Hey NZConvertible, did you ever watch the old Bathurst 1000 races in Aus, with the GT-R's. Man, did they cream anything and everything... and each year they would make them add weight to the car, and limit their boost, and each year they would still cream those sad V8s... hehehe. The race organisers finally got sick of them and banned them.

 

Hell yeah, they rocked! They came over here once and were amazing to watch and hear. Typical braindead Aussie sport organisers ban anything that challenges their precious dinosaur V8's, like the rotary for example! Not that I'm bitter...

 

Why do Aussies love their V8's?

Since they look like souped up coffins, they can live, sleep and DIE in them...

 

You are right that the Skyline was modified, I failed to mention that the Civic was too. However the measure of a superior car is how it responds to modification. Most cars in the same class run about the same 1/4mile and so on.

Actually the R32 is made the same years as a FC. My car was made in 91. The R33 came out in 93-94. The RB20 in a skyline makes Stock 210-215HP this is the same as a Kouki FC as far as tourqe the RB20 is weak in comarison to other piston engines and the rotary has never been known to make large amounts of tourqe.

The brakes are slightly larger on the R32 and are used on many cars as brake upgrades.

NZ Convertible Im not completely disagreeing with you, I am just not a fan of Nissans craftsmanship. The Skylines are good cars they drive nice and look good, Hell I LOVE the sound of a RB engine but when It comes to racing I feel the FC is superior.

 

Build date doesn't matter, only when it was designed. And even though there's only 3 years between there introduction dates (FC in 1986, R32 in 1989), the R32 is basically one generation ahead of the FC in terms of design. Only if it's a rare Infini. The S4 made 133kW, the S5 146kW and the R32 GTSt 160kW.

Like I said, I much prefer the FC, that's why I bought one when I could have had the GTSt. But facts is facts.