![]() ![]() 22 car driven by Masami Kageyama and Richard Lyons took the checkered flag, as did the No. 23 Xanavi GT-R finished 2nd behind a Toyota Supra. Two Nismo GT-Rs and one Impul GT-R entered the 2003 JGTC series. ![]() This finished product was a race car with exceptional handling, even prompting some to call it a “cornering machine”. The new GT-R made its racing debut in May 2002 in a half-ready stage, The following year, Nissan came out with the 2003 GT-R, which added pipe frames to the chassis fore and aft of the cabin. So as soon as production for the R34 ended in 2002, Nissan replaced the car’s RB26DETT engine with the VQ30, an all aluminum-block V6, mated to a transaxle for optimum weight balance. One of the main reasons Nissan struggled in the Japan Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC) in the 1990’s was because of the Skyline GT-R R34’s iron-block inline-6.
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