WEEKEND EDITION: Adam Newton’s “Big Red” R32 GTS-t
April 11, 2009 11:50 amWhen you actually own a model of car, you can often find yourself a bit more interested in other examples of that particular car than you did before.
Here’s one R32 Skyline that I particularly like.
How much do I like it?
It’s the first car from outside Japan to be featured on this site.
That’s how much.
This car belongs to an Australian guy called Adam Newton. When I first met Adam back in Australia, he was one of the founders of the now defunct Full Lock Motorsport, the first bunch of guys to run major drifting events in Australia. Back then, his car was also a red R32 Skyline, but the original shell was sliced open on a racetrack barrier, and since then, Adam re-shelled and re-envisioned his ride as a time-attack car instead of a drifter.
When I was working at Auto Salon magazine in Australia last year, I wrote the words for the feature the mag ran on Adam’s car, but there have been a few more changes since then. Adam sent me these pics this week detailing the latest updates on the car’s progress.
The kit is a BN Sports Blister widebody, which Adam has just had altered to hopefully have a little bit less wind resistance. The huge BBS wheels are the sort of thing that are run on Porsche Cup cars.
Along with the altering the bodywork, he’s just put in a new HKS RB28 engine that makes 400kW on 98 octane pump fuel.
Listen to this.
Adam’s aim is to match the times of GT-Rs and Porsche GT3s that run around Sandown Circuit in Victoria, but as you can see, he remembers his drifting roots on the occasional corner or two.
Tags: GTS-t, Nissan, R32, SkylineCategorised in: Profiles プロフィル, Time Attack
This post was written by Alexi
12 Comments
oh man :O
i was just starting to watch the video and hearing the engine note as he was exiting the pit lane… thinking to myself “ooh that is nice”
and then the turbo spooled, and my jaw dropped.
that thing sounds SO nice! so violently pleasant!
I love that body work and it sounds awesome !!!!
one of the few AS mags ive kept is the one with car in it awesome machine looks even better now too
Can’t wait to see some track videoes of the car with the new engine!
I love it!
Holy Hell!!! that thing is crazy….
That makes me happy in the pants…
Bring back full lock!
Gosh..sick ride! I’m loving it..
I want to see this car going sideway..
Amazing sound!!!!
wow, no driving gloves!?
or have I been in japan too long…
Not the biggest fan of the body, but it sure sounds and goes nuts!
Bad ass….