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Article #189: The Ultimate Nissan Skyline NISMO Z-TUNE

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With the 34 GTR no longer in production The aero parts of the car including the
Nismo decided to attempt building what front bumper, front blister fenders, and
they believed to be the ultimate Nissan hood were all made of highly ridged
Skyline GTR. Utilizing many years carbon fiber.
experience within different racing scenes Aero parts were designed with cooling and
it could be argued that Nismo should have down force in mind. The front bumper has
the ability to do exactly that. This large air ducts so cool air is fed to the
vehicle was to benefit from the many engine, brakes and oil coolers. Fenders
years of success Nismo had within motor were widened 15mm to fit wider tread and
racing. Successful race cars include the has ducts inside the engine bay to
Gr-A, N1, GT500, and the "Nrburgring exhaust hot air from the engine bay. The
specification," This car had be bonnet also contains ducts to exhaust hot
comfortable for the street and comply air and utilizes a duct to ram cool air
with today's new and strict emission into the intake at high speeds. Front and
laws, perhaps Nismo's biggest challenge rear under spoilers are used to improve
to date. down force.
The basic concept of the car was Beating in the heart of the Nissan
completed in 2000 when Nismo competed in Skyline is a race edition RB26DETT which
what was called the "tuners battle" power had proven itself lemans 24 hour race and
was restricted to 600ps and Nismo came named the Z2. This engine generates 368kw
out on top. This concept was then taken and 540Nm. NISMO utilized the many parts
to the next level were luxuries had to be which had been proven on race engines and
added to make the car comfortable for each engine was carefully hand built by
street use. Making a race car street Nismo mechanics and engineers to ensure
friendly has many challengers brake and the finest quality.
clutch feel needs to be light and easy to Many would agree that the Nismo Nissan
use, suspension needs to softer, and Skyline GTR is the ultimate street
luxuries like Leather seats and performance car. It is luxuries, tame
air-conditioning need to be added. enough to drive on the street comfortably
All these luxuries add weight so Nismo and yet its race bread heritage means it
had to find a way to shed it and carbon still performs brilliantly on the race
fiber was the answer. This killed two track. In beast motoring #15 the Nismo
birds with one stone by using carbon Z-tune broke the street car lap record
fiber chassis rigidity was also improved. previously held by the Ferrari F360R.
To improve chassis rigidity even further Pictures, more specifications plus a time
the, door frames, front strut upper hood attack video between the Z- tune and the
reinforcement area, and center tunnel Ferrari can be seen at this website
were all spot welded and CFRP adhered. nissanskyline.6te.net.






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