A large front mount intercooler is also used. You can see the carbon air guides to direct all of the air to the intercooler. The guides completely surround the intercooler and make sure every bit of air around the front of the car goes to the intercooler. You can also see the air guides for the lower airdam vents that direct air under the intercooler to the radiator. Air management like this was unheard of at the time in a production car.
You can see the Nismo tag on top of the huge front mount intercooler here.
As you can see. The 400R is no tuner special or sticker engineering, it is a totally integrated performance machine, factory-engineered much like a Corvette ZR-1 or a Porsche GT3RS. These cars are super hard to find and clean examples can possibly sell into the 7 figure range! This speaks a lot for the collectability of Japanese performance cars. The value of all Japanese performance cars is skyrocketing in the past 2 years with prices doubling in some instances. Top Rank Importers can help you find the JDM car of your dreams and they do things 100% legally so your car won’t end up getting confiscated and crushed by feds one day!
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What is a huge sum? I’m thinking a collector die-hard would pay 1.5 million USD. Just a random guess lol
Not that high but not too far.
HA! Thanks for sharing these articles as always.
The stroker engine should have been supplied by Reimax in partnership with Nismo
http://www.reimax.com/gtr_rbx2.8enginekit.html
The boost solenoid and intake manifold look to be put in after the fact.
The boost control solenoid appeared to be stock. I think the N1 manifold was probably after the fact.
Ahh, just noticed its an Apexi solenoid. So maybe a PowerFC to keep the intake manifold combi happy or a AVC-R boost contoller.
Hmm, looks like it has a R35 AFM conversion as well.
All the aftermarket parts were removed now so its in full stock condition.
I can attest to how good a job Top Rank’s paperwork is: Cappuccino has now been registered in two different states with zero issues. So glad I bought my car from them. And I didn’t even get a MotoIQ discount so that’s not a sponsored endorsement, I’m just a happy customer!
I can also attest to how expensive JDM classics are getting. My Cappuccino is worth about $4K more than what I paid for it in 2018. Good Cappuccinos are now worth what AZ-1s were when I was Kei car shopping.
It also amazes me how great a job Nissan can do when they really try: The 400R is an amazing car. A shame that more often than not Nissan has a “that’ll do” attitude about the cars they make.
The Nismo collector- what some people call a plenum is aftermarket. These didn’t come out till much later. They help to balance the airflow to #6 cylinder. Its interesting inside, 1-5 are all bellmouthed, #6 isn’t. https://www.gtrusablog.com/2013/02/nismo-plenum-for-rb26dett.html This 400R had some aftermarket mods on it, but we removed most all of them now. The collector is still on there, changing that on the car is a job.