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Is that the Camel car you are talking about?

Unusual tyre balance on that Camel car front to rear, effective rear track is way more than the front too. Be fun to drive.

If you are serious and not afraid to spend money than get your Z car built in Australia, Stewart Wilkins at SW Motorsport, Sydney, is one of several who will give you a race winning car no bull. You need a Targa type build, dirt rally is different, and you won't find this sort of information on the internet. Results speak for themselves , just do your research on who wins and who builds their cars. It always depends of course if you just want to participate or actually compete.

Sounds like you need to take the Z to someone who can do most of the work, who knows what parts to use and where to source them from. You could work with him/them, knowledge is the thing here, I guess that you want to do this thing in comfort with no hassles. If you were in Australia.............

He's immortalised, the Gurney flap has seen to that. Must write 'RIP Gurney' on the one on the 280ZX.

No matter what is done to a Datsun 120Y , #32, they still don't look like a race car. On the other hand all the Z cars come up looking pro.

No misunderstanding, the stone chips are typical of a race car that's all.

Note the race car stone chips on the front part of the rear flares.

See the radiator opening on this? Just about finished making a front mould for my Z31 project race car, the opening I decided on is the same shape but a bit bigger......... Trivia post of the week?

Dunno which track but I like the corner flatness, bugger all roll and those w-i-d-e tyres are flat on the deck.

It's a sequential shift manual gearbox, this particular one is made by Quaife. Check out how it's shifted forward for the next lowest gear and back for the next highest.

Not my 280ZX but I've followed it's back yard development over a few years, besides I have a 280ZX so some vicarious pleasure is going on lol. OE type suspension including semi trailing rear retained but tweaked.

Name Z's like that one bring too much money for most racers but I've heard of three ex US race S30's recently imported here, no pics yet.

Emoji didn't communicate, darn, the video is footage of a driving game/simulator, the first to have some old Datsuns in it. Useful to familiarise yourself with a circuit too.

Here is some vintage video

Seeing that I'm building a race Z31 I'm qualified to comment. Errr, it looks good.

Where is the love button for the Devendorf rig?

Looks like he nearly made it to the top, bold effort.

Be an interesting read, problem would be actually reading it. Pity.

It's just that you are so predictable Alan, someone steps out of the line according to guru you and BAM!

Well Alan I could spend hours trawling through race results and no doubt if I wanted to could come up with statistics to support my claims. But that's not going to happen. To elaborate on my S30 claims though, because they are of interest, my point is that at the time like equipped for like the S30 was a superior design. Basically to beat a S30 the Porsche required more power/bigger brakes/wider tyres, it always had to have a add on advantage. The inferiority of the Porsche design is easily illustrated on wet roads, maybe the very best specialist drivers could handle them but it's obvious the other 99.5% can't. If you don't understand that then perhaps you should spend more time actually following and examining the performance of various cars instead of just relying on statistics which can be selected anyway.

HS making mountains out of molehills again. Sato was a bit of a slow learner but an obviously tenacious one, great win for him, sincere congratulations.

Realistically Alan it was the S30 rather than any later Z models which I'm confident were a superior design to the 911 of that time. What happened in the US with the S30 was ground breaking for Nissan and it showed that no Euro designed production car could match it. Later on it was different, Nissan moved towards the GT market and Porsche got their act together and put all their effort into making cars that could win races. In that scenario it's obvious that even an average race orientated design would always beat a semi luxury GT design so I can't see anything to get excited about there on behalf of Porsche. Nothing that has happened since gives me any reason to change my mind, the S30 is a superior car to Porsche's offerings at the time. As for now the GTR is a joke, why a company would virtually abandon it's proven line and virtually emasculate it in favour of a fat exercise in over tech has me beat.

So nothing on the golden era of US Z car racing? That's truly strange because those successes should have had world wide implications, instead the Zed was basically neglected as a race car in Europe, partly no doubt because it was Japanese and an import. As far as my world S30 excellence claims go, if Europe is to be included then it's common knowledge that if you want to compete there then local experience and knowledge is paramount. This obviously requires a Europe based operation, particularly concerning long distance races. Bluntly S30 efforts in Europe were pathetic, competing against a factory dedicated team with the best drivers is only ever going to end in fail, the car is irrelevant. So whatever claims to being a World Event were made in reality they were Euro events and when one maker concentrates on a particular event the number of real contestants which can effectively challenge drops to near zero. For a specialist sports car maker which sales depend on winning races the incentive is obvious and the odds become shorter still. Yawn.