mysterious wide body kit

[veritech-z]

We've tried and tried over at Hybridz to come up with some information about this car and it's bodykit, but came up dry. It seems somebody sniped the pictures from a guy that sniped the pictures, and nobody knows anything at all about it. Does anybody here have any info about what's become known as the Monza Mystery Z? I'm hoping it's not a one-off bodykit, but I'm starting to resign myself...Sure does look like it was meant for the JGTC, doesn't it?

[hls30.com]

I don't know, but it is interesting that the extra width in the front was added between the headlight and the hood-probably is a one off !

With MONZA CORPORATION painted all over it, maybe they could help

Will

[veritech-z]

With MONZA CORPORATION painted all over it, maybe they could help

Will

You would think, right? It's nowhere on their website, nor is it on Advan's website (that is the graphic on the door). If I were either of those two sponsors (assuming they are legit and not just customer's choice vinyl) I would be proud to have my name on that car...

[240ZX]

Good eye Will....identifying the additional width on the front end. Notice also that the Z is right-hand drive. It looks as though the front wheel openings have been trimmed up too! I'm guessing the rocker panel skirts and the additional width in the rear was a owner modification. Who it belongs to is anybodies quess.

Tom

[hls30.com]

I noticed the chopped wheelwells too, My thought was that the body was not made to be pulled from a mold-probably made in place. The rectangular section to fill in at the ends of the cowl truely give it away. I kit would have those molded in...

Will

[2003z]

If I see it at SEMA, I will find out for you.

[veritech-z]

Will, what rectangular sections at the end of the cowl are you referring to? There are other pictures at Hybridz that show the side 3/4 and the rear, I'll have to post those when I get a chance. It seems to me the reason for adding the width in the way it was done is so that you could leave the gap between the fender and the door to evacuate trapped air in the wheelwell, the same way they do in JGTC/Super GT and pretty much any other racing series that takes aero mods seriously. The flares on the rear are ope in the back as well for the same reason, and the car has a sick diffuser made of carbon fiber that looks to have been professionally designed. Stretching the fenders at the mount also means you can take a normal type lower fascia and just extend it in the center, instead of having to redesign the pieces that attatch to the underside of the headlight buckets. I don't expect this car will be at SEMA, these pictures go back a few years.

edit: here is an NSX from the JGTC as an example of leaving the fenders open:

[Arne]

I hate to burst your bubble, veritech, but the chances are that if no one at either hybridz or here recognizes this car, it almost has to be a one-off. Between these two sites, you've contacted both of the most informed and active Z enthusiast pools out there. If it was an off-the-shelf kit, somebody would recognize it.

[veritech-z]

It came to my attention from somebody else at hybridz, I'd been trying to design something similar to that for myself all along, and once I saw it, I knew that it was the one I needed. I've heard a rumor that the kit has shown up on Yahoo auctions Japan, that implies to me that they at least made more than one. I also have a thread going on www.widebodies.net, but that forum only has like 72 members (including me now...), and 452 total posts, so I didn't expect much to come of it.

[hls30.com]

Will, what rectangular sections at the end of the cowl are you referring to?

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Just inboard from the drivers side mirror, extending from the lower corner of the windshield to part way up the missing access panel. You can the see the reflections from the edges a rectangular panel 1.5-2 inches wide by maybe 10 inches Any straight line you see in that area would have to be caused by a reflection from a rolled edge, the panels there are not flat by any means. I don't have Photo shop on here to highlight what I am talking about.

Will

[veritech-z]

I think those are vents, it looks like it's recessed with a screen in place...I think what they might have done was take a stock replacement fiberglass fender, and extend the mounting edge in. Then they would have had to fill the area that would have contained the inspection lid. I can't tell if that is just a trick of the lighting, or if there really is a groove in that spot. The picture isn't the best, and this monitor I'm on right now is even worse...

[veritech-z]

Here are some more pictures:

The cardomain page these came from were the guy that started the thread on hybridz that got me interested in the car. He didn't know anything about it, just thought it looked cool and put it on his cardomain page.