Z Car Garage is constantly looking for cool stuff to help fellow track junkies and newbies.  I came across Lapwise, a web-based tool to store and analyze your driving event data.

Lapwise is a cloud-based web application for analyzing motorsports data captured by GPS data-loggers. Upload your Harry’s LapTimer CSV or Trackmaster XLS data files and Lapwise offers several services:
– Stores events by track name and date
– Searchable and customizable dashboard
– Share to Facebook, Goolge+ and Twitter
– Multiple YouTube videos per event
– Trackmap overlays
– Speed and G-force analysis
– Interactive plots
– Detailed statistics

To allow you some testing, Lapwise offers a free promotional code for Z Car Garage Customers: 2013zcargaragep1

As another perk for Z Car Garage customers Lapwise will meet up to two drivers at an event in Northern California and spend the day as your personal data engineer and driving coach. The results of the day will be featured on the Z Car Garage blog. It is first-come, first-serve, so if you have an upcoming track-day contact Glynn, lapwise.com@gmail.com.

Please let us know what you think!
http://www.lapwise.com

The folks at HJCG are hosting another vintage Japanese car show 8/10/13 in San Leandro, CA. They hosted two fantastic car shows in the past including the Bayline and Shokuji J-Tin gatherings. See below for more info about the upcoming show with a very famous guest!

Historic J is proud to announce we will be hosting another very special event at the San Leandro Maria August 10, 2013. Location: 5 Monarch Bay Drive, San Leandro Marina CA .

For the first time ever here in the US our guest of honor from the world famous shop in Japan “Watanbe-San” owner of Rocky Auto will be attending our event.

Some of you might recognize him from the recent show “Retro-Kings”. He’s also known for the amazing cars that come out of his shop in Japan.

http://youtu.be/NGjI9R1XKEQ

Watanabe-San will have a booth where he will meet and greet and signing autographs. There will also be Rocky Auto merchandise that will available at the event.

Our guest of Honor will be judging all registered cars attending. Which gives you the opportunity to see how well you car matches up to Japanese standards. Trophies will be awarded to a select few based on categories which have been chosen by Watanabe-san himself.

There will also be media from well know Japanese magazines attending the event. Get the chance to have you car featured in one of their magazines.

Once again this is a once in a life time opportunity to meet Watanabe-san in person for the first time here on US soil.

For Registration go to http://historicj.com
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Thank You
HJCG

On July 27 the ZONC Annual Brisbane Marina Car Show is back! This is a great venue held near San Francisco check out pictures from last year’s show HERE. Deadline for pre-registration is 7/7/13 so don’t miss out. Download a .pdf form HERE

 

Hideki K brought his ultra-nice Nismo Z33 in for a full Stillen supercharger installation. Unfortunately Stillen did not make a kit specifically for the Nismo edition Z so we purchased a Stillen kit designed for the standard HR motor and made it work for Hideki!
Here are the goodies:

A few shots of the install:

 From NA to Forced Induction:

 

On the dyno the Nismo put down 282hp/246tq and the Stillen kit bumped those figures up to 370hp/272tq to the wheels:

 

Rob’s tuning yielded significant gains of 22hp/13tq for a grand total of 392hp/285tq to the wheels!

Enjoy the Ride Hideki!

Just a friendly reminder that Z Car Garage will be closed this Thursday and Friday. We will return to normal business hours 7/8.

Enjoy your Z in this warm summer weather!