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.
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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.
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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. The 2014 Ford Mustang Cobra Jet is built in only 50 examples and sold starting from $97,990 each.A now old-school Vortech X-trim Mondo supercharger feeds non-intercooled boost straight to the long-runner Trick-Flow intake. Last week, Ford Racing announced the availabily of the musclecar's supercharged V8 powerplant as a crate engine.
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The system tested two-tenths better on the track with Ford Racing drivers at the wheel, and we’re proud to be able to offer it to everyone now.” But instead of offering the same suspension we built for the Cobra Jet, we’ve redesigned it to include double-adjustable lower control arms, which aren’t legal in NHRA Stock competition – but are everywhere else. Now that the S197 Cobra Jet program has been completed, we’re able to offer that same suspension system to the general public. “We’ve worked with Ford Racing on the development and construction of the Cobra Jet suspension since the beginning. The complete package can be ordered at $879, Team Z Motorsports says each part can be also purchased separately.
Developed together with Ford Racing, the suspension pack comes with a pair of double-adjustable, TIG-welded chromoly lower control arms with high-strength rod ends, a pair of TIG-welded lower control arm relocation brackets, bolt-in anti-roll bar, and a spherical housing bushing.
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