16th July 2008, 01:02 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Tokyo, Japan.
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Every time we've visited Saurus in the past, we've been blown away.
One morning we arrived to do some filming for FE&E and saw a standard black BNR34 drive in. By around 2.30 pm it was down to a bare shell. I mean completely bare - One person could grab each of the front chassis rails and pic it up! Later that afternoon they were cutting the boot floor out to put in a race fuel tank and begin seam welding it (Should see thei quality of their stitching!). Hayashi San was telling us they've stripped so many they know where every nut and bolt belongs on a GT-R. I don't disbelieve it. The quality of customer's cars was always impressive too. Everywhere you look there's seriously tuned GT-R's capable of 9's, etc. yet they idle well, etc. They created a twin turbo 550 Maranello for a customer, which was a work of art. We spent about an hour going through the pictures comparing Ferrari's components with the ones they developed. Difference in quality between Saurus and Genuine Ferrari would make you laugh as the Italian efforts (No offence DCD  )Saurus develop gearboxes, clutches, etc. for OS Giken and were the originators of the T88 turbo for Greddy in the early 1990's. Best thing I like about them is how humble they all are. Your jaw drops to the ground for a GT-R they've just created (Like the one above) and Hayashi's response is, "It's just a GT-R, nothing special". Until last year they didn't even have a website and barely advertised. They never have a stand at TAS (The above car was on Option Magazine's stand as a guest car for TAS 2008) All their work comes from word of mouth, basically. Simply the best GT-R tuners in Japan - period. |
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16th July 2008, 05:30 AM
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what a tuner!
 do they sell the carbon kit yet? where can you find more info on the engine spec etc ? One thing ive noticed is the jap tuners tend to have the T51R's turbo compressor outlet [turbo air to intercooler outlet] coming out straight and then curving down, where as over here they tend to twist the front of the turbo round so it comes straight down and into the intercooler. Is there a performance reason for this ? [I can only think the japs do it that way to see the turbos tag a little better?] I would of thought the shorter the pipework the better? |
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16th July 2008, 09:01 AM
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Rotorua NZ
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Beautiful car, any vids of it at the strip?
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16th July 2008, 09:20 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
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Never seen something better then that,really a very fast piece of art
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