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S30's are basically an excellent car in the rain, it's their natural balance, unlike some others which have the heavy bits in the wrong places.

Someone was chasing beyond his skill level?

Jon and Gina, members of our Z club, same engine builder as for the Green Hornet. To get some perspective on their win for starters they smashed three 911's in their class, all around the same 3+ litres engine capacity, weather was mixed and once there is moisture the 911's turn to water Jon & Gina actually won one stage outright in front of all the modern supercars including the all wheel jivers. Just goes to show that the basic design of the S30 is a world beater still, all this from a mass produced low priced sports car that is rock reliable and durable with no pretensions. Shows up the pretenders eh.

What I'm responding to Alan is your claim that Porsche is best when it clearly isn't, my current example of Targa Tasmania is real world, not factory with the best pro drivers, real world. And one thing this shows is that as usual on wet roads Porsches lose, two Vipers now leading. As for the US the Nissan/Datsun racing record is self evident and against Porsches too, sorry if facts get in the way of your opinion, again. Ans sorry for the off topic, I still want books on the most interesting period of production type car racing in the word. In my opinion.

The obvious thing is that Porsche has always been a specialist in high performance sports cars, Nissan and the rest of them are not. As Ford showed with the GT40, it's not that hard to design a Porsche beater, right now in Targa Tasmania a Viper is leading if a current example is needed. And while we are on Targa Tas, check out the performance of a certain S30 compared with The Pretender in his GT3, bit of a laugh really.

That BSR ZX, would fit on my trailer easy lol.

There is Paul Newman's Winning of course but what I'd really like to read about is the US development of the racing Z covering S30 to Z31. I'm not sure how interesting this topic would be in the US but to this furriner it was magic, those race cars were just the best and far superior to anything else in the world concerning production sports cars at that time.

Looking for a paint scheme for my Z31 project racer, Newman red, white and blue would be OK but maybe that yellow with red numbers and a go fast stripe?

What the hell happened there?

Is not the race Z31 a classic of the 80's and cooler than the euros or anything else of that time? I mean, awful stock but tart em up for racing, wow! So more race pics please

Wow, great pic Racer X.

Or could it be a fuel pickup from the tank issue? Lots of questions

I guess you WA blokes will be back for Bathurst this year, the incident was just bad luck with perhaps a bit of fatigue, last lap and all that. Hope you enjoyed the back view of your car Chris, can be useful sometimes.

280ZX avatar car, now with the mighty LS3.

I'm driving the camera car Mike, it was heaps of fun but on one of the most challenging circuits in the world, the video shows the easy bits of the circuit. Be great to see some American Z racers try it out, not a cheap exercise though if you are going to ship your car.

The mighty Mount Panorama, Bathurst, not serious racing but having some fun harassing a couple of S30's, oops.

Love the wheels on 240, so schmick.

In my part of the world the brake problem for S30's involves the historic race class where they are restricted to original brakes. Both pads and rotors have to be replaced after every meeting due to extreme use. There are lots of different brand brake pads, the thing is which one has been proven to best handle this situation? And rotors too, they have to be plain faced.

Good, which compound did you get?

Wow, that's a pretty ballsy course

Like it or not Alan is an institution and factually you had better take notice. But he and others need to learn the difference between alleging a fact and making a mere comment or observation. Take my previous comment about Nissan aero. In no way was I claiming that Nissan was behind other makers or had no clue about what they were doing, it's because of that sort of conclusion jumping that lawyers have to include all the fine print that people complain about. Also as far as the G nose goes it is my experience that it's considered by your average S30 fan to be the ultimate aero device. That's my experience, how can I be wrong in stating that experience? The conclusion may be right or wrong but that's something else altogether, please guys brush upon your comprehension skills, I've had a lot of professional experience in using language precisely as possible and it's disappointing when some rush off with all sorts of versions on what was said. PS This series of lively discussion has woken up this thread, how can that possibly be bad?

It's always interesting when you post some words in response to a picture or two as to how those words get treated, negatively or otherwise. Alan, while usually informative, also usually manages to include his typical negative interpretation of what was said when, this time and as usual,mine are comments or observations, not assertions of fact. The G nose comment was made on my observation of what most apparently consider the ultimate piece of S30 aero, my comment was that in reality it was not. Which apparently is correct but some how or other was not an appropriate comment to make. Love it

Interesting pics, looks like Nissan were trying several different aero setups which indicates, to me anyway, that they weren't sure what would work. I've never accepted the g-nose as being the ultimate, it might have been fastest in a straight line but pushing air under rather than over the car does not help grip. Which for a circuit car is of course crucial.

Winners!!!!!!!!!!!