Fast & Furious 4 Cars: Nissan Skyline GT-R (BNR34)

The famed Japanese tuner machine Nissan Skyline GT-R (nicknamed 'Godzilla') makes a return in "Fast & Furious 4". Driven by Paul Walker's character Brian O'Connor, this car is actually a kit car built by Kaizo Industries. As it is difficult to make Skylines street-legal in the United States, Universal Studios approached Kaizo to have a street-legal version of this Japanese monster that actually came in a rolling-shell form (read: without drivetrain) with the engine and gearbox assembled in the U.S, just to comply with the NHTSA's `assemblage of parts' ruling. This car looks very much like a sleeper with its understated Bayside Blue stock-looking exterior. The only difference are the Nismo front bumper and side skirts, gunmetal grey Volk Racing RE30 19" rims and Sunline Auto carbon fibre hood painted the same as the car. While the RB26DETT engine received mild mods, with a K&N air filter, Turbonetics intercooler and Cobb muffler being the only changes, the main power adder has to be the infamous NOS nitrous oxide system. With that kind of 'go' power, the 'stop' power has got to be equally impressive too, so Rotora's big brake conversion kit that includes cross-drilled and grooved disc with 6-pot front calipers and 4-pot rear calipers are called into task. Handling is courtesy of Nismo lowering coil springs, Eibach anti-roll bars and ARC front titanium strut bar, while wrapping those uber-beautiful Volk Racing wheels are Toyo's finest Proxes T1-R tyres, measuring 275/30 R19 all round. The interior has been revamped too. Momo steering wheel, OMP bucket seats with OMP 4-point harnesses seat belts and gearknob as well as a set of pedals from the V-Spec II Nur model of the BNR34. But the first thing that will catch your attention the moment you open the car's doors is the large LCD panel smacked right at the top of the centre of the dashboard. That is actually a Xenarc LCD computer screen that works together a Magden M.1B data recorder box. The LCD screen can be set to display a vehicle's parameters in analogue or digital graphic meter form. Many of these GT-Rs were used during filming, but there were also ER34 25GT Turbos used for stunt driving purposes. Heck, there's even a rolling-shell that uses the original Volkswagen Beetle's rear-mounted engine for off-road driving scenes!