Nissan did everything it could to make the GT-R ‘untunable’, but the modifiers were always going to figure out a way around it.
Here’s Cobra Technology’s shot at beefing up Nissan’s stunning supercar and – if you can stomach the matte-black-plus-yellow-pinstripe livery (which we rather like… there’s a bit of Gold Leaf Lotus 49 about it, no?) – it’s a pretty good effort.
This is the ‘Stage One’ package, which boosts power from around 470bhp to a whopping 550bhp thanks to extra boost pressure, a fresh ECU and a bigger stainless steel exhaust system.
It’ll manage 60mph in 3.5 seconds and top out at 199mph… plenty quick enough, you’d think. But Cobra is planning a ‘performance version’ (500bhp being the ‘gently tooling around version’, we assume) that’ll develop 620bhp and 590lb ft of torque. Yowzer.
You can have your interior in two flavours – lots o’ leather or lots o’ carbon fibre – while Cobra has uprated the brakes and suspension to stop you turning your tuned GT-R into an Armco-flecked wreck.
Nice as the Cobra GT-R is, we’ll hold out for Nissan’s official V-Spec version: the lightweight, stripped out GT-R that’s been spotted mullering literally everything around the Nurburgring…
Untunable, eh?
Cobra Technology takes its spanners – and paintbrushes – to the Nissan GT-R
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Mo'Speed commented on this article
at 04:48 pm on 22 April 2009
I think if they ditch the matt black and yellow and go for JPS Black and Gold, this'd look quite nice. Now watch as they bring out a Gulf theme...
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DeadManWalking commented on this article
at 08:15 pm on 28 July 2011
by Cobra tuning do they mean Shelby?
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