Airjockie

Aug 4th is fine by me.

Jimbo5670, feel free to swing up anytime...I can PM you my address if you want, and talk Datsuns.

Well, for the interested, I live in Meriden CT, which is centrally located in CT, so 1.2 hours from NYC, 1.5 hours from Boston, 2 hours from Englishtown NJ. You can Google Maps my Zip code for the distance. 06451. My house is 3 blocks away from Hubbard park, where I've had a small Z meet before. And I do have other meets at my house for Hondaswap.com, CTDrifting.com, and a few other websites. The back yard can prolly fit about 50 Z's, and if thats still not enough room, then the road parking, some of my driveway, and the kick ass neighbors I have will also let us park on their lawns. No nails, and stock plus 1"-2" dropped Z's can make it in the back yard with no problem. Right now I"m in the process of doing a little construction...so the house may be done by then, or still in progress...but who cares. Mini-fridge in the garage, A/C, computer, cable, TV, huge stereo, and if things work out in this month...there might be a patio with a hot tub next to the garage. I have a normal sized grill, and a few bottles of Sake. Good times always. Mid-March meet with 18 cars in the back yard...still plenty of room for more.... http://www.geocities.jp/choshi86/2007-car-meet-a.html And when all the "I got to leave early" guys left...then we break out the real food and drinks...and stay up all night. http://www.geocities.jp/choshi86/2007-car-meet.html A pic of the back yard before the grass grew in. and the rest of the yard. Current pics. About an half acre of land..... Plus, bring your old parts, wheels, tires, anything you'd like to get rid of or give away, and it will be a swap meet. Toss a tarp in front of your cars and lay out some parts, with a price tag on it...and you might sell it. *hint...I got a little money now...so tempt me please.

You guys can have it in my back yard.... I was going to post another BBQ/Swap meet thread, and was planning it in that time frame. I have enough room for about 30-40 Z's back there...and I'm right next to Hubbard park, Meriden, CT...which is awesome for meets and photoshoots.

Trade you my white Z and all the parts I'm collecting for it....

I'm starting to wonder if the airfoil is positioned right, that the downwash from the camber might add a vacuum that might accelerate more airflow from the engine bay and below the car...

Seeing the data, and the other items tested, and things that have been brought up...it got me thinking a bit. I just so happen to have this damn wing kicking around, and I tossed it around for a few months...and forgot it...but looking at the splitter and canards pic's...it got me thinking. huge whale-tail on the back of my red Z...that is at a certain angle modded by some risers to give more bite... of what use it is...I can only hope it's at a usable angle...I do know that when I hit anything over 80 mph...it rattles mighty fierce in the back. If it's adding any down force...I can only hope. And that would cause the nose to lift...which could be advantageous for fuel economy...but bad for race. But...back to that wing I got kicking around...I started to wonder if it would be worth hacking it up, re-modding it, and mount it somehow to the front.... and what would happen. I'm an aircraft mech...so wings, lift, drag and etc are second nature...but the data collected and the proof shown kinda shows that what we have for evidence...is that some any minor change in airflow characteristics will effect the car as a whole...and alot. So I'm toying with a few idea's. first idea will be... front wing/splitter/canards/whatever-you-want-to-call-it-if-it-is-nothing-but-a-ricer-idea mod. Granted...I can chop it up and reverse the airfoil, chop the airfoil off, reattach the canards to a different direction, flip it, extend it...etc... But think about it...comment on it, and in a few weeks I'll work on it...since I'll be in Japan looking for more odd things to put on one of my Z's for a few weeks...since I already have the Work's over fenders and 15x10's and 15x12's...and almost any other size wheel and tire combo that fits or I can get. here's the idea.... http://www.redpepperracing.com/gallery/v/airjockie/Aerothoughts/

Vmax is true....but I bet that pilot got reammed unless he was a squadron commander. What it basically does is opens the fuel to the engine to where there is no restrictions...and gets the full fuel flow...and jet engines loves fuel....more fuel, more power...and then it's a full engine swap. Only used for outrunning things like scuds and missiles.

http://www.upgarage.com/upgarage/index.php

I was an F-15c/d crew chief back in 1991, then I worked everything from Cessna's to KingAir's from 1999-2001, then I got a job working on Blackhawks ans Seahawks from 2001-2005, right now I'm just working on S-76's and S-92...2005-present. Commercial Flight operations at Sikorsky Aircraft. It's fun, and keeps me busy.

I definitely hitting this.... http://www.motorsportscom.info/drift/2007/round-05/

I lived in Japan for 7.5 years, visit all the time. I'm going to the Kansai area in June for 2 weeks as well. I'll mostly be in the ShinTanabe area in Kyoto, but right on the Nara/Kyoto/Osaka prefecture borders. And this trip I'll prolly venture down to Nagoya a few times to see if I can meet up with a guy I've met online on Mixi. (Japanese myspace) And I'll hit up the Meihan Sportsland a few times and see if I can bum a car and do some drifting and ♥♥♥♥. One buddy will take me to all the carting events and shops, and I'll break away with the wife and a few friends and we'll go hit another ryokan in the mountains of Kyoto. I'll be over there the 15-28th of June, if anyone in the area wants to hook up and we'll go trash some tires. My buddy has a built up Stagea, and we autocrossed it the last time I was there two years ago. And I made a post on Ziptied about my trip, and someone over there put together a list of events in Japan for drifting.... http://dr1ft.jp/ click events.

http://www.rims-n-tires.com/rt_specs.jsp

you can't beat free...that's a deal. but from my experience...I'd say get any new driver a day in an autocross event and in a drift event, sometimes they are about $25 a day to about $50 in some areas....but the lessons they could learn is worth it. For car people it's fun...for student drivers or for people who wants to feel what happens when they press the brake (or gas) too hard in a corner and wants to learn how a car re-acts...it's an eyeopener. Plus, they also learn to look ahead and see where they have to go at a quiker pace than what normal driving entails. I taught my wife how to drive that way, and she's 39 years old and Japanese (the worst person to teach).... one year since she's got her licence...no accidents. I might have scared her too much though, she's now a driver thats afraid to speed... which works for me. I also taught her on bald heavy tires, and now her car has light grippy tires...and she's not a car person, but she has respect for other cars on the road that might have those crappy tires on it in front of her....so she keeps her distance better than other people do on the highway.

damn...I hate seeing stuff like that... on a lighter note, I faired out pretty good up here in CT, the town next to me flooded, but I live on a hill and all I got was a small puddle in my back yard...when buying a house...location is everything. all I do know...is that all the salt on the roads from the tiny snow storms that we had this year is 100% gone....so now it's time to bring the Z's out on the road..... The red one still needs a little door adjustment and some touchup paint, and the white one still needs a part welded up and registered. But I threw them up for sale since I really need to get the house done and get a newer daily driver....for the right price...anything is for sale...except the wife and dog.

http://www.geocities.jp/datsunz903/ :hail::hail::hail:

Just do eeeeeeettt!!!!! hehe

if you don'tmind FWD, then get an 85-87 CRX HF... 54 mpg stock...the Si gets about 32 with a little work...

it will look just like this...with the flares I have and some fresh paint...

you can click on different pages of that gallery link... here's a cool looking pic though... I already took them off, to clean them up, polish them a little more and set them in the basement until I'm ready to mount them on the white Z I have, after I do up the bodywork and add the new flares...also on the last page or so of the gallery, a member here asked me to mount the 15x10s on the back...granted...the tire is tiny, but the wideness of the rim will fill out the current flare on the red Z...so I might just order two more 15x10, and some 15x8's...and get a full new set for that car...or go back to Japan for a week or two, and get another set of real Watanabes...

I just need a black hood, and some mudflaps....hehe

Actually, I do have some. A full set of 14x6.5 Watanabe Type B's, 114.3 +15 offset with Azenis RT-215 on a pair, and RT-615 on the other pair. I only striped the factory paint off the fronts, looked at them, didn't see any problems, and just repainted them and used them as soon as I could get tires on them. Unbalanced and they roll very smooth...Keepers IMHO, but I need to clear out space, and they will fit my Z, but not after I upgrade the brakes...so I don't need them, anyways, they could use a good sandblasting when you wear out the current tires, plus the lip is painted now, but they did clean up great for a polished lip look. $800 OBO A pair of 14x6.5 Watanabe RS-8's, 4x114.3 +18 offset with 205/60/R14 Yokohama ES-100's. Polishes up great, could use a paint stripping and repaint...your choice. $400 OBO..

the fronts are 15x10, and the only tire I could find that was DOT legal, with decent grip, wide enough, and clear the car....plus I found 4 tires that filled all that. Plus something with a ZR rating. hehe. so I found some Dunlop SP Sport 9000's, 245/35zr15's...X4... for $400. so two spares.. hehe