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Old 01-25-09, 08:35 PM
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I was wondeing what you guys think about the top Japanese tuning houses. I am personally of a fan of most of them. I have to say I like the folowing

1.Power House Amuse
2.Mines
3. Nismo
4. Spoon
5. C-west
6. J's racing

My two top pics would be Mines and Amuse because they always strived for the ultimate in balance of the cars they built. Amuse has created some of the lightest track machines to come out of Japan. Mines doesnt design pigs, but they seem to really be able to find the ultimate balance of the GTRs they build for their customers.

PS R.I.P Hideki Tanabe. The famous fiunder of Power House Amuse died late last year. This guys creations can even be seen in popular video games like Gran Turismo

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Old 01-25-09, 08:41 PM
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here are some famous creations from my favorite
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here is the world famous mines R34 and the founder of Mines Mr Michiro Niikura
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I will throw in some from the other top two as well. VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV Spoon NSX-R GT
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Nismo R34 Z tune. ferrari killer. It should be for $170,000
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amazing C- west Carbon fiber S2000
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nice list. what about HKS, JUN, RE Ameyamiya(sp?), Bozz Speed and Zero Sports?
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"Top Secret" for sure.
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The list is huge. I want to see who the CL members dig as well.

RE amemiya is more of an RX7 tuner. Not my favorite platform. Top Secret is big time. There Supra and the famous smokey Tanaka have done some serious speeding around the world.lol
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Dunno if you'd consider them a tuner, per se, but I really dig some of the WALD stuff for the LS and GS.
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I love the Wald line for most of the cars they do, but I wouldn't call them a tuning house. They still make some great stuff though
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Nismo is in no way a "tuning house" when compared to all the other companies, they're the IN-HOUSE tuner for Nissan, similar to Lexus' F, Toyotas' TRD, Mercedes' AMG, and BMW's M.

all those, plus Top Secret, HKS, Blitz, JUN, RE Amiasjdhad, Autech(might be owned by Nissan, can't remember), and a couple others.

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an inhouse tuning house is a tuning house. They have also produced many of Japans top race cars
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