GT-R Still Quick With Updated Launch Control
February 6, 2009
The internet has been abuzz with chatter ever since it was revealed that Nissan had updated the software that governs the GT-R’s launch control and was instructing all of its dealers to reprogram every vehicle in dealer inventory that had yet to be sold with the new software in a bid to keep additional transmissions from grenading.
The changes limit the maximum RPM that the car will sustain with the VDC switched off to around 3,500, a big reduction from the 4,500 limit of the old programming. Additionally, the software update adds a new, safer form of launch control that allows takeoffs at 3,000 RPM while the VDC remains active. Inquiring minds want to know: Would those alterations still allow the GT-R to hook up hard enough to reverse the earth’s rotation at the drags?
We have some good news to share with Godzilla owners that are contemplating whether or not to have their cars updated with the new software. A bone-stock GT-R with the reprogramming has been timed at 11.34 @ 194.5km/h with an excellent -1.69-second 0-100 time. That result compares rather favorably with quarter-mile runs recorded by cars with the initial launch control programming.
Source: AutoBlog
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1.69-second 0-100 time???
typo error or..?
i think should b -1.69 sec in 0-100km, is an improvement of faster pick up
1.x second hit 100 wan hit wat ,and kill wat?
1.69-second 0-100 time? so fast? sure bo?
yea, it should be -1.96 sec from the actual 0-100kmh timing.
1.96s is too much time to lose. Would be a turn off.
maybe its 0-100m figure?
it’s 1.69sec from 0km/h (static) until it reach 100km/h (the speedometer) .. best..best..
sorry for the typo people..
juz waitin what toyota wiil do with this agressive competitor…. missing supra so much
thats why the GT-R has been proven “still quick with updated launch control”… hehe
it is minus 1.69 sec from d old rec…
Oh.. it’s faster by 1.69s with the updated software? Thats unusually remarkable.
Ekekeke… number plate registers ‘SLR’ wannabe..