Thursday 9th April 2009

Nissan GT-R Club Sport Coming To Europe

NISMO tuning package sheds weight, improves handling and may add power

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The Club Sport package of GT-R upgrades developed by Nissan’s race and tuning arm NISMO should be offered to UK customers by Nissan dealers next year.

NISMO GT-R Club Sport is coming soon

Currently the Club Sport package is only available in Japan, but NISMO president Yuichi Sanada told PH that discussions with the European dealer network are underway, with a view to making the kit available here.

The Japanese Club Sport GT-R package is focused on reducing weight and up-rating handling. It features RAYS forged aluminium wheels – 20x9.5ins front (+45mm offset) and 20x10.5 rears (+25mm offset) - shod with Bridgestone REO70R run-flat tyres. It also features Bilstein Damptronic electrically-adjustable suspension struts, a titanium rear exhaust section that apparently saves around 5kgs and a carbon fibre undertray.

Kit includes wheels, tyres and shockers

There’s no power increase included in the Japanese kit, but a NISMO tweaked ECU is under consideration for the European version, although Sanada-san wouldn’t confirm what sort of power output is being explored. We did ask, but his wry response along the lines of ‘it’s already got 480bhp, how much do you want?’ seemed to imply any power increase would be relatively limited.

Other mods to the Japanese spec Club Sport include lightened carbon fibre seats with no electrics, and the package costs the equivalent of about £30k – although UK prices and specs may differ.

The Club Sport will be NISMO’s first foray into offering tuning parts through Nissan dealers (under warranty) in Europe, and the move is designed to coincide with the first year of competition for the NISMO developed GT-R racer in the new GT1 category next year.

Titanium exhaust and carbon undertray

It’s possible that additional NISMO activity will follow here as the brand becomes more recognised, although Nissan has already stated that UK 370Z buyers will not be offered NISMO parts through main dealer channels. That could all change if the GT-R package proves successful next year.

 

NISMO's Euro launch should start in 2010

[dr.pepper]

Now we know that the Yen values can't be converted directly and UK pricing has not been announced. With this in mind this kit still seems to be overvalued.

I think it might actually be cheaper to buy a full Mines suspension kit, Ti catback with Hi flow cats and Bride carbon fibre seats.

I would be very interested to hear the official UK pricing.

[ZeeTacoe]

how is a carbon undertray lighter than a plastic one?

[gzylo]

plastic sounds cheap so its heaver

Like it


Regards
Bart

Edited by gzylo on Thursday 9th April 07:05

[xtrubblex]

ZeeTacoe said:

how is a carbon undertray lighter than a plastic one?

Durability?

[stuart-b]

30k for a few stick on parts when the whole car only costs 60k

Yea right.

[iggletiggle]

as said above.. for £30k you could do the work yourself and get a lot more out of it..

alternatively carbon buckets, RAYS wheels (if you really want them), elec adjust suspension, ti exhaust system, hi flow cats for around £18-20k.. fair enough no warranty but hey, its a 10k saving approx.

i dont like those wheels on a side note tho..

[Belfast Boy]

[Bizzle]

iggletiggle said:

alternatively carbon buckets, RAYS wheels (if you really want them), elec adjust suspension, ti exhaust system, hi flow cats for around £18-20k..

ARE YOU MAD!!??!!??
£20k for seats, rims, tein EVCR's and a full exhaust system?

Wheels are £500 a hoop (£2000)
Teins are £1500
Exhaust £2000 if CUSTOM BUILT by somebody like RS Fabrications in banbury
Seats £800 per side from bride, in carbon recliners.

Even with lots of other little bits and fittings, WORST case your talking about £9k fitted.

[loomx]

Surely they could make a better exhaust system than that. thats got to be pretty restrictive for a twin turbo. I would be wanting true dual exhaust.

[Portrait]

Not as bad as the Spec V, with it's £38,000 brake discs...

[xtrubblex]

loomx said:

Surely they could make a better exhaust system than that. thats got to be pretty restrictive for a twin turbo. I would be wanting true dual exhaust.

Compare it to the size of the exhaust on the car (for example i used the wheels) I think it misleads you. It surely will be a 3.75" pipe at least.

Edit: Even use the numberplate as a reference, a Japanese numberplate is something like 12 or 13 inches across, and the exhaust tip looks just as big.

Edited by xtrubblex on Thursday 9th April 10:54

[willcrookz]

Portrait said:

Not as bad as the Spec V, with it's £38,000 brake discs...

lol

The GTR is abit of a joke in some respects, including servicing costs and other variations of the car.

[vz-r_dave]

willcrookz said:

Portrait said:

Not as bad as the Spec V, with it's £38,000 brake discs...

lol

The GTR is abit of a joke in some respects, including servicing costs and other variations of the car.

How much are the servicing costs?

[ZeeTacoe]

vz-r_dave said:

willcrookz said:

Portrait said:

Not as bad as the Spec V, with it's £38,000 brake discs...

lol

The GTR is abit of a joke in some respects, including servicing costs and other variations of the car.

How much are the servicing costs?

well the gearbox fluid is $114 a litre.

[Dagnut]

How much actual total weight does it save? same with the V spec no one ever seems to qoute the total weight loss..WHICH GETS ON MY T!TS.
Lighter this lighter that how fking much lighter!!!!

[shamrock]

Is there such a model as the R35 GT (not GT-R)?

I was being one yesterday and it seems to be exactly like the R35 GT-R's I've seen except I was able to reel him in easily each time he floored it.

[Matt_]

Or you could just leave it as it left the factory seen as though it already seems pretty well sorted

[Dagnut]

shamrock said:

Is there such a model as the R35 GT (not GT-R)?

I was being one yesterday and it seems to be exactly like the R35 GT-R's I've seen except I was able to reel him in easily each time he floored it.

Did it look like this?



This is the g35 Skyline that the 350z is based on..same 280bhp engine from the original 350z with slighlty longer wheel base and rear seats.
Offically the R35 GT-r is not branded a skyline but just a GTR.

[HAB]

shamrock said:

Is there such a model as the R35 GT (not GT-R)?

I was being one yesterday and it seems to be exactly like the R35 GT-R's I've seen except I was able to reel him in easily each time he floored it.

Are you a transformer?

[shamrock]

Dagnut said:

shamrock said:

Is there such a model as the R35 GT (not GT-R)?

I was being one yesterday and it seems to be exactly like the R35 GT-R's I've seen except I was able to reel him in easily each time he floored it.

Did it look like this?



This is the g35 Skyline that the 350z is based on..same 280bhp engine from the original 350z with slighlty longer wheel base and rear seats.
Offically the R35 GT-r is not branded a skyline but just a GTR.

Yes, very similar except it had the rear spoiler and bodykit of the GTR