2010 Nissan GT-R ECU Updated in US - Launch Control Removed

But a chocolate gearbox would make such a wonderful valentine's gift!

so is that good or bad but if nissan made the gearbox stronger 2 handle the launch control then there will be no problems

HAHA, disguising a weak tranny with faster acceleration... score for Porsche.

I wouldn't call it "weak". More like "mis-handled".

You know...you rarely ever see this with Porsche. They tend to have it down pat before they release a car.

Im with Iconic, i love the GT-R but its better without LC as it is very rough on the car. In this instance, now all acceleration numbers will be real real world performance and also numbers attained by the skill of the driver, not a computer. That makes me like the GT-R. At the same time, you can't ignore that the 997T doesn't have the same problem with LC being as rough on the car. So indeed, score for Stuttgart.

hmmm alot of ppl are making noises about the gtr box but hey how can you compare nissan to porsche when it comes to building supercars. Porsche clearly has more experience, while nissian only has one car of such horsepower output per period. At the end of the day a nissan's a nissan and a posche is a porsche but the gtr is.... and I know ppl will complain but lets face it. Its one hell of a porsche arse kicking nissan. We need cars like the GTR and companies like nissan who dare to innovate and try out new things. Porsche had a dual clutch eons ago and they only just released it. nissian never had one and for the gtr they dared to make one, hell they even made a new gear box layout design... All for the price of... half that of a P turbo. As a company then who has more guts? Who gives us the drivers value for money, put it this way at the end of the day at the track you dont see real drivers saying.... "you might have won man but.... mines a porsche/mercedes/Beeeemeerrrr HA!" So nissan, us who really appreciate cars for the car and not the frankly useless badge especially when it comes to real driving which these cars are bought for. Kudos to you.

if the product isn't production ready it should not be produced. apparently the trans didn't spend a lot of time in durability testing with launch control being used. let just say that getting rid of launch control makes the trans last longer. how long you do really think the trans is going to last? the same horsepower is running through it with or without launch control.

How does this new 'Edit' button work?, my post above went in OK, went to edit, would not work, so I removed the entire post and you get a blank post with "Edited by user on January 31st,2009 at 7:07 AM? What Tha?

Nothing's wrong with the car, every problem with GT-R is created by owners. Launch Control is very stressful to every drivetrain component, on the e46 M3 CSL you had to wait like 15-20 minutes before repeating LC again. Problem is - Nissan should install a control that show if your car is ready to repeat LC, second thing: drivers that know nothing about mechanics and do LC every start & stop are simply idiots, they treat cars like electronics and computers - they think that they can push restart button if something is wrong and then the fun starts all over again. hofmeyer - the problem is that accelerating with as much traction as possible is very stressful to the components of drivetrain and pushing them to the max of their durability & realiability, gearbox especially, comparing LC even to driving a car around track doesn't make sense.

funny, VW GTi dsg can do lots of launches ...

Yes I do agree that a manufacturer should stand by their product but all in all the problems are due to extreme testing and full power launches are very stressful as mentioned by Kimbo. At the end of the day any car which does full power launches would break. Hell even the F430's transmission is easily fried, don't see anyone complaining though. Also, this problem about the fried drive train, I've read the thread and I still feel we don't have the full story about what happened or at least a substantiated story. Many manufacturers have this problem with 4wd vehicles which have high grip; take the evo X for example it can't launch properly off the line as mitsubishi build in a rein-in mechanism to prevent gear box damage with their sst system. At the end of the day we do not have admantium, if we did, life would be much easier to engineers.

Hmmm, interesting i haven't heard of bugatti having problems with their transmissions, and it has 2x the power, and a 50% faster 0-60....Nissan has never been known for their transmissions. The fact is they didnt build a transmission strong enough for the car. The transmission in the GTR can't be compared to the F430, if you have ever seen an F430 tranny you would know what i'm talking about, i'm by no means a hulk hogan and i can easily pick it up. Also Ferrari doesn't say Oh you drove the car too hard, forget your warranty. Mechanical failure is mechanical failure, i should not be able to make the car break itself. Sure if i take a GTR offroading and hit the transmission on a boulder it's my fault, but it's nissans responsibility to sell me a car that if hammer it at every light it wont explode. Thats bullshit, it's like me buying an LCD tv that says it can be left on for 10hrs straight with no probs, but then you make me sign a paper saying that if i leave it on for 10hrs straight it voids the warranty. Then it can't really be left on for 10hrs straight. I expect a product to deliver what you promise, and to do it day in and day out, not some BS oh yeah it can do 0-60 in 3.5 ONCE and it VOIDS your warranty. It's like someone asking you if you can build a Helicopter and you say "hell yeah, i can build you the best and fanciest helicopter in the world....out of legos"

its all and easy to say this but how much does a bugatti cost... with money you can almost make any mechnical problem disappear. I don't want to get anal about legality and all, but hey, if a person tells you something before you buy a product that states a limitation and you still buy it anyhow, who is to blame? your comparisms are so skewed i might as well counter with "hey the challenger space shuttle was supposed to work wasn't it, but it still blew up and that cost millions and was promised to deliver the results". God bless their souls by the way. In no way did nissan say " here's a GTR it has a launch control you can use day in day out and we promise it won't break". But to be fair they did inform you that " it voids your warrenty if you use it" so yeah... when there are clauses you don't like so be it. any one who builds anything should be free to be clear about any limitations should the product be sold... erm except death though i must add.

What a wonderful company.. I like it.

yeah the gearbox is not that strong, but if you take the GTR to tuner company they'll modify the gear box, like hennessey when i spoke to them about the 600 hp GTR they told me we made an upgrade to the gear box also.

This is a shame...I agree with those of you that have said it's sad that Nissan won't stand by their product advertist the s**t out of this feature then tell ppl not to use it. On the other hand, however if you require the use of a launch control feature, you probable have no business launching a car in the first place. Seems like Nissan is the provider of sports cars to those that do not belong in the driver's seat of them...Same could be said for the rev-match feature on the manual Z...Just give the car a proper tranny with a 3rd pedal, and let us launch our own damn cars.

When the tech wears off, who is going to want one of these heavy lumps anyways? A ten year old 997 is going to be a great buy down the line, I just can't see this R35 GT-R attaining the cult status of the Skyline GT-Rs.

'Removing the launch control to improve acceleration' is the biggest b.s. I've heard. Not blaming worldcarfans.com. Nissan needs to man up. If Nissan claims this car to be a supercar, they need to build it with a quality of a supercar. And service.

I already lost repect for nissan when this GTR came out. They don't stand by their flagship car, and also have so much advertisement lies. I will never buy a nissan ever. Good job nissan, your success has caused a few hundred people to never buy your brand again. Who knows if the synchro rev match will blow up too :D. GTR should of just came with manual transmission...at least then i can just slip the clutch....and burn the clutch instead of blowing the whole thing up.