UAS Track Day, Wakefield, 16 May 04

[wreckedhead]

yeah everyone knows the zed is as heavy as a house and underpowered like my alloy dingy with small outboard, but chop all the metal away and leave just rolling shell with that motor and away you go.

[Duncan]

wreckhead you are correct again. Zs are super heavy.

300zx 1496kg (4 seat)

R34 GTR 1540kg

[wreckedhead]

are you trying to contradict what im saying, they are still heavy and comparing them to r34 gtr isnt any better they are nuggets too.

[Boosted Zed]

So the excuses are coming back now. Last year everyone thought we had big stuff done but was not really and still wasn't stripped out then.

I showed Christian my competition yesterday in Gary's R32 GTR, which is also stripped out and has more mods than my car. Has a Stack dash in it and bigger mods such as bigger turbo's, cams, sequential gear box, proper full cage etc. So not exactly apples for apples. My car has better aerodynamics with after market wings and things and an alloy tank but that is it. I have a second blade with gerni strip being made as well as carbon fibre front winglets for more down force.

Duncan, standard a 4 seater Zed which mine is weighs more than that, factory, according to my USA sales brochures I have say manual 3474 pounds, auto is more. I think this works out to be 1579kg? They have more sound deadening than the Skylines, heavier drive train by miles and more electronics, heavy electric seats, glass roof etc. They are low fat things, with potential though. R32 GTR are the lightest as you prob know. Duncan they say when you take weight out of the car in proportion the straights get shorter, the brakes grow in size and the corners are faster.

Re GTR bits, yes they keep coming up as options and bless Nissan as they make it easy being able to fit parts from one car to the other, such as the cam buckets I am using. Very few parts are made for zeds yet many parts Nismo and others make parts that we are finding which are not listed but actually fit straight on. We are finding lots of parts fro GTS-T same.

Yes Merli it is still a Zed. Imagine if I called it a GTR, that would be sacrilege and I would be banned from SAU.

[BU5TER]

Silly silly wreckedhead, whats doing talking it up with team trackday, stick to the drags where your doing ok as these guys will eat you alive

[Duncan]

hey buster, don't give it away, we were all *really* hoping to see wreckhead at this day

you should get down there too and see what real motorsport is wreckhead should be safe at Wakefield as there's no skidpan to frighten him

[BU5TER]

I met him at the drags a while back, he's not a bad guy in person and he was racing hahaha

Though he seems to be very much under the impression da GTR can never lose hahahaha I was hoping to show him what a old gtst can do once i'm back, why should you guys have all the fun

Oh and mate i'm real happy with my chosen motorsport, I'd probably get sea sick just watching you guys go around all those corners, its got me stuffed what they're even doing on a race track hahaha

cough and the BU5TER has no engine at the moment cough

[Majanal]

duncan has too cars without any engines atm Buster!!! lol... how come everyone is B-maning their engines atm?

[EvilElmo]

Yeah, I'm interested but I aint gonna bring my POS.

I was wondering if anyone wanted to take my girl for a spin? It bein her bday n shit.

Something nice n fast

Thanks

[Duncan]

Hey EvilElmo I thought POS were welcome? John's bringing a Z.....

[EvilElmo]

Nah, this crappy old thing wont get over 60 without falling apart. If I get around to tuning it and getting some new tires, I might bring it along with me.

Its a shitty old corolla (stock everything) so it doesn't handle anything "fast" that well

[Tosh]

Hey EvilElmo I thought POS were welcome? John's bringing a Z.....

QUALITY!!!!

[B-Man]

I'll be there for sure - Especially looking forward to a bit of dorifto !

[hawks]

i'll be there to cheer you poofs on

its a good chance to strech the torries legs

[T0nyGTSt]

I hope you guys are bringing heaps of still and movie cams.

Wanna see some sikkk sidewayz action... there are rumours going around that fat dog Skylines can't drift.

Surely that can't be right :bs!:

T.

[Tosh]

I hope you guys are bringing heaps of still and movie cams.

Wanna see some sikkk sidewayz action... there are rumours going around that fat dog Skylines can't drift.

Surely that can't be right :bs!:

T.

where's that Majanal poof???

[Majanal]

he's right toshi... skylines can't drift (see my sig for reference)

I doubt I can make this day unfortunatly, but I will do everything in my power to be there on Monday ("please Darling... I promis I won't break anything this time :fluttereyes: :Puppydog:") for at least a look see (might throw a set of drifters in the back seat just for laughs!)

[Abo Bob]

Well I'm going.

[Ghostrider]

Don't necessarily need a GTR to beat the Zed, just a good balanced car and a good steerer, the question is, is there any better than John on the day.

Just about anybody is capable, ON THEIR DAY.

[Merli]

Don't necessarily need a GTR to beat the Zed, just a good balanced car and a good steerer, the question is, is there any better than John on the day.

Just about anybody is capable, ON THEIR DAY.

Negative.

I know most people on here, even on their best day, won't beat a trained and experienced driver (e.g. John)....... even on their best days.

It's all about racing experience, and previous driver training on a race circuit.