Glad to have helped you, CRP Racing!

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 n 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!

-SP