Mods
Nismo Stainless Steel Turbo-Back Exhaust
Nismo Front + Rear Strut Tower Bars
Nismo Solid Shifter
Nismo Clutch Damper Bypass
Nissan N1 Water Pump
Tein Street Flex Coilovers
Hawk HP+ Brake Pads + Motul 600 Brake Fluid
R35 GTR Ignition Coils w/ Platinum Racing Bracket
Nistune ECU Chip (installed myself)
Koyo Radiator
Custom Oil Filter Relocation + Setrab Oil Cooler w/ duct
Innovate Motorsports Wideband O2 Sensor
Custom Side Exhaust Electric Cut-out Setup
BBS LM 17x9 Wheels
Bridgestone RE71R 255/40/17 Tires
Defi ZD Advance Multi-Gauge
Nismo Front + Rear Strut Tower Bars
Nismo Solid Shifter
Nismo Clutch Damper Bypass
Nissan N1 Water Pump
Tein Street Flex Coilovers
Hawk HP+ Brake Pads + Motul 600 Brake Fluid
R35 GTR Ignition Coils w/ Platinum Racing Bracket
Nistune ECU Chip (installed myself)
Koyo Radiator
Custom Oil Filter Relocation + Setrab Oil Cooler w/ duct
Innovate Motorsports Wideband O2 Sensor
Custom Side Exhaust Electric Cut-out Setup
BBS LM 17x9 Wheels
Bridgestone RE71R 255/40/17 Tires
Defi ZD Advance Multi-Gauge
Build story
Last minute submission! Threw this all together real quick!
Purchased the car in 2015 through a business in the UK (TheGTRShop) where it was then shipped directly from the port of Kobe, Japan to Newark, NJ. It was an agonizing 8 month process to get it here and titled properly. It arrived, delivered to my door, the day after my birthday no-less. It arrived with approximately 100k km (63k miles) on the odometer and covered in a thick layer of dust, dirt, and shipping/customs paint markings. These days it’s a cliche, yet true story to say I grew up playing Gran Turismo, but also watching Best Motoring. Both, particularly the latter, had a major influence on me wanting an R32 GTR somehow. I can still remember my friend and I learning about the United States 25 year import restriction so many years ago and thinking that day would never come.
Eventually, it did, and thus I have spent the last few years making minor modifications and attempting to do a bit of a restoration in the process. I’ve performed all maintenance and work myself, including the timing belt + water pump, replacing all rubber hoses on the intake side of the engine with OEM parts, changed and flushed all fluids, sourced replacement door panels, new interior panels, and an old trunk carpet. Soldered a chip socket on the ECU and installed a Nistune one (all non-destructive) for use in data-logging or a potential future mild tune. The side exhaust setup was welded up myself (I need a proper welder w/ shielding gas!). Crafted, setup, and installed a custom oil cooler ducting setup and used an OEM R32 GTS-T front fender liner vent and successfully grafted that into the GTR liner. The Defi gauge is installed in a panel bracket I made that installs into the factory ash tray location. Radio was swapped with a Nakamichi 6-disc in-dash changer which was generously donated by a friend. I replaced all dash/interior bulbs with as-close to original colors as I could. I wired in a whole auxiliary fuse panel setup with bracket up under the dash (no pictures). I replicated and reproduced the "Nismo International Motorsports" decal to replace the damaged ones on the strut bars.
I made an effort to make most things I do on the car reversible and I’ve saved all the original parts I could. It doesn’t look like much but the devil is in the details. The car could be one of the cleanest examples I’ve seen in the US.
I have only been able to take it to the race track (New Jersey Motorsports Park) on two occasions, both times were more of a shakedown to make sure everything would hold up on the car okay. I have not had the chance to run it harder, but hopefully I will at some point.
Sorry, this is all I could get together real quick!
Purchased the car in 2015 through a business in the UK (TheGTRShop) where it was then shipped directly from the port of Kobe, Japan to Newark, NJ. It was an agonizing 8 month process to get it here and titled properly. It arrived, delivered to my door, the day after my birthday no-less. It arrived with approximately 100k km (63k miles) on the odometer and covered in a thick layer of dust, dirt, and shipping/customs paint markings. These days it’s a cliche, yet true story to say I grew up playing Gran Turismo, but also watching Best Motoring. Both, particularly the latter, had a major influence on me wanting an R32 GTR somehow. I can still remember my friend and I learning about the United States 25 year import restriction so many years ago and thinking that day would never come.
Eventually, it did, and thus I have spent the last few years making minor modifications and attempting to do a bit of a restoration in the process. I’ve performed all maintenance and work myself, including the timing belt + water pump, replacing all rubber hoses on the intake side of the engine with OEM parts, changed and flushed all fluids, sourced replacement door panels, new interior panels, and an old trunk carpet. Soldered a chip socket on the ECU and installed a Nistune one (all non-destructive) for use in data-logging or a potential future mild tune. The side exhaust setup was welded up myself (I need a proper welder w/ shielding gas!). Crafted, setup, and installed a custom oil cooler ducting setup and used an OEM R32 GTS-T front fender liner vent and successfully grafted that into the GTR liner. The Defi gauge is installed in a panel bracket I made that installs into the factory ash tray location. Radio was swapped with a Nakamichi 6-disc in-dash changer which was generously donated by a friend. I replaced all dash/interior bulbs with as-close to original colors as I could. I wired in a whole auxiliary fuse panel setup with bracket up under the dash (no pictures). I replicated and reproduced the "Nismo International Motorsports" decal to replace the damaged ones on the strut bars.
I made an effort to make most things I do on the car reversible and I’ve saved all the original parts I could. It doesn’t look like much but the devil is in the details. The car could be one of the cleanest examples I’ve seen in the US.
I have only been able to take it to the race track (New Jersey Motorsports Park) on two occasions, both times were more of a shakedown to make sure everything would hold up on the car okay. I have not had the chance to run it harder, but hopefully I will at some point.
Sorry, this is all I could get together real quick!