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Performance MotorSports'
Street Tire 350Z Twin Turbo
It was late January when Long Island’s Performance Motorsport made the announcement that its upcoming 350Z drag car could “dramatically alter the balance of power in the NDRA Pro Class RWD division.”

This bold statement prompted a lot of immediate skepticism and, even with the team claiming it had a 1,700hp twin turbo VQ35 powerplant, many dismissed it as a pipe dream.

Of course, this was months before the snow had even left the Eastern Seaboard, which meant the claim would go unchallenged while work on the car progressed. Track testing was scheduled to begin in September 2004.


With SEMA now just around the corner, Performance Motorsport’s Andrew Rubio tells us the Pro car is on schedule and will be ready to display in Vegas for all to see. (As of this writing in mid August, the body was being hung on the chassis.)

In the meantime, Rubio and Performance Motorsport have been working their tails off on another project that took up part of last year and much of this year.

I’m talking about the potent 2003 Nissan 350Z you see here.

Originally set up as a drift car, this 350Z now races in the NDRA’s BFGoodrich Pro Street Tire class with a number of accomplishments already to its credit.

After making its official debut at this year’s SEMA IAS in Atlantic City where it also drifted with the Signal Auto twins, Performance Motorsport soon opted to turn it into a full-time drag car.

First of all, this is the first ever 350Z sport compact drag car in the world (that we know of) and, as such, it’s also the fastest and the first 350Z dragster to run in the 11s and 10s. Naturally, it has also become a test bed of sorts for the Pro car still in the works.
Nineteen-year-old Rubio, who will be driving the Pro car upon its debut, has been the clear benefactor of all this testing. The rookie driver, who got his NHRA competition license (7.50) last fall, already has more than a dozen races behind the wheel of the Performance Motorsports’ less imposing Street Tire 3,100-pound 350Z.
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