Some cars advertise the shop that built them, and some cars advertise the person, but this 1992 Nissan Skyline (R32) manages to do both at once. Syuko Morita is from Osaka, and his trade is listed as body, paint, and aerodynamic specialist, which explains a lot once you start reading the exterior list on his Final Motion R32. This entry in our archive series comes from the lens of Christopher Jue, who captured the car wearing its House of Kolor Tangerine paint under the kind of light that makes a color like that earn its name.
The widebody front fenders, front bumper, side skirts, hood, grill, doors, front diffuser, and the six-point adjustable GT rear wing are all Final Motion carbon kevlar pieces, and the car essentially functions as a rolling display of that work, right down to the Hands On graphics laid over the Tangerine. When the person shaping the panels is also the person signing the spec sheet, the bodywork stops being an accessory and becomes the resume.
Under the hood, the RB26DETT was bored to 87mm for a listed 2.66 liters of displacement, built on a Nismo N1 short block with a Tomei crankshaft and HKS Stage 3 connecting rods, pistons, and piston rings. A TRUST oil pump, valve springs, intake manifold, and turbo manifold join an NRS ported head, aluminum crank pulley, and exhaust, with Toda cam gears and a Final Motion valve cover gasket rounding out the assembly. The single GReddy T88-33D handles boost duty, feeding an A’PEXi intercooler and piping, while a Toyo aluminum radiator and SARD overflow and oil catch tanks manage the heat. Fueling runs through a TRUST rail with SARD 720cc injectors and a SARD regulator, supplied by twin Bosch OEM pumps, one internal and one external, leading to a SARD aluminum catch tank. A Tomei ECU and an HKS EVC6 keep it all in line, with a SARD blow-off valve and a TRUST and NRS side-draft wastegate on relief duty. The result is 680 hp.
The chassis work is where the depth of the build really shows. The frame was straightened, stitch welded, and riveted, with structural foam worked into the chassis crevices, and every suspension point outside the Nismo hard rubber lower control arm bushings was converted to custom spherical ball joints. NRS proprietary coilovers run 840 lb/in (15 kg/mm) Crux springs at both ends, backed by Nismo anti-roll bars and Cusco strut tower braces front and rear. Braking comes from 355mm Alcon units up front with Endless pads at all four corners, and power moves through an OS Giken twin-plate clutch and flywheel, a Nismo quick shift, and an ATS 1.5-way limited-slip differential. The car even keeps two sets of shoes: Volk Racing TE37s in 17×10.5-inch +15 fitment with 225/40R17 Advan A048s for street duty, and similarly sized SSR Type Cs with Toyo R1Rs when it’s time for the track.
Inside, a one-off Safety 21 cage wraps around race buckets with Willans four-point belts, with Final Motion carbon paneling on the dash and trunk separation, a MOMO Command steering wheel, and a Nismo shifter. An A’PEXi tachometer and Auto Meter water and exhaust temperature gauges cover the vitals, and a Panasonic head unit with Alpine 6-inch front speakers and 12-inch rear subwoofers proves the car still gets driven places where music matters. Morita lists his hobbies as foreign music and movies, so the audio section is not an afterthought.
The gratitude list on the original sheet runs three lines: Nokyo Racing Service, Final Motion, and his wife and kids. For a car that carries this much of its owner’s own work on the outside, that last entry is probably the one that mattered most.
GalleryPhotos by Christopher Jue
