Filed under: Events
by Forbes @ 12:15 pm on January 27, 2009
It’s only of January yet and the car clubs are already going full force to set up meets and drives, not that I’m complaining! This one comes to us through our friends at the Z Owners of Northern California (ZONC.) For this event they have teamed up with the Bay Area and Sacramento NSXCA chapters which will make for an awesome car gathering headed to one of the most beautiful parts of California.
All of the information is available on the ZONC website but I’ll lay out the main points here:
Dates: Februray 14th – 16th (Sat, Sun, Mon)
Package for 2 includes:
Hotel occupancy of 2 per room
2 tickets for Hearst Castle (Tour 1, 2, or 3)
2 dinner coupons ($20ea) at one of two choice restaurants
Price for package: $284.50 (includes tax)
THE HOTEL MUST BE CONTACTED DIRECTLY AND YOU MUST MENTION THAT YOU WANT TO RESERVE A ROOM HELD BY ZONC/ATKINSON FOR THIS PACKAGE. Call (805) 927-3998.
We will be meeting at Z Car Garage and be leaving at 10:30AM sharp.
The full event information can be found at the top of the ZONC website. Check it out and I hope to see you there.
Now that our GT-R is making almost 650 whp, with more coming everyday, the drivetrain parts are certainly being over-stressed in their stock form. SSP have decided to upgrade the axle shafts on the car in an effort to strengthen the system before any catastophic failures happen. This is only one of many parts that SSP plans on releasing for the R35 drivetrain. With this addition we are one step closer to having the world’s most powerful GT-R that won’t grenade it’s internals as soon as we put the power to the ground.
The new axles have an advanced design that increases the CV bearing cage strength and a couple other improvements. SSP have been building high power AWD cars for some time now and it is nice to see their experience prove useful in the modified GT-R world. The axles are made in house at SSP and they plan to keep them in stock and ready to ship at a moments notice. Although they aren’t cheap, $2,399.00 isn’t too bad if you are trying to find the limit of what your GT-R can take. Happy hunting.
The entire press release can be found after the “read more.”
I now have a video to go with the dyno results! The car is really starting to make crazy power so thank goodness for the transmissions modifications that SSP will be releasing shortly. The next round of mods are the new SSP intake, larger intercoolers, and some form of fuel system upgrade.
I just wanted to share with all of you that on one the first baseline runs with the new GTR820 turbo kit the car made almost 590whp. Those numbers are some of the highest in the country. The car is still running the stock injectors, stock intake, and stock intercoolers. The only modifications have been the upgraded turbos and the SSP 3″ downpipes. They will be on the dyno for some time to come and I will post up some more information and dyno numbers as soon as I get them.
The video below is just after the car was running after the turbo swap.
There is also a new press release out of SSP that relates to their upcoming transmission upgrades. They will be having some sort of online release on Monday the 26th at 5pm at sspperformance.com
Press release:
SOUTH SIDE PERFORMANCE WILL RELAEASE THE FIRST STAGES OF OUR COMPREHENSIVE TRANSMISSION AND DRIVETRAIN UPGRADES MONDAY, JANUARY 26 @ 5PM PST.
Sioux Falls, South Dakota (January 22, 2009) – Over the last two weeks, the automotive community has watched South Side Performance emerge with some of the most cutting edge performance upgrades available for the Nissan R35 GTR. With these parts came questions of just what might be next, and just how SSP would deal with the fears of drivetrain related failures. On Monday, the public will see just how committed SSP is to providing our customers with a car that can withstand all the fire breathing power provided by our big power modifications like our GTR820RR Turbo Upgrade.
The first of a full line of transmission and drivetrain upgrade solutions will be revealed on the SSP website main page on January 26 at 5 PM PST. Following our first release, we will be releasing another component of our transmission and drivetrain solution packages every few days over the next few weeks. When all is released, there will be three complete stages of upgrades for these systems and all the strengthening necessary to hold the big power provided by our upcoming GTR820HP kit.
So join us at 5 PM at www.sspperformance.com to see what the future of the r35 GTR looks like.
I know that we have been putting up a ton of GT-R related posts lately so here is one for the 350z owners.
Now… Back to your regularly scheduled Z programming. The 3.8L GReddy TT engine is back in the chassis and all mechanical connections have been made. Next on the the agenda is to re-install the inter cooler and all the the intake piping that goes with it. At the same time the all electrical connections will be made and then gone over again to make sure that we don’t have to go back into the engine bay after we are done. This car also runs a Haltech engine management system that uses a MAP (Manifold Absolute Pressure) sensor instead of the factory MAF (Mass Air Flow) equipment so the final tune should be fairly straight forward.
This car should be close to being buttoned up near the end of the day and running on the dyno early next week. This car will be tested extensively by us to make sure that the customer is entire satisfied with the end result. We may even make a trip to Infineon Raceway for their infamous Wednesday Night drag race series. With drag slicks or wrinkle wall tires the quarter mile time should be able to meet or best our GT-R. Seriously. Z Car out!
