Dcocci's Track car/Time Attack build

Zbrah

Nice journal! Subscribed and good luck!

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Dcocci

UPDATE!! So after the disaster of the night event, I brought the car in after hours at work to install my coilovers and dial in the alignment. It took all week, working on it for an hour here, an hour there. During the week, I was offered a free pass to a track day that Saturday at Streets of Willow running counter-clockwise as a promotion for SocalZ, Nissfest and the Nissan Challenge. It was a day event, and it was the earliest track day that I'd have my coilovers installed, so I decided to go and use it as a shake down day for the suspension.

The day was a total success across the board! Everyone had a great time, and I bested my personal best lap time by FIVE seconds! FIVE! a 1:33.478! It was absolutely unreal how much of a difference the suspension made. Night and day doesn't even come close to describing it! The car just plants itself in the corners. Lots more mechanical grip, and pushing the car and the tires to the limit is much much more manageable now. Before the suspension, getting to close to the limit would totally upset the chassis, causing erratic handling. I couldn't trust the car. Now when you get to that limit, it's much smoother, and it cooperates with you instead of fighting you. I was playing with dampening throughout the day, and I ended up with a pretty stiff dampening setting that I liked. 5 clicks out from full stiff in the front, and 8 clicks from full stiff in the rear. The car runs -3 degrees camber front, -2.5 rear. front caster is at about 6 degrees. zero toe in front, and maxed out factory spec toe in the rear. ride height is measured at 3 1/4 inches from the top of the fender to the top of the wheel. Pretty low. I have a little bit of pass. front rub on high G corners, however I like the setup so much, I've decided to roll my front fenders as opposed to raising my car or changing my specs. The track conditions were pretty dusty all day, and it was HOT. I ran my fastest times early in the morning.

Next step will be upgrading the front swaybar and endlinks. I may try and get one before my August 9th event at Big Willow. Stay tuned! Here are some pics!

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-08 Porsche Cayman S

Dcocci

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carlitos_370z

Well my friend i have to tell you first that i read all the post that you did over here on your thread hahaha!! and i want to tell you... Awesome work that you are doing on your Z the car looks really good... you are having fun in it... what more i can tell you hahaa! You are really having a great time on your Z... I buy my car for that purpose to... well for DD and occasional track days.. well my DD route from my home to the work i can call it like a track day too hahaha!! a lot of turns, elevations, etc.... Anyway keep having fun with your Z bar and now im subscribed to see more of your progress.

Dcocci

Thanks man! Yes, this car has been a ton of fun, and having fun with the whole journey will always be the most important step for me. The only thing that isn't fun now is the scraping around town now that I'm lower lol. Oh well, it's worth it

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carlitos_370z

hahhahaa!!! nice man! is part of being dropped hahhaa!! same happen to me when i drop the Z... but like you said... worth it

BTW i buy the Stillen 25 rows oil cooler kit too... i hope my Stillen core arrive in perfect conditions i dont want to have the issue that you have with your stillen core man

Dcocci

My core was damaged at the outlet on top of the core. It was not perfectly flush with the core. You could see it was dropped or something and it was cocked at the top, and there was a small indent at the outlet. The only thing I can recommend is check it over once you get it and be aware of things that just don't look right. Besides the core everything went really good!

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