Thursday, December 14, 2017

If You Ain't Cheatin', You Ain't Tryin'

Three Racing Cheats You've Never Heard Of

The Skyline With The MAF To Nowhere

We are all familiar with how the Nissan R32 Skyline GT-R dominated Australian touring car racing in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, giving the car its ‘Godzilla’ nickname. But before the high-tech, all-wheel-drive R32, Australian teams found little tricks to make their rear-wheel-drive R31 Skylines have some success. One such trick was to hook up a restrictive mass air flow sensor to bypass the engine altogether:

This story is a little bit of a challenge to confirm, but it’s not hard to find Australian Skyline nerds talking about that incredible MAF checking air flow to the strut tower. As long as it was operational, it was fine, right?

Complete list (Jalopnik.com)

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