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Well, my 2003 350Z Enthusiast model is officially paid off. It is also no longer my car! My buddy Jasyn "Dozzle" Randazzo took a train from Kansas City to St. Louis last night and drove the car home today. I talked to Dozzle this afternoon, he made it back to KC and was out and about showing the car off to friends. Have fun with her ...

I'm selling my 2003 Nissan 350Z. It's currently on Ebay. You can find it by following this link. Details, a 2003 350Z with just under 79k miles on it. I'm selling it in stock form, but have other items I'd consider selling to set it up for BS in Solo if there's interest. Contact me for more information!

I've been putting things on ebay this evening, Here are my 350Z Enkei RPF1s, 17'' wheels, BStock legal for 17'' 350Zs. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1,1&item=150032437137 Also listed a dual weber setup off the 1973 ...

The new ride is now rolling on 20s! Why you might ask? Because they were a great deal at the time of purchase. I have these wheels and the stock set of wheels/tires to put back on when the weather turns for the worse. Between the 5 cars in the driveway/garage there are 20 wheels and tires on the ground, that's in addition to the 12 extra wheels ...

Due to the fact that I'm not going to Nationals this year (wedding/honeymoon in december and I'm out of vacation) I'm open to the idea that someone else competes my car at Nationals. My usual codriver has taken an excellent opportunity in a BSP STI, so he won't be driving the Z this year. I believe this car to be the most well prepared 350Z in ...

Well, I'm finally back from my trip to Denver, it was a long weekend, but lots of fun at the same time. I'll start at the beginning and try to cover all of the events. A few weeks ago a client asked if myself and Brian from Engage Software (my employer) could come out and give them some assistance with DotNetNuke, as well as begin to cover a few ...

Here are my runs from today, except for Run 4, which of course would have been the cool one because I hit cones on the camera side, but of course I checked to make sure the camera was recording right before I ran, and apparently turned it off. Run 1 ended up getting a rerun due to a downed cone. Run 2 Run 3 Run 5

Here are videos of my two best runs so far. Run 2 right side. Currently fastest BS time on the right. 32.300 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq50lDtNXVk Run 3 left side, my best left side, 7tenths off fastest? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDx4Em81Fjk  

Well, after day one I'm doing alright. I'm probably 5-6ths back from Carter, I'm in 3rd, .016 back from 2nd. The car did well today, fastest on the right course, need to pick up time tomorrow on the left course. Here's to hoping there isn't any rain in the morning!

STL to DC is to long a darn drive for a day. A Turkey when hit by a Chevy Pickup blows up like a feather bomb. Google Maps Sucks when trying to go to Fedex Field. Related to the above comment, don't drive through DC without a map. We got some thrills today, I shoulda brought my gun. It's time for bed.

Andy took the 350Z out to Tuxedo Park Racing today to put her on the dyno and get a baseline for performance. Will post results of the dyno tonight! Why do we need a baseline? Well we're hoping to see some improvement from the Nismo Ypipe and custom 3'' exhaust we'll be putting on later this week. Also need to do a few other things before the DC ...

I got a few details from Andy on his way back from the test and tune he took the car to this weekend at Grissom. I'll try to do a full writeup later in the week, but the basics of what all has changed include. Hawk HPS pads up front instead of HP+, which apparently solves our Ice Mode problems. Run a full tank of gas, instead of completely ...

Andy's got the Z for the weekend. He's off to a Test and Tune to try to figure out if we can work around the ''flaws'' that the Z has. He's having a special guest driver come in to help with the tuning of the car. He's got 4 front sway bars, new Hawk HPS pads, and 4 new 710s to play with. Here's to hoping he can figure out our ice mode issues!

Look out, it looks like an RX-8 won't be filling my driveway anytime soon. I'm picking up another Z next week... Details to follow!

It's been a long few weeks for me. It all started with the St. Louis region driver's school three weekends ago and culminated today with the Walnut Ridge ProSolo. The driver's school went well, the Walnut Ridge National Tour went even better. The Walnut Ridge ProSolo though was far from good. The event itself was great, organized and run very ...

We got into town early this afternoon. I ended up filling up with gas before I got out of St. Louis, that was a mistake, 200 miles later I still have a half a tank. So I drove the car to the hotel tonight rather than leaving it at the event site, needed to burn off as much gas as I can before tomorrow. We got setup and Andy did the novice intro ...

The first Cone Clinic was held today at the first day of the Walnut Ridge national tour. A great thanks goes out to the Hollis' for instructing all of the drivers today. We each got 12 runs, had a blast and a great time getting the rust out from almost 6 months off! We start at 9am tomorrow. As last year, the town has welcomed everyone with open ...

In a few short hours we'll be departing St. Louis for our first autocross of the season. Well, it'll be my first autocross, Andy (my codriver) already has a few events under his belt! He's an Evolution instructor, so he's had the luxury of getting plenty of seat time already this year. We're headding to Walnut Ridge this afternoon to be ready for ...

I spent this morning with Steven at www.tuxedoparkracing.com fixing my 03 Enthusiast Nissan 350Z. Sometime early last year we, Andy and I, had a seat bolt fail, driver's side rear. We had to provide a quick fix and rigged together a drywall anchor to try to get the seat to stay in place, we were out of town with limited tools and only a home ...

Since I seem to post this information on the web over and over I figured I'd solidify it here. The following information is how Andy and I run my 2003 Nissan 350Z Enthusiast model in SCCA Solo Competition in the B Stock Class. ShocksDA Konis available from Nissan USA Motorsports Division(SA Konis in the garage just in case Full Stiff (r)) Front ...

Is anyone else getting excited about the 2006 Autocross Season? I know I'm pumped! Though I have to wait two more months before my first scheduled event, which happens to be the Walnut Ridge National Tour. I think I'll need to hit an event somewhere in the Midwest to get the autocross rust out. Though the week before WR I'll be at the club ...

On the way to work this morning the Z went over 63000 miles :(

So, since I'm about to hit the road tomorrow, I'll drop one more hint on what the secret weapon is that Andy and I installed last week. There are 4 of them, and they are white. That should ease in finding them when you look at the car ;) See you all in Topeka!

As noted in this post I don't have the Z today. That's because Andy took it to get an alignment this morning and changed the oil. Now all that is left to do is put on the new front Rotors and mount the new tires to the wheels. The wheels I'll do tomorrow, possibly the rotors as well. Nationals here we come!

The Project Z got a new front sway bar last weekend. Andy ordered the Hotchkis setup for the car, which comes with a front/rear bar, but being that we run in SCCA Stock Solo classes we can only upgrade the front bar. The bar is a 35mm hollow bar, a bit lighter than the 350EVO bar we had on the car which I believe was a 34mm solid bar. It also ...