Nismo Festival 2010 - Image Intense

[Feast Japan]

Another great weekend has just passed. This one being rather special for Nissan Motor Sports fans, the Nismo Festival up at Fuji Speedway.

Like Japan in general, the fast paced lifestyle doesn’t wear off even on such an event. All done in a single day. I suppose it really could be stretched out over a whole weekend. Highly unlikely but you never know what the future may hold.

Nismo has done an awful lot being the factory backed Works tuning partner of Nissan. From creating aero styling for passenger vehicles to offering hardcore racing parts of the highest quality.

The RB28 crate motor for instance. Has been in there line up for a long time now. A safe alternative to a complete engine package.

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And then we have the ultra high dollar Titanium tower bar. I thought this was out of production. Something tells me its about to come back.

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More on Nismo later…

In true fashion, the tuning shops carry a special edge on this show. They are after all more or less the main access point for Nismo specialty parts.

One shop in particular has really drummed up interest in the well neglected R31 Skyline area has to be R31 House. They had a solid booth set up last year and yet again went one step larger this year with more feature vehicles on hand.

This bright orange R31 caught a lot of attention. Its what G-Works magazine call "new old style". It plays that part rather perfectly.

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Attention to detail is what R31 House all about. Close one hear showing the GTS-R engine bay. These motors came fitted with a T04E turbo and were easily turned up to 350PS. And those bottom mount manifold are pure works of art, even with the heat shield all warn in.

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Following the “new old style’ theme, have a look at this creation. An ER34 from Strange Drive. They went quite hard into this one fitting classis Watanabe wheels, fitting the interior with Hakosuka styled bucket racing seats. And topped off the motor with a clean NA look featuring 6 throttle & a stainless manifold. Pure work of art.

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Into 32’s we have this Reverse Garage GT-R. It originally made its public debut one year ago at the Tokyo Auto Salon. At that time Reverse was showcasing some new aero parts for the BNR32 models. Also made its name well at Tsukuba circuit taking part in the annual Rev Speed Hyper Meeting along with other events in the calendar year.

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Not only did they have the 32, but also this late S14 with a similar color scheme.

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Cockpit Tatebashi showing this R33 GT-R in there booth, just next to Reverse. I would say it looks great with the Racing Hart Wheels. But please, do leave the rear vinyls for F&F.

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From Rire Racing we have there championship S15 endurance race car. Believe it was prepared by Yashio factory originally.

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And it’s matching partner.

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More to follow...

[Feast Japan]

Classic sports car racing in Japan has held up rather well after all these years. JCCA for instance have several races through out the year, not to mention the annual jamboree which draws a lot of these old timers out.

This Rubber-Soul supported Hakosuka has made numerous appearances at the Nismo festivals. Here it is just before being pulled out for an exhibition run.

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The Tomei-Hirota Sunny is another iconic classic race car.

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Im sure in its heyday it never looked this clean under the hood. And note that the machined rocker cover worked double duty as a strengthening device for the top end of that little 1300+ CC motor.

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Fitted with just enough drivers aid.

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Being such old motors, one would think there are no updates available for these classic power plants. Sadly mistaken im afraid. OS Giken have a whole array of refresh kits on the market to this day. From simple bore up kits to fully counter balanced forged rotating assemblies. And even electronics like this one below. Seen here fitted with a custom coil on plug set up. And what looks to be a work in progress fuel injection set up. Days of weak ignition systems and irregular fueling are over.

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And one more detailed shot of an S20 motor in all its livery.
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[AristoNJ]

great coverage

[bluuuurr]

very good pics, more please!

[WIKID S4TEEN]

I really appreciate what you showing me right now...:wackit:

[Marcus]

I really appreciate what you showing me right now...:wackit:


WORD. great coverage

[chrishood]

Concave orange CE's are STATUS!

[chiboy002]

screw those cars... more on that TOWER BAR!
:wackit::wackit::wackit:

[z0rd0n1]

Thanks, loved the eye candy.

[Imarvin240]

i want that tower bar so bad! also, those s15 cars were BA!

[NINJASPY]

Anyone have any info what the metal rings are on the hakosuka styled seats are? do they have mesh in the middle? what is the purpose? for cooling? I am going to make myself a set.

Thanks for the pics! been dreaming about hakosuka styled seats for years... finally I know what they are called...

[tricky_ab]

I have to go to this sometime in my lifetime!