Sky High Skyline

Two Black Beauties in the stable.

It’s truly a pleasure to take a good car, and simply improve on every aspect of it, transforming it into a great car. Recently, we had the pleasure of building this great 370Z Twin Turbo for a customer, turning a bone stock Z, to a 450whp track monster. We performed upgrades to all portions of this 370Z to help prepare it for High Performance Driver’s Education events. Here are the specs:

Engine:
• Greddy Twin Turbo Kit
• Walbro 255lph Fuel Pump
• RC engineering 550cc Injectors
• Greddy E-Manage Ultimate Engine Management
• Stillen Oil Cooler
• Fast Intentions Exhaust
Drivetrain:
• Spec Stage 3+ Clutch
Suspension:
• Hotchkis Front and Rear Sway Bars
• HKS Hipermax III Coilovers
Brakes:
• Factory 4 Piston Front Calipers
• Stoptech Slotted Rotors
• Stoptech Stainless Steel Brake Lines
• Stoptech Ceramic Brake Pads
• Tilton TSR-1 Brake Fluid
Safety:
• Sparco Fighter Seats (Red)
• Sparco 4 Point Harness (Black)
• Mazworx Custom Built 4 Point Roll Bar

Head Technician: John Ferguson
Custom Tune: Darin Dichiara

The end result is a well balanced car that can compete at the track, while still being daily driven. The owner can now enjoy and feel comfortable with the car at any race track and make the most of his “GTR Killer” with improved brakes, suspension, engine and safety upgrades.

Here are the results:

This Friday and Saturday, Titan motorsports will be participating in the ADRL Summer Drags VI in Martin Michigan, looking to extend our “3 Seconds of Fame” throughout the rest of the season. We have been running consistently in the 3 second range for our last two races, and look to hurt a few more V8 egos with some more quick passes and maybe even snatch up another win. We have a few left over tickets to the race hanging around the shop, so if anyone is interested, stop by or shoot me an email at JonS@titanmotorsports.com and I’ll hook you up. Wanna watch 186 cubic inches beat up on the big boys? Join us in Martin. We’ll see you there!

Back in April we touched a bit on the Jaw’s Gear 2JZ-GTE powered Mustang and its participation in the WCHRA. Well this past weekend, Jeff and the fellas from Jaw’s went down to Bakersfield for the SCE Summer Nationals at Famoso Raceway. They took the car down with no prior testing on the new 3530lb “Modern Art Masterpiece Fupra” and actually ended up running two classes during qualifying to try and work out some of the gremlins. They started getting a handle on the car by the end of the night but still qualified last with a 9.630 at 145.93mph.

In the 1st round, they were paired with an 8.90 car, and pretty much went in thinking it was game over, but the other car red lit and moved them into round 2. In round 2 Jaw’s Gear was paired with another car working out some bugs and ended up coming around him on the top end for a 9.159 at 157.45mph win. This moved them into the finals where they would face their nemesis Gary Brandt who had been running consistent 8.7x passes all night. In the end, they staged the car, treed Brandt with a .046 RT but lifted out of the gate and were never able to chase him down. Even though they lost the round, they were still able to run a respectable 8.962 at 159.37mph.

Nice Job guys! You definitely have that thing going in the right direction. Keep up the good work.