Injected Powered 4.2L 350Z Blasts Off

This customer’s car has been years in the making, but all of the time invested is beginning to pay off! Over a year ago, we began working with this customer after another shop was unsuccessful in “trying new things” in a stroked VQ35 package that had been sold to him. After visiting our facility, seeing how we operate, and taking a look at our success in drag racing, he decided to go with one of our stroker VQ35 motors. This was just the beginning of his journey, as he decided to bypass his current Greddy turbo kit and go with a custom setup of twin 62mm turbos, fabricated by a local shop.

After a Haltech was installed and tuned by his local tuner, In Tune Motor Sports, clutch issues were found on the first trip to the drag strip. After our recommendation for a Tilton triple cerametallic clutch, widely used in the fastest Supras and growing popular in the VQ world, we promptly shipped out a kit for him to install. At the very next trip to the drag strip, he accomplished a 6.3 second pass in the 1/8th mile, which is good enough for a 9 second pass down the quarter mile.

Now that some setup bugs have been resolved, we look forward to turning this engine up on a high boost tune and a trip to the quarter mile drag strip! We would also like to wish a congratulations for sticking with the project and seeing your hard work pay off. Featured below is one of the low 6-second runs towards the end of the day. Although a time slip was not readily available at the time of this post, 60′ times reached as low as 1.38.