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Elsewhere in touring cars, the range-topping '87 Skyline GTS-R homologation special took dead aim at Group A racing and ...
27/10/2022

Elsewhere in touring cars, the range-topping '87 Skyline GTS-R homologation special took dead aim at Group A racing and carried on the line's legacy in the category after the R30 began it a generation earlier. This particular HR31 was built by Nissan Motorsports Europe for the European Touring Car Championship and was propelled by an inline-6 RB but not the one you're thinking of - these racing machines sported RB20DET-Rs, a 2.0L version of the straight-6.

The no-Fs-given approach to car creation made Super Silhouettes popular, so popular that singer/actor/racer Masahiko "Ma...
25/10/2022

The no-Fs-given approach to car creation made Super Silhouettes popular, so popular that singer/actor/racer Masahiko "Matchy" Kondo had a K10 March hatchback done up in the boxy widebody style in '82. Nissan took part in the category via Violet (710A10), Bluebird (910), Silvia (S110) and Skyline (R30), and all of them ran similarly built turbocharged LZ20B inline-4 making north of 560hp. (For an updated take on the Tomica R30, check out what Liberty Walk did with an ER34 Skyline 25GT for the '20 Tokyo Auto Salon.)

So much love is heaped on '90s cars that Super Silhouette racers of the '80s nearly always get overlooked, but dude! The...
23/10/2022

So much love is heaped on '90s cars that Super Silhouette racers of the '80s nearly always get overlooked, but dude! These things are cool! Super Silhouettes were short lived (raced just in the early part of the decade) and built to Group 5 "Special Production" touring car rules, meaning they were production vehicles with their native engine blocks and limited to 3.0 liters of displacement, and that's pretty much it. Teams could go as crazy as they wanted with every other part of the machine, and by the looks of it they often did. We even read that some engines could reportedly make more power than Formula 1 mills of the time.

As you can probably tell from the ton of sports car prototype racers in the photo gallery, Nissan was heavily involved i...
21/10/2022

As you can probably tell from the ton of sports car prototype racers in the photo gallery, Nissan was heavily involved in both Group C-/GTP- and GT1-spec competition on an international scale in the '90S; they were running in the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship (JSPC), IMSA in America, and the World Endurance Championship/World Sports-Prototype Championship/FIA Sportscar World Championship (so many stupid names) in Europe. Chassis first came from Lola Cars and March Engineering before Nissan started building them on their own and depending on ruleset came with everything from twin-turbo V-8s to the naturally aspirated V-12 you'd find mounted in P35 prototypes. Much success was had in these machines.

The '90s marked the end of the road for Nissan's involvement in the World Rally Championship, even though privateers con...
19/10/2022

The '90s marked the end of the road for Nissan's involvement in the World Rally Championship, even though privateers continued to champion the brand in the WRC and elsewhere well into the future. In the early '90s, Pulsar GTI-R compacts like this one from '92 led the charge, mainly because of the turbo SR20DET under hood (which engineers turned up to make nearly 300hp) and its ATTESA (Advanced Total Traction Engineering System for All) four-wheel-drive system.

Since touring cars are in Nissan's '90s racing DNA, endurance racing is as well, and for it the automaker and its accomp...
17/10/2022

Since touring cars are in Nissan's '90s racing DNA, endurance racing is as well, and for it the automaker and its accomplices at NISMO used as their primary weapons Skyline GT-R of both the R32 and R33 variety. The ZEXEL BNR32 ran the Spa 24 Hours in Belgium from '90 to '92, while the no. 23 BCNR33 GT-R LM beneath it (a special version of the R33 GT-R) was part of a two-car 24 Hours of Le Mans effort by NISMO in '95 and '96. It rocked a 2.8-liter RB26 that made almost 600hp and kept its AWD configuration; its counterpart, the no. 22 (buried in the photo gallery), had a somewhat different approach to the French enduro classic, with power from a Group N-spec 400hp RB26DETT and a RWD setup.

In general, touring car racing was pretty big in the '90s around the world and Nissan even saw successes outside of Japa...
15/10/2022

In general, touring car racing was pretty big in the '90s around the world and Nissan even saw successes outside of Japan. In the British Touring Car Championship, for example, this SR20DE-motivated Primera GT killed the '99 season, winning an impressive 13 out of 26 races competing against the likes of Volvo S40, Renault Laguna, Vauxhall Vectra, Ford Mondeo and Honda Accord.

The earlier so-called JTC era relied on Group A standards that were an extremely broad, almost sliding scale of specs ba...
13/10/2022

The earlier so-called JTC era relied on Group A standards that were an extremely broad, almost sliding scale of specs based partly on stock engine size, and they opened up touring car racing to a lot of platforms. Nissan dominated this stretch of the JTC with the AWD R32 Skyline GT-R and its RB26DETT, which won many races and was used by no fewer than seven teams in '93 when the Group A period ended. The pictured STP Taisan GT-R is the rig that took the second round in '93 and was copiloted by none other than Keiichi "Drift King" Tsuchiya.

As we move backward through time, the Japanese Touring Car Championship (abbreviated to JTC between '85 and '93, expande...
11/10/2022

As we move backward through time, the Japanese Touring Car Championship (abbreviated to JTC between '85 and '93, expanded to JTCC from '94 to '98) was where a lot of JDM OEMs focused a portion of their works road racing efforts in the '90s, and as the initialisms suggest the series had two distinct eras. The above pictured FWD Primera Camino and Sunny are from the Super Touring formula period of the JTCC, which mandated four-door chassis and naturally aspirated engines limited to 2.0 liters of displacement. If you guessed both of these cars rocked SR20 power, you'd be right, and they mixed it up with Toyota Corona EXiV and Honda Civic Ferio in the series, as well as various Opel and BMW.

There was apparently less straight-6 hate pre-'00 in JGTC GT500, because Nissan and NISMO R34 and R33 Skyline GT-R were ...
09/10/2022

There was apparently less straight-6 hate pre-'00 in JGTC GT500, because Nissan and NISMO R34 and R33 Skyline GT-R were able to run versions of the legendary turbo RB26 in competition and were even allowed to punch them out to 2.7 liters later on. In the GT300 class, entries like the Xanavi S14 Silvia above - which featured a 315hp SR20DET inline-4 - were dicing on track with the likes of Toyota MR2 and BMW. (By the way, zoom into each of the photos in the gallery to see how many Volk Racing and SSR wheels you can spot.)

In fact, Nissan used that same racing-only twin-turbo VQ30 mill in the last years of the JGTC in both its GT500 Fairlady...
07/10/2022

In fact, Nissan used that same racing-only twin-turbo VQ30 mill in the last years of the JGTC in both its GT500 Fairlady Z and earlier Skyline GT-R; that's no typo - at least for one season ('03), Nissan's Super GT GT500 R34 Skyline GT-R were V-6 (and RWD, too, to save weight, but that's not as unusual in motorsport). The Motul Pitwork Skyline GT-R was one such machine, representing the final year of the Skyline GT-R in the series before the Z swooped in.

We start with race cars because while Nissan is the foundation, tuning that Nissan (which is something we know a little ...
05/10/2022

We start with race cars because while Nissan is the foundation, tuning that Nissan (which is something we know a little about) is informed at least in part by what people do with them on the circuit. In Japan, the short story is that historically automakers seem to prefer forms of road racing and rally, and for Nissan that has meant commitments to a variety of series and events over the last six decades, with Japan's Super GT series arguably the most prestigious of their current works programs.

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