Girl Gone Green: Verena Mei’s Time Attack Nissan 350Z

In case you didn't notice yet Verena is smoking hot!  She is also a model but keeps that career separate from her involvement with Motorsports.

The power is fed through a JWT aluminum flywheel and a Nismo Coppermix clutch which has amazingly held up through 3 seasons of clutch kicking drifting and a season of Time Attack. From the clutch the torque passes through the stock carbon fiber driveshaft and is distributed to the rear wheels through a Nismo 4-pinion 1.5 way limited slip differential tuned by Steve Mitchell.

The green part of Verena’s program besides the fact that she doesn’t eat meat, is that her car is tuned to run on E85 which most of you know is a mixture of 85 percent ethanol, 15% gasoline, a renewable alcohol that can be made from grain or even trash using the latest ecologically sound cellulosic methods. Ethanol also burns very cleanly with very low emissions making this one green racecar. Ethanol also is a pretty decent racing fuel. It burns cooler than gasoline and has a low propensity to detonate. E85 also has an effective octane rating of 105. Since ethanol has a lower energy content than gas, way more of it must be burned to make equivalent power to gasoline.

To convert the engine to E85 Chris Welch at BMS switched the injectors to RC Engineering 1000cc parts and the fuel pump to a high volume Aeromotive unit with filter. The JWT programmed stock ECU that came with the turbo kit was switched out for a Haltech and tuned by Autowave in Huntington Beach California. The ethanol is one of the reasons why the boosted stock VQ engine has such amazing reliability.