8/16/2023 0 Comments Team z motorsports black friday![]() We can do a little math and start throwing guesses at where the car should run given it’s starting line performance, however we’ll have to wait until Mr Z releases that information publicly to be sure. ![]() He was able to tell us that the car is knocking out a mind blowing 1.17 60-foot time. Right now the car is still being grudge raced and Zimmerman was reluctant to give us full time-slip data, although he says that information will be released -eventually. Zimmerman says they’ve been documenting the changes and progress of Blackie, and that when work and schedules permit they hit the track with the car about twice a month. So at least for the moment, the reins to Blackie will remain in Mr Z’s hands. Zimmerman told us that Mrs Z has taken a few turns behind the wheel for burnouts, but “She’s pretty happy to be crew-chief and race manager right now for us,” he says. So what about Sherri, the wife that wanted the car to begin with. “The idea was to demonstrate that you don’t have to spend a fortune on a car to improve your 60-foot times,” says Zimmerman. There’s also no intercooler, and with ZImmerman behind the wheel the car is tipping the scales at 3,160 pounds. It also still has the 70/30 struts in the front, and the old powerglide transmission that it was equipped with when it was originally constructeds. It wears 15×9 inch rear wheels and Mickey Thompson 275 drag radials. The car is still not mini-tubbed, running factory wheel houses. Zimmerman also updated the rear end of the car, swapping out the 31-spline axles for new 35-spline units, and putting 9-inch ends on the housing to negate the need for C-clip eliminators. A new 347 wearing Ford Racing Z heads was assembled, and it still wears the Vortech X-trim Mondo supercharger, that has proven it’s still valid even in today’s world. ![]() This past winter the car has been rewired, and it’s also been converted to Big Stuff 3 fuel injection from the ancient first-gen DFI that was on the car when it was purchased. It split, literally in the middle, and Zimmerman parked the car until he had time to work on it over the winter. However, the tired A4 block, a relic from the performance days of the late 1990s couldn’t take the abuse any longer. Late last summer Zimmerman took the car out to the track, with some suspension tuning he managed to improve the 60 foot times from 1.26 to 1.19 seconds. The rear suspension also features Team Z’s double adjustable Strip Series control arms. “I wanted to develop a shock package for our customers, and this car has been the test bed for that,” says Zimmerman. These shocks for “Blackie” as this Mustang is called, mount in the stock location. Zimmerman also worked with Strange Engineering on developing some new, custom valved, double adjustable rear shocks that he could offer to customers. Of course the suspension received the full Team Z treatment front to back. So Dave took the reins and began transforming and updating the car, since it was built well over a decade ago and in need of some newer hardware to bring up to today’s standards. With an old school Vortech X-trim, and 347 cubic-inch engine on board, the black Fox-body coupe proved to be a little more than what Mrs Z wanted to take on. Dave’s name should be familiar to many of you as he’s also the owner of Team Z Motorsports, a company dedicated to making Mustangs and other cars go faster at the track. “We saw the car for sale at Joliet, and my wife Sheri said she wanted it,” says Dave Zimmerman. A now old-school Vortech X-trim Mondo supercharger feeds non-intercooled boost straight to the long-runner Trick-Flow intake.
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