Several years ago we met Scott L at a local autocross and eventually started working on his 2003 Brickyard 350z. He loved to road race so we performed incremental upgrades including Stoptech front brakes, a Quaife differential, Hotchkis sway bars, Koni Yellow shocks, and adjustable front A-arms with rear lower control arms. We also did a minor tune and numerous track day-prep/maintenance. Here he is at Laguna Seca:
With 200k miles on the Z he started looking for a new sportscar that met his requirements. Being a Nissan fan and quite attached to his Z the GT-R did make his list but the lack of a true manual transmission steered him away. A C7 Z51 and Cayman GTS were also in the running until he saw the new GT350 Mustang and it ticked all the right boxes:
Scott stopped by ZCG to dyno the Shelby and it put down an impressive 460hp/375tq to the wheels! Factory rated at 520hp/429tq, this flat-plane crank beast has been reported to put down even more power on 93 octane!
The dyno chart is displayed with a bone stock 2012 Mustang GT:
Here is a video of the ‘Stang on the dyno. Congratulations Scott and thanks for bringing her by the shop!
Rob was completely impressed after driving it…Nissan are you listening?
Paul S owns a smog shop in South San Francisco and contacted us about making his Infiniti G35 a “sleeper”. You know, the kind of car that looks very stock from the outside but gets down like the “other” high-hp cars coming out of Z Car Garage. We discussed options for forced induction and decided on a Vortech supercharger–making good power and having CARB legal status was very attractive.
The VQ had 98k miles and to prepare for boost we performed some preventative maintenance including a thermostat change. The Vortech kit was the V3 model which is self-lubricating and polished:
We installed a JWT HD Clutch and Flywheel: …[read more]
The Z Car Garage coverage continues at Speedhunters! This time photojournalist Mike Garrett features our friend Gary’s 1971 Nissan Skyline 2000GT. Enjoy the full story HERE!
Jared C has been a customer since Z Car Garage opened in 2004. Years ago before UPREV tuning existed, Rob tuned his car with a piggy back ecu. Jared kept coming back to us for little things like cams when he was NA and last year made the jump to forced induction via the Vortech Tuner supercharger kit.
We added EV14 injectors, a GT MAF and 25-row Z1 oil cooler:
While it was in the shop Jared expressed interest in larger brakes and lucky for him we had some Stoptech ST-45 rear calipers in stock. We ordered matching silver ST60 calipers for the front:
Now the Z has big brakes to match its big power!
Jared’s Z has always been a really strong performer making above average power NA…it did the same with FI!
NA: 243hp/239tq
Vortech: 443hp/359tq
We turned it down a notch for final numbers of 429hp/353tq to the wheels:
Thank you Jared for your continued support and Enjoy The Ride under boost!
