When we first caught a glimpse of the Kids Heart Nissan Stagea R35 GT-R conversion at Nagoya Auto Trend back in March we were instantly in love with the idea. M34 Stagea’s have been giving up their mundane wagon appearances to star as R34 GT-Rs forever so it was only right that the M35 should get in on the act too.
Edmunds must have also seen the appeal because they headed to Japan to find out more.
Head on over to read the full story with photos, albeit tiny ones, at the link below…
リンク: Edmunds: Nissan GT-R Wagon by Kids Heart
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The Japanese have a bit of a history of building hot wagons. Whether it’s the R33 GT-R wagon hand built by Option and Trial or the official “unofficial GT-R wagon” the Autech Stagea RS260 famous for it’s GT-R drivetrain and the subsequent R34 GT-R Masa Motorsports front end fascia swaps adapted to it later on.
Of course times change and we move on. The RB26DETT is out of production and so the Autech Stagea has become somewhat less of a buff over the stock M35 Stagea car so what can you do to fix that?
As shown here the answer was staring you in the face the whole time, this R35 front end swap on a M35 Stagea was on show at Nagoya Auto Trend this weekend. The swap seems to continue to the sides and the rear quarters are also slightly flared to keep with the theme. Overall looks to be a real solid job.
Powering these is usually the VQ35DE NA V6 3.5 litre engine in either RWD or AWD configuration so this one could easily be hiding a stroked VQ with a twin-turbo kit.
If you can’t picture what the M35 Stagea looked like before this check after the jump for a photo…
リンク: Nagoya AutoTrend ウェブサイト (warning, j-pop soundtrack)
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Well a big weekend is ahead of us, the SuperGT round 6 37th Annual Pokka 1000km race and the Customised Street mega tuner event both at Suzuka Circuit. Garage Defend don’t want to show up underdressed so today they received their Blitz production Nur-Spec F-Ti titanium exhaust to replace their currently standard exhaust.
Yes it looks a lot like their prototype Blitz exhaust seen at Nagoya Auto Trend in March this year but this final production version has a few unseen benefits such as actually improving exhaust flow.
More photos after the jump.
リンク: Defend Racing home page
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Another update with more images from Garage Defend. Someone needs to buy these guys a real camera but otherwise their car looks great and I’m sure it drew a lot of attention at the show. Looking forward to the pics from Auto Trend magazine 2008 which should be out soon.
For the rest of the images click the continue reading link below.
リンク： Continue reading “Garage Defend at Nagoya Auto Trend 2008: More Images”
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Another update with more images from Garage Defend. Someone needs to buy these guys a real camera but otherwise their car looks great and I’m sure it drew a lot of attention at the show. Looking forward to the pics from Auto Trend magazine 2008 which should be out soon.
GT-R ニュースヘッドライン, ガレージディフェンド, チューニングニュース
