Back in a former life, I had an addiction that I loved beyond sanity. Here’s the story of it.
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This is the final spec list for my glorious, insane Brutal Truth.
Nissan Skyline BCNR33 GT-R (Type 2) manufactured in April 1996. JDM non V-Spec vehicle retailed through Osaka Nissan Prince in May/June 1996. Imported to the
UK in June 1997. Remained in original JDM spec without speedometer conversion until August 2002. Only the steering wheel & white dial sets were fitted in Japan.
Nismo RB26N1 bare engine: [N1 water pump (improved flow & less cavitation)/Reinforced cylinder block head bolt boss/Increased sump capacity (6L 20w60)/1.2mm oil restrictor]
Inlet plenum and sundry induction pipework finished in powder grey
Trust clear cam pulley cover
HKS Kansai Service carbon fibre spark plug cover
Right hand cam cover finished in crackle black
Nismo radiator & washer reservoir caps
HKS Kansai Service front strut brace finished in high gloss black
GReddy aluminium slam panel finished in crackle black
Tein bonnet dampers with black sleeves
Custom made one-off Cobra Misano Lux front seats: [Alcantara (colour code 9189) outers/Alcantara (colour code 9182) centre panels/One-piece carbon fibre backs/Sidewinder bases on custom subframes adapted by Abbey Motorsport/Cobra logo in silver thread on the headpads/GT-R logo beneath the grommets on seat backs]
JVC KD-AVX2 multi-media DVD/CD receiver with built-in 3.5” widescreen monitor
I don't know what kind of year it will be, but for now
To celebrate the start of 1995, I attended the Amcraid driving event held at Tsukuba Circuit. We asked racing driver Tetsuya Ota to test-drive five flashy tuned cars.
Laugh and blow away the dark social conditions with a tuned car. If you do so, you will surely find something good!
After connecting the patch, RX made a rocket start that felt like it was kicked off, and the RX danced out to the Tsukuba Circuit. In an instant, it hits the rev limit, 2nd gear 3 4 5 and 6 in no time. The feeling of acceleration is about twice that of normal. Exit the S curve in 4th gear and enter the first hairpin and step on the brakes. The stopping power that works hard is also strong. As I released the brakes and turned the steering wheel, I braced myself, saying, "I'm going to go under." RX enters the corner smoothly and smoothly.
Aiming for the strongest GT-R on public roads!!
Tetsuya Ohta
The Trust RX is a tuned car that was developed with the goal of being able to run on public roads in less than 1 minute at the Tsukuba Circuit. The base GTR boasts the strongest touring car race, but it has strong understeer from the beginning and is not good at small turns. Simply increasing the power will not result in a time. I was curious about how they overcame that, so I boarded the RX.
Tetsuya Ota, who loves sports cars, is a racing driver born in 1959. Continuing from last year, he will continue to drive the Taisan Star Card F40 in 1995 in the All Japan GT Championship. Thank you!
The console is so densely packed with measuring instruments that even a full-fledged endurance machine would turn blue, just like the cockpit of a jet plane. Wait, I can't check it while driving anyway, so I listen to the explanation moderately and check only the tachometer, oil pressure gauge and water temperature gauge. A racing club with a 600-horsepower capacity with a direct feel.
In order to eliminate the GTR-specific understeer, this car adjusts the suspension and sets it to oversteer, and the grounding of the front is greatly increased. However, as it stands, the grip of the rear is reduced by the amount that the front is biting at the start, and the traction is reduced and the power is overpowered. Therefore, the ATTESA mechanism was also modified to advance the timing of the shift to 4WD, thereby suppressing oversteer at the start. The setting is exquisite, and if you drive with an understanding of it, you can corner much better than normal. It can be said that the RX, which has potential comparable to the N1 machine, is the strongest GTR that runs on public roads.
MENU HAPPY
●Engine: T78 Hybrid Turbine/TVVC Mini/GReddy Racing Wastegate & Intercooler/GREX 87.5 Piston & Oil Cooler & Conrod and many others Aero: GRACER Aerostyle ●GREX PRO Shock & Spring ●BL SUS Evolution muffler, etc. Trust 0479-77-3000
Years ago I decided to draw a poster, like Dean Walters’ photo of Nigel Petrie’s Hilux. Full article.
Nigel is an engineer from Australia, who built white Toyota Hilux. Nigel builds racecars and motorcycles and keeps the blog about them.
To make that photo, Nigel disassembled his Hilux to show the details and components, which are in the car. It looked so good, so i wanted to take my photo or to draw the poster, though.
In that time I took a part in Formula SAE in a local university, so a poster was a simple thing: to draw — is not to build. Chassis, subframes and transmission later, Catherine advised me to make a book about it. “The more so, — she said, — your letters will come useful”.
During years I made sure, that on the internet there is almost all the information that you need to build something: websites, blogs, forums. But only if you have what to build. In my case, the whole process is virtual and I can’t receive feedback from my decisions. I mean, if you chose the wrong, say, engine mounts, you would know, that they don’t fit your cross member. I can’t know it, cause I don’t have both. That’s why I call it “virtual”
As I wanted to make the true story, I went to R32 forums. Warick Wokka Lee and other folks didn’t know about my project, so it was fun and challenging to pretend to be a guy with the car and real problems.
My homie Mike did another weld job for me. Had a GReddy Exhaust laying around and wanted it on the skyline. These photos were during the the first half of the day measuring and welding. I didn’t get to take any photos of the finish product. The last photo of him welding it on the car is pretty much how it sits. Before, it was closer to the bumper and had more angle. Well, there is a gap now and less angle, which is what I instructed him to do. Very happy with the result he produced.
The man, the myth, the legend, Smokey Nagata and his 2 glorious Supra vmax machines.
"Smokey" hails from the northern parts of Japan in Hokkaido from a farming family. When he got his 1st car, a Mitsubishi Galant GTO, he couldn't even drive it yet but got the boss of a local Toyota dealer to fix it for him to drive only for the school to find out about him driving without a proper license and have him expelled. With nowhere to go, the boss of the dealership employed him and he started to take his Celica he got afterwards to race in the mountains but being up having few competitors, he left and headed to Tokyo.
There, he found work at Trust, subsidiary of GReddy and again tinkered with cars during work time. The bosses knew about it but also liked what he did thus it became a secret between themselves which spawned the name of his future company, "Top Secret". Top Secret then became a shadow company where Smokey would make parts and tune cars slyly as a testbed for both Trust and GReddy and he often took such prototype cars to the street and made a name for himself.
He then had an ambition to do 200mph on public roads and thus he began working on a supermachine and because it was the 90s, its the peak of Japanese automotive industry where everyone is making aftermarket parts for racing and Smokey always has a habit to mix-and-match parts to make things work. Thus for his 1st project to hit 200mph, he got a A80 Mk 4 Supra chassis and stuffed a RB26 from a Nissan GTR R32 into it tuned to 1,001hp. Reason on why he did not use the 2JZ is that for high speed runs, he needed the top end power which the RB provides better than the 2JZ which works on low-end torque power better. Thus with everything assembled, he was about to test it but then, a call.
Max Power was a car and young adult magazine at that time that often talks about cars and also crazy antics people do with cars and hearing of Smokey's antics before hand, they challenged Smokey to bring the car to a foreign country and do his run. Smokey found it amusing and took up the challenge while picking the UK and the infamous A1. While setting up all that, he got Option magazine roped in to document it all too.
While in the UK, the runs began and Smokey did burnouts for theatrics and also to warm the tires but both time he tried, issues kept popping up. 1st run saw the car slightly backfiring due to the petrol running way too lean and the 2nd run saw the hood trying to detach itself from the car thus forcing him to slow down. 3rd run was better but only able to achieve 194mph which wasn't bad but not the target. However as he was easing down from his 3rd run, problem. The cops caught on to him and were trying to arrest him. Being the polite Japanese he is, he pulled over on the road shoulder despite being able to easily outrun the cops. He was then promptly charged with his international license revoked for 1 year, barred from entering the UK for 10 years, a few hundred pounds of fines and had to have everything that the cameramen and footage from the camcorder strapped to the Supra deleted. Alas, being a brave man, Smokey snuck a storage device containing the clips and escaped back to Japan and soon, he became an overnight sensation as Option ran a whole magazine worth of content of the run in the UK and that helped Smokey's failing business.
Discontent that he did not manage to hit 200mph, he decided to try again with seemingly the same formula but slightly alterized it. He got another A80 Supra body, streamline it but this time slapped a V12 from a Toyota Century and 2 big turboes good for 900+hp. He then brought it to the Shutoku line and ripped it. His target was 260mph but despite trying and trying, all he got was 241mph which was great enough as he had unofficially broken 2 records already with 2 different cars. 1 being the only foreign car to do more than 190mph in the UK and also the 2nd one, till now (I think) is the only vehicle to do more than 220mph on public roads not only in Japan but also the world.
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1: Alright seriously – what the hell have you built here?!
My buddy Robert Bell and I at RB’s Adrenaline Factory have taken a 1994 Honda Accord Wagon ce1… and completely cut off the front end. We welded in a new tubular front end built to s13 240sx specs, and dropped in a RB25det Neo (r34 Skyline GTT) from JDM of California. The S13-spec front-end allows us to run the s13 subframe, suspension, brakes, everything. Piece of cake right! lol
In the rear, we’re using an s13 rear subframe for the rear-wheel-drive conversion, and an R33 driveshaft.
Let me by clear – THIS IS MY DAILY. But we knew this was also gonna be a drift car from the get-go… so we wanted to use parts that are accessible & easy to get in the drift world.
2: You realize that like 90% of these off-the-wall projects never run again right? How did you beat the odds?
Backstory: We had an R32 front bumper laying around. And out of boredom, I put it on my Accord one day. I took it to a local monthly meet… and people laughed. That was all the motivation I needed. So bottom line: We ‘beat the odds’ when we set out to prove ‘em all wrong. We set out to do something different AND FUN… and we stuck to a pretty strict budget and plan. Spare time is minimal around here, and so is shop space – so having a detailed plan of attack was key. But we knew that once we conquered the hard part of getting the engine & rear-end in… and we’d have this thing sliding in no time!
3: How does it drive? What’s it feel like?
It honestly rides fantastic! The Function & Forum Type 2 coilovers are great. And we took it even further & modified the position of the subframes/suspension to where the suspension would have full range of function… but also still have that low palm-biting low stance.
ENGINE & TRANSMISSION
R34 Nissan Skyline GTT
-RB25det Neo 2.5-liter / 5-speed trans
HKS GT28 turbo
GReddy BOV
Q45 90mm throttle body
Mishimoto oil filter sandwich plate
Star performance oil cooler
R33 GTS-T drive shaft
SUSPENSION
Nissan 240sx s13 front & rear subframes (stock arms)
Function & Form type-2 s13 coilovers
2″ extended lower control arms
ISR front tension rods
WHEELS / BRAKES
Work Rezax wheels
-18×10 front & 18×14 rear
Falken tires
Nissan z32 & r32 front & rear calipers
z32 brake master
s13 brake booster
Custom brake lines
CHASSIS
Formula D spec cage w/ integrated roof rack
Full tube front / strut towers
Tube rear strut towers
FUEL
z32 2+0 stock tank
Walbro 450 fuel pump
New fuel lines
ELECTRONICS
manual r34 / rb25 Neo ECU
z32 MAF
z32 stock gauge cluster
EXTERIOR
GP Carbon 1-off fenders/flares
r32 GTR fiberglass bumper
Datsun replica fender mirrors
Street Glow neon
INTERIOR
Bride replica fixed-back seats
Custom trans tunnel
Honda Accord dash
s13 steering column
Double din head unit w/ kicker 6x9s
COMING SOON…
Air jacks
Carbon doors, hood, and bumpers
Top mount turbo setup
Text by Wooley & Armando Photos by Marcus McDonald