Posted by Iain Litchfield on Tuesday, October 13th, 2026 in Akrapovic, Chassis Setup, GT-R, Nissan, Nurburgring, Porsche, Suspension, Uncategorised
What an incredible weekend at the Nürburgring!Massive congratulations to Jack for producing an incredible lap when it mattered most, securing victory in the European Time Attack final in his Nissan R35 GT-R. To make the weekend even better, we also claimed 2nd place in the Supercar final with our Porsche GT4 RS.A huge thank you […]
Posted by Iain Litchfield on Wednesday, April 1st, 2026 in Dyno Tuning, Engine, GT-R, Nissan, Uncategorised
Race+ Intercooler Development for the Nissan GT-R When we first developed our Race Intercooler back in 2011, the goal was simple. Create a cooling system that could properly support high powered GT-R builds running around 1,000bhp, without compromise. At the time, that level of performance was pushing the limits of what most owners were aiming […]
Posted by Iain Litchfield on Saturday, March 15th, 2025 in Engine, GT-R, Nissan
Recently, we had a modified Nissan GT-R in our workshop suffering from a misfire. Our diagnostics pinpointed the issue to a specific cylinder, and upon removal, we found that the ceramic around the tip of the spark plug had failed. Fortunately, this engine avoided any damage, but we’ve seen cases where broken plug tips have […]
Posted by Iain Litchfield on Wednesday, June 28th, 2023 in GT-R, Nissan
Firstly, it is NOT common for a Nissan GT-R to catch fire . However, in the rare occasions that this has happened it has become an understandable talking point within the GT-R community. We see more GT-Rs than anyone in the UK and we take the responsibility of looking after our customer cars very serious […]
Posted by Iain Litchfield on Tuesday, November 5th, 2019 in Dyno Tuning, ECU Remap, GT-R, Nissan
The work that ECUTEK has put into improving their already market leading software is nothing sort of astonishing! We are fortunate to have a close working relationship with Ecutek from their start back in 2002 and since then the two companies have worked incredibly closely with Litchfield often suppling their development cars and help with […]
Posted by Iain Litchfield on Thursday, May 30th, 2019 in Chassis Setup, Nissan, Porsche
Tuesday saw us invited by Michelin to test their new Track Connect Cup 2 tyres at the famous Silverstone GP. The innovative Track Connect system provides live data about the pressure and temperature of each tyre whilst providing recommending pressures and adjustment information.These special Cup2 tyres use in-built sensors to constantly relay the performance back […]
Posted by Iain Litchfield on Thursday, January 17th, 2019 in Alpine, GT-R, Nissan, Paint Protection
January saw us once again exhibit at the Autosport International Show in the NEC. This large show gives us an ideal starting point to the year where we are able to catch up with many of our suppliers and customers over the four days and discuss the year ahead. This year we displayed our Nissan GT-R […]
Posted by Iain Litchfield on Monday, December 24th, 2018 in GT-R, Nissan
We’re always looking for ways to improve. With our latest delivery of CNC cylinder heads for our Nissan GT-R builds we transform how quickly we can produce our engines.We have been building expectational GT-R engines for years but these take a long time to produce to the standard we expect. The cylinder heads in particular […]
Posted by Iain Litchfield on Tuesday, September 11th, 2018 in Chassis Setup, Dyno Tuning, ECU Remap, GT-R, Nissan, Nurburgring, Paint Protection, Suspension
Our 2018 Nurburgring trip marked the second time that Anthony Gaylard’s LM1 RS has been to this famous circuit. To give a bit of background on this project the freshly built car was first driven at Spa and the ‘Ring in autumn 2017. This epic 5 day test came after a successful shakedown at Silverstone […]
Posted by Iain Litchfield on Monday, September 10th, 2018 in Dyno Tuning, ECU Remap, GT-R, Nissan, Nurburgring, Paint Protection
Just getting our Stealth grey LM1 RS to the Nurburgring was a challenge this year. The car has had a lot of work completed on it over the last few months, but with a busy workshop looking after customer cars it often slipped to the back of the queue which meant we needed to complete […]
