The much awaited feature article on the Axis wheels yellow Nissan GT-R has finally popped up on the net. The article is complete with a fairly impressive photo gallery as well.

Check it out at the link below.

Link: Super Street: Axis Granted

First seen at SEMA in the US, Volk has recently released a new addition to their wheel lineup. The Volk Racing G2 or TE37 G2. Following this they have now added a new offset to the lineup to debut at Tokyo AutoSalon 2009. The new GT-R fitment changes the front to 20″x10″ +30mm offset while the rear moves to a 20″x11″ +25mm offset.

Zele International have a set of these for demoing at Tokyo AutoSalon in the flat black colour that everyone seemed to love at SEMA. We snapped a few shots of them while recently on site at Zele for a pre-TAS visit.

Rays Wheels will have quite a substantial sized booth at Tokyo AutoSalon as usual. They’re located in Hall 1 this year so stop by to check these out in the flesh.

Loads more photos after the jump…

Link: Volk Racing Website
Link: Zele Complete Edition Information

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We are well and truly in the lead up to the biggest Japanese tuner show of the year, Tokyo AutoSalon, now. Today we paid a pre-TAS visit to one of my favourite workshops, Zele International.

Zele have two workshops not far from Tokyo. The first is at Atsugi while the main showroom is situated in Yokohama. We went to their Yokohama workshop to meet with Zele’s President, Satoshi Kamata-san to discuss their AutoSalon plans and plans for the sale of the new Zele Complete Edition package which is making it’s public debut in Japan at the show on Friday.

As already revealed, just eight Zele Complete Edition cars will be built. They are available to anyone worldwide with the caveat that you ship your GT-R to the Zele Yokohama workshop for the work to be carried out.

While many of the Zele Performance parts like the front bumper, side skirts and rear underspoiler are available through dealers, the key Zele Complete Edition dry carbon pieces will at this time, not be available to buy outside the Complete Edition full car package. This includes, the dry carbon front bumper (not including the regular FRP front bumper), the dry carbon rear wing, the dry carbon side mirrors and the dry carbon roof.

While we were there we got to check out both the Type-1 and Type-2 FZ-Titanium exhaust systems. The Type-1 was installed on the Zele Complete Edition demo car. The video below is what the FZ-Titan Type-1 exhaust sounds like on the FZ-ROM ECU Type-3 (550ps) tuned GT-R.

The FZ-Titan Type-2 exhaust is also an option on the Zele Complete Edition package. This more conventional looking quad outlet exhaust is of the best quality possible. We took a set of detailed photos for those undecided on which exhaust to go for on their GT-R.

Last but not least we got some exclusive photos of the last optional item on the Zele Complete Edition package not yet seen by the public. We will be posting those in the next 24hrs so stick around to find out what it is.

For those interested in meeting up with the NAGTROC and GTRBlog teams, we’ll be holding a meetup at TAS on Friday the 9th of January from 3:00pm - 3:30pm at the Zele International booth (#215) at Tokyo AutoSalon 2009.

Link: Zele Performance Website
Link: Tokyo AutoSalon Website

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Abflug have flow under the radar until this month as they develop their new aero kit in secret. We have some really bad shots from Option magazine of the kit in development but we’d rather hold the rest of them back until Friday when we can see the finished product.

From what we can tell it will be one of the more mild kits Abflug have created in their time. Part of being on a very tight schedule I’d say.

Abflug will debut the Nissan GT-R body kit with their new Toyota MR-S kit at their booth at Tokyo AutoSalon starting this Friday.

Link: Abflug Home Page

Blitz have launched their new range of BRW09 MAG forged magnesium wheels exclusively available for the Nissan GT-R. The wheels will be available in Metal Silver colour in sizes 20x9.5″ +38 offset front and 20x10.5″ +18 offset rear.

Magnesium wheels are extremely light, in the case of the BRW09 MAG wheels we’re talking 9.65kg per front wheel and 10.65kg per rear wheel. An unsprung weight saving of almost 2kg per corner.

Blitz have also announced they will be attending Tokyo AutoSalon bringing several of their demo cars including the Blitz GT-R. Other cars at their booth will be the Blitz Evo X, Blitz Toyota IQ. A range of parts will also be on display.

You can find the Blitz booth (#209) in hall three at Tokyo AutoSalon from this Friday to Sunday.

Link: Blitz Home Page

Garage Yawata have been hard at work on their new exhaust innovation which is now on sale. It’s another take on the Dual Sound Exhaust concept but without the need for a remote control unit.

Sound is controlled with the throttle input so around town the full titanium exhaust is quite docile but when the right foot is exercised the sound ramps up in unison.

The exhaust is good to support the 650ps the Yawata Street Special GT-R is making and has been tested on their GT-R up to 324.6km/h!

For a full demonstration of how it works watch the video below and check out their top speed run after the jump.

The exhaust is available now for 490,000 yen.

Link: Garage Yawata Home Page

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The end of 2008 brings to a close the first chapter in the story of one special Nissan GT-R that we've been following since early days here. During the last few months there's been no other GT-R that could come close to it down the drag strip once it dipped into the mid 10's consistently.

It was somewhat fitting that on the last track event of 2008 it was to again break it's own record and ultimately break itself when it's transmission let go doing what it did best, launching hard at the drag strip.

Over 100 launches using the Nissan GT-R's now infamous launch control, with approximately 30 of those resulting in a sub-10 second ET, took it's toll. Recorded on video for posterity you can watch what it feels like to strip first gear in a new GT-R.

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