Fair enough, 2860-5s are way bigger, and yeah, can push up to 650odd no bother.

Soarers handle as well as anything else with uprated suspension, multi link all round, basically exactly same underneath as Supras and Chasers.
Supras are massivley more reliable than GTRs too.
Being RWD means they not so sure footed, but thats RWD for you, depends if you like RWD, different people want different things.

People like to say stock RB26s can do 500bhp "all day long", and im happy to push mine to 600bhp on stock internals, but I dont think "all day long" is all that realistic, its rare to find any hard used stock RB26 that doesnt shat its pants after a while, and 1J's and 2J's certainly seem to last longer at that power.

Main problem with GTRs are even though you can say how great stock internals are, when changing turbos is gonna set you back 2k it dont make much difference if you saving on buying internals when bolt on bits are such a rip.

Skyline GTRs and RB26s are great cars and great engines, but value for money I dont think they are that great at all. Well, cars are to buy, but tuning and fixing is bloody horrendous.

I love the RB26 in my car, a big bastard engine that sounds amazing and can rev to 8k+ as standard, but I wish it didnt have it still. Will be wishing that even more soon as it breaks, and I bet its not too long coming.

Fuck all torque too really, but just got to get used to revving them like a Honda Type-R!