Morning all....
thanks for the kind words...
ok to answer your questions:
ENGINE STATS - it's a Nismo built group N engine. was destined for the R34's that ran at the nurburgring 24hr races but never got used before nissan pulled out of european motorsport....i ceased the opportunity. Essentially it's a R34 NUR with a few additional bits...all metal gaskets, fully blueprinted and crank balanced to tighter tolerances.
SPECIALITY - i work in suspension and steering design department.
UK OFFICIAL CARS - they did 100 R33 and 80 R34's.
of the 100 R33's only 20 were retrofitted with leather. Mine was one of them. it also came with Nismo LMGT1s and a Nissan europe developed 360bhp ECU.
NEXT GT-R - you wouldn;t believe the security surrounding it guys....everybody working on the project (in japan) have been removed from their individual sections, moved to another building and sworn to secrecy. Even my colleagues in Japan know nothing! I have a few bits, but it's only 27 days to go anyway!
COMPETITION - wow, i didn;t know about that, must be USA only. I better get on that....there are 4 GTR's in our company alone and plenty of my mates have them! I'm sure we could put something together.
So anyway - everyone over here is going mad for RIPS stuff. they are all sending their cars over to NZ to have them fully modified by these guys. that's what happens when the exchange rate goes like it is i guess!
Ian
