As some may know, im highly committed in karting at this moment and am currently building a drag car with a mate and have abit of a crew behind me. Because the drag car isnt all funded by me, it has given me an opportunity to take a big leap and enter a 3rd form of racing.

I know most would say its silly to try balance 3 forms of different racing, but ive come here for help from experienced people.

What i have had in mind, is time trail racing. Either circut or hillclimb. My choice of car is the 94 Nissan Skyline R32 GTR, which is a car i have a passion for.

Getting started isnt a problem, nor the actual racing side of it. But what im here for is how should i go about on modifying the skyline.

For weight reduction ive considered removing the sound proofing, but what else could i do?

Also for induction, ive thought about the n1 turbos, but what differences do they make?

Also about that, what mainly are the changes with the GTR, the Nismo, and the GTR N1.

And would anyone have any recomendations or tips when it comes to hillclimb or timetrail.

Litrally, any info given would be highly appreciated, and anything done id love to share with the community.

Id say put in a 1 or 2jz engine in and may be a t4 turbo. I only suggested that because that was in my dad's car and it produced very good power. Make sure the gearbox is good, and also focus on good brakes.

Weight reduction could be the usual tearing out the interior (basically)


my 1 cent

Quote from jrd.racer :

Id say put in a 1 or 2jz engine in and may be a t4 turbo. I only suggested that because that was in my dad's car and it produced very good power. Make sure the gearbox is good, and also focus on good brakes.

Weight reduction could be the usual tearing out the interior (basically)


my 1 cent

You want to put a RWD engine in an AWD car?
Were you hit on your head as a child?

As for the GTR, just do the basic mods
Strip interior, Intake+Exhaust+ecu+Tune, Coilovers+brakes. It really depends what type of events you plan on entering and if you want to be competetive or not. Some classes don't allow open modifcation so you'll probably want to figure that out long before you start modifying it. Gonna take a guess and say you'll probably need a CAMS approved cage for hillclimb events too


If you have the cash you're better off importing a Race/Rally only GTR from japan, will turn out alot cheaper than doing it yourself.

don't save money on the brakes and susp power is nothing without control

All I have is general second-hand advice, my mechanic teacher who has many cars ranging from sports to usual everyday cars told me after I was questioning in regards to tuning that the single best thing he has ever done as a first mod was an upgraded suspension system - coilovers first and good brakes...as well as getting all wheels properly aligned.

Sure you already know that though!

Quote from Klutch :

You want to put a RWD engine in an AWD car?
Were you hit on your head as a child?

As for the GTR, just do the basic mods
Strip interior, Intake+Exhaust+ecu+Tune, Coilovers+brakes. It really depends what type of events you plan on entering and if you want to be competetive or not. Some classes don't allow open modifcation so you'll probably want to figure that out long before you start modifying it. Gonna take a guess and say you'll probably need a CAMS approved cage for hillclimb events too


If you have the cash you're better off importing a Race/Rally only GTR from japan, will turn out alot cheaper than doing it yourself.

True, im currently looking at what is avaliable. And yes ofcouse, competitive!

Ive got someone who can import GTR's cheap from japan, so ill go with that then.

If you want local already / half built cars, good place to start looking is here;
http://my105.com/