Track-only 2009 370Z for sale!
Not a show car
Not street-legal or street-drivable by any stretch of the imagination!
Located in the Houston, TX metro area, roughly, and I do have the title!
Journal Threads w/ Parts/Mods/etc
This is a fully-gutted track-only car with a nice cage welded in. All of the interior is gone. All the factory accessories and wiring inside is gone, including all parts of the AC (even the heater core and compressor) and audio systems, etc. It has serious reliability, handling, braking, and (NA) power upgrades. It has the 7AT transmission with paddle shifters (not the most-popular track junkie choice, but I loved it!). It's sitting on an 18x10 square setup (same wheels and tires all around!) and true-type JRZ coilovers, has the Stillen / AP Racing BBK, long tube headers, and very very long list of other upgrades as detailed in the journal link above.
It's light, it's quick, and it's a ton of addictive fun. It has
never had a collision incident, on or off the track. I'd keep it forever if I could, but life has changed and this hobby has got to go!
The car was originally a 2009 Sport+Touring model and the odometer's currently at 43K miles. About 39K of those were street miles, and then about 4K of track miles (!!) driven exclusively in various DE events around Texas. It has been on-track over the years at MSR Houston, Texas World Speedway (RIP), Harris Hill, and COTA. The original engine and transmission were both eventually destroyed by track abuse and replaced. The current engine came from a low-mileage wrecked 2013 model, and the transmission was a rebuild of unknown origin sourced by JTran for me. Both of them have seen only a handful of track weekends and should have tons of life left.
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I highly recommend at least skimming this car's epic 58-page journal thread (linked at the top of this post, and again in my sig at the bottom), which some old-timers will remember, which gives a fairly transparent history of the journey this car and I were on for years. It has lots of tech notes, going all the way back to 2009 when it was a street car, and I'd encourage at least reading the first post there which gives a reasonably-complete breakdown of all the parts on this car and the changes its been through.
A random teaser highlight that might not be obvious even after reading the first post of the journal: this car's
baffled oil pan is one of only ten that AM Performance sold to us before their race team went under:
A.M. Performance Extra Capacity Baffled Racing Oil Pans .
Like any such car, this is a never-ending project car. I could go on for hours about all of the next things I wanted to do to the car. In the state its in today, it is a very drive-able and fun track beast with a safe cage that can hold its own at any DE event, but it's never been brought into any specific competitive spec with a logbook for e.g. NASA/SCCA.
If you're keeping it more-or-less as it is, you'll probably want to at least swap out the fluids and put fresh tires on it as you start your track journey with it and get familiar.
It'd also be a great starting point for a track-only drivetrain swap project now or down the line (I've always thought stuffing a light/small V8 and a sequential in this car would be tons of fun).
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I poured a rather large 5 figure sum of money into this car over the years and untold human labor and toil, but track cars never sell for what you put into them, which is lucky for you, the potential buyer!
I'm setting the official asking price here at
12K 9K - see also the bonus parts included (if you want them) below in
wstar's Track-only 370Z for Sale
I think at that price, someone could turn a NICE profit just tearing it to pieces and parting out all the expensive track parts and the most-valuable factory bits. If the car doesn't sell through here after a little bit, that's probably the same starting/asking price I'll post elsewhere on generic track forums and such.
However - There's some time/money tradeoff in this for me (faster sale makes my life simpler!), and I also put some value in seeing my project car go to a good new home, especially in the Z community, and both of those things might be worth a steep discount on the asking price. No serious cash offer will be laughed at openly!
Engine Sounds and pics from a few days ago:
There's also a ton of older pics in the albums (
Nissan 370Z Forum - wstar's Albums ).
There's also a ton of old youtube videos of me learning to drive in this car, feel free to browse around my channel there from the video links here. I tended to focus on documenting my errors, so there's a lot of those
Best time I ever managed to record at MSR Houston at 1m48s
My best lap at COTA from my very first trip there: