Exciting New Nissan 370Z NISMO Team

Mike@AMPerformance

In the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge, we are permitted to run either a cell or the stock tank. We have gone the fuel cell for several reasons. First and foremost, it gains us rearward weight percentage, which is advantageous for handling. It also addresses any starvation issues whatsoever in that we were able to carefully design and engineer the cell so that it will pickup fuel with no stumbles down to about 4 oz of fuel. You will get a warning light with about four miles of track driving left (one lap at Road America, the highest fuel consumption per lap place we go). For any of you building track Zs who are interested in such a setup, let us know and we can make them available.

Mike

1slow370

actually it's first and foremost your cars won't shut off in the middle of a turn at 3/4 of a tank or less that is a hell of a lot worse than weight distribution.

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Mike@AMPerformance

I should have made it more clear that I said first and foremost because the rear % is the reason we made the decision, not the starve issue. We would have been able to modify the stock tank to alleviate the stumbling, but we'd still be dealing with the weight distribution issue.

Mike

spearfish25

Mike, that's great. You might as well just post some prices and make a group buy. There is at least a handful of people looking for a solution. I'm excited to see your setup. Brake ducting will be your second selling niche for our cars. Obviously you guys have some more pressing deadlines at the moment though...

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Mike@AMPerformance

Thanks dude! We're working on making an affordable version of our brake duct system that works with our brake kit, and it should be available sometime this summer. As for the tank, we just had a meeting, and we will have two solutions to offer.

First option is the full race setup that I already talked about. This is not cheap, but if you are building a full race car, it is the right option, in terms of weight distribution, fuel pickup, and crashworthiness. This is for our full on racers, Grand Am, World Challenge, etc.

Option two is something a little less radical, and is a perfect option for the track day and autocross kind of guys. We will be designing and engineering a surge tank that drops into the stock tank and uses the stock pumps as lift pumps to keep the surge tank full. This will be a little less effective than the full cell, but will certainly be more affordable and is perfect for the more casual track driver.

We'll be able to get prices out after we finish our race cars, run a couple races and finally have a little time to make some prototypes and price them out.

Thanks!

Mike