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interesting little write up on the sunny / pulsar for you's to read
also states the top speed of stock car at 144mph which I guess is pretty much spot on
taken from the top interesting boring cars ever produced
http://www.carthrottle.com/top-10-interesting-variants-of-boring-cars/
Nissan Sunny (Pulsar) GTi-R came in at number 2
Ahh, the Nissan Sunny. Nissan’s small, Golf-sized hatchback from the early 90′s. Once referred to as “the worst car in the world” on two seperate occasions by Top Gear presenters Jeremy Clarkson and later Richard Hammond. Not much to like about a Sunny. If you wanted a compact hatchback, you could get a Sunny – or a million other more attractive options.
So when Nissan decided they wanted to enter WRC Group A rally, the car they chose was… the Nissan Sunny. Go figure. The homologation rules for Group A dictate that 5,000 road-going examples of the race car had to be made for public consumption, so Nissan did. Built on the basic B14 Sentra/Sunny/Pulsar architecture, the GTi-R was about as opposite from a regular Sunny as you could get, without stuffing a turbo engine where the rear seats go and making it RWD (Renault!)
The engine was Nissan’s SR20DET, a 2.0L aluminium block aluminum-head 16v I4 also found in the 180SX/Silvia. In the Sunny, it’s turned sideways and was fitted with a larger Garrett T28 turbocharger (compared to the T25 that came on S13-chassis 180SX’s). Chain-driven dual overhead cams spun 16 valves, and a top-mounted air-to-air intercooler allowed the GTi-R’s 2.0L to crank out an impressive 230bhp.
Nissan’s ATTESSA-ETS AWD system was employed to put all that power to the ground, with a viscous center differential and a limited-slip rear differential. There were a few variations of the GTi-R produced -RHD models were called the Pulsar GTi-R, and were produced in Japan from 1990-1994. LHD models were far more rare; these were called the Sunny GTi-R, and less than 1,000 were built between 1992-1995 and retailed through German Nissan dealers. Further breaking up the group, there were two variants of the basic car itself – the GTi-RA and GTi-RB.
The GTi-RA was oriented for street driving. It was more luxurious than the RB, featuring mod-cons like A/C, power windows and mirrors, anti-lock brakes, etc. The RB was intended for competition purposes, and these were what the factory used to create their works race cars. They didn’t have all the goodies (no A/C, PS, PW, or ABS) as well as featuring shorter gearing more suited for rallying purposes, and a limited-slip differential in the front, versus the RA’s open differential.
No matter which version of the GTi-R you were in, it was a seriously quick car. Nissan quoted the GTi-R’s 0-60 time at 5.4 seconds to sixty, and 13.9 seconds in the quarter mile with a top speed of 144mph for the RA model. The RB’s, with their shorter gearing, took 5.2 to sixty and would do low-to-mid 13′s in the quarter mile according to Best Motoring tests in the 90′s, although the top speed was shorter thanks the sprint gearing in the ‘box.
Externally, it wasn’t hard to tell a GTi-R from a normal Sunny/Pulsar. For one thing, there was the big wing stuck to the top of the hatchback. But most noticeable was the ventilated bulge in the hood that fed fresh air to the intercooler, sprouting like a tumor from the sheetmetal. The GTi-R wasn’t crazy looking like the Escort Cosworths of the same time period, but it was certainly noticeable. A total of somewhere south of 15,000 GTi-R’s were produced between 1990-1995 (some estimates say 11,500, some 13,800). None were ever imported to the US, so don’t bother, but they are possible to find in mainland Europe as well as the UK. From “world’s worst car” to turbo, AWD, rally homologation rocket – I’d say this fits pretty well.
also states the top speed of stock car at 144mph which I guess is pretty much spot on
taken from the top interesting boring cars ever produced
http://www.carthrottle.com/top-10-interesting-variants-of-boring-cars/
Nissan Sunny (Pulsar) GTi-R came in at number 2
Ahh, the Nissan Sunny. Nissan’s small, Golf-sized hatchback from the early 90′s. Once referred to as “the worst car in the world” on two seperate occasions by Top Gear presenters Jeremy Clarkson and later Richard Hammond. Not much to like about a Sunny. If you wanted a compact hatchback, you could get a Sunny – or a million other more attractive options.
So when Nissan decided they wanted to enter WRC Group A rally, the car they chose was… the Nissan Sunny. Go figure. The homologation rules for Group A dictate that 5,000 road-going examples of the race car had to be made for public consumption, so Nissan did. Built on the basic B14 Sentra/Sunny/Pulsar architecture, the GTi-R was about as opposite from a regular Sunny as you could get, without stuffing a turbo engine where the rear seats go and making it RWD (Renault!)
The engine was Nissan’s SR20DET, a 2.0L aluminium block aluminum-head 16v I4 also found in the 180SX/Silvia. In the Sunny, it’s turned sideways and was fitted with a larger Garrett T28 turbocharger (compared to the T25 that came on S13-chassis 180SX’s). Chain-driven dual overhead cams spun 16 valves, and a top-mounted air-to-air intercooler allowed the GTi-R’s 2.0L to crank out an impressive 230bhp.
Nissan’s ATTESSA-ETS AWD system was employed to put all that power to the ground, with a viscous center differential and a limited-slip rear differential. There were a few variations of the GTi-R produced -RHD models were called the Pulsar GTi-R, and were produced in Japan from 1990-1994. LHD models were far more rare; these were called the Sunny GTi-R, and less than 1,000 were built between 1992-1995 and retailed through German Nissan dealers. Further breaking up the group, there were two variants of the basic car itself – the GTi-RA and GTi-RB.
The GTi-RA was oriented for street driving. It was more luxurious than the RB, featuring mod-cons like A/C, power windows and mirrors, anti-lock brakes, etc. The RB was intended for competition purposes, and these were what the factory used to create their works race cars. They didn’t have all the goodies (no A/C, PS, PW, or ABS) as well as featuring shorter gearing more suited for rallying purposes, and a limited-slip differential in the front, versus the RA’s open differential.
No matter which version of the GTi-R you were in, it was a seriously quick car. Nissan quoted the GTi-R’s 0-60 time at 5.4 seconds to sixty, and 13.9 seconds in the quarter mile with a top speed of 144mph for the RA model. The RB’s, with their shorter gearing, took 5.2 to sixty and would do low-to-mid 13′s in the quarter mile according to Best Motoring tests in the 90′s, although the top speed was shorter thanks the sprint gearing in the ‘box.
Externally, it wasn’t hard to tell a GTi-R from a normal Sunny/Pulsar. For one thing, there was the big wing stuck to the top of the hatchback. But most noticeable was the ventilated bulge in the hood that fed fresh air to the intercooler, sprouting like a tumor from the sheetmetal. The GTi-R wasn’t crazy looking like the Escort Cosworths of the same time period, but it was certainly noticeable. A total of somewhere south of 15,000 GTi-R’s were produced between 1990-1995 (some estimates say 11,500, some 13,800). None were ever imported to the US, so don’t bother, but they are possible to find in mainland Europe as well as the UK. From “world’s worst car” to turbo, AWD, rally homologation rocket – I’d say this fits pretty well.
Last edited by GTI-R US on 10th February 2014, 11:05 am; edited 1 time in total (Reason for editing : in-correct info,)
