Stop! Before reading any further, have a look at the photo below, specifically check out the engine bay. Does that unit look familiar? No? Try a little harder. Think Nissan, but something more awesome than a pick-up. That’s right, it’s a GT-R engine stuffed beneath the hood of an awesomely tuned Nissan Navara.
But why? And how?
Why? For the glory of petrolheads, of course. Nissan did some engine swapping some time ago and delivered the Juke-R to the public, somehow managing to fit the 3.8-litre twin-turbocharged V6 engine inside a rather small engine bay. You can take a quick glance at the Juke-R below; and we mean it. It’s fast.
However, this time Nissan had nothing to do with the Navara, besides supplying the car. This piece of art is the result of Severn Valley Motorsport’s hardworking and genious team of mechanics and engineers.
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So, how powerful is exactly Navara-R? Severn Valley Motorsport not only added the unlikely engine to the more unlikely chassis, but also tunned it up, resulting a total power output of 800HP. To put it better in perspective, the standard VR unit found on Nissan’s GT-R pushes 523HP to the wheels.
Fun comes at a price. SVM plans on taking the body of the Navara and drop it on the chassis of the GT-R, the result being a pickup you can use to transport a large cupboard right after you get back from the drag strip. The estimated price tag rests around $253,000 without considering Value Added Tax. But the fun? Priceless.
Check out below another product of Severn Valley Motorsport, the fastest Nissan R35 GTR on earth:
