Julie's '95 Vortech Z-28 with RK Sports groundeffects.

When I met Julie, she was driving a 1994 Camaro with a 3.4 V6. After I took her for a ride in my car, she was definitely hooked (on me and the car). In August of 1995, she took delivery of her Z-28. With 33 miles on the clock, her car was in my driveway having a homemade coldair system, Hotchkis trailing arms, and 160 thermostat installed. A few days later, her Z visited the bodyshop to have the RK Sports ground effects and wing added on. That weekend I bolted on my ZR-1 wheels when we took it to a carshow, now she owns them too. Last winter, Julie and her Dad, pulled out her motor, had it bored .030 over and stuffed it with 8.5:1 JE pistions A Competition Cam was chosen to control the valvetrain action while a set of Strange 3.73s are spinning in the rear. Other mods include an MSD BTM, Hotchkis strut tower brace, Jaccobs 8.5 mm wires, Hurst shifter, MSD 6AL, 52mm throttlebody, Arizona Speed and Marine 1 3/4" headers and Borla adjustable catback exhaust.

Julie has an exhaust temperature gauge that measures the exhaust temp in _each_ cylinder instead of just one. This is a really nice piece that is normally used in aircraft and costs $1000. Julie is also kept informed of what is going on with her car by looking at the boost, oil pressure and fuel pressure gauges. She keeps track of the RPMs with a Monster tach.

Mods for '99 include a set of CNC ported cylinder heads, upgrading to a larger Comp cam, turning the boost up to about 12 psi and some suspension work. Her goal is to break 500 rear wheel horsepower and to run faster them me in the 1/4. I see her meeting goal number 1. Don't know about number 2 :)

As you can tell, this site hasn't been updated in about 8 years. This car is still around and has run a best of 11.2 @ 125.

Wall of Fame

Julie's Z has been seen in the following magazines:

Reader's rides section of January '96 issue of All Chevy,
February '96 issue of Chevy High Performance
September '96 issue of High Tech Performance  (Dragnet)
And also in the September '98 issue of Chevy High Performance (Friendly Competition).
This article features her Z along with my '93Z 

Drop into this section in a few months to see how things are going with the new mods!

Download an .AVI of Julie and I at the track. I think this was either a motor run or a bottle malfunction for me. I guess that is why she finished first :) (warning- 3.5 meg). Special thanks to Chris Frezza for his talents in putting this together..

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