Team Z’s new Metal Matrix K-member Is made of both alloy steel and mild steel to make it lighter and stronger. ![]() We moved on to the front suspension parts and the base is the metal matrix tubular k-member. These are the same rear control arms that have been as quick to sixty foot as 1.14 on a 275 drag radial and 1.12 and a 1.0X with a 28 x 10.5 slick. For now we have decided to hold off installing Team Z’s anti-roll bar. ![]() These allow for quick and easy suspension adjustments and also allow you to use stock type coil springs. They are made of ¼ inch laser cut and formed steel for strength, and powder coated and zinc plated for corrosion resistance and appearance.įor the lower control arms we used Team Z’s double adjustable control arms that are built with the same strength and quality that you find in their upper control arms. These are some of the strongest control arms on the market and provide for easy pinion angle adjustment. These bushings are CNC machined from high strength aluminum with quality bearings and they are designed to free up the suspension from binding.įrom there we move on to the Team Z conventional double adjustable upper control arms. So Dave spec’d out the parts we needed for the front and rear suspension upgrades and got them shipped in no time.įor the rear we start with the Team Z solid spherical bushings to replace the worn out rubber bushings in the rear end housing. Dave has built cars for and helped racers such as Trace Meyer, Chris Tuten and Brad Edwards, not to mention his parts are installed from the factory on Ford’s Cobra Jet Mustangs. So we started with a call the Dave Zimmerman, the head honcho at Team Z Motorsports to see about some killer suspension upgrades. That means those old rubber bushings are pushing 20 years old now and if it was not for the relatively low miles of our project car there probably would not be any bushings left. But the suspension has remained stock with maybe the exception of replacement shocks and struts. His name is Kenneth Miret.Austin, TX – Our 1993 Mustang project has had a recent increase in the horsepower department with the addition of a Vortech S-trim supercharger system. “I'm just a kid from Queens,” he said, adding that, with his movie getting made and the Mets in first place, “life is great!!!!!”ĮDITOR'S NOTE: An earlier version of the story, quoting other news reports, used the incorrect name for the victim. “Being ‘King of the Boulevard’ is getting old,” he said of a central plot to the upcoming film, which will begin shooting in Whitestone next month.Įntertainment Weekly said it may be “American Graffiti” for a new generation, describing Gio, who loves cars and women, and Jessica, a Long Island girl who “ventures into Gio’s seedy neighborhood for fun.”Ĭarafelli said the movie is the fulfillment of a dream to honor his beloved summer nights in Queens. It didn’t move the coming-of-age story along, Cafarelli said, adding that the film is about a man realizing he can’t race cars forever. What’ll be missing from the feature-length film, though, is the drag racing story. It’ll be written and directed by Robert Siegel, who wrote “The Wrestler” and worked with Cafarelli in “Big Fan.” And this week he announced it had been greenlit for production, with a new name - "Cruise" - and two stars, Emily Ratajkowski from "Gone Girl" and Spencer Goldman from "21 Jump Street," in the leading roles. His goal for the pitch was for it to get picked up for a feature-length film. ![]() “Every neighborhood has a story,” he begins, setting the scene for the summer of 1986 in Whitestone, Queens. “Listening to music, cruising, picking up girls, just by putting a few bucks in the gas tank and having fun,” he said of his time on “the boulevard” in the 1980s.Ĭafarelli, who has been working professionally in film and television for 15 years, wrote and directed the pitch film, appears briefly in the beginning and narrates the story - filled with old muscl cars, freestyle music and references to the 1986 Mets. The area's drag races, which he would attend as a teenager in Whitestone, helped create tension in his coming-of-age story of a “simpler time,” he said in an email. That deadly act inspired a fictional pitch film by a Queens-born and bred actor and producer, Gino Cafarelli, who filmed “Franny Lew” last year after thinking about it for five years, he said. His car hit a tree after spiraling out of control, and he was pronounced dead on the scene. Twenty-year-old Kenneth Miret was racing another driver when his 1987 Ford Mustang convertible hit a slick of oil, according to a New York Times report at the time. Nearly 30 years ago, a drag racer from East Elmhurst was killed on Francis Lewis Boulevard after a neighbor - fed up with what some said was constant racing behind his house - allegedly poured oil onto the street. Crown Heights, Prospect Heights & Prospect-Lefferts Gardens.Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens & Red Hook.
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