I am happy to report that we've completed our first weekend test of our 370Z Time Attack car. To say the least, we smashed our expectations for it's first track event, even with a fairly important adjustment that still needs to be made to the front shock travel. We ran a 1:19 lap at Roebling Road on the 3rd lap out in the morning on R888 rubber. That car is absolutely insane in the corners, and the braking power is off the charts. I had an idiot's grin on my face for hours after I climbed out of the car. We had the fastest car at this Porsche club event, and there were plenty of heavy hitters. Many GT3's on slicks, 997TT's, etc..etc. And still with a bone stock engine and intake. Just the test pipes and exhaust...not even a tune!! It's only get to get much faster from here. We have a lot of work still left to do, but it's good to see the car on track, and running fairly strong. Here are a few pictures of the car when we received the car in bone stock. Here is what she is today Here is some video of her in action! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC7lpkCu7vE&feature=player_embedded Stay tuned for more power upgrades, and more tweaking!
Huh... interesting car looks good. Can't really beat the Robinson Bro's cages. But from the times at the even we had your GTR running consitant mid to low 17's and 21's was the fastes we clocked for the 370. So wouldn't that make the GTR the fastest car there since we ran 18's.
The GTR was running significantly faster the 370z. It was the first time out in the Z dialing it in. Pretty fast for stock car with no Forced induction.
I'm glad to see you left the cup holder in tact! Nice, so all you guys do it strip out perfectly good brand-new street cars and make them into track cars? Man, sign me up, you seem to be on a hiring spree lately.
Yeah, the Robinson Racing cages are top notch. I trust them with my life, since they've been building them for decades. The Forged GT-R was fastest, and the 370Z was a couple seconds behind on it's first outing. The 370Z was THE fastest car out there on Sunday. You had the watch on us on Sat, when Jay was driving it. On Sunday, I jumped in and did a 1:19 in the morning. Too bad you guys didn't make it out on Sunday....would have been fun to see if the GT2 would have gotten any faster. We tried to get Leh to wheel the 370Z around for a couple laps, but his 6ft 5inch frame body simply couldnt fit into our cockpit as configured. His knees were in his hands basically. Seeya next time.
His tunes are $450 flat, and much less for touch up and retunes. His tunes are $450 becuase he spends usually over a half day tuning each Cobb AP's to perfection, and does 1-2 hours of road tuning. The guys is a perfectionist like I have not seen.
I was just reviewing the data, from the weekend. Interesting terminal velocity stats: 161mph Forged GT-R 148mph Lamborghini Superleggera (Customer let me do a session with it) 136mph Forged 370Z
One of our best customers bought it himself and drove it straight here. It was purchased as a purpose build race car. He paid us to build the car under a sponsorship agreement. He has others cars he enjoys on the street.
questions... how is the oil temp? i was considering buying one of these last summer. the 370z forums had a number of folks who complained about the oil temps causing the car to go into limp mode on the track.. is the weight reduced? how much. you guys put a turbo (or twin turbo) setup on a 370 yet and what's the ballpark price on that? if nissan would turbo this car (as a high end version of the 370z) and keep the cost in line with corvettes, they would clean up...
Oil temps were raising. There was nothing really to be alarmed about. If we were forced induction it would definitely be a problem. The weight removed from the car was not drastic. The car weighs about 3000lbs as it sits. PM'ing you about the Turbo upgrades on a 370z.
For track use, an oil cooler is required. There really should have been on oil cooler installed from the factory. With our upgrading race cooler, there are no oil temp issues for the timebeing. We will likely add some additional cooling capacity to carry us through the hot summer months.