GTR trackday at Tsukuba

Tsukuba Circuit, ultimate fun in Japan. You just need a GTR and set of semi-slicks.

Amuse R35 vs. Mines R34

Superlap comparison of Skylines R34 and R35 at Tsukuba Circuit.

Amuse and Mines are the most recognizable Nissan tuners, battling to offer the ultimate Godzilla.

R34 and R35 GTR are so different, newage high-tech vs. oldschool hardcore monster.

SKR EG6 at Tsukuba

On board video of SKR Honda Civic EG6 running at Tsukuba Circuit. NA monster with b18c (Integra Type R) engine and EK9 camshafts, running a great time of 1:05:XX. Not exactly a super lap like HKS EVO VIII, but for NA hot-hatch that’s impressive! Few lap times of stock cars at Tsukuba by Best motoring:

Mitsubishi Lancer EVO 8 RS	1:04:151
Honda NSX-R	1:06:01
Mugen Civic RR	1:06:68
Honda NSX Type-S	1:06:57
Nissan Skyline R33 GT-R V-spec	1:07:09

K20A battle @ Tsukuba Circuit

Best Motoring International tuners battle of K20A! K20A is the best 2.0L VTEC engine of all time, no doubt about that. Honda B-series were on top for 12 years and now it's time for K power.
JUN Auto DC5 Hyper Lemon
Tracy Sports DC5 2.4
Spoon Civic EK9
J’s Racing FIT GT
Half Way Nutec MR-S
Time Attack battle @ Tsukuba Circuit

HKS TRB02 EVO 8 Story

It was back in 2004 where Japan tuners gathered at Tsukuba Circuit to race in Video Option's 2004 Tsukuba Super Lap Challenge. HKS had Tsukuba circuit record that time (55 seconds flat), made by their HKS Lancer Evolution 8 Hypermax TRB02. This 552hp monster was built especially to break Tsukuba Circuit fastest tuner-car time. TRB literally means Tsukuba Record Breaker.

HKS EVO 8 TRB02 had a super-light body made of carbon fiber material. Bumpers, seat, wing, doors, bonnet, roof... it was all super light with crazy power/weight ratio. Interior of course specially designed for TRB Evo8 driver Nobuteru Taniguchi and his driving style; Takata seat-belt, Bride Zeta III CF seat, Chrono DB oil pressure meter... Sitting on gold Advan RG II racing wheels with Yokohama A048 (265-35-R18) tires, it was the meanest looking EVO ever.

HKS that day with driver Nobuteru Tanaguchi gave a lesson to other tuners what a CF bodied HKS tuned EVO8 can do, they broke their own record, setting a super-lap time 54,739 seconds. HKS had a few more runs, but tragedy happened after super-lap, brakes locked before corner and Taniguchi drove a car to the wall. Things like that happen when the car is driving on the edge of limit, I bet Taniguchi was looking for time in 53.xxx second range.

All the engine tuning parts are still available at HKS, so if you have about 100+k$ too much, you can build your own HKS TRB02 EVO 8 Hypermax.

Crash afterwards:

pic source: bushido81

VTEC Battle

Ultimate VTEC Battle 2009 @ Tsukuba Circuit.
Which one would you choose to be in your garage?
Honda CRX SS works - 230PS / 730kg
Honda NSX Esprit - 570PS / 1300kg
Honda S2000 ASM - 340PS / 1005kg
Honda Fit J's Racing - 330PS / 900kg

Nissan BNR32 Superlap at Tsukuba by Manabu Orido

Nissan BNR32 tuned by Saurus in a time attack challenge at Tsukuba track. Manabu Orido setting a time of 56.641 seconds!
Saurus BNR32 specs:
engine: RB26DETT (2.6L inline 6zyl)
turbine: Greddy T88-33D
output: 720PS
weight: 1220kg
power/weight ratio: 0.59Ps on 1kg
rims: Advan Tcii
tires: Advan A048

Crazy drifting by Blitz Skyline GTT and Advan Silvia S15

Blitz Skyline R34 GTT and Advan Silvia S15 drifting at Tsukuba. Must be best drifting by 2 cars I have ever seen.

Mine's R34 at Tsukuba Track

MINE'S is a auto tuning company in Yokosuka, Japan. They were one of the first Japan tuning companies that started selling re-maped ECU systems for Japan sport cars.
Their most famous products are tuned Nissans GT-R. Although the newest Nissan R35 GT was supposed to be untuneable because of locked ECU, Mine's started selling their tuned version of it with 100 more horsepowers only a week after R35 was available on market.
2002 MINE's R34 Skyline GT-R had 600ps, Best Motoring recorded a lap time of 57.7 seconds at Tsukuba with it. That's about 6 seconds faster than McLaren F1 on this track
Mine's stays away of the decorative styling part of modifying cars, they only focus on cars performance. Mine's founder Michizo Niikura answered on question in Best Motoring interview in 2002 why they left stock airboxes on R34 "We basically leave it up to each costumer how to modify some parts. If we try to do too many things, we will lose focus as a company" (I posted that video in another article) Simple and effective :)
This are videos of MINE'S R34 on Tsukuba track, drivers are Keiichi DK Tsuchiya and Tarzan Yamada, which drove best time of 57.7sec