Nissan Is Restarting Official Production Of Skyline Spares
It’s time for die-hard JDM fans to get excited, because Nissan is launching a Heritage Parts Programme to supply genuine, Nissan-made OE-spec components for its classic performance cars.
The new venture, which will be part of the company’s motorsport division, Nismo, will open its accounts by making spares for the R32 Skyline GT-R, but other models will be covered as well as time goes on. We expect that to include the R33 and R34, plus the various generations of Fairlady Z, the best-known of which was otherwise known as the 300ZX.
The new scheme should bring a halt to the problem of classic Nissans being repaired with sub-standard parts that could ultimately cause more damage and lead the cars to be scrapped. Nissan wants to keep these old machines on the road, and will supply the parts to make it possible.
The Pulsar GTi-R and Primera GT, the racing version of which was a stand-out performer for a while in the British Touring Car Championship, could also be covered eventually, if the demand is there.
Nismo will begin manufacturing parts for the R32 in September or October, with official sales starting soon afterwards. Overnight parts from Japan, anyone?
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Now hopefully Mazda will start doing this. To fix my Ford.
Wish VW would do this….
So they’re doing the Porsche thing now?
Porsche, BMW, Mercedes, Ferrari and Lamborghini, actually. More recently Land Rover as well.
They should sell updated versions of the RB Series Engines like Ford and Chevy does with the Windsor and the Small Block Chevy platforms with newer Transmissions to match…
Then Toyota should fire back by selling 2JZs and Tremecs in crates…
Then they should make RWD/AWD Ecoboxes that somehow have engine and transmission bays that could fit the “Outdated Engines”.
The Supra transmission was a Getrag not Tremec.
This is not good for people who have very good condition skylines, it’ll just lower their value. I mean if they have a completely stock one without any flaws its price is going to drop to half. Good thing for someone bad thing for someone else.
Could you in theory build your own car and assemble it Ikea-style? Say if you had a chassis…
I’m curious to know as well.
That is the idea behind heritage programs. I haven’t seen the source of this to confirm but some dudes built a K-75 BMW bike from scratch using their classic part catalog.
good good, now I just have to get an r32..in the poorest country in Europe.
180sx
I salute Nissan for recognizing the importance of such a program. My hope is this will mean old raggedy rat-camber Nissans with ziptied turbos will sometimes be turned back to civilised states of whole-ness.
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