Sorry for the lack of updates.

I headed out to Oregon a few weeks ago. There, I met up with the owner of that R34 from Alberta, since we were both going to be in the same place at the same time. His car is a kouki GT-R V-Spec II BNR34 in Black Pearl.


His car is still the single most impressive one I've ever seen, and he's been working on it since the last time we met. He's thrown most of the Top Secret aero catalog at his car, making it look very different from the last time I saw it.


Though it soon got dark where we met, I managed to take some decent pictures of his car.


He also let me see the engine bay - something he declined to do back in December. The engine is now running an OS Giken "RB315" bottom end and a big Borg-Warner EFR single turbo, bringing his car's horsepower total up to an easy 1100 at the crank. He's got my car beat, handily.


This was the first time since building my R33's big power engine that I felt like my car had been so thoroughly outclassed by another Skyline. It was inevitable, though - and to even be in the same league as something of this caliber is a high compliment.


This could very well be one of the fastest - and one of the nicest - Skylines in North America, new R35s excluded. Just knowing that it's out there is incredible.


We took a short drive, during which he did some short acceleration pulls and confirmed that, yes, his car is ludicrously fast.


As the evening wore on, it became harder and harder to take pictures of that inky silhouette of a car, but I think I managed.


It wasn't long before we parted ways.


That meeting got me to thinking about how I'd build an R34, if I had gotten one instead of my R33. In particular, I started thinking about the early R34 in Active Red.
I like the thought, but maybe not quite enough to say I'd take it over the R33 I have now. Still, though, an R34 would be an amazing car to own.

(OOC: Thanks, Adnan54, for a beta copy of the new BNR34 mod!)