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Nissan Skyline's 7th Generation

Released
Name
Engine
Power
Trans
CC Rating
1985
R31 1800I
CA18
100 PS / 5600 rpm
RWD
1809 CC
1985
R31 GT
RB20E
130 PS / 5600 rpm
RWD
1998 CC
1985
R31 GT
RB20DE
160 PS / 6400 rpm
RWD
1998 CC
1985
R31 GT
RB20DET
210 PS / 6400 rpm
RWD
1998 CC
1985
R31 GTS-X
RB20E
130 PS / 5600 rpm
RWD
1998 CC
1986
R31 GTS-X
RB20DE
165 PS / 6400 rpm
RWD
1998 CC
1986
R31 GTS-X
RB20DET
180 PS / 6400 rpm
RWD
1998 CC

GTS-X
Bigger and weighting in at 160kg heavier at 1360kg, the HR31 was never the less an improvement on handling over the RS Turbo that came four years before it. The Skyline HR31 GTS-X had an DOHC, straight six with 24 valves with an intercooled T2.5 turbo bolted on. While been a better engine then the previous generation skyline, it also was carrying an bigger load with the long heavy chassis of the HR31.

With heavy a heavy chassis a car usually goes round corners as gracefully as a cement block, but that was not the case with the GTS-X due to a very cleaver four wheel steering system called HICAS. It also had a speed sensitive electrically lowered front spoiler, and all this in 1986, nothing but totally gobsmackingly amazing!


GTS-R
Like other Skylines before it, the HR31 was a success within Group A racing. To abide by regulations Nissan had to build 800 road going models of it racing HR31 called the GTS-R which produced over 215 bhp. It had an larger T3 turbo, twin intercooler ducts and a large rear spoiler.



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