The Nissan GT-R busted onto the automotive scene at the 2007 Tokyo Motor Show. It was Nissan's return to the high-performance market and their answer to the Porsche 911 Turbo. It boasted performance equal (and sometimes more) to cars costing twice as much. In the past years, it's proven itself to be one of the fastest production cars around any racetrack.

Nissan fans that waited anxiously for the car flocked to the new R35 GT-R and the car made new fans where the old R32, R33 and R34 Skyline GT-Rs were never released. It was loaded with state of the art technology that Nissan's Chief Vehicle Engineer Kazutoshi Mizuno proudly says something in the nature of "we've done everything you can possibly do to make it fast and nothing else should be done to it".

Thus tuning the R35 was thought to be an unwavering challenge and the entire car would be an absolute black box, which turned out to be true - to a point. But there are always exceptions in this world. There is never a code that cannot be deciphered, a map that cannot be read and a box that cannot be opened. In this case, our...