Sport Z Issue #21
Features
24 Drive This Way
Aerosmith’s Joey Kramer has his share of super-exotic go-fasters. But it was his son, Jesse, who turned the drummer on to Z cars. With the help of Mike Wade at Palm Beach Performance, Joey now has a 350Z that can keep up with the other cars in his dream garage.
32 Go, Speed Racer, Go!
Who can forget girlfriend Trixie, Chim Chim the monkey, and the mysterious Racer X? Certainly not Stephen Wong of San Leandro, CA, who has built up a Speed Racer-esque 280ZX.
38 Whistling in G Major
It took Turbonetics, Garcia Infiniti, a custom installer, and one motivated G35 owner named Jamey Russell to finally get the single turbo into a G. And what a worthy G it is.
Tech & Racing
44 350Z/G35 Mod Shootout! Three Plenums and Three Spacers ... at Ten Paces
Two G35s, two 350Zs, three plenums, three spacers, two Dynapack dynamometers and over sixteen hours of dyno time. G35 Editor Dave Ochenreider conducts the latest Sport Z Magazine shootout.
52 From Junkyard to Front Yard: SZM’s Project 240Z, Part II
With a little help from Steve Epperly from Z Therapy, SZM’s associate publisher Art Singer takes a detailed look at what it takes to properly rebuild a 25+ year-old set of SUs.
56 A Dash of Holy Water: Water Injection for the 300ZX
Water injection has been growing in popularity among the tuner crowd for the last few years. Z32 guru Ash Powers tested water injection kits on a number of 300ZX twin turbos to uncover what’s behind the so-called Holy Grail of engine performance.
62 Motorsports: The Inside Line
Racing season concludes with few bright spots for Nissan.
Departments
6 From the Pub
Five and counting
8 Ped Crossings
Bleary eyes, FX drivers, S30 owner beefs
14 Shifting Gears
350Z/G35 code reader review, SEMA, iPod basics, Z31 reader car, Tokyo
Motor Show, spindle pin puller review, Midwest Z Fest, Bay Bottom Crawl,
Turbonetics Day, East Africa Rally, official SZM partner websites
36 Z Car Centerfold
2005 GT-R Proto
62 Club Zone
Highlights from the 2005 ZCON
68 Ed’s Garage
240Z with vapor lock, 300ZX service advice, Z31 tranny woes, reader tech tip
70 Last Writes
The VDC and why it might save your lift
