Last year, when the Nissan GT-R stopped by Tire Rack’s One Lap of America, it finished 11th in its class. That may seem lackluster, but considering the Nissan was bone stock and going toe-to-toe with some wild variations on cars like the Porsche 911 and the Corvette Z06, the car did fairly well. It looks [...]
Our boys at Vivid Racing have wrapped up work on their project GT-R, and damn if it’s not a sexy ride. Thanks to some mad wrenching and a few trick parts, the car’s up 30 horsepower and 30 lb-ft of torque over stock. That’s thanks largely to a new Agency Power blow-off valve and intercooler [...]
Is there anything more sublime than a supercar in competition? We think not. Tony Quinn and the number 55 GT-R managed to hold off serious heat from competitors (like a Porsche GT2) at the 2009 Rally Tasmania to take the gold. By the end of the last stage, Quinn had widened his lead by 14.4 [...]
That’s right, we’ve got another mystical beast to join the ranks of the abdominal snow man, big foot and the Loch Ness Monster. Supposedly folks ‘round the Web have laid eyes on a genuine left-hand drive Nissan GT-R Spec V. It doesn’t take too many rolls of the dice to jump to the conclusion that [...]
OK, now we’re cooking with gas. And massive turbo boost. You are feasting your eyes (and GT5 ambitions) on the known-about-forever but only now officially revealed Nissan GT-R SpecV. Feels good just thinking about it, no? Especially after so many months of only hearing about it. So, what makes a Godzilla into a SpecV Godzilla? Well let me [...]
At least that’s what the Fiends at Motor Trend say. They stuck the mighty Nissan GT-R on a new dyno to measure peak power as well as mechanical drag. What’d they find? The 3.8-liter V6 pretty much puts out what Nissan says it does. Well, almost. The motor put down an average of 485 horsepower [...]
Unlike today’s other Japanese market special, the Nissan Rasheen, this Nissan Skyline has been legally imported. Thanks to serious investments done in the past by die-hard importers, it’s possible (though a royal pain in the ass) to bring R33 Nissan Skylines into the U.S. And that’s what this person did. So, it’s the Skyline GT-R [...]
Ah yes, yet another tuner has taken a swing at an even more powerful GT-R. This time it’s German tuner Cobra N+. The guys and gals haven’t actually cranked out a real live version of the car just yet, but they say the company should be able to pull 550 horsepower and 501 lb-ft of [...]
Hennessey’s our kind of tuner. Those guys will wring every last bit of horsepower out of just about anything interesting, and that means the mighty Nissan GT-R has passed through its garage bays on more than one occasion. Hennessey started out by offering a Stage 1 performance upgrade for the car that bumped power up [...]
Looks like the Godzilla faithful over at GT-R Blog have gotten their grubby mitts on the GT-R Spec V’s, er, specs. Power gets a subtle nudge up to 485 horses (from 478), which is a hit below the belt for fans hoping for gusto numbers in the 520-plus range (though the hand builtiness of each [...]
