A comparison 86 vs RT104gt

[ZAZ]

It was with some interpretation I bought a six year old low km GT86.
I recently hung up my flying goggles and had always preferred flying everywhere instead of low level flying in Japanese rice rockets acquiring traffic infringements.
My youthful exhuberence was short lived when acquiring a JDM RT104GT 40 years back and learning to drive this 200 km/h rice rocket around the Grampians mountains of western Victoria. The law had different ideas and I was grounded in 1980 for a while and took up real flying.
Anyway taking delivery of this just run in 86! I found myself driving back down the windy Grampians tourist road home and started to experiment with the driving characteristics of this car and true to form it’s great to drive in mountainous twisty roads.
If you know Mirranatwa Gap, this is a testing quick hill climb (grey ghosters notwithstanding)
The 86 ate this up and going down the other side when I used to pull peak rpm in the RT104gt down into the valley, you can add twenty km/h to the 86 top speed.
I can’t imagine why you would need anything any faster for road use except maybe an STI.
The gts brakes might help you stop if an emu or roo jumps out but for daylight mountain work the 86 is pretty cool.
If I was game and knew no tourists were in the road to the Mt William turntable 1000 feet to 5000 feet climb in 12 km, would be interesting, but with no guard rails and a narrow trafficked road you would need to get it right .
I have done these trips in several quick cars over the years including a 1985 3TGTE retrofitted T18GT and An Ateco sa series Swift GTi and more recently my GT4 awd.
The 86 is streets ahead it is rapid...
I have been drivin* the Grampians for fourty years, don’t try these tricks unless you know the roads and expected tourist traffic.
Don’t do it in twilight or at night.

Wildlife abounds.

Any 86 models dine the Tassie Targa?.

[HKz]

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