TAS09: Power House Amuse R35 Phantom Still a Crowd Favourite
Not much has changed on the Power House Amuse Nissan GT-R in terms of appearance but it’s most likely because they got the formula so perfect first time around. Still a huge crowd drawer at Tokyo Auto Salon 2009, it was good to see how timeless the late Hideki Tanabe-san’s design was and that it most certainly still holds it’s own in the flesh and around a race track against most newcomers.
Featuring the full Power House Amuse Exhaust including the R1-Titan Extra STTi muffler, the R1000-No1 turbine outlets and the R1000-No2 straight RS STTi midpipes. Combined with the Hi-Tech ROM ECU and a HKS EVC5 to control boost and it’s good for 611ps.
Aero is also handled by original Amuse products, the Amuse front under diffuser and the Amuse carbon rear wing offer improved downforce allowing for higher cornering speeds.
Suspension is adjustable via the Power House Amuse R1 Adjusting Kit which allows the standard Bilstein Damptronic dampers to take aftermarket springs and have an adjustable ride height. Spring rates chosen are 20kg/mm front and 12kg/mm rear.
Wheels are standard and fill the guards nicely when lowered like this, tires are also standard but a set of rear 285/35 tires are fitted to the front of the car to assist in getting the understeer under control.
These slight modifications are all it took to get into the low 59′s at Tsukuba Circuit (59.061).
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What happened to their Turbo-Kit upgrade that was in development=(???Anyone?
yeah, thats what i was wondering too. and i thought they gave up on those canards?? regardless they look amazing: )
I think it came unstuck at the manifold level. To fit the GT30 Pro turbos the stock manifolds would have to be ditched.
Engineering new manifolds that don’t cause more restriction than the stock ones is a pretty difficult task. Right now turbo upgrades should be focussed on what you can get out of the standard housings.
That is what you’ll see in the first few months of 2009.
The canards might have been ditched to get the best lap time at Tsukuba but im sure they’re still important in some regard for other circuits.
wow..the 285 tires can be mounted on the stock 20×9.5 front rims??.. that’s quite a feat isn’t it?. regardless i’d like to know if that’s really the case.. wouldn’t mind running that myself..
As you can see they actually used the stock rear sized wheels up front as well as the tires. Should have said that in my post.
But the rear wheels fill those front guards nicely when lowered. Not sure if they’d tuck in properly when not so lowered.
ahhh.. thanks kris.. that does make more sense yes..
cheers..
If you look close at the front wheels you will see that the tire is sticking out from the wheel, unlike the stock tires which means that they have used the stock front wheels. The fronts are 9.5×20 which can curry the 285 35 20 tires according to “tirerack” spec table.
Now that I looked more thoroughly they have brobably used the rear wheels. Though I wouldn’t do that as the 9.5 fronts can fit the 285 and the rears have 20mm less offset which means that the fronts are now sticking 50mm more than the stock wheel and tires.
Powerhouse Amuse always comes out with really slick looking cars. I love a tuner who is more interested in functional parts then looking good! although the titanium exhaust does look pretty cool.