Tommo560

Dad and i were over after leaving the car in sydney from the stint at bathurst. check out my account page to see a lap of bathurst too!

its got koni internally adjustable shocks with king springs. it handles rather well for all of the stuff i do (street, track, motorkhanas) i hate the sunroof personally. wont stop leaking and it gets soo hot having the sun on your head in summer, i also dont like the way its really obviously tacked on. something that folows the contour of the car would be better.

there we go. enjoy, sorry about the sepia.

you tube isnt working so no vids yet sorry guys!! you have no idea how embarrasing this is :stupid:

from a motorkhana i did on sunday. first vid is one of my early drift practice runs (so much understeer i could only turn in and then had to clutch kick it to get it to turn. plus its fun ) and the second vid is of my last run for the day. this is the first time ive ever drifted a car in my life and it was great fun. car: 1977 260 L28 over 60 thou flat top pistons triple webers (black smoke in first run is from bad tune )

ohhh... good question. now you mention it i think they are out by a little bit so we welded and re drilled one of the holes. i dont think its out by much. sorry cant be more precise but it was a while ago and i dont really remember, just that i took it to a cnc place and said fix it. whatever they did it didnt cost much, i remember that much. Justin: Yeah, Powder coated. flat black i think. looks great.

Theyre only 2-pots but they have about 2 times more pad area and much more powerful pistons than what was on the car (Toyota 4x4 4-pistons), so over stock, if thats what youve got, even over the toyotas, they would be a PHENOMENAL upgrade. Rather easy to fit. re-drilled commodore rotors to 4-stud patter to fit on the hubs and had to shave the suspension arm where the calipers mount down to a completely flat surface (they have a slight bump. about a couple mm i believe) and then used a shim to situate the caliper centrally on the rotor. not too difficult but not super easy. If youre not going to be racing it id honestly recommend the Toyota 4x4 4-piston and solid or vented rotors, much easier to fit and work fine. these were on the car and did a far more than adequate job on the street, the solid rotor just got too much heat soak on the track though. fine for sprints and motorkhanas and "street" racing but could be better for circuit racing, which is why i upgraded. the added bonus with these xr8/commodore brakes too is that they fit in under the 14" stockies had to use an angle grinder for one spot on one of the fins on one of the rotors that JUST touched but otherwise all good. **EDIT** the commodore and xr8 brakes are identical i am lead to believe. i also am told that these particular specimens are from a VN commodore, but they are however identical to the brakes on all models of xr8 and commodore up to but excluding the current iterations. i am not certain of this though so some searching for "commodore brakes" on this website and/or hybridz.org would probably be prudent.

Yeah were the fastest in class. that picture was from the vintage regularity last year which is coming up again in a few weeks. absolute ball of a time. im generally overtaking the back of the pack after 2-3 laps :devious: as for the black. Thanks!! most people seem to think the chrome looks better but personally chrome and silver was too much, and the black makes it look kinda stealth like so i definitely prefer it.

Cheers mate! yeah she sure is hell of a lot of fun either way. can get a bit tempting to do silly things on the road with the power though, but i generally manage to keep it to the race track *wink wink*

Car: 1977 Datsun 260Z Owner: Tom Whitfield Purchased: July 2004 Power: Chasing 200 RWHP (153 RWKW). Should have figures once i find a dyno day when the cars not in an event or off the road (not often ) ET: Low 14 second quarter (different car, same motor ran a 14.3 a couple weeks ago) http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=whittie260 Interior: CAMS approved 6-point roll cage Momo Corse Racing seat SPARCO 4 Point Race Harness Momo Race steering wheel Re-trimmed seats and all carpets and mats All working and original gauges Red-back alarm, immobilizer and remote central locking Exterior: Custom modified front spoiler Custom installed 2 window sunroof Factory option rear spoiler Powder-coated black exterior trim pieces Rolling Stock: Race: Japanese 3-piece ultra light weight 15" race rims Dunlop 215/50/15 Type-R race semi-slick tyres all round Street: Original 14" Datsun mags polished and painted 195/60/14 Nankang tyres all round Engine Bay: Nissan L28 Engine block bored 60 thou Nissan P90 head shaved, ported and header flowed Gemini pistons Nissan l24 con rods Datrally 78 race cam Oversize valves Triple 45mm Weber carburetors MSD Digital-6 Plus ignition K&N Filters BMW gold centered harmonic balancer Oversized crankshaft bearings 2 1/4" mandrel bend tuned length extractors 2 1/2" mandrel bend exhaust, 3" resonator, 3" muffler V8 2-core radiator Mechanical: Lightened flywheel Re-lined Exedy super-heavy duty clutch (soon to be replaced with button clutch to handle power) Nissan 5 speed close ratio gearbox Nissan Skyline 4.4:1 LSD Custom stub axles Datsun 1600 drive shafts Ford BA XR8 2-spot front rotors and calipers, EBC green pads Nissan R31 Skyline 1-spot rear calipers and rotors, EBC green pads 15/16" Brake master cylinder Koni internally adjustable struts King springs Aftermarket sway bars front and rear Camber Kit Polyurethane bushings through-out Volkswagon H4 headlights ICE: You dont need a subwoofer with triple webers :twisted:

sorry mate dont know. i do know that they're for an rx7 and that you have to drill your own holes to get them to mount properly. just take in a pad you have and match the shape to one in the book, thats what i did.

mouth suddenly dry... pants suddenly gooey... that is one SWEET z. only thing i would do that isnt in those pics is to paint the front spoiler body colour. looks a bit out of place on such a meticulous looking car.

15!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! whoever bought that will be in stitches. thats one hell of a deal. hell if id had 15k lying around iwould have bought it for that!!!

Pics at http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v621/Tommo560/Datsun%20260Z/Toyota%20Calipers%20and%20Discs/

someone here in perth did a conversion to rb25det and i believe all up including purchase of original, body work and conversion, all the way through to compliance cost him about $25k. i'd say you'd be lucky to find anyone willing to sell an rb zed for any less than 20 for one in decent nik. probably easier to just scour internet sites, the paper, and the local club for a decent rust free article to come around and then buy a half cut and do it yourself. you say your an apprentice (mechanic i presume?) so you should have the tools and know how to do most of the work yourself, and z's and really very complicated. infact they're really very simple to work on. Tom.