Japanese drifter orders his Infiniti Q60 from overseas, lands it with 1,000 HP

It is no secret that car aficionados from all over the world dream about driving Japanese performance cars restricted to their domestic market. But for today, let’s consider an opposite example.

Tatsuhiro Shibata, a nationally famous drift racer and car restorer, paid a visit to the United States to purchase this Infiniti Q60. He admired the design aesthetics of the car that he could not legally obtain in Japan, which could be seen as ironic given the Japanese origins of the brand.

Once he got his hands on the coupe, he outfitted it with all-carbon body panels and aero kit, including both bumpers, wheel arches and fenders, doors, the hood, the trunk, and the roof. He swapped the OEM brakes at the front out for six-piston Endless calipers, and put RAYS GL-57CR wheels in the arches wrapped in SAILUN Gene R rubber.

Powering the drift machine is a Nissan VR38DETT V6 bored out to 4.1 liters of displacement and boosted to roughly a thousand horsepower (750 kilowatts). A six-speed sequential transmission drives the wheels.