This is just a quick shot of one of two Nissan GT-Rs that will be running in the GT1 class in the FIA GT championships this year.  One GT-R will be run by a swiss racing team while the second is the SumoPower.com sponsored GT1 GT-R.  Mmmm its soooo smoootthhhh.

[Via InsideLine, Photo: Nissan Corporate]

Yes, I know I just dropped a hype video on you guys a second ago but I found this shorly after and it is equally worthy of a post!  This is a “commercial” (I say its more like a short film) featuring SP Engineering’s SPE750 turbo upgrade kit for the R35 Nissan GT-R.  For a shop that sells/installs parts all day they’re pretty good film makers!  Check it out below.

Commercial: SPE750 ball bearing turbo upgrade from SP Engineering on Vimeo.

This is big news if you happen to live in the big state of Texas.  Mayday Garage just announced that Japanese tuning legend “Smokey” Nagata from Top Secret will make an apperance at the Import Reactor car show.  Not only will he be there as a guest but he is going to personally tune 20 Nissans over the span of three days!  So what is the occasion?  Well, Top Secret is working on a new stand-alone ECU dubbed “Top Secret Process” and the marathon tuning session is meant to prototype the new unit here in the states.  If you own a Nissan and live in the Houston area I suggest you do whatever you can within the boundaries of the law to make sure you are one of the lucky 20 cars to get tuned by Smokey!  If you really are that young and don’t know who Smokey is or how he got his nickname then check out the video below.

Even though this is a JDM Hype Video you certainly do not need to understand Japanese to get some enjoyment out of it.  I’ll give you the important details.  You are about to watch Manabu Orido take HKS’ GT600 Nissan GT-R Time Attack car on a hot lap around Fuji Speedway.  You want to have your volume up when he hits the straight…trust me..

Let’s face it as great as the Nissan R35 GT-R is, its backseats are pretty much useless unless you are younger than 10.  Despite this fact they are inundated with leather and plushy stuff under said leather.  Nice to look at but utterly useless!  What’s the solution? Rip them out and replace them with these FRESH carbon fiber seat deletes by Password:JDM.  These deletes were carefully shaped to perfectly fit the contours of the rear seats and are made from 100% dry carbon fiber.  I wonder if there is a way to transform these things into bar stools?

So far this is the first time I’ve seen a GT style wing on the current R35 Nissan GT-R.  I can’t quite tell if I like it yet.  Usually when it comes to GT wings there is no grey area you either love it or hate it but I find myself undecided.  This is an example of a Voltex Type V GT wing on a GT-R shown off by Evasive Motorsports.  What do you guys think?  Love or hate?  Comment here or RT on twitter @MotorworldHype.

By now we all know that the current Nissan GT-R is pretty much a super hero.  It vengefully fights crime at night while disguising itself as a billionaire playboy during the day.  However COBB Tuning wanted to see if there were even more extraordinary abilities that we don’t yet know about.  So, they went forward with an experiment that some might call controversial.  They worked their tuning magic to see how well a GT-R would run on E85 Ethanol fuel.  The result?  Try 574HP at the wheels!  Turns out the GT-R loves the Moonshine more than “Cletus The Slack-Jawed Yokel”.  Check out COBB Tuning’s blog for all the details.

[Photo: COBB Tuning]

I know this is a bit random but its kind of a slow auto news day.  So when I was doing my aimless Internet trolling I found a few pics from the 2010 Tokyo Auto Salon (RJ is there right now) and I saw a familiar name “Tommy Kaira.”  Remember them?  They’re making something of a come back at this year’s TAS with a GT-R body kit (as seen above).  The styling is pretty wild but it not enough to set off my “wack-sauce” alarm.  Although, I’m not sure I’d rock it when I could get the Ventross kit.  What do you guys think?

A’PEXi is officially on the GT-R bandwagon now and I mean that in a good way.  They’ve stepped up their classic “RS Evolution” exhaust to create the “RS Evolution Extreme” or “RSX” for the  GT-R.  It has beautiful 4-into-1 piping and some flamed exhaust tips to finish the look.  The MSRP is about $3,400 which sounds like a lot at first but actually isn’t so bad when you compare that to the price of other GT-R exhausts.  Hopefully A’PEXi will post up an audio clip of this unit in the near future.

I know, I know another GT-R product.  I’m sorry but I can’t help myself.  The car is just so damn cool and so far everything I’ve seen for it is pretty freakin’ sweet too.  Check out this front lip by C-West.  I wouldn’t expect them to be able to pull something off that is aggressive but isn’t over the top.  Looks nice doesn’t it?