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B.J. Baldwin has been around many well-constructed machines throughout his childhood life as he followed many forms of racing from Motocross to rally and road racing. Moving forward in his career, B.J. has gained four off-road championship titles under his belt and has just recently become the first person in history to drive from start to finish taking the overall win at the 45th running of the SCORE Baja 1000 in 2012. You may find additional information on our very own off road champion here. Switching gears Baldwin came to us with one thing in mind which was for more power while still utilizing the factory IHI turbochargers. We happily obliged and set him up with our SPE650 Plus package which consists of bolt-on components that improve the Nissan GT-R's power output considerably. SPE650 Plus: SPE Spec Race Exhaust SPE Spec Race Mid-pipe SPE Spec Turbo Downpipe SPE Spec Air Suction Pipe Kit 76mm SPE Spec Spark Plugs Range 9 SPE Spec 1000cc Injectors SPE Spec Dual 270LPH Fuel Pump System SPE Custom Computer Calibration COBB AccessPORT 005 A few of the bolt-on components are pictured above which include; spark plugs, 1000cc injectors, as well as the dual 270LPH fuel pumps which will push the extra fuel needed due to E85's higher density levels. K&N filters replace the OE panel filters reducing airflow resistance and improving the overall engine response, as well as engine bay appearance. One of our shop hands installing the the 1000cc injectors. SPE spec downpipes installed to increase the factory IHI factory turbochargers output. The complete exhaust system pictured above will do an excellent job over the stock restricting counterpart in enabling an increase of boost to 17+ psi. Our SPE Spec Tanabe exhaust system will provide a melody of a tastefully built machine. To give Baldwins 2013 Gun Metallic GT-R that extra pop we paint matched his calipers. The entire factory Brembo braking system will now look a lot sleeker behind the OE wheels. A bit of privacy goes a long way, we had Baldwins windows tinted not only for privacy but for the stealthy aspect. Last but not least we have Baldwins dyno numbers. There are three different maps pictured here one for 91 octane low boost (blue) as well as 91 octane high boost (green), and finally the E85 map making 579 wheel HP and 554 wheel TQ. Thanks for checking out our blog if you have any questions or concerns and or inquires regarding any of the said material please email Alex ([email protected]) or Eugene ([email protected]). -SP

For all you curious people; Yes, this is the BenSopra GT-R that will be featured in the new Fast and the Furious 6. Watch out for the movie release on May 24th, 2013! The R’s Tuning GT-R is built to compete in some of the most well known road courses around the world. Ricky (owner for The R’s Tuning) and his team redesigned the entire factory cooling system to endure each lap session. This was only possible with the amount of area gained with the BenSopra aero package. Lastly, an updated tuning session was needed by SP Engineering before any vehicle testing begins. Proper Calibration of the ECM was done on 100 octane as it is known to burn cooler than your average 91 octane found at your local pump. This will offer more power but more importantly, reliability and head room as your fuel temperature rises. Stay tuned as The R’s Tuning has a lot more planned in the future which can be found here. Exterior: BenSopra Full Body Kit BenSopra GT Wing Seibon Dry Carbon Doors Seibon Carbon Fiber Door Sills Seibon Carbon Fiber Door Sill Trims Seibon Carbon Fiber Cooling Panel Set Seibon Carbon Fiber Engine Cover ASS Performance Dry Carbon roof ASS Performance Dry Carbon trunk Sparco Trunk Latches AeroCatch Flush Mount Hood Pins Interior: MCR Steering Wheel Set Up Chassis and Brake Set Up: The R’s Tuning Camber Arms Carbon Ceramic Discs by Weapons Grade Performance Endless Brake Lines Endless CCM Brake Pads Motul RBF660 Brake Fluid Engine Performance: swiss cheese P800 Turbo Kit Cobb AP005 SP Engineering Tuning Services HKS Downpipe HKS Resonated Y-pipe ID1000 Motul 300V (mix-match according to weather) Wheels and Tires: Volks RE30 Flat Black 19×11 ET25 Volks RE30 Formula Silver 19×11 ET20 Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 345/30/19 The dyno graph shows what the GT-R made on 100 octane: 685 wheel HP and 603 wheel TQ. Thanks for looking. - SP

For all you curious people; Yes, this is the BenSopra GT-R that will be featured in the new Fast and the Furious 6. Watch out for the movie release on May 24th, 2013! The R’s Tuning GT-R is built to compete in some of the most well known road courses around the world. Ricky (owner for The R’s Tuning) and his team redesigned the entire factory cooling system to endure each lap session. This was only possible with the amount of area gained with the BenSopra aero package. Lastly, an updated tuning session was needed by SP Engineering before any vehicle testing begins. Proper Calibration of the ECM was done on 100 octane as it is known to burn cooler than your average 91 octane found at your local pump. This will offer more power but more importantly, reliability and head room as your fuel temperature rises. Stay tuned as The R’s Tuning has a lot more planned in the future which can be found here. Exterior: BenSopra Full Body Kit BenSopra GT Wing Seibon Dry Carbon Doors Seibon Carbon Fiber Door Sills Seibon Carbon Fiber Door Sill Trims Seibon Carbon Fiber Cooling Panel Set Seibon Carbon Fiber Engine Cover ASS Performance Dry Carbon roof ASS Performance Dry Carbon trunk Sparco Trunk Latches AeroCatch Flush Mount Hood Pins Interior: MCR Steering Wheel Set Up Chassis and Brake Set Up: The R’s Tuning Camber Arms Carbon Ceramic Discs by Weapons Grade Performance Endless Brake Lines Endless CCM Brake Pads Motul RBF660 Brake Fluid Engine Performance: swiss cheese P800 Turbo Kit Cobb AP005 SP Engineering Tuning Services HKS Downpipe HKS Resonated Y-pipe ID1000 Motul 300V (mix-match according to weather) Wheels and Tires: Volks RE30 Flat Black 19×11 ET25 Volks RE30 Formula Silver 19×11 ET20 Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 345/30/19 The dyno graph shows what the GT-R made on 100 octane: 685 wheel HP and 603 wheel TQ. Thanks for looking. - SP

I believe the car was a 2003 Donor... Unfortunately much didn't work on the actual car itself.

There's been many mixed opinions about this Lamborghini good/bad. Overall I would say it's graceful in an unconventional way under the right lighting. Sharing these via IForged Performance. I helped assist on this photo-shoot...figured you guys would enjoy browsing through the set. You can order Iforged Wheels through us contact Will ([email protected]) for your inquiries. Wheel specs: iForged Wheels Style: Equip V3 Center Section Color : Matte Black Lip Finish : Matte Black Fitment : 19 x 8.5 Front / 20 x 13 Rear -Julian@SPE

So beautiful.

So sad... rip

The video was a little underwhelming but cool race regardless.

Extremely fast! Congrats guys...also nice and simple video.

hahahahah nice.

Wow your Diablo Roadster looks immaculate! Clean photos as well.

hahaha nice!

Whoops posted this video in the wrong thread....heres where it belongs. -Julian

hahahaha this is awesome.

So to make a long story short, Batman triggered our signal and had us redo his already modded batmobile. So then he had his private transport company drop it off to us and it was all fun for us here at SPE! Recently at SP Engineering we’ve had our hands full with this 2001 Lamborghini Diablo 6.0 in Black Rage (1 of 5) in the world. This Diablo features a rare Diablo GT Package which isn't available in the U.S. GT Style Front Bumper / Carbon Fiber Spoiler GT Style Wide Body Front Fenders GT Style Front Bonnet Cover GT Style Side Skirts / Carbon Fiber GT Style Engine Air Intake Scoop on Top of Engine Bonnet / Carbon Fiber GT Style Engine Bonnet GT Style Rear Spoiler GT Style Rear Splitter Spoiler / Carbon Fiber This particular Diablo came to us in great condition and with only 4000 miles on the odometer; It’s practically brand new. The owner, however, wanted to freshen up the overall look of the car and that’s where SP Engineering comes into play. We came up with this blue print of modifications: MS Racing Exhaust with powder coated exhaust tips SPE Stage 2 cat delete Custom caliper paint job (silver) Work Meister S1 3 -Piece 18×8.5f 18×13.5r with custom paint finish Pirreli P0235/35/18 (front) P0335/30/18 (rear) Lowered ride height TiTek Lamborghini lug bolts Blacked out reflectors with transparent paint Our tech mounting fresh Pirreli P0235/35/18 on the custom Meisters. All 13.5″ width of wheels ready to be mounted on the car. The MS Racing Exhaust system is a beauty to look at, AND touch, just like the SP Tuned girls. Except you can’t touch the SP Tuned girls. The freshly powdercoated tips to match the menacing theme of black throughout the car. Who needs cats, anyways? Take it out, and throw it away. As she would say, “It’s in!!!”. Doesn’t she look gorgeous? … Oh, that ass. She’ll definitely be turning some heads. One last one for all ya’ll to enjoy! -Julian@spe

Today we received Alex’s new 2008 Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera which is the newest edition to the SP line up. Stay tuned for more info… until then enjoy these pics. -Julian@SPE

Very cool!

We bring to you our photoshoot featuring Ray Hofman's newly acquired Ferrari 458 modified by SP Engineering. Modifications Include: -Novitec Rosso suspension -SPE Carbontek Full Titanium race exhaust -Iforged Fusion wheels -SPE Custom painted roof. And some more goodies for you to look at model Jessica: View in **720/1080P** -Julian@SPE

Wanted to share these with you guys. The MP4 was just fitted with some new wheels; Iforged Fusions. -Julian

We've got some teaser shots of Peak Completions most recent modifications.... I've gotta say that both cars look absolutely stunning in person. -Julian

This past weekend has been a busy one for everybody out in Long Beach, Ca. With all the racing going on, we were honored to lend a hand to CRP Racing for the Pirelli World Challenge. Driving GT-R #2 is Mike Skeen, and Jason Daskalos in #12. When the weekend ended in Long Beach CA, CRP Racing sent both of their GT-R’s to our facility for further assistance in calibrating their Motec M800 engine management system. A little background on CRP Racing – Owner, Nick Short, has been around racing for 25+ years. He started his company back in 2001 with lots of experience on his hands. Known for working on Corvettes, Porsches, and BMW’s, Nick and his team were happy and excited to be in partnership with Nissan to debut the two Hawk Performance GT-R’s at World Challenge. [ Both CRP Racing and Nissan are excited to be entering a new era with the Nissan GT-Rs in World Challenge. "Nissan is looking forward to partnering with CRP Racing to campaign the Nissan GT-Rs in the 2012 Pirelli World Challenge GT class," said Ron Stukenberg, Senior Mgr., Motorsports Marketing Communications at Nissan. "Both CRP Racing and the Nissan GT-R have a long history of winning races and we anticipate that success will carry over to the Pirelli World Challenge series." Nick Short - "We're very happy with this new collaboration between CRP Racing and Nissan North America to develop the Nissan GT-Rs into a race winning package. We now have two great partners in the Hawk Performance Group and Nissan, which will allow CRP Racing to show its true potential as a car builder and a race team." ... ] Read more about the partnership here. As mentioned earlier, CRP brought in both of their GT-R’s for us to further calibrate. SP Engineering’s senior technician Naoto Negishi, being a former employee of Sakata Motorsports, has vast experiences with many Motec systems; with skills ranging from ECU calibration to data acquisition and race support. Naoto has completed years of tunes with 100% satisfaction from motorsport teams and drivers from all around the world. SPE’s COBB tuner Kristian Wong, helped out alongside with Naoto in the tuning process for the CRP GT-R’s. Fuel mapping, ignition mapping and boost control strategies were reviewed and fine tuned. With our new engine calibration, both GT-R’s smoothed out the power-band it had previously lacked; It’s like discovering nutella going well with crepes. You want more of it, no matter how much it will cost you in the end. We couldn’t stop there. Next, we further calibrated the Gear Change Ignition Cut function in the M800. The Gear Change Ignition Cut function enables the driver to make gear changes full throttle without the use of the clutch, allowing the rear mounted 6 speed dog-gear Hewland gearbox to be utilized to its fullest potential. With the power-band and upshift portion of the calibration sorted, it was now time to turn the attention to the downshift strategies. The CRP R35 utilizes dual OEM drive by wire throttle bodies controlled by a Motec DBW4 module allowing for full control of the DBW motors. With this combination we are able to program a down shift “Throttle Blip” which simplifies the drivers tasks; essentially eliminating the need for the driver to perform “heel & toe”. SP Engineering will be providing full tuning support at the next World Challenge race event (04/27/12) at Miller Motosports Park in Tooele, Utah. The tasks for Naoto at this event will include proper function confirmation of the above mentioned calibrations, tuning of the traction control system and overall data acquisition and data analysis alongside with Nick. Both GT-R’s are running our SPE750 turbos which feature high-temp coated and machined manifolds and the internals are replaced with true Garrett ball bearing type cartridges; The same turbos are used in the Mine’s GT-R package. We hope for the very best for CRP Racing in the future with the rest of the World Challenge series. A special thank you goes out to Nick for giving us this opportunity. Nick, we hope to hear from you guys soon and good luck! Visit our blog for more pictures from this story! -Julian@SPE

Wow clean shop! Can anyone name the color of the LP570 on the bottom right?