that thing is bad ass
I can dig it… Sickest Skyline evAr
Wow! Just plain WOW!
So take a Skyline… which rules because of its AWD… swap in a TTLS1 and make it RWD then drift it. Super duper cool. 
I wish I could get sideways… but I totally can’t (see sig). What I’d like to see would be a TTLSX that still uses the Skyline AWD. Now THAT would be nutter butter.
-TJ
We sure the skyline is just rwd in this? I’m just wondering because the awd system is supposed to cut all power to the front wheels if you make the back end swing out on purpose. But seeing as how it’s a purpose built drift car… I’m probably dead ass wrong.
Wow, way to make an already dope car even sicker. I need to relieve myself now.
What a fucking waste of a skyline.
x2…
I just dont see the point of the ls1. Its like putting a ls1 in a grand national.
I can kind of see the point in this context.
Turbo LS1 > turbo 3.8L?
LS2TT 6.6L > RB26 TT
In my opinion.
i see you point. the skyline is proven to be built with incredible numbers.
Maybe you are semi-correct. But the point I was making is that you already have a proven powerplant in both of these cars to begin with. Now why go to all of that trouble of swapping a V8 into the car and then even more time, money and fabrication into turbocharging it, just doesnt seem to make sense to me when you could make pretty much the same HP numbers with whats already in there.
I saw 2 things:
One they need to learn how to strap a car down to the dyno.
two- those turbos are way way way tooo small
x2.
Waste of a drivetrain too.
Just something different I suppose.
Yea i guess. Just seems like a colossal waste of time and money. Its not like a doner skyline is a cheap platform to start with. It is definitly different. Maybe they’ll chop up a Porsche 911 Turbo and throw an ls1 in that next time.
I thought about this a little since it didn’t really make any sense other than to say “hey look at what we did”. But consider what the car is being used for. If I wanted to drop some weight over the nose and still make shitloads of power, A LS1 wouldn’t be a bad way to go about it. I’m just assuming though. I’d have to see the weights between the RB26 and the LS1, but I could have sworn I’ve heard the LS1 is actaully lighter. Then with the turbos being small, they were probably trying to keep the throttle response up on the engine rather than peak power. This way if the motor bogs in a turn (I can’t see how, lets say the driver screws up) you can recover quickly. You’d think a LS1 with increased displacement would do the same thing though, who knows.
It’s been done. I’ll dig up the link