MOTOR Magazine reviews the APS
Intercooled Twin Turbo system for the 350z
The installation may have smoothed
the Zed's gruff engine a little, but it's still
no sewing machine. The grumble is still there
at lower revs and there's still a bit of thrashiness
as you really wring it out. This time around,
of course, there's also a very satisfying nose-blow
noise when you abandon the noise pedal and the
blow-off valves dump their boost.
The
all-up cost is still in the air, but take it as
read that you won't be getting much change back
from about $15,000. That's partly because APS
won't be offering the thing as a spanner-it-up-at-home
kit. The only way to get hold of it will be as
a turn-key installation, including all fitting,
tuning and an engineer's certificate to prove
to Plod that it still meets all relevant noise
and emissions targets. That's purely because Luxon
knows the kind of bloke shelling out for a modded
350Z sure as hell doesn't want any legal hassles
- quite literally - down the road. Turn a perfectly
legal set of wheels into a liability by spending
a large amount of cash thereon? Well, that makes
no real sense to us, either.
Projected annual sales volumes are 25-30 a year
in Australia, so it could never justify the $380,000
to date that APS has tipped into the development
and testing of the set-up.
But the potentially hundreds of installations
our Stateside friends might be interested in?
Now that, speed freaks, is a different story entirely.
Be sure to give Autotech
Enginnering a call to see what they can do for
your 350z!
If you would like further informatio
on the APS Intercooled Twin Turbo System for the
Nissan 350z, please do not hesitate to contact
Autotech Engineering via email on sales@autotechengineering.com.au
or by phone
on (02)9897 1378