ill probably call sometime soon but do you know how much rob charges to press in LCA bushings?

 

Compression arms and transverse links, 6 bushings; $105. He charges by the hour though, if they take longer he will charge more.

 

fshooo

I think im gonna go with the following

Front lower inner control arm bushings
Front lower control arm strut mount bushings
Compression rod bushings

all SPL stuff from IMPORT PARTS PRO

 

....and the street prepared re-org is just about done! Nov fastrack is out. Sorry, Grant, 370z is still canon fodder.

 

Yeah but the Boxsters had to stay with me. That made me just as happy as I would have been to move to BSP where the car belongs. LOL! The NT in San Diego is usually made up of Z's, Boxsters, Turbo Supras, and yes EVOs.

So you 350Z wimps will get it easy. I will be fighting off the boost buggies and the frankenboxsters. Woo hoo!

My car will be just a little faster next season. he he he.

Here my list of mods completed and planned

Completed

jRZ clubsports coil overs
OS Giken LSD
High Flow Cats
Injen long intakes
34 row oil cooler
18x10.5/9.5 WedsSport t 105 wheels
315/30/18 and 295/30/18 Hoosier A6
Am performance aluminum hat rotors and lightweight Brembo race caliper
Lightweight Braille battery
Nismo finned aluminum diff cover
Competition fluids

Parts ready to install

Recaro Profil seats with aluminum mounts
PPE long tube header


Planned for November install

Lightweight flywheel and clutch
Lightweight exhuast system
aC delete and lightweight "radiator"
EP Rev ECU tune
Bolt in Rear cage and harness bar install - yeah I know don't add weight but I want to run time trial and hillclimb events and want a rear cage.with roll bar
Relocate battery to rear
Fuel cell -370 Z has fuel starve issue below 3/4 of a tank. Fuel cell will resolve issue within rules. Eliminates 10 to 12 gallons of fuel weight that I must carry.
Sparco or Momo steering wheel with quick release
Smaller 350z Brembo rear caliper and lightweight rotor
Remove optional Nismo chassis dampers
Custom built 18x12 and 18x11 wheels
335/30/18 and 315/30/18 Hoosier A6

With all these mods complete I expect to go from current weight of 3150 to 2975. From current 305 WHP to 325 WHP.

 

My car made 277whp tonight. I plan to go to 18x12 CCW's on all with 315's. I alreeady have all the other stuff you listed, except the roll cage. Car weighed in at 3036lbs...with AC, factory bose stereo, factory pass seat, steering wheel airbag, etc. I can get it down to 2925 I believe.

I was the guinea pig for some prototype parts tonight that I will put on when they become available. It showed a bit of a power increase. That, combined with E85 and worked over plenum....should get in the 290-295whp area. Not bad for a tired old DE with 105k miles on it.

I was only .2s off Strano last week in his SS vette. That is the closest I have ever been. No one on SCCAForums seems to think the 350z is a contender...we'll see about that.

 

Thats what makes me laugh. Its a very capable car if in class with similar weight and power cars. Your narrower than the 370. At 295 WHP you are very close to the 370Z Nismo and you guys can get lighter than a 370Z.

Let me see 295 WHP 6 cylinder car front engine rear drive, great suspension. If your car had BMW M marquee on it it would be a contender!

On surfaces that are grippy you will be a tough car to beat in that class.

I have done very well in my stock 350Z roadster on street tires. Thats why im confounded on how 370Z ended up in ASP. They put the Z4 M in BSP? Its lighter and makes same power as 370Z Nismo.

I havent been able to pull up the fast track. Is C5 corvette in with me in ASP? I still need to figure out the logic here. Big torquey 5.7 liter V8 in a car that wieghs as much as mine in same class? What are those things making to the wheels in SP? I'm just out gunned by them and the AWD boost blasters. Also curious to see where some of the aircooled 911's ended up.

I need an A- or B+ SP class to run the Z34, Optimistically I will get 330 WHP with everything I can use for SP. I'm between 305 to 310 WHP now with Nismo tune, intakes , HFC and Nismo exhaust. I dont think headers and freeflow exhaust and uprev are going to buy me much more than 20 HP. ANd its not like the 370 Z is a lightweight. Somone is looking at the stupid overstated HP factory puts on these things. Im sorry but no way does the Nismo make 350 HP to the crank. In stock form my car was making 290 to 295 WHP. One pull was 286 WHP.

 

I wish I was as balling as grant

 

C5 remains ASP.

Eibach 370 A-arms appear compliant. Those and a blank check to Rebello are what Grant needs. 375ish to the wheels possible within SP limitations?

 

No way. 350whp maybe....

Your talking serious plenum work (maybe even ITB's), E85, too the limit of explosion tuning.

 

I don't think 350 WHP is possible within SP rules on Z34 motor. several of us have already experimented with induction side. I will be using true racing long tube header and we will try a race gas tune but I still think 330 WHP is going to be a stretch. Thats a 35 WHP increase over stock Nismo baseline. Remember Nismo's 18 hp gain over base model is just a tune and cutback exhaust. So 330 WHP is more like 45 to 50 HP over stock model baseline. 350 WHP would be 70 WHP gain over stock. That's unlikely with bolt ons. I can hope though! Guess you could do blueprinted engine build and gain a little more but that's a big expense for little improvements.

SP rules wouldn't really let Robello do much internal magic. I know plenty of internal mods that would grab closer to 400 WHP! However those are off the table for ASP. This class truly favors cars that come stock with turbos. Not only can you do all exhaust and induction changes you can tune boost.

Finally ultimate peak hp isn't where it's at for AX. You need strong mid range. I'd love to see what torque curves between a well developed SP EVO and 370z look like. I suspect in lower to mid rev range I'm 100 ft lbs of torque off the EVOs. Most of the time I won't be making peak hp in and ax. Suspect most of the time I will be making under 300 hp and then braking. This is where peak numbers are very misleading. One clear advantage z34 has over z33 is torque in low to mid range. My 370 just pulls out of the "hole" better than my 350 does. But I know I m not close to EVOs. To get to 350 WHP I think I'd have to give up much needed low to mid range.

 

Was there something after this that put you in ASP?

SCCA FasTrack News May 2011
4. Street Prepared: The previously-published Tech Bulletin (April Fastrack) to add a new
listing in BSP for the 370Z is clarified to read as follows:
Nissan 370Z (all) (2009-2011) BSP

 

Check the Nov Fastrack, Neimad....

 

Link was broken in the email, kept sending me to october.

That sucks, SSM time!

 

That's the old SP classification before all the changes planned for 2012. I asked for the change under the 2011 rules back in late March as the 370z wasn't classed In SP. It was defaulting to ASP due to not being listed.
They put it in 2011 BSP class which has EVOs. 2011 BSP is pretty much turning into new ASP for 2012. And SSP is being created for crazy fast cars.

SSM would be even worse in my opinion. I think the car on the right course could beat an EVO in ASP. SSM would take boat loads of money and I still don't think it would be close to a national level car in that class due to heft and weight distribution of Z comared to other cars in that class. Although if you threw enough money at it you probably could have a podium level car.

 

http://www.scca.com:8080/assets/11-f...k-nov-solo.pdf

The correct link.

I wonder if they see something in the Z's potential we do not? You're in such good company, a Sunbeam Tiger with just the brakes upgraded is a frightening machine and that's the slowest car on the list I think.

 

I was looking up dyno charts of BSP EVOs just to see how far off I am on power. Local BSP car makes -376whp/357wtq @ 27psi on E85. And I'm sure it's on that peak torque number quickly. That's compared to my car 310whp/265wtq. So I have some work!

Maybe Nissan hid a turbo somewhere on my motor that I haven't found? If SEB knows something about hidden potential then they know more than race team who have torn these cars apart and rebut them as race cars. I'll be very happy if I break 325 WHP range and maybe hit 275 WTQ

 

You should feel honored, they also think every Z till your's isn't any faster in SP than a 240Z with webers:


1. Carburetors, fuel injection, and intake manifolds are unrestricted,
subject to 15.10.D. Alternate throttle linkage and connections to
facilitate installation of allowed induction systems are permitted,

Kid had one w/SU's last autox I was at, if I could trade for a clean one I would.

 

Anyone running Oakland on Sunday?

 

I might go. Still have to try out those old A6's. Is it ok to autox on those without ARP studs?