Anyone got one/had one? Got mates who have got one/had one?

Stick some pictures up and any more info/experiences.

 

I nearly bought a uk sunny gtir for our company demo car but kept with the blue oval instead. Good cars with a few flaws such as weak transfer boxes, gearboxes. Also they dont have forged pistons, they are cast which means there are issues if you want to raise the boost. Prone to rust as well, but they are very cheap to buy so you do get a lot of car for your money.

Hope this helps mate

 

I used to have a black one, was FANTASTIC!! Pretty much bullet proof too, apart from as said above, the transfer box!

A friend of mine had a MS Esc Cos at the same time, and it GENUINELY walked away from it!

 

My mate bought one not so long ago. They are not all that std but his has full exhaust system, decat, filter and upped boost and goes pretty well. His is the the rare Dakar version and has proper full roll cage and few other trick bits.

He has just had it fully resprayed with new archs and its looking mint now. He has just bought an expensive boat so is going to be selling up before he even gets to use it which is a shame. Would have been cool to cruise about with him in the GTIR and me in my WRX

 

The SR20DET should be pretty tough I'd have thought, but I've heard since forever how weak the gearboxes are. The seem to rust more than most Jap cars too from what I've seen.

Some interesting thoughts as a lot of people appear to be running 1.2 bar on standard engines...

 

you can get big power ones for silly money really

 

heres a pic of me in mine about to go on The Ring last year.

 

Mine was mint no problems what so ever 1.2 bar all day long and dicks all over an ESCOS off the line to a ton or just over even when stage 3. Bargains now I want another but too tempting to mess with!

 

Ask Charlie Chalk about his, it'll put you off for life

 

Used to have an old grp.A rallycar, was very very quick off the line and through the gears

Held 1.9 bar boost on a heavily modified engine, 100 MPH came up quicker than almost anyhting else on the road.

The gearbox and diffs shat themselves several times when it was with the previous owner (a mate at the time) and only once when I had it...coming round a corner on cut slicks, mashing the throttle midcorner.

Awesome little car!

 

My brother had one of these quick car, Shamed quite alot of cars.

 

Std engine - 1 bar of boost - properly setup = 300bhp.

Lot of punch for not a lot of money!!

After that it gets tricky... i've been involved with 600bhp ones and they're a NIGHTMARE at that power level!

 

I'm just after something small, light, fast, nimble, good handling and relatively cheap that I can use to get into a bit of sprinting and such like here and there. I was thinking that 300bhp in one of these would be PLENTY. And if it's easily and cheaply achievable then it sounds like a winner!

 

My mates home built 387bhp Pulsar GTiR, had to rebuild the engine as it melted a standard piston @ 1.2bar.

Arias pistons
Eagle rods
Cometic multilayer head gasket
gt30 turbo running 1.4 bar
ebay front mount intercooler and hardpipe kit
mocal oil cooler
Evo 6 injectors
standard ecu with daughterboard, mapped by Matt at The Racing Line
2.5" turbo back stainless exhaust
Wilwood 4 pot brakes
17" Superleggera's
RPS Streetmax clutch
Rebuilt gearbox with shot peened internals



Front mount intercooler just fitted



Evo 6 front seats, mounted to modified Nissan seat runners



At Knockhill trackday

 

forgot to say, check out www.gtiroc.com

 

Used to have one and can genuinely say it was the most fun car i ever had!

 

Or www.nissangtir.co.uk




I have had 4 Gti-r's, also had Evo's and Scobbies, I always come back to the Gti-r.
Cheap and if looked after well, is fun.

Here is my current project.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rig8MW0rY94

 

Personally i dont like the look of them but i know they go like stink.

Ive always wanted a small mitsubishi with an evo engine in it. Cant remember the model of the car tho.

 

That one looks a nice, healthy spec, red

And if I had one, I think those Compomotives would be the wheel of choice. They look just right on them!

 

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Those wheels proper suit them, mates got the same ones on his but in white

 

A friend of mine had one 4/5yrs or so ago. It had Exhaust, filter, d/v and boost upgrade to around 1bar. Was rapid off the mark to 100mph ish and he ran it for a year like that with no problems at all.

 

a mates got one thats been to the sunny master dp racing in warrington,its had all sorts done to it in japan and it had been gymkhana'd.
fast car and nimble too thats why they were used in the wrc,may of been a legend if nme didn't fall to pieces

 

exactly that! It didnt do too bad in the GRP N though

 

I had one and for the first 3months in was great fun but then the clutch went along wiv the gearbox and engine which cost ŁŁŁŁ

heres a pic of it:

 

you mean the mitsubishi colt cyborg,the old shape colt with a evo 6 engine init,i saw one of these on ebay for 1500 bout 21/2 years ago,wish id had a spare 1500 at the time.

 

tommi mak drove them in the wrc and dai lewellyn who was british rally champ,a few other well known scandinavians drove them but for me the sunny shone (fuckin great pun that ) in rallycross. tony bardy did rallycross and stage rally them,his is ex works nme and he prepares nissans and other top end motorsport stuff

 

pmsl

 

I have the RB version. It weighs 1100kg and has under just 300bhp
This was saturday at Shakespeare county raceway.

 

my mate and his brother have 3 between them, they go like stink, but rot quite a bit, and i'm not sure if its all of them, but theirs seem to blow up about 4 times a week.

 

Tony Bardys car is awesome.
My mate had a very tidy standard pulsar. Only problem was the clutch pedal bracket snapped (common fault), one Ł10 bracket from the owners club, and all good.

 

I had one of these, best car ive ever had. , if i could buy back my GTiR as it was when i sold it i would. Only lost one race and that was against a noble. I had a hiteq forged engine 370bhp and it felt so much faster than my 420bhp escort cos i had. Clutches where a problem for me i had 4 in 4 years ownership. Im seriously looking for another good one again. nothing that sells for sensible money could beat one to 100mph.

 

that time is brilliant with under 300bhp

 

my old one has been offere back to me for a bargain price Chris

 

Id love just the engine from one of these for my primera!

Proper stealth shitter then for trackdays.

 

Is it still mint? i'd do anything to have mine back but only how i sold it. the idiot broke it, its now an empty shell.

 

well this is the spec now,


Tein + Top mounts
16" Wheels
4 Pot wilwoods + big disks +braided cables
Cusco strut brace
White line strut brace
Blitz Induction
Everything polybushed
powercoated wishbones (front)
FMIC
Forge oil seperator
HKS dump
White line front and rear rollbars
Focus speakers (shit pioneer headunit)
Gearbox rebuilt & new uprated clutch (Helix Organic) approx 10K miles ago
Mongoose exhaust & standard one too

Bodywork is a bit shit on the arches, now but he has replacement arches included

 

As far as I know, uk cars came with oil coolers on the diff's + gearboxes. the imported cars didnt have these, so when they are de-restricted + breathed on, it doesnt like it!

Not speaking from experience here, a mechanic mate of mine was telling me last year when I had the chance to buy an import.

Years ago, my m8's sisters fella had a 400bhp 1....it went like stink and as far as I can remember,never gave him any grief...cant remember the spec though

 

I used to work with a lad who had one and he spent a bloody fortune repairing it and keeping it on the road.

 

andy is the man to listen to on here (rsnissan) as he had one that had a few mods on it and hes not exactly the "bodge it and leg it" type when modding cars

 

You gonna buy it back? i remember how mint yours was.