Newly announced Lotus Formula 1 driver Fairuz Fauzy has been a Nissan GT-R R35 owner since importing one of the first into Europe in early 2008. Straight away, Fairuz chose the COBB AccessPORT to not only remove the annoying 112mph speed limiter, but also extract Godzilla power from the VR38.

Fairuz and his Nissan GT-R are regular visitors to Silverstone, Nurburgring, Brands Hatch, Santa Pod drag strip and even Wembley Stadium for the Race of Champions. Fairuz has thoroughly flogged every custom map that GTC's tuner Ben Linney has thrown his way, from the early days of v108 and v108b maps to recent proportional gain boost control custom tunes and gear throttle multiplier maps.

Fairuz loves the fact he can change maps quickly, very handy when driving though Europe with varying fuel grades and also for different track set-ups with more suitable throttle % multiplier map control. Fairuz's excellent feedback has been very useful to Ben and John at GTC, helping them to further optimize their custom tuning expertise.

Fairuz's GT-R currently boasts the COBB Tuning AccessPORT, an F1 loud GTC Titan 90mm exhaust, decatted down pipes and GTC suspension. The AccessPORT has been showing consistent 0-60 times of just 2.9 seconds using the built-in Performance Monitoring tools!

We wish Fairuz all the best this year in the 2010 Formula 1 season.

GT-R ProTuner, GTC, recently traveled all Europe, England, the Middle Aast, Asia and Australia on a GT-R AccessPORT Tuning mega trip that lasted several weeks and successfully tuned dozens of GT-Rs. With demand getting even bigger for custom tunes in Asia, and with the tempture in the U.K. dropping to -17 with 30-inches of snow on the ground, it made sense to fly over to give a personal touch and custom mapping with the AccessTUNER Pro software.

John Banks' excellent work with the GTR software, wich now allows knock datalogging and proportinal gain boost control, makes GTC mapping a very easy & popular choice. Since getting hold of the AccessTUNER software in 2008, testing on their own R35 demo cars, GTC quickly realised every GT-R appears to like different calibrations. While E-Tuning has worked well, being able to tune in each region made for even better calibrations.

"It was a massive honour and a buzz to meet so many GT-R owners across Asia," Said Ben of GTC. "I can't thank them enough for their kind hospitality. The highlight being custom tuning a JDM-Spec GT-R on the tiny island of Phuket in Thailand, no dyno is on the island so we had to tune the car on road but take it slow at elephant crossings."

"The other highlight was flashing the very first JDM R35 in Asia with the new TCM speed limiter delete," said Ben. "Again that was another buzz, every time Nissan tries to be clever changing position of limiters the ECU gurus at Cobb Tuning, Joe Graham and John Banks, crack it!"