Which one's better?
I own a Skyline and my parents own a Pintara, which I drive quite regularly. So I reckon I may be just as well qualified to judge as anyone here.
My judgements here are restricted to my knowledge of the 2 specific cars I've driven, other cars may be different.
The Skyline is an R31 manual series 3 GX wagon. Well kept, strong engine with high km (305,000km), and a 4.11:1 diff.
The Pintara is a U12 automatic TR-X. The whole car is immaculate, strong engine with 190,000km.
So basically both are completely stock except for the Skyline's diff, which could actually be a handicap in a drag race, forcing an earlier upshift.
WHICH IS FASTER
0-100km/h = The Skyline, by about 3 car lengths. Against a manual TR-X could go either way.
0-400m = Again the Skyline continues to pull away further. Don't know against a manual TR-X.
WHICH HANDLES BETTER
The Pintara does of course, it has well tuned sports suspension & an LSD. I'd like to see against an R31 Skyline Silhouette, should be interesting, not sure out of that.
WHICH STOPS BETTER
The first time both do a hard stop, they both pull up hard, but over continuous hard stops, the Pintara holds up better. Il'l let you know what happens once the Skyline gets new discs.
There you have it, let the flaming begin.
Now.....
Posted by: beefy_trx Posted on: Apr 12, 2003, 02:12PM
Not a fan of the R31 a big bit of poo which gives nissan a bad name and a trx should flog em
How do R31's give Nissan a bad name do tell me please how?