Everyone that participates in the sport of drag racing enjoys going fast and is always looking for opportunities to go faster. John Odom’s pilgrimage of horsepower has moved at an accelerated pace, thanks to his need for speed. Odom has unleashed the world’s most radical Nissan GTR on the competitors of Discovery Channels’ No Prep Kings (NPK) series.
Most racers get their first experience of driving when they’re just about to earn their driver’s license. Odom got a jump on his career behind the wheel a few years before he was old enough to drive, thanks to an old station wagon and being the first one home each day.
“I liked cars from a young age and I liked to drive fast. It didn’t matter what I had, I tried to drive the wheels off it. I remember when I was 12 my dad was given an old station wagon. I saved my money so I could buy gas and drive the car. I would get home before my parents and drive the car on the gravel roads behind our house. I would learn to drift and just drive the car,” Odom says.
Odom continued to tinker with cars as he got older, but he decided to focus on building a business empire. That focus paid off, and Odom now owns one of the largest development companies in Idaho. The extra money Odom had access to allow him to get back into the car game.
“The first car I purchased to modify was an M-series BMW X6…what a mistake that was. I basically was trying to make a 5,000-pound brick faster by putting bigger turbos on it. The next car I purchased was a GTR and it wasn’t fast enough in stock form. I added a COBB tune to the car myself and then tried to find other ways to make it faster. Eventually, I started working with Brad Jepson and his team at PPC in Salt Lake City, Utah to improve the GTR’s performance. That lead to a full bolt-on setup being added to it, and that’s what put me on the path that I’m on now,” Odom states.
Would you be shocked to learn that even after the bolt-on upgrades the GTR just wasn’t…
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