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Hi guys,

hope you are all well.

We are still cracking on with the skyline & hope to see lower times soon this season & we will upgrade the cage to unlimted for next year & switch her to methanol, we have also been busy looking to the longer term future & well here she is Project Zed - hope you like

Hoping to start running & learning very slowly from august this year - will take us a fair while to find our feet for sure & no expectations for quite a while to be honest.

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cheers

John

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it's original sister car ran 6.6's in 2005 @ 215+ mph

this car is brand new & has been sat for 3 years doing nothing out in the states before we picked it up, it's slightly newer with a better chassis than the original & we are not handicapped by the same NHRA rules surrounding turbo sizes etc.

It will take us a long time to get our head around it but we want to run this in the FIA pro Mod class here in Europe in 2011 - to be competitive we need to be seeing 6.3's or less - god knows if we can get there or not , it won 't be for lack of trying - be great to see a jap car v the monster v8's :-)

It's running a 4ltr VQ block on methanol, 5 speed lenco box

Fingers crossed

Edited by trackdayaddict

RJ chassis eh...nice work. Ive just put a Vi-PEC V88 and a twin M&W Drag 6 CDI system into an RJ car here in Aust. Toyota though so its a bit slow...lol.

Ive been involved in discussions with a big race team here in Australia about running a R35 GTR RJ chassis 'PRO FX' car here...3.8 litre V6 twin T51 powered monster running a lenco. Custom engine block running Nissan heads etc. They were meeting with Nissan Australia in Melbourne this week to nut out a sponsorship deal. These guys are behind a well known team and if anyone has the budget and experience to pull this off and get it happening its them.

Stay tuned

When is the Z debuting John?

EDIT: August hey...keep us updated.

Edited by DiRTgarage

Pro bodied 35GTR would look amazing :)

We were going down the same route at one stage but the cost of getting a body developed & moulded & we were worried about the likely size & look of that body put us off a bit - be great to see what yours will look like.

Twin T51 will be nuts, the SPL is a great great turbo that we loved to bits when running on ours, god knows what 2 of those babies would feel like :(

Some great great cars out there now & in the making - be just bloody awesome if we ever see a 5 sec jap car in the world over the next 5 - 10 years :)

RJ chassis eh...nice work. Ive just put a Vi-PEC V88 and a twin M&W Drag 6 CDI system into an RJ car here in Aust. Toyota though so its a bit slow...lol.

Ive been involved in discussions with a big race team here in Australia about running a R35 GTR RJ chassis 'PRO FX' car here...3.8 litre V6 twin T51 powered monster running a lenco. Custom engine block running Nissan heads etc. They were meeting with Nissan Australia in Melbourne this week to nut out a sponsorship deal. These guys are behind a well known team and if anyone has the budget and experience to pull this off and get it happening its them.

Stay tuned

When is the Z debuting John?

EDIT: August hey...keep us updated.

Well great great news today, block will be back from the machine shop on Thursday & engine should be in for Monday, dyno work to do & if all goes to plan end of next week ready for shipping :P

Over the moon - here's final pics from the bodyshop, there will be stainless steel guards going over the holes cut out each side for the exhausts & i think she will look wonderful :D

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great news to think end of june could/should see the car in the Uk :D

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