THe yearly leyburn sprints are on again...(in qld near toowoomba)

I saw 7-8 240z / 260z's,,,some racing and some in the car park..

The standards where pretty good, I took some photos.

One of the best and original 260z 2 seaters that ive ever seen was in the car park..

it number plate started with OZ----, anyone here?

A couple of us went along for a look on Sunday, great day. Very intimidating event, narrow road, lots of barriers, no practice, no warm up lap, just drop the clutch and go.

Jon Siddons with his Gold Coast based 240Z was outstanding. So commited and smooth, so fast. Don't know where he came yet but see www.leyburnmotorsprints.com.au.

I unfortunately couldn't make it this year, too busy, I was actually race-preping another car for a mud-rally event.... anyway that's a different story.

If anybody has photos can they post a few of them here, that would be great.

Yeah - Leyburn was back and it was bigger and better than ever.

A real buzz - as 260Det says, just drop the clutch and go. Just watch out for the haybales, witches hats, tyre walls and the odd couple of trees but a lot of fun. Rain on Sunday made it interesting

My mighty green machine picked up a 2nd in class 2-3 litre sports pre 1973. Whole class was a gaggle of Zed's.

Biker

So biker, does your green car have a yellow grille? Second in class is pretty good.

260DET

It does and quite a bit of smoke coming off the front right locked tyre under brakes.

Have to look at getting a larger stabiliser to see if that will fix it.

Biker

Siddon's Z has no rear sway bar, the front one looks around 22-24mm dia. Koni Sports shocks? And 14" wheels with Silverstones. My 260 without a rear sway bar had a lot of body roll but Siddons' with the 14"ers is very low.

Richard

I was going to move up to a 24-25mm sway bar. Do not have one on the back as I heard you could love them or leave them - user choice.

Currently running with 6 x 14 rims but about to upgrade the tyres in preperation for the Tweed event in 3 weeks.

Siddons handles like a dream by the way it goes through corners. also helps to know how to drive as well!

Biker

Best of luck and fun at the Tweed Speed event Biker. Let us know how it goes.

At present my 260 has a stock 22mm front bar with heavier modified Superpro brackets and poly bushes. Rear bar is a custom 14mm. All this to be tested at QR, hopefully next week.

Did have a 27mm front bar but that was too stiff.

Tried to download the results from the Leyburn site (above) but it wouldn't work for me. So if anyone can do this and post the overall results, want to see where Siddons came, and the Z class results it would be appreciated.

Anyone able to post the results?

Richard

Talk aboput a task and a half. File too big, file not right format. Anyway did a cut and paste of all the Zed cars for you from Leyburn 2003

Regards

Biker:D

Name Fastest Overall

Jon Siddins Datsun 240Z 1970 43.74 4

Glenn Stewart Datsun 240Z 1972 48.78 43

Chris Ayers Datsun 240Z 1973 49.21 51

Noel Gibson Datsun 240Z 1973 49.66 60

Kevin Gray Datsun 240Z 1971 50.76 84

Richard Blundell Datsun 240Z 1971 52.37 104

Brendan Whittaker Datsun 260Z 1976 45.39 9

John Whittaker Datsun 260Z 1976 48.59 42

David Robertson Datsun 260Z 1976 52.86 110

Brian Dunn Datsun 260Z 1976 52.94 113

Laurie Longland Datsun 260Z 1976 67.84 158