Ok, here’s the deal: The official pics from this shoot, with all the new AIT Racing parts and the wicked APR GTC carbon fiber wing, with slightly expanded Kallusive graphics, will be coming out later (I’ll let you know when and where), but how bout I post a sneak peak from the shoot here, right now (caught by Kallusive)…
Sure, I’m pretty biased but this Z looks just right – fast, full of purpose and with a pretty innovative design.

When I went to Germany and spent some time back in the ‘Porsche shoes’, the City Tire / Kallusive Clothing 350Z Twin Turbo got some good work done to it after Formula Drift in Atlanta. We cancelled New Jersey due to the 24H and to work on getting the car up to top notch; City Tire went on a weight loss mission on the car and AIT Racing fitted carbon fiber doors (they feel like they have the weight of regular post stamps – amazing), a new hood and hatch, new sleek sideskirts and a new front. Even more panels to come from them in the future so watch out as we’re getting lighter!

All in all a very noticeable reduction in weight, the car got much better to drive, more agile and definitely much more responsive to any input. I very much recommend doing this on any Z used for grip or drift, the performance improvement is just huge.

From APR we got another great performance improvement – a GTC carbon fiber rear wing. A lot of people have been against the usage of a wing on their drift car, however I guess it all comes down to the overall setup of each and every car, weight distribution, spring, shock, swaybar settings, suspension design, tire choice. On our testing session, I was so happy I can’t even tell you, it was such a relief to get this thing on the car, finally getting the car to behave like I want it to! Definitely leaped forward to the famous Next Level.

The GTC wing itself is very impressive, pretty huge and with great aerodynamic data on paper already, and when using it in real life, only minor changes to the wing attack angle completely changed the behavior of the car and therefore it got very direct and easy to setup since it is immediately noticeable when we got too much downforce on the rear end, or too little.

Also props here to our buddy Justin who made a very serious chassis mounted wing installation, with the mounts going through the hatch. Here’s a vid from one of the testing runs with the new parts, this is before we cleaned the car up and got it ready for a cool photoshoot ahead of Vegas (pics to come from that one).