Dealers busted drag racing pre-delivery GT-Rs

[rmk]

Taken from another forum.



Could this be true? A pair of brand new pre-delivery GT-Rs at the Great Lakes Dragway in Union Grove, WI, USA on the weekend. These cars were still completely covered in interior plastics and are said to have arrived to the drag strip wearing dealer tags.

If it is, surely these can’t be sold to unassuming customers as brand new cars!?
Be careful if you’re buying one of these in Southeastern WI or Northern Illinois/Chicago areas. You will want to verify the delivery mileage as well as general tire condition and so forth.

[The Cosworth]

well if your going to get fired.....

[black13]

Nice, those are gonna need a tranny replacement as soon as the customer gets them. Hope warranty covers that.

[avow]

that really makes no sense at all to be totally honest :S

[Gabe182]

what doesn't make sense?

[DonJuan]

LOL, douchebags.

The guy is looking at his timeslip like "hmm, I wonder how I can improve the 60ft time on my... errrr... customers car"

[inline6turbo]

Haha, gradstrip in a corn field. Love it.


Oh yea, sexy cars, they'll call it product testing for quality assurance haha

[pinoyhero]

Whoa, WTF, that's brutal, Nissan should be killing those guys.

[dino_martini]

One of those guys said that the owner was on hand when they were doing that with one of the cars. Weather that is true or not, that still leaves the other GTR.

[Redlyne_mr2]

Hard to say what was really going on, if they really wanted to be low key they wouldnt go to the drag strip during the day.

[HiTempguy1]

Nice, those are gonna need a tranny replacement as soon as the customer gets them. Hope warranty covers that.

I'm sorry, but have you read ANYTHING about these cars? They have a launch control feature that virtually garauntees a corrected high 11 quarter mile time. The car launches at something like 3000rpm, spins the rear tires for 10 feet and goes. There is no abuse (except for the normal wear and tear associated with drag racing) being put on these cars that they were not designed for.

However, the consequences of revving the snot out of a motor (DEPENDING on your point of view) that hasn't been broken in is a little shitty. Some would argue that with the tolerances new motors are built with these days that break in isn't really neccessary but I would disagree. I personally wouldn't buy it because it obviously isn't new (if I was looking to buy a new GTR). That would go for any new vehicle though

Edit-

Last night at Castrol there was a GTR. Guy ran 12.5. He didn't use the launch control (my buddies Civic got him out of the hole ) and I believe it may have been his first time to the track.

[Redlyne_mr2]

Originally posted by HiTempguy1


I'm sorry, but have you read ANYTHING about these cars? They have a launch control feature that virtually garauntees a corrected high 11 quarter mile time. The car launches at something like 3000rpm, spins the rear tires for 10 feet and goes. There is no abuse (except for the normal wear and tear associated with drag racing) being put on these cars that they were not designed for.

Thats why he made the comment, the launch control grenades the tranny.

[The Cosworth]

Originally posted by HiTempguy1


I'm sorry, but have you read ANYTHING about these cars? They have a launch control feature that virtually garauntees a corrected high 11 quarter mile time. The car launches at something like 3000rpm, spins the rear tires for 10 feet and goes. There is no abuse (except for the normal wear and tear associated with drag racing) being put on these cars that they were not designed for.

However, the consequences of revving the snot out of a motor (DEPENDING on your point of view) that hasn't been broken in is a little shitty. Some would argue that with the tolerances new motors are built with these days that break in isn't really neccessary but I would disagree. I personally wouldn't buy it because it obviously isn't new (if I was looking to buy a new GTR). That would go for any new vehicle though

Edit-

Last night at Castrol there was a GTR. Guy ran 12.5. He didn't use the launch control (my buddies Civic got him out of the hole ) and I believe it may have been his first time to the track.

There is a whole thread on here that talks about after 10 launches WITH THE LAUNCH CONTROL the tranny needs to be inspected and possibly replaced.

[962 kid]

Originally posted by The Cosworth


There is a whole thread on here that talks about after 10 launches WITH THE LAUNCH CONTROL the tranny needs to be inspected and possibly replaced.

has he read ANYTHING about those cars?

[DonJuan]

Originally posted by 962 kid


has he read ANYTHING about those cars?

LOL! Maybe he should take up smoking to stop his neighbour from barbecueing.

(I also hadn't heard that about the launch control)

[Tuner1]

Yikes!...Although these guys deserve to be given the benefit of the doubt until the true story surfaces.


Rob

[HiTempguy1]

There is a whole thread on here that talks about after 10 launches WITH THE LAUNCH CONTROL the tranny needs to be inspected and possibly replaced.

I completely missed that thread. Guess I don't know anything about the car I'll go to my corner now...

In all honesty, until the mentioning of it here I have not heard a single peep about tranny issues with the GTR's. And I like to read up on the latest and greatest. Sorry for the undeserved chewing.

[2.0turbo]

Originally posted by The Cosworth


There is a whole thread on here that talks about after 10 launches WITH THE LAUNCH CONTROL the tranny needs to be inspected and possibly replaced.

I highly doubt that is true. Even a dsm with twice the hps it was built for can withstand more launches than that on a stock tranny. There is no way that 10 launches takes out the tranny in a GTR.

[Redlyne_mr2]

Originally posted by 2.0turbo


I highly doubt that is true. Even a dsm with twice the hps it was built for can withstand more launches than that on a stock tranny. There is no way that 10 launches takes out the tranny in a GTR.

It wasn't 10 is was 15.

[962 kid]

Originally posted by 2.0turbo


I highly doubt that is true. Even a dsm with twice the hps it was built for can withstand more launches than that on a stock tranny. There is no way that 10 launches takes out the tranny in a GTR.

http://forums.nicoclub.com/zerothrea...-about-the-gtr

http://www.nagtroc.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=23260

http://www.themotorreport.com.au/446...r-has-a-fault/

on top of that, using it voids your warranty

http://www.nagtroc.org/forums/index....=post&id=17628