Tommy Kaira M30

Tommy Kaira M30

I thought it would be nice to share this car: this is one of the very rare occasions you will see this car, apart from when you play games like Gran Turismo!

Tommy Kaira was already a renowned tuner in Japan since 1968, but in 1987 they made their first rebadged version of a tuned production car: the Tommy Kaira M19! (based upon a Mercedes 190) Starting from 1988 they changed focus and put themselves exclusively to modifying Japanese production cars, starting with the Tommy Kaira M30!

This car is often mistaken for the Infinity M30, which is actually a Nissan Leopard F31. The Tommy Kaira M30 was intially based upon the Skyline GTS-R R31 and later on based upon the Skyline GTS-t R32 (photo here). This particular car is the R31 based M30. The car was tuned up to Tommy Kaira’s specifications by lowering and stiffening up the suspension and swap the engine for a custom built RB30DE!

The engine was a work of art: they took out the RB20DE engine, removed the head and put it on top of a RB30E engine, and thus creating a RB30DE engine. Then the workshop increased the compression ratio, cams, port polish and all this raised the M30′s power output from 159hp to 238hp! There were some limitations to this engine: the RB30E bottom is not as strong and refined as its lesser counterpars and created inbalance. This results in and engine that can’t be revved over 7200rpm. On the other side it has massive amounts of torque!

Nowadays this trick is happily done by the Australians as well to upgrade their Australian built Skyline R31s (RB30E engines only) to a more decent power ouput. The only difference is that the Aussies do a much bolder job than Tommy Kaira: they swap over the newer RB25DET head to make it a more powerful turbo version of the M30 engine!

You can find some more info here: 

• http://www.r31house.co.jp/r31/Z1112.htm
• http://www.r31house.co.jp/r31/Z1148.htm
• http://www.banpei.net/2009/10/17/flyrat-tommy-kaira-m30
• http://ajp.cocolog-nifty.com/tommyzz/2008/11/post-c4d3.html

あ～ぼ～ムン Pt.2

A time ago I have posted some photos from team Abomun here, part 2 is coming now.

あ～ぼ～ムン

Back to ITC

Now that I bought Import Tuner Challenge again, the not so famous game. I am happy to present my first car in the game. Obviously the S15 Silvia:  

Pictures taken with my phone.

Nissan GT-R 4-Door Coupe

Following earlier speculations of a GT-R based Infiniti sports sedan, Japanese magazine Best Car is now reporting in its latest issue that Nissan is also working on a 4door-coupe variant of its legendary GT-R.

The four-doored GT-R would supposedly use a stretched version of the coupe’s FM platform along with all the mechanical hardware including the 480HP twin turbo 3.8-liter V6 engine, the sophisticated all wheel-drive and the dual clutch semi-auto transmission.

JDM Insider III

For those who have not yet seen the movie. . . It's back on Youtube! After some copyright problems it has been deleted. Watch it as fast as you can! I think everyone of you have heared about this movie, it's set in Japan with some touge drift, circuit drift, street racing and more crazy actions. You also will be able to watch an interview with the owner of T&E Vertex garage. P.S. Hiro one of the host has been arrested and to this day he is in jail. Google Motorex + Jail for more info.

Enjoy!

Touge no Densetsu 峠の伝説

Kaido Battle. One of the best touge title you can find out there. these days i have been playing hard the third version of this game.There are so many rare cars like: Sil80, onevia, ae85, kei trucks, takumi's ae86 also, and more. Thanks to genki for reflexing the truth paradise in a video-game.
Here I leave you the intros from all the saga. Enjoy!

some screenshots: http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/20050610/kaido.htm

Epic Crash

Nissan Silvia S15 "s15 d i e g o" & Mazda RX7 "d4v0zZ" & Nissan Skyline GT-R R34 "xm0nster798"