Track-Prepped & Itasha Style: Garage Drydock’s R32 GT-R
I’ve always been a big fan of itasha-style cars. Actually, let me rephrase that; I’m a huge fan of some itasha-style cars, and Julian Adriano’s track-prepped BNR32 Nissan Skyline GT-R checks all of the right boxes.
The aesthetic caught my eye, but more importantly it appeared to be set up properly. J was quick to corroborate my assumption, sharing that it’s “a performance car first, but we’ve always been geeks at heart.” The ‘we’ here is referring to some of his friends at Garage Drydock, which J helped found.
He says Garage Drydock is “a team of sorts [which] started as a group of friends who for many years were using often incomplete or insufficient sets of tools to accomplish maintenance jobs on one another’s cars, and [we had] to use creative solutions rather than brute force on problems.”
Sound familiar? It certainly does to me…
我一直是itasha式汽车的忠实粉丝。实际上，让我重新说一下; 我是一个巨大的一些球迷 itasha-风格的汽车，和朱利安阿德里亚诺的轨道坦然BNR32日产天际线GT-R检查所有的权利盒。
美学引起了我的注意，但更重要的是它似乎设置得恰到好处。J很快证实了我的假设，分享它是“性能车首先，但我们一直都是极客。”我们这里指的是他在Garage Drydock的一些朋友，J帮助找到了。
他说Garage Drydock是“一群团队，起初是一群朋友，他们多年来一直使用不完整或不充分的工具来完成彼此的汽车维修工作，并且[我们]使用创造性的解决方案而不是对问题的暴力。“
听起来有点熟？这当然对我有用......
J continues, explaining that “after over a decade of doing that, we all grew up and our collections of tools became more complete and our techniques more refined. What Drydock has evolved into now is a think tank to bring aging but still respectable cars, like the R32 GT-R, to a point where they can be driven against modern machines without turning them into pure race cars.”
J继续说，“经过十多年的努力，我们都长大了，我们的工具集合变得更加完善，我们的技术也更加精致。Drydock现在已经发展成为一个智囊团，可以带来老化但仍然受人尊敬的汽车，比如R32 GT-R，它们可以在不将它们变成纯粹赛车的情况下与现代机器相媲美。“
This is exactly what J and his friends have done to his own R32 during the 12 years that he’s owned the car. He tells me the Nissan remains mechanically stock for the most part, with a focus on building a street car which is capable of going to the track rather than a race car which could, in theory, be driven on the street.
这正是J和他的朋友在他拥有这辆车的12年中对他自己的R32所做的。他告诉我，日产在很大程度上仍然是机械库存，重点是建造一辆能够上往赛道而不是赛车的街车，理论上它可以在街上行驶。
As such, the creature comforts that came standard inside the car remain; you get A/C, OEM safety restrains, rear seats, and there isn’t a roll bar.
The daily driving experience has been further honed by replacing the bulbs in the instrument panel with LEDS, “white for the main instrument gauges and red everywhere else, so as not to compromise the driver’s night vision while still retaining readability and [directing] focus to the main cluster.”
Details can make all the difference.
因此，汽车内部标准的生物舒适性仍然存在; 你有A / C，OEM安全限制，后排座椅，没有翻车保护杆。
通过用LEDS替换仪表板上的灯泡进一步磨练日常驾驶体验，“主要仪表仪表为白色，其他地方为红色”，以免损害驾驶员的夜视，同时仍保持可读性和[引导]焦点主集群。“
细节可以发挥重要作用。
Of course, the car isn’t entirely stock, and features rebuilt twin T25 turbos, an HKS down-pipe which feeds an HKS Hi-Power silenced exhaust, modified APEXi Super Suction air filters, and a Blitz DSBC dual solenoid boost controller.
A good amount of detail work has gone on under the hood as well, including Splitfire coil packs, a Wiring Specialties ignition harness, and NGK Iridium spark plugs.
当然，这款车并非完全备货，并且配备了重建的双T25涡轮增压器，HKS下管为HKS Hi-Power静音排气管，改进的APEXi Super Suction空气过滤器和Blitz DSBC双电磁升压控制器供电。
引擎盖下还有大量细节工作，包括Splitfire线圈包，Wiring Specialties点火线束和NGK Iridium火花塞。
The factory ECU has been reprogrammed with an EPROM tune to provide extra juice to the thirsty motor under higher-than-stock boost, and the result is 330hp to the wheels (and 279ft-lb of torque) at 17.4psi.
工厂ECU已经重新编程了EPROM曲调，在高于库存增压的情况下为口渴的电机提供额外的果汁，结果是在17.4psi时车轮（和279ft-lb的扭矩）为330hp。
Federal 595 RSR-R rubber delivers said power to the tarmac and is wrapped around 18-inch 5Zigen Pro Racer GN wheels. Tucked into the wheels are V-spec style Brembos with Endless slotted rotors and MXRS pads.
Handling is further refined by eliminating HICAS with a Kazama rear bar — I’ve never driven a rear-wheel steering car, and I’m not sure I want to. Furthering the street-first philosophy, J makes use of Cusco Street Zero A coilovers which “provide a ride which is still comfortable, but controllable.”
联邦595 RSR-R橡胶为停机坪提供动力，并缠绕在18英寸5Zigen Pro Racer GN 车轮上。T-style风格的Brembos采用无极开槽转子和MXRS垫圈。
通过使用Kazama后挡板消除HICAS进一步改善操控性 - 我从未驾驶过后轮转向车，我不确定是否愿意。J继承了街头优先的理念，利用Cusco Street Zero A线圈，“提供一种既舒适又可控的骑行”。
Back on the topic of Garage Drydock, J shares that the group has been busying themselves “finding problems brought about by antiquated technology [in older cars] and creating solutions from more readily available modern parts and theories.” One such innovation is an in-house digital G-sensor which is a replacement for the factory unit that helps regulate the GT-R’s ATTESA-ETS all-wheel drive system.
回到车库干船坞的主题，J分享说，该集团一直在忙着“发现旧车中过时技术带来的问题，并从现有的现代部件和理论中创造解决方案。”其中一项创新是家用数字G传感器是工厂单元的替代品，有助于调节GT-R的ATTESA-ETS全轮驱动系统。
The all-new G-sensor was first tested at last year’s R’s Day (which I missed, sadly), which resulted in an upgrade to an OS Giken 1.5-way Super Lock LSD to help further refine their data. At the Gridlife Streets of Willows event where I ran into J’s R32, Gridlife veteran driver Charles Miller — pictured here sitting cross-legged — was behind the wheel for additional troubleshooting and tuning.
全新的G传感器首先在去年的R日（我遗憾地错过了）进行了测试，结果升级到OS Giken 1.5路Super Lock LSD，以帮助进一步完善他们的数据。在Willows的Gridlife Streets活动中，我遇到了J的R32，Gridlife资深车手Charles Miller - 这里盘腿坐着 - 在车轮后面进行了额外的故障排除和调整。
Aesthetically speaking, J tells me the car is a nod to nose art on WWII bombers with “the traditional red-silver-black Nismo pinstripe livery palette-swapped for purple and lavender tones to complement the subjects of the car.” And the subjects themselves, custom artwork of Nozomi and Kanan from the anime Love Live!.
从美学的角度来说，J告诉我这辆汽车是对第二次世界大战轰炸机的鼻子艺术的一种认可，“传统的红银黑色Nismo细条纹涂层调色板 - 换成紫色和淡紫色调，以补充汽车的主体。”并且主体本身，来自动漫Love Live的定制艺术品Nozomi和Kanan ！
Inside and out an all-round solid car, I hope to run into J’s R32 at future track events, and at the same time catch up with Garage Drydock’s progress on their side projects.在内外都是一辆全能的实车，我希望在未来的赛道活动中遇到J的R32，同时赶上Garage Drydock在他们的侧面项目上的进步。
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