so you hand them a VQ35DER and 15k and they send it back making over 400 bhp naturally aspirated!? what the HELL?!

 

I just looked at the pic on the rebello site and it looks like an aps tall boy converted to twin entry from a single tb. Wild.

 

Nice plenum...

Why such a small restrictor?

 

They have actually changed that design again and it looks a lot cleaner. I will get the engine installed this weekend and take a shot of it.

 

can you give us a ball park on the cost of the whole car? curiosity is getting the best of me

 

Very awesome build! I would love to see bigger pictures of the car and also a video if you have one!!! That thing probably sounds super badass!!!

 

I only wish we would have had more space to give Jim and his car, there were so many cool little items on there we could not cover in detail.

While he may not win the virtual dyno battle (maybe he would, we never saw a dyno sheet to confirm his numbers ) you cant argue with the cars on track history.

 

SCCA madates the restrictor size so that cars with smaller motors can still be competitive in the class with the larger motor cars.

 

I bought this car new from a local builder about 3 years ago as a tube frame rolling chassis with the fiberglass body attached and setup with a VQ30 and a Jerico 4 speed. By the time you add Motec, all the misc. parts, spares, and last year changing to the VQ35 I could have well over 50K in it. Once you get to drive a tube frame car you don't want to go back to a standard tub car. There is a video of the car and several others on YouTube. If I was computer Literate I could link you to it. Search( ICSCC Portland 2008 350z) on You Tube car #35 Dark blue. I am kind of hooked on racing and that is how I spend my spare time and money. I noticed that warmmilk is from the Seattle area and if he were to show up at Pacific Raceways on May 2 or 3, I will be at that race and he could see the dyno sheets if you don't believe it.

 

i will be there like my life depends on it, i'd love to check out your car. pm me the details, i'm only about 15 mins away from Pacific Raceways

 

I don't mean to take away from Jim's car. I have been watching it at the runnoffs for several years now and am very impressed with it. It is just that this was the year to upgrade the motor (to keep up with the Panoz)and I was expecting 375 Hp with the restrictor and got the 399 Hp and am just itching to get it on the track. My car has a lot more tweaking to do to it before it is anywhere close to Jim's car.

 

I would love to see some pics of the headers and some specs for information purposes.

 

this thread has some nice info, I would love to see more pictures

 

The modified tallboy is slick.....

 

Jim is one hell of a driver.
I will be up aat Watkins this year and see if I can bump into him when he isn't running.