Yes this is for real! We are in the midst of building the roll cage for our 350z to Formula D rule standards.

The car is going to primarily be a competition drift car which I (Alex) will be driving. I will be documenting progress on www.AlexVillabrille.com as well as through this thread. I was able to get some semi-sponsorships to help with the build from Daryl Alison at JustDriven.com, M1 Autosports, and Dynamic Autosports.

I do not have my license yet but have been practicing and once the car is ready will go out to get my license.

Attached are some teaser shots for your viewing pleasure:

May 7th:








May 8th:




May 9th:




Roll Cage COMPLETED!!! May 12th:

 

so thats what the inside of the Z looks like...

 

i think you need bigger pics hahahaha are you using flux core wire?? on your MIG welder im assumeing.... im a lil suprised your not TIG welding that cage for looks and strength..just curious

 

The location of our tig welder and the 220 volt supply it would not be able to reach the entire length of the shop so we had our cage builder do all the work with the mig.

He has done multiple cages, including dune buggy chassis and trophy trucks.

 

Been trying to clean up the rest of the interior so we can prep it for paint and begin to move onto the rest of the good stuff!!!

The rubber seem sealer is a pain in the *** to wire wheel all off, but it is finally done! Oh and I used dry ice of course to remove all the tar.

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I guess I forgot to update about the seats I picked up last Friday too:

Well I went to Pro-Motion Distrbuting on Friday and picked up their final stock of the Sparco Pro2000 Seats as well as some aluminum side mounts.

I also got my Momo steering wheel hub but still trying to decide on which steering wheel to do with...

Keep your eye out for the ETB Instruments DigiDash coming soon

Check the seats out:

 

I'm really not a fan of the SR350Z but damn that's a sexy looking cage!

Good luck with your build.

 

I'll take that R34 Skyline from pic 4 off your hands

 

Thanks for the comments guys!

The Skyline already went back to its rightful owner....

We are doing the battery mount for the Odyssey PC680 in the engine bay firewall and hopefully will be painting the interior/exterior this coming week!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Well this would have been a productive weekend usually, if we had actually liked the final turnout of the interior paint. We spent the entire day on Saturday prepping the car to be ready to paint and we got to the interior on Sunday morning and were going to start painting the exterior of the car but it was drizzling and not a good day to continue. The end result of the interior we didn’t like so much, but you guys be the judge. Going to re-paint it this weekend hopefully.













TODAY:
We brought the infamous SR20 powered 240Z to rip its heart out! It was sad to take the car back home on a trailer but it had to be done at some point. In the future the 240Z is likely to get a 2JZ for some street fun. (Don’t mind the tow straps as were pulling the engine, its super light and didn’t have the transmission attached to it anymore)







Be sure to keep up on www.AlexVillabrille.com

 

A few updates over these past few days.

The motor pulled from the 240z was dropped into the 350z Fits very nicely and just need to modify the top-mount manifold so that the turbo clears the strut tower and is closer to the motor and further away from the brake parts.

I went ahead and pulled the brake pedal (was automatic before) to cut it down to size and also install the clutch pedal and master cylinder at the same time. Brake booster and master were also set in place and re-installed

We also got started on the re-wiring of the standalone and complete car. The factory wiring harnesses for the car weigh so much its ridiculous. This new EZ-Wire setup definitely comes in handy but is very time consuming.





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We are trying to have continuous updates and progress on the car while still working on customer cars during the day. These past two days I have been doing routine service and prepping cars for swaps while my dad started to work on the dash center panel.

He found some carbon sheet lying around the shop and got to fitting it into where the old navigation and Bose stereo used to be. The gauges fitted into the pod are temporary for fitment purposes only.

Check it out:



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If you go to the blog page you can click on all the pictures to view them in full size.

 

Nice build every thing is coming along Nicely

 

very nice

 

Specs on the SR...

 

The SR has a complete Tomei valvetrain with JE forged pistons and Eagle rods. We are going to run an Accusump 2 or 3qt system as well.

The turbo is a GT3076R with a .82 a/r and was dynoed at 508whp and 399 ft lbs of torque. We are not going to be running that high of boost unless we absolutely need it. Our goal is to make it run at around 425-450hp.

 

subscribed...waiting for final product... Awesomes rides SR240Z.

 

Chet at Galek Motorsports came through with the ETB Instruments DigiDash 2 Lite. It finally arrived today after such a long time in deciding what we were going to do with the central gauge setup.

We will have it installed and wired as soon as the rest of the sensors come in the mail and get some new lit up pictures! Dont forget that if you go to the blog page you can view the pictures in full size when you click on them.



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I know I haven’t lived up to my word in supplying updates for this build but we have been hard at work trust me! UPDATED!!!!!!!!!!!

The entire blog post can be viewed at www.alexvillabrille.com

Here is a preview:
“…KA24 510 tuned but ended up blowing the motor due to tuner error :/ We brought the car back, pulled the KA24 and swapped in an SR20det instead…”



“…new brakes for the 350z track car (Wilwood 6-piston front and 4-piston rear), new front windshield installed, as well as painting the roof…”

 

Nice looking build, but you have some serious problems with your cage.

Your main hoop is completely illegal as it has more than 180° of bends in it, and I cant figure out why you have the harness bar splitting the petty bar rather than the other way around (for driver protection in a roll over).