After a few months browsing Carsensor.com, Kakaku.com and other popular Japanese used car websites (a word of warning: this will quickly become a highly addictive pastime!) I decided that I needed external advice, ideally from a BNR34 owner of which, of course, I knew none. This is when I summoned Mr. Speedhunters himself and fellow Italian, Dino Dalle Carbonare. Actually at the time we didn't know each other at all: I cold-emailed him asking for a meeting as I stumbled into some of his articles on SH. Dino is a long term Japan resident, Editor in Chief for Speedhunters and arguably the most famous foreigner BNR34 owner living in Japan. He bought his car, a Bayside Blue V-spec, at a Nissan dealership over 15 years ago and has then proceeded to fine tune it step by step while covering the progress on Speedhunters: who better qualified than him to ask for advice to?
Dino's BNR34
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TRIVIA: truth to be told, that night Dino, despite having just met me a couple of hours before, offered me to join him in a meet-up at Yokohama with some friends and a "famous Porsche tuner" of whom I couldn't clearly catch the name. As I had work the next day and no clue of who the guy was (remember my time away from cars explained in my last post), I declined. Turns out that the "famous Porsche guy" was no other than...Magnus Walker. I still punch myself to this very day for passing out on this. You can read an awesome article by Dino on that night here.
Yes, I passed on this...
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HKS Circuit Attack Couter? Avoid! |
Actual screenshot that I sent to Dino |
Stay tuned!
Stumbled on to you're blog by accident through Aki's one. Very interesting write up, i know most of these garage's from my daily brows through car sensor and when i was shopping for my own GTR.
ReplyDeleteAlthough our criteria are very different, when i was shopping for a BCNR33 2 years ago i wanted anything but stock. Eventually i found and bought a recently tuned full tune 650hp R33 GTR. Its not that i perse wanted a Full tune wangan monster, but more the total distrust in stock weak RB26's. Thankfully is see you went with the nur that has the whole N1 catalog under the hood.
Anyhow keep up the good content. Greetings from Stefan from Amsterdam.
Hi Stefan,
DeleteThanks for stopping by and glad you enjoyed the content, more to come.
I am planing to eventually tune my GTR as well and starting from a clean stock base would be ideal for me to build the car exactly the way I envisioned. Nothing wrong with tuned cars, as long as they are tastefully modified and properly looked after without compromising on reliability. It also make a lot more sense if you are not based in Japan as I'd assume that parts availability and finding the right workshops could be a bit of a nightmare. I'd still definitely stay away from track focused cars.
I have found the RB26 to be quite reliable if well maintained. Stock power also means a lot less stress on many other parts, but, as I said in previous posts, age is now definitely a factor regardless of mileage.
Ale