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Feb 08 2012, 05:30 PM
by
Charles Kha
with 45 comment(s)
The Australian Touring Car Championship was an old stomping ground of Nissan's R32 Skyline GT-R; a car that local media quickly dubbed Godzilla. However it's utter domination of the ATCC series came to an end in 1993 when the governing body changed its Class A regulations. The GT-R was outlawed, paving the way for an exclusive Ford vs Holden V8 battle. 20 years on and Nissan have announced they will return to the V8 Supercars series in 2013. The Kelly Racing team will field four Nissans next...
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Feb 08 2012, 08:00 AM
by
Dino Dalle Carbonare
with 25 comment(s)
Just came across this short video of Taniguchi drifting the BenSopra GT-R at Mobara Circuit. As many of you will know the car is based on what was supposed to become Nomuken's next Blitz D1 machine, a 1000 HP R35 that was converted to RWD and stripped of all electronic driver aids. Abe-san from Blitz was there to fine tune the Motec ECU before Nob took the car out for a little test. Unfortunately the engine suffered turbo problems and was pretty much running without any boost. Still, it's worth a look as it's not often you see R35s drifting through tight tracks like Mobara! Can't wait to see this car all fixed up and properly vaporizing those big rear Yokohamas!
BenSopra
-Dino Dalle Carbonare
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Feb 08 2012, 04:00 AM
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Dino Dalle Carbonare
with 25 comment(s)
Garage Saurus is one of those names that everyone has heard of. So you might be forgiven if you've been wondering what has happened to them. The owner, Hayashi-san, is still very much active in the Japanese tuning scene, continuing to build crazy GT-Rs and other JDM rides on a daily basis out of the Saurus workshop in Saitama. The reason that he and his cars haven't really been out at events and shows over the years is that well, he has pretty much achieved what he set out to do, and the...
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Posted
Feb 06 2012, 07:00 AM
by
Mike Garrett
with 28 comment(s)
As someone who's in love with vintage Japanese cars, the JCCA New Year Meeting is simply overwhelming. There are dozens upon dozens of cars inside and outside the event which I would deem spotlight-worthy, and this year I picked out a few that I found to be especially great.
One of them is this Kenmeri Skyline based out of Tokyo....
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Posted
Jan 30 2012, 05:00 AM
by
Rod Chong
with 10 comment(s)
I find it truly amazing to see how two people armed with little more than a 5d camera, a 50mm 1.2 lens and an Iphone4S can make such a smooth and stylish automotive film like this. Props to the Crank&Piston team for this little gem of a video!
:Rod
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Posted
Jan 29 2012, 07:00 AM
by
Mike Garrett
with 20 comment(s)
Greetings from good old Japan everyone!
In case you haven't heard, I'm back in this fine country for the first time in nearly three years. I'll be here for a few weeks seeing friends and family, doing some Speedhunting - and generally enjoying the place. I spent all day today in Odaiba at the JCCA New Year Meeting - which is where I snapped this bitchin' works style Hakosuka cruising home after the show.
I'm about to pass out from a lack of sleep here, but I've got some really cool stuff coming up from the 2012 New Year Meeting.
More soon.
-Mike Garrett...
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Posted
Jan 19 2012, 07:30 PM
by
Dino Dalle Carbonare
with 32 comment(s)
From rotaries we move onto some S-chassis, but since there weren't that many this year I've decided to combine Fairlady Zs to the post too, once again an all-Nissan selection! We start off with the R.Y.O. S13 "Odyvia" which I already ran a spotlight on back in October , when I first laid eyes on it at the D1 final in Fuji. It's as wild looking from every angle and proof that things down in the south of Japan are done a little differently. You can always expect to find nice rides...
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Jan 19 2012, 05:00 PM
by
Charles Kha
with 31 comment(s)
Speedhunters reader Peter Brueckner recently grabbed a camera, hopped into his Skyline and headed for the Santa Cruz mountains. Peter's a camera engineer by trade, and his weekend toy is this 1971 Nissan Skyline 2000GTX. Ground Control helped build a custom pair of coilovers utilising Koni shocks. For the rear, Peter has fitted RS Start adjustable perches and springs. Peter's a self confessed Watanabe fan, but he decided on a set of Hayashi Street CRs instead. The fronts are 15x7.5 with a...
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Posted
Jan 19 2012, 12:00 PM
by
Rod Chong
with 27 comment(s)
It's normally around this time of year, we would be returning from our adventures in the UAE, after shooting the Dubai 24HRs. However, due to time and budget constraints, the Speedhunters team had to give the event a skip this year. As much as we love the enduro in the desert, it just wasn't possible to fly to Dubai this January. However all is not lost, as our friends at Crank & Piston have stepped in to cover off the event for us, and kindly agreed to shoot behind the scenes photography...
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Jan 18 2012, 07:00 PM
by
Jonathan Moore
with 14 comment(s)
NISMO and JRM chose the Autosport International Racing Car Show at the NEC in Birmingham to officially unveil the Nissan GT-R GT3, which is now on sale to customer teams to race in any series using FIA GT3 regulations. To coincide with the day of the car's official launch, several thousand miles away in Dubai a GT3 GT-R run by JRM was also lining up to take the start of the Dubai 24 Hours. The driver line-up was certainly a statement of intent, as was the 'Champions' livery it carried...
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Posted
Jan 17 2012, 04:00 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 37 comment(s)
Throughout my tour around Canepa Design, I was overwhelmed with historic race cars from around the world. From Can Am monsters and NASCAR record breakers to Le Mans winners - the selection was incredible. However, among the Cobras, Porsches, and Ferraris, one of my favorites was a lowly old Datsun....
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Jan 13 2012, 12:00 PM
by
Jonathan Moore
with 23 comment(s)
This weekend The International Racing Car show at the sprawling NEC complex in Birmingham becomes the focus of the racing and performance car world. It's where the manufacturers often choose to launch their new models: this year Nissan and JRM officially launched the GT-R NISMO GT3 at the show. The GT3 variant lacks none of the aggression of its now-redundant GT1 big brother – and the official launch was backed up by a JRM GT-R GT3 taking third position on the grid for today's Dubai...
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Posted
Jan 04 2012, 01:00 PM
by
Jeroen Willemsen
with 11 comment(s)
One of the most extreme S14s I know is this one owned by Lennard Wander. I spotted this in 2009 and I still think it's one the coolest S14s in the world. Not only is it extreme on the outside thanks to a BN Sports blister kit, but under the hood lurks something equally impressive. That custom exhaust is connected to a fully built RB26 that delivers more than enough to get the car sideways in spectacular fashion. I last saw it at the 24hrS Nürburgring race where it was doing demonstration...
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Posted
Jan 04 2012, 02:00 PM
by
Patrick McGrath
with 27 comment(s)
Back in 2008, I made the trip across the Irish Sea to the opening round of the 2008 JDM Allstars Series. The event took place at Teesside Autodrome, just outside Middlesborough in the North East of England. Anyone who has had the privilage of witnessing what Teesside was like in its earlier drifting years, will know it's a special place. For the Saturday morning of the event, the competitors were left loose on the smaller, but equally amazing, West track. During the lunch hour, Martin Ffrench...
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Posted
Jan 03 2012, 11:00 PM
by
Charles Kha
with 6 comment(s)
We had to include the Falken / Discount Tire S13 in our S-Chassis Festival. Few would disagree that this is one of the best set up drift cars in the world, with Mike Kojima and SPD honing it into the 2011 FD championship winner. - Charles Kha Photo by Larry Chen
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Posted
Jan 02 2012, 02:30 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 32 comment(s)
As is annual tradition, we will be kicking off the new year with our celebration of Nissan's S-chassis cars. Once again we are asking all of the S-chassis owners in our global audience to submit their cars for our Reader Rides posts.
If you'd like to have your car included, please send a photo sized at 672x448 pixels to SpeedhuntersMike (at) gmail.com. Please remember to include your name and location. Also, if you can please list your car's chassis number (IE S13, S14, S15) in the subject of the email, that will make it much easier to sort them.
As always, we are looking forward to seeing your cars!
-Mike Garrett...
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Posted
Dec 18 2011, 11:00 PM
by
Dino Dalle Carbonare
with 8 comment(s)
It's time to wrap up this year's Nismo Festival coverage, something I hope you have enjoyed, as this is all the Nissan/Nismo racing car goodness we will be getting until 2013. You see, with Nismo moving into its all-new HQ in Tsurumi, Yokohama at the end of next year, it has been decided that there will not be a Nismo Festival in 2012. All efforts will be directed towards the move, which will include moving the Nismo Omori Factory operations, workshop and garages to the new site, along with...
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Posted
Dec 14 2011, 07:00 PM
by
Dino Dalle Carbonare
with 33 comment(s)
Time to get on with things and return to the Nismo Festival to continue from where I left off last week. With so much to see in such a short space of time I made sure I didn't hang around too much in one given place... ...seeing that this year there was also a rather large Skyline Historical line up on the top floor of the main pit building which I had to make sure I checked out. There are the kind of views you can expect at Fuji Speedway when the skies are blue. Incredible! So after checking...
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Posted
Dec 07 2011, 04:00 PM
by
Patrick McGrath
with 19 comment(s)
I know some of you had a joke or two at the expense of the Juke-R when it was first announced. If you've been following the build, you'll have realised by now that Nissan and RML are taking this quite seriously. The car has now reached the shakedown stage where they will try to iron out any niggles that may arise. This project has grown into something special and I can't wait to see how it turns out. I just love the fact that its being built for no other reason than they can. And yes, he did just say the car is 'road legal' ....
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Paddy McGrath
Juke-R on Speedhunters
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Posted
Dec 06 2011, 04:00 AM
by
Dino Dalle Carbonare
with 23 comment(s)
I'm going to jump right into it here with the Nismo Festival coverage and get into a little detail with some of the main cars that were on display in the pits and paddock, before I move onto some tuner cars and more action in the next Part. I decided to start off with the JRZ FIA GT1 R35, the car that Michael Krumm took to a championship win this year. The GT-R has really been making a name for itself this year in international motorsport, adding to the tradition of the legendary badge. Nismo...
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