Name: Visiting Legendary JDM Tuner Mine's Motor Sports | JDM Masters
Uploaded: 2020-10-22T23:54:09.436927+00:00
Duration: 1148 s
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Tsuzo Niikura

Paul Walker

Join us as we visit Mine's, one of the most well-known Japanese tuning companies from the golden years of JDM. Mine's gained fame for their balanced and highly-responsive demo cars, including Nissan Skyline GT-R and Mitsubishi Lancer Evo V models. The company became such legend in the JDM tuning world that its cars even earned placement in Sony's GranTurismo game. 

We visit the Mine's headquarters in Yokusuka and have a chat with founder Tsuzo Niikura about his tuning philosophy and have a look around the shop at their tuning parts and goods. This is also the very same place that the late actor Paul Walker visited a few years ago.

<p>Join us as we visit Mine's, one of the most well-known Japanese tuning companies from the golden years of JDM. Mine's gained fame for their balanced and highly-responsive demo cars, including Nissan Skyline GT-R and Mitsubishi Lancer Evo V models. The company became such legend in the JDM tuning world that its cars even earned placement in Sony's GranTurismo game. </p><p>We visit the Mine's headquarters in Yokusuka and have a chat with founder Tsuzo Niikura about his tuning philosophy and have a look around the shop at their tuning parts and goods. This is also the very same place that the late actor Paul Walker visited a few years ago.</p>

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Captain Bradford, host of JDM Masters, visits the headquarters of renown Japanese tuning company, Mine's. Located in a coastal town south of Tokyo, Mines offers tuning products for several brands of Japanese cars, with a notable specialty in Nissan models, and specifically the Nissan Skyline and GT-R.

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Whether you're looking for an exquisitely tailored Alcantara steering wheel for your R35 GT-R or just a slick black hoodie, the Mine's showroom is as sleek and elegant as everything else the company does. Just have a look at the titanium exhaust that host Captain Bradford handles for the camera; it's a work of art.

JDM Masters | Taking A Tour Of The Sleek and Elegant Mine's Showroom

Host Captain Bradford sits down for to talk with Mine's founder Tsuzo Niikura about his approach to integrated tuning, where the tuner matches engine, power and drivetrain upgrades to complementary upgrades to suspension, handling and traction.

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An older, but still innovative coilover system developed by Mine's serves as a good example of the tuner's integrated tuning approach. The suspension upgrade is designed to be used in conjunction with its power upgrade stage. 

Of course, enthusiasts have many choices when it comes to suspension and handling upgrades, but often it pays to consider hardware from the same tuner performing the engine upgrades. This integrated approach is often the best way to match the level of performance from the tuner's demo cars.

JDM Masters | Mine's Coilover System An Example Of Integrated Tuning Approach

Late actor Paul Walker (of "Fast & Furious" fame) was a fan of Nissan's Skyline and GT-R models and the Mine's tuning philosophy. Walker paid a visit to the headquarters and Niikura-san and got behind the wheel of the shop's R35 demo. Here, host Captain Bradford shows us just one reason Walker was a fan: the shop's approach to weight savings in the pursuit of ultimate engine response.

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