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LSx properly located will give good weight balance, the only problem with them for circuit work can be oil pressure drop so an Accusump plus a gated sump at least would be essential.

Yes, a ripper day at Lakeside and some great times. Any videos yet? http://racing.natsoft.com.au/636036279/object_743506.82T/View?1

As the stiffness of a chassis is increased so should the stiffness of the springs used eg the standard S30 chassis is very flexy so using heavy springs only causes the chassis to flex more and become one giant, soft spring which can't be tuned. So choosing spring rates depends very much on how stiff the chassis is. And then there are the dampers.......... Better shut up, lap times are what counts so..........but I love the theory and application of suspension theory so forgive my mini rant, please

Why? Because race car. Quarters are structural Jason, basic race car rule, always leave it stronger than you found it. I am disappoint.

Hope that those cut quarters were welded up again before painting, got to keep my eye on you blokes it seems.

Could be shocks, I thought that with a cage heavier springs were the go.

Should be a good day, looking forward to it though without a track car it's a bit sucky. Are you worried about food Aub? I hear that they don't have Coke there

Checked a few out myself recently, ended up getting a Nikon Coolpix S3600 for around $130.00, has been good so far. The important thing for me was to get one with a rechargeable battery.

It's wrong to think there is a points scoring competition going on, different people have different ways of expressing themselves and particularly on forums, where the only communication is written, such expression can be very easily misunderstood or taken the wrong way. This is a two way street, it can be the reader who gets it all wrong not the poster. Aubrey has presidential experience as have I and we have all experienced the problems mentioned above but as always it comes down to who is available to do what. It's not like running a business where employees can be directed to do something and in a particular way, it's voluntary which means you basically try to influence outcomes but in effect the volunteer has the final say. And volunteers naturally want to be involved in things that they are interested in. And why not, without them nothing would get done. So that is one reason why certain activities and interests receive more attention than others, it should be obvious that it is not a lack of awareness or desire by the president or anyone else, it's just the way it is with volunteers vis a vis paid employees.

Jason, your constant knocking of the Z Car Club and by inference it's members is tiresome and counter productive. It has been posted here several times that NDN15 over Easter at Warwick is proceeding, in addition to that you personally are aware of a lot of the relevant detail. There can be only one reason why you infer here that there is doubt and it's not a very nice one. All this negative rubbish is no good for you personally either, a 'I'm going to make the best of things' attitude would help you a lot. Cheers

It's irrelevant who or what club is running an event, if they are going to lose money doing it then it's common sense not to proceed. With a club it would also be irresponsible when considering member's funds are involved. If you are so keen Jason then how about you run something irrespective of the monetary result, actually you could step up now and run a happy laps thing on the day

"I just saw this in my facebook feed and had to laugh. GTR haters read this please: http://jalopnik.com/i-tracked-a-nissan-gt-r-and-i-get-it-now-1657159001" Let's be clear, I'm not a GTR hater, have not even driven one. But I can't see the point of it when Nissan have a perfectly good sports car already, the 370Z. Which, as already mentioned, could be developed much further to include several different versions, at least one of which should be damn quick by any standards. As to that Jalopnik road test, it's a bit surprising to see that the GTR is not very daily driver friendly. One of the criteria for a top modern high performance car is that it should not only be daily driver friendly but also fun, just being suitable for a race track no matter how good a car is for that purpose is simply not acceptable these days. In fact one of the qualities that such a car should have is a dual personality, just like the most popular high performance cars do. I've driven a race orientated car on the road, just like the GTR seems to be it's no fun, it's tiring and it's race track performance is irrelevant. Sorry, the GTR in that test does not seem to be up there with the others that should be it's peers.

The happy laps are part of the breakfast deal, for catering purposes QR need to have a minimum number booked in advance. It's too late to enter in the morning for pretty obvious reasons but why would anyone want to leave it to the last minute anyway.

All good points, cars can be a very personal thing so most comments about them are going to be subjective. On the 370Z, Lee Falkner had a race only one which I understand took a fair bit of work to get the handling right, he used to run it at the Morgan Park sprints. It was pretty fast, he used to mix it with the slower Cobras quite effectively. On the subject of engines, where Nissan lost an opportunity was with their first V6, the VG30E. A pretty hopeless engine without NISMO heads which transformed them but none of the Z31's had those heads as standard which they should have had or at least they should have been an option of some sort. The V6 in the Z32 was a good engine but just too heavy, particularly in NA form. I had a VG30DET in my 280ZX, the replacement 6 litre LS NA engine is lighter, a lot simpler, has a lower C of G and will produce more power with a few modest mods than the turbo. So it's from that perspective that I am disappointed in what Nissan have done post S30, even placing the GTR above the 370Z as the Nissan flagship makes little sense to me. Porsche have several versions of their 911 thing, Nissan could have done the same with the 370Z including a GTR spec one. And forget about the GTR altogether.

Ooops, someone stirred up a late model Z car owner, you blokes meed to be a bit more careful about what you write To clarify my position, I did mention the S30 as a genuine Porsche race competitor back in the day which no recent Z car can claim. So either Porsche has moved on or Nissan has not kept up or both. I'm no S30 fanboy but those are the facts. None of which knocks any recent Z car but as they are not raced in this country it seems fair to say that there are more suitable cars out there for that purpose, which is what I was talking about. Anyway, as far as flak goes my 280ZX cops heaps and my choice is constantly questioned. It's disappointing but there is not much point in calling the knockers ignorant or whatever, I like it and am past the point where the opinion of my peers matters much as to car choice

Well of course the S chassis was and still is great but I was talking about the S30 and sports cars in general. I guess that while Nissan were still evolving the Z car there was never going to be another sports car based on the S chassis or anything else, at the time I think that Nissan had a problem with too much diversity as it was, just look at the different engines they were using.

That's the point isn't it, to find the modern equivalent of the S30 you have to go elsewhere to Mazda, Toyota, Subaru......... Isn't it the FD which is a popular for a V8 transplant? Makes a lot of sense to me, an easy 500WHP with heaps of torque is never going to be boring by the way.

What Nissan have constantly failed to do is follow up on the success of the S30. We all know that a car like the S30 could never be made today although Toyota/Subaru have shown what can be done and by all measures it's a pretty good result. The R35 frankly has failed to fulfil it's potential in so many ways, without looking it up I bet it's sales reflect that too. As a race car it's problematic and unreliable and takes huge amounts of money both to develop and keep on the track, what a contrast to the S30 which in the more even playing fields of US racing once took it right up to Porsche. Although I decided long ago I would never own a Porsche I'd much prefer one to a R35, either as a race car or a daily. Then there is the 370Z which no doubt has suffered development wise due to the voracious appetite of the R35 in that respect. Quite a decent sports car but where is the proper club race version? The once mighty NISMO has been reduced to retailing gear knobs and stickers instead of giving the 370Z some decent race capable power for a start. I'm sure GM would not mind selling them some light weight V8's Enough ranting from me, back to the home reno work.

Would not have a R35 in a fit, not my sort of car at all.

There is an engine builder in Adelaide who loves 308's, does some nice mods to them and gets big reliable power. A pushrod V8 is definitely my engine of choice for a Z.

That's pretty disgraceful really, sadly Nissan for me lost their way some time ago, except for perhaps the 370Z there is not one vehicle in their range that appeals to me.

That $30 late entry fee has been around for ages Jason, you need to get out more. It's not a good idea to try for a late entry anyway because if they are full you roll up ready to go and then :'(

Just been told about this, some of the fastest cars from the recent Australian series will be there so definitely worth a look.

Oil leak marks it's territory