

It has been listed for sale for as much as a million Euro. The original car was seized by ICE, and then it was eventually exported. The original car was a GT-R, but there were several hero's including the buggy car. While the blue car was Paul's in the movie, it was not actually his car. They imported a ton of cars as "kit cars." Technically no engine, and no transmission is considered car parts. Both names were used, one as the company, one on the MSO's of the cars. So sometime after MotoRex shut down, there was a guy that started what would eventually be called Kaizo, or Nissanie. Victor Reyes from Emergency Hookers towing, with the Automotive Forums R34 GT-R In the final scene, in the parking garage, where Lucas Black lines up against Vin Diesel, the R34 GT-R World Challenge GT car is hidden somewhere. There is backup power for the ATTESA system, on the R33 and R34, so if you just "pull the fuse," you can hurt the transfer case.Ī couple copies of the "girls car" R33 Yes, those are stars

The SAFE way to run an R33 or R34 rear wheel drive is to drop the propshaft. Smacked myself in the head with the propshaft pulling it out. We made them rwd by pulling the propshaft, and managed to bleed a little more the cause. On set with the RB Mustang More on set with the RB Mustang RB26 powered S15 mockup RB26 powered S15 mockup The turbo extension is visible, wrapped in header Notice the cam covers are body color in this shot. They had four more cars they could beat up, and drive off the side of a cliff, but only one RB powered car. The hero has to look good for the upclose shots. The reason they didn't use it, because it was the hero. Anything you read about the RB powered car not being able to drift, is just not the truth.

However still ran a in the quarter, faster than any of the V8 powered stunt cars they tested. Since it was just on spring pressure, it really wasn't making much power. Sport Compact Car Magazine, and Edmunds both tested this car. Swapping engines and oil pans around at Tri-C Engineering I made the exhaust shop put it in like that. In case you missed it, it was an HKS style muffler, kind of pointed out and to the right. John and myself picked the color for the car, and I picked the exhaust can for it. So we sold them an RB out of an R32, and then helped put the R34 engine back in its original home. They ended up with a non-running R34 shell, and a Mustang that didn't need this engine. Originally the picture car guys had pulled an engine from one of the FNF2 R34 GT-R to use in the Mustang.
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For engine management, I turned to AEM,and it ran on an AEM Series 1 ECU.
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Again, movie car, so it just mostly had to look decent. I went with a 60-1 because I wanted the most plain, basic turbo I could put on the car. Right after it came back from shooting Fast andĪ call to Reggie over at Turbonetics secured a 60-1 turbo, and some Spearco Intercoolers. It was a 10 second car in Palmdale, so it got down decently. Eventually drag racing it in the street tire class at IDRC. It is the "Streets closed pizza boy" car.Īfter the movie we added direct port nitrous, with the help of SoCal Speed Shop and NOS. So the one car, an R33 was loaned to the movie. Getting more cars to the US, in the short amount of time they wanted, was near impossible without flying them, and we were not going to foot that expense. Since Mike and Craig ran competing drag racing series, it was unlikely to get that car. One other R33 that I could think of, was owned by Mike Ferrara. MotoRex was small, and we really didn't have many cars or customers.

Now you have to understand this was a unknown quantity then. They liked the car, and they asked how many I could get. I let them know why the Nissan Skyline was such a significant car in Japan, the long history of the car in Japan, and how it was idolized, and perhaps put on a high pedestal here in the US. I went into my best salesmans pitch ever. When they came up to the R33, they asked what it was, and a little bit of why it was there, and how it compared to the Toyota Supra. If you ever heard of an R32 GT-R sideways around the clock tower, probably never happened.Ī group of producers, and assistants were going around checking out the cars. At some point during the audition, I ended up giving Paul a ride around the Universal lot in an R32.
