Black Beauty USE GTR

USE GTR News Update

Yesterday’s press release about the availability of turn-key, “production” Ultimate Street Edition USE GTR Nissans from Switzer Performance featured one of the most recent USE GTRs to be completed - a car that is not only one of our favorites, but (judging from the number of responses and questions) is also one of your favorites! …

Production Ultimate Street Edition GTR

Pop Quiz: What’s the World’s Quickest Production Car?

Earlier this year, Oberlin, Ohio-based tuning firm Switzer Performance moved from its 4500 sq. ft. garage to a sprawling, 105,000 sq. ft. complex. The move has allowed Switzer to expand its existing tuning operations - but a huge expansion like Switzer’s will always be about something more than simple expansion. “We took a small performance …

Optima Batteries Ultimate Street Car Invitational 2012

OUSCI 2012 Update

Last week, we talked about taking one of our 1000+ hp Ultimate Street Edition GTRs to Las Vegas to run in Optima Batteries’ Ultimate Streetcar Invitational (OUSCI). The day came and went, and it was a heck of a thing, by all accounts. Both Switzer’s Canadian Performance Consultant Travis Hill and Switzer CEO David Kim …

Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational - GTR

Ultimate Street Edition GTR vs. Las Vegas

Every year, the Optima Batteries company puts on an event called the Ultimate Street Car Invitational. If you’ve been paying attention this year, then, you already know what’s coming next: a 1000+ hp Switzer Performance Ultimate Street Edition GTR Nissan will be there. Ho-ho! We’ve got Switzer’s own Canadian-region Performance Consultant Travis Hill driving the …

Tym's Two Cents

Moscow Musings

A few hours ago, things around here finally calmed down just enough for me to hop online for a few minutes and do some things that weren’t work-related. Of course, the first thing I did was “Google” the shop to see where we were at and spend some time “cruising” the new SPI website, but …

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Carbon-nano Switzer GTR Brake Pads

Switzer GTR Brake Pads

Switzer Performance is proud to introduce their newest R35 performance upgrade: nano-carbon GTR brake pads. Why does Nissan’s magical R35 GTR need new brake pads? Despite its 3800+ lb. weight, the car can dance through the corners like few other cars can. That weight can take its toll in a lot of ways. With the …

Switzer Ultimate Street Edition

Ultimate Street Edition GTR

Since releasing its 1000+ whp R1KX performance PKG in 2010, Oberlin Ohio’s Switzer Performance has established itself as America’s “go-to” GTR tuning house Despite the temptation of over twelve-hundred raucous horsepower, though, Tym Switzer believes the all-out performance level of the R1KX GTRs and the recurring maintenance and support are not what the majority of …