

Our mount came pre-installed with new radiator mounts to accept our Flex-A-Lite fan/radiator combo.
#Team z adjustable outlaw wing install
While our old radiator support wasn’t really damaged in any way, we took this opportunity underneath the car to install one of Team Z’s tubular lower mounts.

“When you reach a certain level of performance, you need to start worrying about locking the front end of the car down,” explained Zimmerman. We wanted to raise our launch RPM, but we knew this would likely result in a radical wheel stand. Why is this, you ask? Well, in looking at how the car was leaving the starting line, the rear tires were sticking perfectly to the track, but the front end rate of rise was too abrupt, causing the nose to reach for the sky instead of the car moving forward when the power was applied. Read on to see what he suggested for our project!įrom the launch photo to the left, Zimmerman realized that we were going to need to tie down the front end if we were going to have any shot at improving our elapsed times. Zimmerman and his team have built some of the most awesome cars on the heads-up circuit today, and his suspension parts are installed underneath numerous additional NMRA and Outlaw champion vehicles.

With those lessons in mind, we went right back to our friend Dave Zimmerman and his group of craftsmen at Team Z Motorsports in Taylor, Michigan.

The mad thrash taught us a few things, however, as you can see from this launch photo from our test sessions. We performed a mad thrash in an attempt to squeeze the car into the 9’s at the end of the season, with a 9.94 at 134 MPH, the result of the hard work we put in with this awesome Team Z Motorsports-equipped rocket. With wheels up, our shocks were extending to the bump stops, thus we needed a travel limiter kit from Team Z.Ĥ27 cubic inches of small-block Ford power rests between the framerails of this car, our Project 666 machine that we’ve been building up over the last three years.
