After keeping you in suspense for long enough here we go. After seeing many theories of what 1300nizpro was going to be about, ranging from 1300hp engines to 1300 telephone number and much much more, let me say it will be about many of these all joined together. Yes it is a new phone number, Yes we will be developing a new 1300hp engine for a new project vehicle but there is way more than this to be offered.

1300nizpro is a newly formed group of companies working together within our industry as an Alliance to help each other develop better products, services, and pricing for the performance car enthusiast.

We will as a group have larger resources available to develop and test products and design new performance parts faster than individual companies. Development for the new Falcon FG series will be fast tracked including work on the V6 engine 12 months prior to its release. An extensive engine development program will take place on both the highly modified new in-line 6 cylinder engine along with testing of Fords new Cyclone V6. Let me say if Ford don’t release a twin turbo version of this engine for the Falcon 1300nizpro will.

The advantages of a well organised group of performance companies are endless and I have listed some of the major ones below. Unlike a typical distributorship which others and Nizpro have had in the past an Alliance has far more benefits for all concerned. Consumers will have a direct say in products they are after via their alliance members. Product range will be able to be tailored to suit their needs due to direct feedback to the development arm. We will be able to specifically develop full kits faster and more effectively than the everyone on their own format that has continually taken place in this industry before. I have never understood the need for 20 workshops purchasing new cars to go in separate directions in under developing products to confusing the public in a range of products that may or may not be needed. It has always made far more sense to work as a group with an end goal of having the best most cost effective products available.

1. Project vehicles

2. Cost effective development with shared expenditure

3. Technical sharing

4. Annual training

5. Monthly meeting discussing consumers needs

6. Advertising cost sharing allowing overall reduced product costs

Getting companies involved and a genuine direction of where this all needs to head has been far more timing consuming than I would have ever expected. This is simply not as easy as finding companies willing to put their hands in their pockets to join up. That would have been relatively simple. Finding companies willing to work together, share information and point in the same direction with the same goals and industry standard has been far more challenging. I can say that this is very close to a reality in most states around Australia and an announcement of these companies will be released sometime in April.

For some of you the benefits are very obvious and for others you just want to know about the “Projects”... well hang on.

Most of you reading this like two things... (1) BA/F XR6 Turbos and (2) drag racing. So to combine the two and launch 1300nizpro at the same time, it was decided a special drag racing program was needed.

After being in this industry for over 20 years I have both watched and participated in low level “street drag racing”. Over this time I have observed what were standard street cars go from beautiful high performance road cars to miss match drag/road cars. I too have been a victim of the dreaded need for speed curse and still am in some form.
 

Most customers over those 20 years have all visited the drag strip after performance work is carried out on their vehicles, unfortunately some are bitten and find it very difficult to stop. Now some might say this helps our business and you would be very correct. Customers that simply don’t know and don’t understand when enough is enough. 20 years of experience has certainly showed me when this is. Eventually you end up with what was once a new high performance everyday road car, that was enjoyed daily, to a off the road illegal pile of you know what. I have seen customers go from driving beautiful VL Commodore turbo’s everyday to $500 Geminis in the search for another tenth of a second. The real reality sets in when you discover that your once pride and joy is almost worthless to any one but you, it is un-sellable due to being un-roadworthy and its still damn slow as far as a drag race car is concerned.

The answer. How to end up with a sub 10 second, well presented late model drag car and keep a more user friendly yet still modified road car for the same price that you may end up spending on your road car anyway. Boy... we have just struck the old cake and eat it too formula.

Over the next 12 months 1300nizpro and Performance Ford Magazine will take you step by step thru every single stage of purchasing a cheap second hand vehicle and building a DIY drag car. This story will be warts and all, every drama, every breakage... the lot. Along with pricing of both the parts and tools required along with the time required.

BA/F XR6 Turbo. This vehicle will be a full steel bodied car with standard Ford Falcon running gear. Although throughout the story we may change the cars drivetrain from auto to manual, from 4 speed to 6 speed, to show the differences in performance. It will remain with standard Ford components that you will be able to purchase easily. Step by step we will add components to improve the cars performance, starting with a Stage 1 Nizpro Cobra kit and intercooler upgrade right through to a 1300hp race engine. Do not expect this car to go and break record times straight away, this is not about what a first class workshop can produce it is about a DIY budget race program, one that can be done on weekends with mates in your shed for about 20k.
 

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