Video: Haltech Nissan GT-R dragstrip
May 20, 2008 by George Skentzos
The Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX is well known as the fastest accelerating car in its price bracket – even more so with a few after market additions.
It is certainly interesting then to see how the new Nissan GT-R – sporting only an Australian-developed Haltech ECU – performs against a highly tuned version of its local rival.
Australian tuners Haltech managed a spectacular 11.1 second run from its lightly modified 2008 GT-R at Western Sydney International Dragway over the weekend.
Independent tests of the Nissan GT-R have managed a best time of 11.6 in completely standard form.
Apart from the ECU, the entire car is in showroom condition running full weight with a stock exhaust on regular 98 RON unleaded petrol.
Regulations outline cars which dip below the 10.99 second mark down the quarter mile require a roll-cage to compete again.
Usually this requires substantial modifications but in this case of the invincible GT-R a new ECU is all it took to tease the 10-second barrier – and by an Australian tuner no less.
Source: GTRBlog
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*****PRIMO!*****
How long before we can buy gray market imports?
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F-0
Like the GTR it rocks! :-)
Woosh – watch it go
Yes wait till blitz, hks etc get a full play of this car.
Love how it looks like the evo goes yeah i got a half car length at end of first gear and then…
anti spam word – Civic lol — “The civic can never lose”
its available for 102,000$ or so on certain import sites. J-Spec ..
not so much Primo after all eh?
$102K isn’t so bad when you think that the HR34 was about that price 7 or so years ago. Nothing really unusual there.
Love how it nailed the Evo. Though, I think they are two totally different classes. I’ve never put the Evo/WRX in the same class as the monster knows as the GTR.
SteveC
The Lancer in the video is a different car to the one in the video
track car vs rally car???? be interesting to see how the GTR goes against the evo once it gets into the twisty stuff or god forbid some gravel……
Awesome car the GTR,Toyota and Honda have alot of work to do playing catch up.Good stuff Nissin.
its interesting that the tunned GT-R does 11.6 , to put that into perspective there is a hefner twin turbo lambo gallardo that does 10.7.
when you compare the price you start to appreciate the GT-R so much more, this car will be the last great petrol powered car i dont see any one dethroning it apart from toyota building a crazy supra but i cant see it being as good allround.
Absolutely love the GTR. Smack on some lightweight aftermarket rims (in black of course) and a full titanium exhaust system….wicked.
there is
“not” something missing
if you drive nissan
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Would have got a better time if he watched the lights….wonder how slow his reaction time was? Brilliant time still though.
B.M. – the reaction time doesn’t make any difference to the E.T. The clock only starts when you break the light beam. Its quite impressive to see the car go in the flesh, very surprising!
yes, grey imports already starts about 100K, but by later this year that should completely be abolished.
If you have the 100K, might as well.
BUT, you might be risking warranty or some services since its not an official Oz release, and will be treated like your usual import.
Considering it’ll be about 140K AUD, you save a bunch…. HUGE amounts actually… remember 100K is landed and shipped here.
And yes wait til HKS, Blitz etc tuners get their hands on it, should be super car eater….
spam word – Nissan! Yeah!
Jamieson – ‘And yes wait til HKS, Blitz etc tuners get their hands on it, should be super car eater…. ‘
lol Its already is :P
And HKS, Mines, Blitz, Top Secret, Jun and the like have had R35’s since at least January for the Tokyo Auto Salon. It won’t be long before these cars are destroying everything in their path, long live Godzilla!
Seems like Oz drag racing rules may need to be modified prety soon. 10.99, pwehh, easy for this beast.
Oh well, it won’t be long till they start doing 10’s, wonder where they’ll race them on Friday night drags. Can’t really see too many amateur racers with mild modded GT-R’s fitting their GT-R’s with roll-bars.
Fellas, you can get it in Oz for 85K, for racing purposes only.
The WA GT-R cost 80K to bring to Perth, race use only.
Haha… that R35 makes the EVO look like a regular Lancer.