*AE Performance 370Z Take's 1st Place at Redline Time Attack!*
 

AE Performance 370Z SS RWD Class Winners at Round 7 Redline Time Attack!

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Recap:
Spring Mountain was a first for the AE crew and with 18 turns it was anything but easy to figure out the fast way through the course, but fortuneately NV locals including Mike and the Double Down crew were super cool in lending a helping hand.

On track the car felt rock solid. The AE preped JIC dampers allowed for late apexing and a planted rear end through the high speed sections even with the old tires we were on. (3 track days).

We switched to Ferodo RS3000 pads for our AP brakes that ended up being a bit too aggressive in the rear but a quick swap to a milder Mintex pad in the rear settled the car much more and was easier to keep stright under hard braking.

Heat was a major issue for everyone. With the Oil Cooler upgrade we were still only able to complete 1 hot lap before the oil temps hit 280deg and the car wouldn't rev past 5k rpm's.

After all was said and done, We were all really impressed with the Z. With viturally no power mods out-side of a Stillen intake and Mine's Flash we were solely relying on the Z's chassie to pull through for us and it did! Rich placed 5th in Modified RWD Class in the GT2, GTR (DNF),and I grabbed top honors in SS RWD class with the Z, and was able to make the 4.5hr drive back to the OC without a hick-up. :tup:

Next Event we'll have:
Fresh Tires! (Hankook RS3's)
More Camber (SPL or equilviant)
More Cooling (Twin Setrab's)
More Powa! (AE Exhaust, AE down pipe's, Pulley, etc)


Stay tuned for more updates on our new products soon to be released for the Z!

Big Thanks to the crew at JIC and Hankook Tires!

Wish us luck at Round 8! :driving:

Thanks for the post and letting us know what your running with the car: tires, suspension, oil coolers, pads etc.

Very cool:tup:

What size RS3's are you going to run?

SWEET! Big congratulations! :tiphat:

Good job guys, will see what you guys pull off next time your out there.:tup:

Saw this on ddm's journal!
Congrats!
How is that mine's flash?

Congrats again guys! Great meeting you. What no pics of your cool parking spot out by the back straight? :D

1st place! heck yeah! Z's rule!

That's great to hear, congratulations ! It's a little disappointing hearing that there was still cooling problems even with the oil cooler though. Makes me wonder if the vehicle was force induced in some way if things would be even worse.

I can guarantee you FI will make the problem worse. Hopefully nothing a bigger oil cooler(s) wouldn't fix though :)

Thanks for all the great comments guys!

Few answers:
Were going to run 265/285 set-up
Mines flash is great! We've yet to dyno it for concrete results but their is easily a big jump in mid-range punch from 3-5k which really wakes the car up. (were direct with Mines so I will see if they can send me specific data)
Ah...I do not recall that ....lol.. :ugh2:....no I'll post one up =)
I can't even imagine how bad it would be with a pair of Turbo's superheating the oil...On the street though I'm sure a FI set-up would be ok.

what happened to the GT-R.?

Congratulations and well done!

Thanks ZcarMan!

GTR didn't have the required battery kill switch and proper fire safety set-up need for Unlimited Class. Out side of that the car ran great. It was our first time tesing with the new OS Giken OS88 full Seq.gearbox. Need to make a few minor tweaks and she'll be ready for battle very soon. =) :driving:

Awesome, cant wait to see it! I'm looking into getting a R32 for the track and would love to see how one does in Redline!