, well, we'll leave you with this and then we win. Don't get distracted anymore good luck yeah no problem let's face it the rb26 D T is an engine Nissan built to race and they did it and gained a lot totally transforming touring cars and drag racing in the process so think on this engine more like a massively detuned racing block rather than a road engine which turns out to have ridiculous potential apart from the engine, although where does the enthusiasm for the R34 come from?

The R32 and R33 are the older cars and the R32 is the original Godzilla. Because? Isn't that the Skyline more expensive? The Skyling family seems to have bucked the trend of the oldest original not being the most expensive like the E-types, Series 1, more expensive and then Series 2, Series 3, so why, even though the R32 is the original Godzilla? the R34 pipet, considering how mechanically similar the three Generations are, has to come down to two things and that is the Fast and Furious franchise and of course Gran Turismo, the Gran Turismo games made the R34 a halo car for an entire generation maybe.

Even a generation and a half, once you saw it on your small TV screen with your PlayStation plugged in, it suddenly became your dream car. Nissan's engineers did an incredible job, but really the hype for this car has to come down to pipany kinori yuchi. you are the man you are the man who started all this madness I would really like to add a third factor to the mix and that is our American YouTube cousins ​​who have recently gone a little crazy about these cars TJ Hunt has one Adam L Z has one Jimmy Oaks has one Larry CH bought one recently.

Now those cars managed to sneak through the import network in the US through a few loopholes, but the US is about to go crazy on the horizon because starting in 2024. the R34 Skyline will now be is becoming legal in the United States, it will be Skyline Mania. I have heard rumors that there are warehouses full of these cars that have been left waiting essentially for embark to go left and then they will go straight. on the ship I wouldn't be surprised if there was a ship heading from Japan to the US right now full of R34 skylights, so these things really are too expensive.

I would dare say right now, as you are looking at this, that the cheapest Horizon will ever be an R34, so if you are going to get one now is the best time despite the price, if you really want the Grand Turiso car from your dreams, you might as well accept it now because it won't be. Long until we look back at 140 Grand Skylines thinking God, remember when they were that priced? Look at them now, so in response to the title of this video, the R34 GTR is overrated. My genuine answer is no, if anything, it's still a little underrated.

I haven't reached Peak Skyline height yet, which is scary considering this car is maybe making 320 horsepower, it won't be the fastest on a track day, but none of that matters because you know that under your F Right you have an rb26 D, you have an all-wheel drive system, you have four-wheel steering and you have the most legendary car in the most legendary car game of all time, if you ever wanted a Skyline, get it quick. the Americans are coming