As you may have read in one of our previous posts, this owner just picked up his 13. Now he is ready for some improvements. We sat down with Anthony and came up with a plan. A larger 5130 Precision Turbo, Tomei Procams, Brian Crower valve springs and retainers were ordered, now it’s time for the install. After the install is complete the 240 will be traveling a whole 10 feet to our dyno for a fresh tune. A previously instated Apexi Power FC will be handling the engine management duties. We can’t wait to see the final results.
S-13 in for some upgrades
Thursday, February 16th, 20122012 Atlanta Region Autocross Season Schedule is out
Friday, February 10th, 2012Autocross is starting soon! 
- February 25th – Stone Mountain – Test and Tune
- February 26th – Stone Mountain
- Points 1 March 9-11th – SGMP (Adel, GA) – Dixie National Tour March 25th – Turner Field
- Points 2 April 1st – Atlanta Motorspeedway
- Points 3 April 21-22nd – zMAX Dragway (Concord, NC) – Evolution Super Shootout April 29th – Atlanta Motorspeedway
- Points 4 May 5-6th – Atlanta Motorspeedway
- Evolution Super Shootout May 12th – Turner Field – Novice School May 13th – Turner Field
- Points 5 June 9th – Atlanta Motorsports Park – “Special Stage” June 24th – Turner Field
- Points 6 August 11th – Turner Field – TNT / Driver Development August 12th – Turner Field
- Points 7 August 25th – Turner Field – TNT / Driver Development August 26th – Turner Field
- Points 8 September 4-7th – Lincoln Airpark (Lincoln, NE)-SCCA SOLO Nationals September 23rd – Atlanta Motorspeedway
- Points 9 October 6th – Turner Field
- Points 10 (Subject to Braves Playoff Schedule) October 7th
- Turner Field – Champion of Champions (Subject to Braves Playoff Schedule)
For more information please visit their website: http://www.atlantascca.org/
Good Trade
Monday, January 23rd, 2012Anthony just brought us this S-13 to inspect for him. He recently traded his old AE86 with an SR-20 for this 240 with the same setup. Don’t worry Hachi fans, Anthony has another one he is currently building.
Turbo kit modifications
Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
Direct “bolt-on” products from aftermarket manufactures are a lot of times, less than perfect. In this case, the intercooler piping was far from fitting correctly. After conferring with the customer, we decided to modify the piping as well as the intercooler to fit nicely on the car. The kit now fits, and the project continues.
Welding top of roll cage
Monday, July 18th, 2011
Many people wonder how do you weld the top of a roll cage. We are about to let you in on how we do it. You drill holes in the floor where the base plates go. Then when everything gets bent and tack welded together, you drop the cage through those holes. That way the top of the cage can be welded. After that the mounting plates get welded in above the holes in the floor, and the cage gets welded to the top of the plates.
Shop 350z gets a face lift
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
Unfortunately due to Formula D rules, our 350z is getting a new skin. The rules state that a car must have body, not just a chassis like our 350z has been for a while now. Some of us like the new look of the car, but others like how it looked like a big go-cart. As you can see the car is getting more than just a body, it is getting a bunch of little things that are needed to pass tech as well. Obviously we can’t drop working on customer cars to just finish this car, so it is being worked on between projects as well as after hours. The car needs to be ready for a Pro-am drift event on July 9th in Charlotte NC. That means a few more late nights to get this car competition ready.
S13 coupe gets overflow can
Friday, June 3rd, 2011
Here is another s13 coupe. This one is very simple, the car did not have an coolant overflow as well as having some brake light issues. So after a little diagnostic time, the brake light issue was fixed. Instead of using a Gatorade bottle or monster can for an overflow, we ordered a nice one from summit. It was then mounted next to the radiator and the car is finished for now.
S13 dyno
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
Here we have an s13 with a built sr20det with a 30r turbo. It came to the shop to get tuned, but rarely do cars just need to be tuned. This car only had 1 slight mechanical issue, the mechanical timing was off 1 tooth. After that was fixed, it was time to see what she could do. It put out a nice 362whp. The car does have a few restrictions, but overall it is a healthy machine.
Formula D pro-am 2011
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
Racing does not always go as planned. Sometimes it goes smoothly, but other times it isn’t quite so smooth. Last Friday for the Formula D pro-am 2011, things did not go quite so well for Batlground. Car was ready at the track with no known issues at 8AM. After practice, Dan noticed scratching going into third gear. During qualifying third gear was useless, unless he eased into it. So after qualifying, 2pm, the frantic search for a z32 transmission began. After sitting in Atlanta traffic for some of the afternoon, we had our new transmission at the track with less than an hour to swap bellhousings and to install it. A big thank you to everyone that helped us make the swap possible, and in time. The car made it with minutes to spare. Unfortunately, after all that work, the throttle body blade broke during the competition causing the car to stall upon initiation. Causing Dan to be knocked out. Chris Ward, however came in second place. Go to http://www.facebook.com/Batlground for more pictures of the event.
Practice Drift Day at the Nashville Import Alliance
Friday, July 23rd, 2010
This past weekend we decided to head up to Tennessee to get some track testing at the Nashville Super Speedway. Import Alliance was doing a show there and they decided that drifting should be a part of it. They teamed up with Tennessee Drift to throw a great practice event for a handful of drivers. Our main goal of the weekend was to get the cars set up correctly, get the track figured out, and to get data. This proved to be very valuable as we went through many changes on the car to get it to work the way we wanted it to.
At the beginning of the day the starting line was moved pretty far back and we were getting some good entry speed into the first turn. I marked this on the map with a green line. With the starting line back that far we were able to initiate at the red line on the map at 93 mph. Even with that entry speed we struggled to get the car to hold a nice wide line. We just needed more entry speed to be able to hold a nice wide drift on that huge first turn. After getting sucked in on the shallow line over and over we decided to put in a higher rear end gear. This let us go up a gear into 4th and we were able to hold a slightly higher line in the first turn. With this, higher tire pressure and increased dampening on the rear shocks the car began to hold a wider line but not as wide as we would have liked to seen. I drew out the line that we were being forced to run due to the slower entry on the map with a blue line. We really needed the starting line moved back about 50 feet so that we could enter around 110-120 mph.
Halfway through the day the event organizers moved the starting line up 50 feet which cut down our entry speeds even more and pretty much made it impossible for us to hold the wider line. All in all it was a good day of practice and now we don’t have to scramble to set up our cars and figure out the track on competition day. I am sure when we go back the starting line back where we need it to be. 
