With driver Scott Smith behind the wheel the SmittyRacing / Z Car Garage 350Z took 1st place in both the Lockheed Martin Sports Car Club autox series “A” class as well as the Norcal UFO series in “OSP” class for 2010! Great driving and congratulations Scott, you make us proud!
2010 was an exciting year for this Z as it ran double duty in open track days AND competitively in 2 autox series. The car had several mechanical upgrades and also changed color from silver to its current Go Green. Let’s recap 2010 with pictures and videos of Scott piloting the Z to victory!
December has been rather wet, so here is the Z sliding around at the UFO autocross in Marina followed by in-car video:
On May 16, Scott took 1st place in OSP at the 43rd annual Dual at DeAnza autox in Cupertino, CA. Here is the winning run:
This Z never sleeps! After running hard on the autox Scott regularly (fiendishly might be more accurate) took the Z to open-track days or HPDEs…here are videos and a few pics from tracks like Laguna Seca and Thunderhill Raceway.
In September the silver Z became the Green Machine with the help of Williams Auto body in San Mateo, Ca. So If you see a bright green 350z on the street or at the track, say hello to Scott!
Here is a list of blog posts documenting ZCG’s modifications to the Z from the Stoptech rebuild to the awesome Motordyne Shockwave exhaust system. You can also see what Scott is running chassis-wise: Transplant StoptechRebuild MotorDyneExhaust GoGreenPaint Dyno/chassis
The crew at ZCG installed and tuned several carefully chosen parts on this Z to make it a killer platform for an excellent driver like Scott to dominate the track! Here’s to another successful and fun year in 2011 🙂
Dual at DeAnza annual autox
The 43rd annual Dual at DeAnza autox was held May 16th, 2010, at DeAnza college in Cupertino, CA. The Smitty Racing / Z Car Garage 350Z took 1st in the OSP class out of 13 cars, and 16th overall out of 242 cars. The 2003 Nissan 350Z was driven by Scott Smith. Complete results are posted here: Duel at DeAnza May16 Results 2010
NorCal UFO autox
Scott drove the Z to 1st in the OSP class and 4th overall out of 156 cars at the Northern California United 510 Owners Club (www.norcalufo.org) autocross held at The Marina Airfield on June 27th, 2010. Scott leads the OSP class for the year, and is currently in 3rd in PAX out of all the cars that routinely show up for the NorCal UFO autox series.
More and more Zs and Gs are showing up! Most recently, Tiffini Clark, the ZONC President, autox’d at this month’s event for her first time with Scott providing instruction. Tiffini piloted her 2006 350Z and dropped over 16s from her first run to her fourth and final run – way to go Tiffini!
The next NorCal UFO event at The Marina Airfield will be held on August 1st, 2010. We are trying to organize this event to include any ZoNC member that is interested in driving. Those interested can meet at Z Car Garage between 6:20 and 6:30 for a 6:30am departure, or meet us at The Marina Airfield by 8am. Entry details are here: NorCal UFO AutoX Event9 August 1
Filed under: Performance
by Forbes @ 4:59 pm on November 26, 2008
Baseline dyno and stock pictures:
We are all aware that the HR version is at the top of the hill as far as the 3.5L engines go. But now we have some hardcore proof of how strong this engine is with just a few bolt-ons. This car belongs to a good friend and customer of ours and it is now starting to put down some serious power.
Earlier this year Z Car Garage installed a Bassani cat-back exhaust system with cross-over pipe. The baseline dyno for the new mods (high flow cats and intake) was done with the exhaust system installed. The Bassani exhaust post on My350z.com can be found HERE.
The Stillen high-flow catalytic were first on the list to be installed after today’s baseline dyno. They installed in about a half hour with no real complications. Then our Innovate wide band O2 sensor was then installed to monitor the air/fuel ratio. Off to the dyno! The gains we saw were a pleasant surprise and we are very happy with the overall result. This mod also brought out some more roar in the Bassani system. It sounds mean…
Next on the list for this morning was the new Injen Intake System for the VQ35HR engines. This new system uses twin POP style filters and drastically moves the location of the filters all the way down and into the front radiator opening in the front bumper. This move ensures that tons of fresh, high pressure, air will be crammed into the filters.
As you can see form the graph above we also picked up some massive whp gains from the intake as well! In uncorrected form this car put down over 300hp to the rear tires, WITH ONLY A FEW BOLT ONS!! All of the dyno graphs listed here are SAE corrected to even things out.
This post should brighten the days of more than a few HR owners who cringed when they heard of the imminent release of the new 3.7L engine. Only time will tell how much more normally aspirated horsepower we will make with this engine but you better believe that we have more HR parts on order as I write this. Can you say experimental ECU tuning? Ummm… I love the smell of power in the morning.
