MotoIQ looks at the HKS Group A R32 Skyline GT-R

HKS Group A R32 GT-R

Group A. I really like the Group A R32 GT-R. Production based cars, not silhouette cars. Lots of upgrades and modifications, altered suspension pick up points, reinforced parts, but these cars still have the essence of what a true street to race car is. 

I have posted technical documents, and a story by Alexander about the Group A cars in the past.  I even had the chance to buy one a few times, and like anything in life, you don't always have all the right factors (money/space) to get that thing you really want. 

MotoIQ goes into detail with a bunch of pictures, but I am just going to focus on a few things I find interesting on the HKS car. Of course with race cars, there are many revisions and upgrades so early and later cars often differ. Plus 30 years on, making/finding getting those parts can be difficult/impossible. 

Stock CAS. Reinik fuel rail. HKS turbo inlet and outlet piping. 

The engine above looks pretty standard RB26. Nothing fancy, nothing crazy. Starting at the top, they have the coil cover/valley cover off. With it on, you just cook the coils/harness. Which if you notice, appear to be stock coils. Stock harness. The breather setup is pretty basic too. Capped on the hot side. Factory crossover, then off to a catch can. MotoIQ pointed out, you can see where the Reinik sticker was removed off the timing belt cover. Reinik built the engines for the Group A cars. Even though HKS did plenty of their own engine builds, it seems like, perhaps due to homologation, they used Reinik engines and parts. The fuel rail is Reinik, which is interesting they haven't/didn't swap to their own billet piece. If I were HKS, I would have put my own part on there. You can see lots of heat wrap/shielding on the firewall and shock tower on the hotside. 

Reinik Group A engine

Stock CAS! You can see its a fabricated engine harness, not the factory harness. The collector(not a plenum) is factory. There are modifications to the balance tube/water bleeder that are visible in the cold side pictures.  Hard inlet piping. Hard/HKS style outlet piping. The alternator appears to have a Reinik pulley on it. Interesting it doesn't have the Reinik water pump pulley on it. Has a factory damper. Factory PS pump, Hicas capped off. You can see the crossover radiator/tube.  No undertray. 

Hotside detail. You can see a couple of widebands in there. Factory manifold covers

Hotside looks pretty standard. About the only thing I see as interesting is they have a wideband off each turbo. That is a little close to the turbo outlet for most sensors. 

Coldside. Air bleeder. Different air inlet temp sensor. OEM isn't hooked up

On the cold side you can see the water venting/bleeder setup. Factory inlet temperature sensor isn't hooked up. The factory ones are like a radiator/coolant temp sensor and not the best at recording actual air inlet temps. Rather the temp of the plenum itself.  There is an adjustable fuel pressure regulator visible. As well as some lines for oil cooler/coolers. Welded in strut tower bracing. 

Just noticing this now. I would like to see the front suspension of the HKS car. The other group A cars don't use the standard mounting location/style for the tops of the front shocks. This car appears to. 

Group A suspension and driveline components

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ARK Designs just posted a picture update of the Team America R32 GT-R. They say it will be back in action again soon. Looking forward to seeing it go. New engine, new suspension, new, lotsa things.



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MotoIQ Radio Interview on Show or Display Tonight

MotoIQ Radio is doing an interview tonight from 7:15 to 7:45 pm PST on the Show or Display Nismo Nissan Skyline GT-R. Check it out.

Some big, big news for you R32 Nissan NISMO Skyline GTR fans! You can now own your car as a show or display vehicle in the United States. What does that really mean? Well, Sean Morris of ShowOrDisplay.com will explain more and let you know what this means for owners of the NISMO R32. We'll also have some discussion about the Skyline GTR, including Kerryann's own R32 Time Attack Monster. Finally, we'll have Andrie Hartanto on to talk about the 25 Hours of Thunderhill and discuss what it took to get the Hankook Tire Global & El Diablo Motorsports E36 M3 to the winner's circle in E0 Class.

7:15pm - 7:45pm PST - The Nissan Skyline R32 GTR, a car of legend of those who worship JDM Nissan. Sometimes I wonder if it really lives up to the hype or not, but it is a car that certainly carries a certain air to it. Now, with new rules in registering for Show or Display, the NISMO R32 GTR is now legal to own in the US. We'll talk with Sean Morris of ShowOrDisplay.com to find out what those new rules mean for current and new NISMO R32 owners in the US. 

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MotoIQ posted this xtranormal video of the Hellafunctional vs Hellaflush crowd.

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MotoIQ Pacific Tuner Car Championship Series

Mike Kojima and the guys at MotoIQ have teamed up with Redline Time Attack to introduce a new wheel to wheel race series on the west coast called the Pacific Tuner Car Championship Series.

Are you bored with track days and HDPE events? Ever wanted to see what you have and go wheel to wheel with other tuning enthusiasts? Ever wanted to see who's the best driver and who could build the best car?  Ever then go to a legal sanctioned racing event only to find that your lovingly built street car is only legal in some super unobtainable class because of your tuning and the parts you installed?  Ever then find out that you can only race if you took off 80% of your hard earned parts only to race in some boring close to stock class?

There are going to be two main classes based on power to weight ratio and tire size. Tuner Under or TU which will run a 12:1 power to weight ratio and Tuner Over or TO which will run a 8:1 power to weight ratio.

You can also take your existing race car from many popular sedan racing classes in Grand Am, SCCA or NASA and with a little tweaking, be competitive. The rules have enough flexibility that nearly any unibody equipped race car can be competitive. If you are a racer from a restrictive rules class, you will probably find it refreshing not to have to come up with risky and expensive ways around the rules.

A full Draft copy of the rules can be found on the MotoIQ site.

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MotoIQ Project R32 GT-R

R32 GT-R. A rare color

Eric at MotoIQ has a project R32 GT-R that has gone though some upgrades to help improve it over the stock R32 GT-R. If you have an R32 GT-R, or for that matter R33, or R34, or are looking for some information on them, I wrote some basics up several years ago.

To me, parts selection of any build is probably one of the most critical aspects of building a car. Other aspects are attention to detail, ECU tuning, suspension and chassis, etc. but that's another story for another day. The parts chosen for a build as a whole are probably more important than the individual parts by themselves. In part one of this build, I promised explanations of why I chose to use the parts I did. Some of the part names are also hyperlinks to take you somwhere for more information.
As a quick refresher since I wrote part 1 almost 18 months ago, this stage 1 build is basically everything you can do around a stock block and cylinder head without changing any internal components of the block or cylinder head. Why keep the stock internals? Because you can for a 500-600hp build as long as the engine is properly tuned and maintained. You can drive it, drag it, beat the crap out of it, and it still shouldn't break despite being almost 20 years old now. In fact, I'd rather keep the stock components than use many of the off the shelf American forged aftermarket components if I was planning to keep it under 600hp.

Tomei Oil Pump

The Tomei oil pump is the best wet sump stock location pump available for the RB26. If I have to upgrade, I want a Tomei on the car.

XS Engineering throttle seals for the RB26.  The stock ones leak, you probably will not even notice they are leaking.

Rear suspension arms with spherical rod ends.

After you are done with the basics, and checking out what Eric is doing with his R32, you can read over some more Advanced GT-R notes.

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Too Cool : MiataBusa : That Is What You Are Thinking

Dave Coleman is my hero. He always gets into some cool, wacky, weird stuff. I have known him for years since the Sport Compact Car Magazine days.  Smart guy, and a wacky guy, heres his new project.  Mount a Hayabusa 1300cc engine in a Miata.  Aka Miatabusa.com.

 

You know what makes it really cool? “Its 99 lb-ft toruqe output is nearly a dead match for the original Miata's 100 lb-ft, but its 171 hp (or 197 if you drop the big bucks on a 2008 or newer engine) will give the Miata the longitudinal urgency it so desperately needs.”.

Dave has come up with a way to mount the Miata transmission to the Hayabusa engine in a very right, very wrong way. I can’t wait to hear the Miata at 10,500 rpm. I think they really need to go all in at first and just turbocharge it. A 400 whp, 10k rpm Miata. So wrong, so right.

Head over to MotoIQ for a full writeup on the Miatabusa.

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The Ultimate guide to Suspension and Handling Part 1, Wheels and Tires

The Ultimate guide to Suspension and Handling Part 1, Wheels and Tires

 

 MotoIQ's Mike Kojima posted the first part of their ultimate guide to suspension and handling.

Horsepower is sexy and chicks dig it, at least a lot of meatheads think that way. Making horsepower is relatively easy. A lot of competent people know how to make power, lots of it. Until drifting became the rage in this country, handling and cornering prowess was for geeks, the road racing elite and autocrossers. Handling was for dweebs that raced around cones in parking lots, or loners prowling canyon roads at night, not for cool people in the scene.

How to tune a car's suspension was an unknown art in the world of mainstream performance, simply because most people didn’t care about handling. Most people emulated the world of road racing by making their cars low. Low was cool, low was handling.

 

Mike explains some of the basics on tires and wheels, and what people should look for in wheels and tires, obviously more slated to track/street usage than bling.

I am looking forward to the rest of this serious. MotoIQ is full of great tech, you should check it out. 

 

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Bugatti Veyron Engine Picture from MotoIQ

Eric Hsu posted up a picture of a Bugatti Veyron engine with the heads removed.  Interesting looking engine. 1001 hp, quad turbo. I consider this to be the fastest production car in the world, no matter the couple “production car” claims of higher speeds.  As you can see in the above video, a 480 hp Nissan GT-R doesn’t stand a chance against a Veyron. However for $80,000 vs $1,500,000 you have some change left over if you purchase a GT-R.  The Veyron is just something that demands respect.



Construction type/number of cylinders W16
Cylinder/bank angles 15°/90°
Number of valves per cylinder 4
Supercharging 4 exhaust turbochargers with air coolers
Cylinder spacing 73 mm
Bore/stroke 86.00 mm/86.05 mm
Cylinder capacity 7,993 cm³
Power rating/engine speed 1,001 hp (736 kW)/6,000 rpm
Max. torque/engine speed 1,250 Nm/2,200–5,500 rpm
Max. mean effective pressure 19.7 bar
Compression ratio 9.0
Acceleration
0–100 km/h 2.5 sec.
0–200 km/h 7.3 sec.
0–300 km/h 16.7 sec.
0–400 km/h 55.6 sec.

Head over to MotoIQ and post up some comments, and enjoy some of the best tech out there on the web from most of the people that brought you Sport Compact Car Magazine.

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MotoIQ.com Goes Live

Its been a long time coming, but its finally up. MotoIQ. Head Geek in charge Mike Kojima has banded together with a merry band of enthusiasts to form MotoIQ. There are some names you might recognize, besides Mike Kojima, there is Dave Coleman , Anne Sam , Sara Forst, and Eric Hsu.

So here we are. I believe that the hardcore are still out there, I believe that your editorial needs are not anywhere close to being filled by the current publications on the shelves at the newsstands or on low signal to noise ratio internet user group forums. We are not corporate, we are independents, we are lean mean and nimble, responsive to your interests.

If you are reading this, I believe you miss SCC. Well, I am here, Dave Coleman is here, as well as a bunch of other equally hardcore and capable car freaks and nerds.

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