Mine's has managed to do just that, while retaining a straight-through setup all the way up to the dual turbochargers. Super Outlet Pro II turbo tubes join the dual HKS fans to Mine's Pro Titan downpipe, through a Super Sports Catalyzer and into the reason for peace and quiet, the Silence-VX Pro Titan exhaust. Oh, and you read that right, this 620hp car has a catalytic converter. Finally, you won't be responsible for people choking and gagging when you pull into a parking garage.
The whole masterpiece is orchestrated by the piece for which Mine's is most famous, it's reworked ECU (called the VX-ROM). Mine's reworks the stock ECU to take advantage of the new parts and to bring the new engine closer to the edge of its capability. Mine's believes that most cars are tuned to function with an unnecessarily massive safety margin built in. The VX-ROM simply narrows this margin, while still leaving plenty of room for safe everyday use. An HKS EVC regulates boost pressure to both turbochargers.
If the engine speaks softly but carries a big stick, the suspension screams loudly and carries a Louisville Slugger, which swings straight at your kidneys. Like many Japanese tuner cars designed for street use on the island, the spring rates are laughably stiff on our soil. That's to say, you're laughing all the way to the chiropractor. The Mine's Force Full Spec setup uses 12.5k springs on all four corners and features fully adjustable compression and rebound settings. The car is also equipped with a set of Mine's anti-roll bars front and rear and a half cage with door bars to ensure the transformation of your lower vertebrae to dust by the time you cobble out of the car.
As you could have guessed, the car rides on rubber that doesn't exist in America-Bridgestone Potenza RE55S SR2, in 265/35/18 all around. The Japanese do love their long product names. The shorthand is "stickiest tire you can use on the street without hydroplaning to your death above 50 kilometers an hour." The sticky stuff is stretched around 18-inch Magnesium Evolution II wheels.
This combination of spring and rubber works to produce a car that does things that just shouldn't be possible in a car weighing nearly 3,200 pounds. But then again, it shouldn't be possible to make a car this big rev like a street bike, either. Unsurprisingly, you'll find a nice shoulder burn at the end of a hard drive, too. That's courtesy of AP Racing's big brake kit, which consists of six pistons in the front and four in the rear, and fitted with Mine's PFC pads to increase operating temperature. Hit the Internet and watch the big car shave down speed, and you'll get an idea of what we're talking about.
A ticket would have been the least of our worries had we been seen by the wrong eyes that late summer night. But it's the subtlety of the R34 that is its best asset. Slow down to a crawl and the average American copper wouldn't be able to discern this beast from the passing everyman-mobile. But then again, there's nothing to worry about, because we made the whole canyon story up anyway. Or did we?