GT Academy - GTP REGIONAL BUDDY LIST AND ADVISOR ROSTER

[Clutch34]

Southeast!

 

[W3H5]

How about an Asian academy? PD/Sony are a Japanese firm so there should be a competition for us here in Asia!

 

[bambam26]

Southeast here!

 

[Louie_Schumii]

How about an Asian academy? PD/Sony are a Japanese firm so there should be a competition for us here in Asia!

Make enough noise about it and they might consider having one

 

[jato4x4]

Southeast here. Hopefully by the 20th I am beating my DS3 times with my wheel. Getting alot closer to them though. Good luck all.

 

[Louie_Schumii]

Southeast here. Hopefully by the 20th I am beating my DS3 times with my wheel. Getting alot closer to them though. Good luck all.

Good job dude. Just keep practising. The level of competition is gonna skyrocket over there compared to last year when the grand prize were only tickets to the Indy 500.

 

[allent2]

Does anyone know how to get the 370z used in the time trail. Ive seen it on the car list but cant find it. I have a feeling we might need it! and the academy spec GTR aswell but you can earn that one if you gold the S license

 

[tomatoEVO]

I guess I'm in. Northeast here.

 

[blindsidefive0]

Does anyone know how to get the 370z used in the time trail. Ive seen it on the car list but cant find it. I have a feeling we might need it! and the academy spec GTR aswell but you can earn that one if you gold the S license

I just bought a stock 370z, and tried doing the Indy GP course for some comparison to last year's time trial demo. Watching some of the other videos I think that Comfort soft tires makes the 2 cars very close. However the untuned "GT Academy" in the demo looks like it's 50-100lbs lighter, with maybe 5 more hp than the 370z from the dealership. I tried doing an oil change (went from 329 to 349hp), but that definitely gave it more power than the demo car, so I'm guessing 332 hp (stock rated power from 370z) with just a 25-50kg weight reduction. Anyone have thoughts on this? Maybe someone who did well in the demo who also owns a stock 370z?

I have the GT-R academy version, but I think this would be considered the "untuned" version - there's nothing too crazy about it, just slightly more power/less weight, and it doesn't come with racing tires. I would guess that we will get at least a tuned version of the 370z (others on the forum claim to have won this via a ticket), and maybe a tuned GT-R (my guess is beyond the GT academy version, with more aero, racing tires, etc.).

For now I would just buy a couple 370z's.
1) Put on comfort tires, and that's it.
2) Put on Racing hard tires, rear wing, stage 1 (or 2) weight reduction, chip, exhaust, intake, maybe stage 1 engine tuning, full suspension, close ratio gearbox, and a couple drivetrain parts...should be close enough to the GT Academy version, nothing over the top. Does anyone on the forum who has the 370z care to share the dimensions, performance figures, horsepower, weight, typical lap times etc.? This would be good to help benchmark a custom 370z.

Oh...and absolutely drive the hell out of that GT-academy GT-R.

 

[TakeshiSkunk]

Midwest here! Actually really nervous about this, but the 370Z is a car I'm pretty comfortable in. I'll be completely satisfied if I make the first elimination...it'd be cool if the prize wasn't something I already had, but I was excited about GT Academy before I even knew there would be prizes

 

[allent2]

Great response blindsidefive0 I will take your advise for the time being!

 

[LeftyWright69]

The GTP forum GT5 GT Academy competition buddy list is now updated

 

[chimuel]

Registered days ago. I'm Northeast.

 

[FuriousDemon]

I'm in Midwest region. Good luck to everyone. Doubt I'll be in top 128, but I'll try at least

 

[GinoLicious]

How odd, Canada not apart of North America?

 

[LeftyWright69]

How odd, Canada not apart of North America?

Yep pretty crazy huh? Just think about South America, they hate us but they love the America part.

 

[ZX636-R]

im in ... midwest ... i just bought a 370 and im practicing ... anyone know what tires the TT will be with?

 

[Louie_Schumii]

...absolutely drive the hell out of that GT-academy GT-R.

I have a feeling they'll be using the 2011 GT-R for this Academy...

 

[Gids]

Registered and in the West division.

Thanks man.

 

[babybirdsfunk]

West!!!

 

[Sephy]

I registered. Southeast. Only because it seems like fun.

 

[bdshort]

I was going to pick up a car to practice with, but which car should I get? There are a couple that look like the 370Z but don't have the same name, so I'm not sure which one to get. As for the GT-R... the regular one or the Spec V?

 

[madjack9]

I registered. Northeast. Don't expect much from me though, I'm not all that good.

 

[LeftyWright69]

The GTP forum GT5 GT Academy competition buddy list is now updated

 

[LeftyWright69]

Now that I have earned my 60th Gold license I am going to extract as many names from the 60 Gold License thread to add an asterisk to anyone’s name in the buddy list that I can find who has got the 60 Gold Licenses

 

[SohnVonStig]

I'm in the north east. I'm training to win Part of the experience for me would be making it far enough to meet some of you guys from gtplanet. All golds btw.

 

[gruchov]

I am in southeast, just got all 60 golds on license so maybe not marked in that forum yet but I should have a gold star

 

[GT Motion]

I am in the West region, I have 50 golds, but thats because I havent even started S license

 

[NOS Waster]

West Region here. I have completed all 60 golds once and will be doing it again .

 

[CSLACR]

I only have 54 Gold right now, but mostly because I just don't have that much patience for license tests.... After 5 GT games, and hundreds of license tests, many of which have been IDENTICAL I just don't want to do them. EVER.