
Everything posted by Racer X
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Greetings From The Great Pacific Northwet
You mean all the parts cars? The brown and red Z's are my only 'complete' runners. I do have a couple more that have potential. But they are a ways off from seeing the road again.
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Greetings From The Great Pacific Northwet
Thanks! More pics? Check out my Flickr album here: Racer's Z and More And I tried to create an album here, but it looks empty. Also looks like I created a second album too. The software this forum uses is unfamiliar to me, and is not very intuitive. I'll get there eventually.
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Greetings From The Great Pacific Northwet
Longtime lurker, finally registered. Been into the Z as long as it has been produced, although it was not until 1989 that I actually owned one. I started out as the typical American teenager, with muscle cars. A Chevelle or 3, as many Impalas (including a '66 SS 396 that I traded for a VW Beetle), a '71 Camaro (still own it) and a '65 Comet Caliente (wish I still had this one). Picked up a '71 Z that had been raced since '79 in 1989. Ran some novice races, and then spent the winter of '89 ~ '90 completely rebuilding it. The car was hideous when I picked it up, bright green on one side, blue on the other, with an orange stripe down the middle. The previous owner was known as a rolling chicane. I broke that chain and put the car where it belonged, in the winner's circle. The car before it was mine (number 339 behind the nice looking red white and blue one): The car as it looks today: The logbook dates to 1979, and has a long racing history in the Pacific Northwet running ICSCC (Conference) and SCCA road racing meets. It has been a lot of fun to race. I liked the Z so much that I now have 14 Z cars, although most of them are parts cars, parked out behind the shop. I did pick up a 2 owner car around 1995, here it is with the race car: Cheers, Racer.
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Nissan Factory restoration cars
And they didn't have polished cam covers as new either. Of course this example has been polished, but looks as if it needs cleaned up some. For $70k I would expect a concours perfect car.
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Winner From Start
From the album: Racer's Z Cars
Started off right, bringing home trophies with this car. Much better than the previous owner, who was known as a rolling chicane. The middle trophy was for second place at Westwood, the very first time I ran there. I fought a soft brake pedal all weekend too. Coming down the backstretch into the hairpin was scary as hell. I'd start tapping the brake pedal with my left foot long before the braking zone, then at the right moment, grab all I could. The pedal would sink as I downshifted, and as it hit the floor I got off the brake, turned in and squeezed the throttle, using a little throttle to rotate the car around the turn. As is hooked up it squirted back uphill towards the esses. We bled the brakes after every track session, but I still hadn't dialed in the cooling ducts. By the end of my first season I had it figured out, and now the car can run all weekend without needing to bleed the system. -
Racer's Z Cars
My Z's
- Westwood Turn 2
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Westwood Turn 2
From the album: Racer's Z Cars
Westwood had a steeply banked right hand turn at the end of the front stretch. The car would get fully compressed on the suspension. I ran flat out around it, most enjoyable. - Westwood Hairpin
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Tri Cities At Benton County Airport
From the album: Racer's Z Cars
Before Team Continental had their own track (Grass Valley) they would host meets at airports. This was at Benton County Airport. -
Tri Cities At Benton County Airport
From the album: Racer's Z Cars
Before Team Continental had their own track (Grass Valley) they would host meets at airports. This was at Benton County Airport. - SIR Turn 5
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SIR Turn 5
From the album: Racer's Z Cars
For the uninitiated, the average everyday Joe Schmoe who drives a crappy econobox to work everyday who can't appreciate what is going on at speed, consider this photo. The car is going through a turn at speed (around 100mph or so). The driver has just finished a brief moment of braking, and downshifted from 4th to 3rd, and is squeezing the accelerator down. The car is also still quite light, the tires barely gripping the track surface, as the approach to the turn is uphill, and curved. Also, as the accelerator is squeezed more and more, the lateral acceleration of the car increases, and centrifical force is trying to force the car off to the driver's right. What the viewer does not see is that the track ahead has a double right hand turn, a short chute, and then a left hand turn that goes back uphill (track elevation change over 1 lap is about 300 feet at this track). To be fast, the driver has to treat this turn, the double right, and the left all as one smooth and fluid turn so there is the most momentum possible available to climb the steep hill on the exit of the left turn. A delicate dance on 4 tires (sometimes 3) as the speed increases. Get the whole thing right, make the very latest apex possible on the left hander and the car launches up the hill. Get it wrong and the rear snaps around and the car backs into the earth bank on driver's left going up the hill. Not pretty. - SIR Pregrid
- SIR 8
- SIR Exiting 8
- SIR 5B
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SIR 5B
From the album: Racer's Z Cars
Carrying the right front around the turn. Stiff car. -
SIR 5B
From the album: Racer's Z Cars
Carrying the inside front tire around the turn. - SIR 3B
- SIR 3B
- SIR 3B
- SIR 3B
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SIR 3B
From the album: Racer's Z Cars
Hangin' it out a bit. -
SIR 3A
From the album: Racer's Z Cars
Leading Frank McKinnon (the Mustang) and Larry Miller in the other Z through turn 3A at SIR.