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Ten years before Nissan The last "Godzilla" of the
introduced the R34, its 20th century featured
predecessor, the R32 upgraded ball-bearing
GT-R, had already gotten turbos, providing
the nickname of Godzilla, phenomenal throttle
and rightly so. It was the response in an age where
beginning of a golden age most boosted cars
for Japanese sports cars, struggled with turbo-lag.
and GT-Rs could take on The GT-R had a maximum
and even outpace most theoretical output of 276
European and American horsepower with the
rivals. Compared to the Japanese Gentlemen
R32 and R33 GT-Rs, the R34 Agreement. But several
had a shorter produc- independent tests have
tion window. That also often claimed that
means there are fewer of the figure was somewhere
them around. Nissan sold north of 320 horsepower
over 64,000 Skylines b instead. With forged
etween 1998 to 2001, but pistons and a cast iron
only a small fraction of block the tuning potential
those were worthy for the RB26DETT is
of the Godzilla nickname. phenomenal
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