YOKOHAMA- the legendary Nissan GT-R is the work of artists engine. Like weave, every component in the machine-knitted by hand in order to produce the perfection that can not be achieved by the robot.
Izumi Shioya, Nobumitsu Gozu, Tsunemi Oyama, and the leader Takumi Kurosawa is an artist who is responsible in any TwinTurbo VR38 engine manufacture Nissan pride. They combine all the experience that Nissan for more than 100 years. Takumi Kurosawa already very well known in Japan as one of the god machine.
Yokohama factory was producing 35 million units of the machine for 80 years for Nissan. "By putting my name on the engine block. I was representing Nissan and has been hailed as the GT-R engine maker. I feel very proud and honored," said Takumi Kurosawa, in his official statement on Friday (26/07/2013).
Robot is a familiar task in the production engine of the 21st century, but in Yokohama remain the exclusive place to assemble the 374 components with a manual through the hands of experts.
"When the GT-R was produced in 2007, the installation of the valve using a robot, but now everything by hand. Measuring, tighten, and re-measure. After checking with the manual and confirm, then the next task is to send to consumers," said Kurosawa who has three decades devoted to Nissan.
Takumi Kurosawa and his team also made the machine version of the Nissan GT-R street to the Super GT300. "If you just want to assemble the machine GT-R, all people with high skills can learn it in 3-4 months, but the habitat GT-R is the speed of 320 km / h on the race track, so the size of the pad is machine precision is needed," Kurosawa san said.
Takumi is not only responsible only in the assembly, but it also determines the quality and precision guarantee. Each machine GT-R assembled by different artists, because it can be different character in each machine.
3.8-liter engine produces 545 HP, all have an emotional relationship with the creator. After six hours of assembly, Takumi put his name on the engine block as a guarantee of quality. Every owner of a Nissan GT-R will have a special feeling in the car.
"I really understand the feelings of consumers, and we put a lot of our soul in each machine, we hope to reach every consumer," said Izumi Shioya.
