Monday, September 23, 2013

Performance done, now to address how she looks!

I love the stock looks of the GTR. it's functional, purposeful, mean.  It's not a pretty car, but weapons are not pretty.

I rarely feel that anything aftermarket could improve upon what designers and engineers have perfected in wind tunnel hours, but when you see what's been done to race cars to improve on the original design, you get ideas.  

After seeing some GT1 and GT3 cars in action, I decided I wanted side skirts with the stepped lip.  I also wanted a conservative front chin spoiler. In comes Stillen.  I'm not a fan of their parts in general but their one big advantage is the fact they do a lot of parts in glorious, flexible, give 'em hell urethane. A couple of calls later and the skirts and lip arrives at my door.

I dropped the parts off at Fiore at S&G Autobody and $300 later they return in perfect oem gray to match the rear valence.

Before:

After:


Interior:  
The worst thing about CBA (early generation cars) is the ugly rubber trim around the switchgear and center hvac controls.  My good friend Daryl at RightDrive parts is also the exclusive Canadian dealer for RSW carbon parts from Japan (www.carbonart.ca).  He set me up with the perfectly form fitting pieces that fit like oem.  I like these over what's offered on EBay due to the fact the cut outs for the buttons on the centre console are so precisely done you have holes for each individual rectangular button.  To me, that's a sign of craftsmanship.


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