[The official White Z thread]

My car before BBS rs and zg flares

[Does anyone have more pics/info on this car?]

the wheels are most likely Kodiak race wheels.

[Cosmo Racing Coilovers, early and late 206z differences?]

+1 for ground control. You are only saving a couple of bucks if you go Cosmo so I say invest in the ground control. There is a difference in ealry and late 260z strut tube. If you have an early you most likely have 240z strut tube and if you have late, you probably have 280z strut tube which is thicker.

[BBS RS wheel build]

Awesome. Thank you.

[BBS RS wheel build]

I got a call from wheel place and they wanted to know how much to open up center to it my hub. I think it's 73mm, can anyone let me know.

[GC Coilovers unanswered questions.]

Yes, with tokico illumina. Bz3099. Yes, I do have pictures, I'll try to post them up this week. One with 17" and the other with 14" at same sleeve coil setting. I think ground control can get you low enough, but of you want the frame rail scraping, hellaflush low look then the guys doing that run civic coilovers, but GC can get you low.

[GC Coilovers unanswered questions.]

I'm like 3-3.5 inches from floor pans with 14" rims with 6inch sleeves adjusted to almost mid point.

[GC Coilovers unanswered questions.]

I didnt use a washer.

[GC Coilovers unanswered questions.]

Did you do the same thing on the rear? The rear has no bearing so there is nothing for it to squeeze. But my rear upper rubber isolator fits over the d shaped threaded portion of the strut. Should I just bolt the rubber oem mount on the top of the strut then put the 2 big washers below?

No, I just bolted it up, since it was a 240z strut it fit like you said over d shape. I think I did put one washer or none at all. I forgot, but ill let you know when I see my car this weekend.

[Are these Datsun half shafts...]

Oh, haha my bad man. I thought you were RSpeed. Flat black 240z. I looked up the lotus and man what a beautiful car, good luck with project.

[Are these Datsun half shafts...]

Rs you sold the rb25'er?

[BBS RS wheel build]

@ramblino, nice car. Yaj luckily I have someone to do the work for me. As I hear feedback, it's going to take a little

More work, but I won't be giving up. Im going to on you with some q's if you dot mind.

@Comic, awesome, I need LCA too. Thanks for the links, yup 16" new can run me no more than $80 a piece, which is not bad. I ran hankook hs2 or vs2 I forgot, but they where really good tires. I plan on tracking my car like at willow springs, but I have only done a small track(slow) by my house, Adams motoraport park in SoCal. I'll look into your tires. Great price!

@MrKrispy, get them done.!

[BBS RS wheel build]

Hey, yes I did measurements today and front center is not goin to clear bore. I have a friend who is going to open up the centers a little to fit. A spacer does work since hub is tapered and only needs a little more to sit. Well you beat me to it. Hey send me some pictures at brianzkills@yahoo.com or post them.

Also I sure center caps will for over dust cap. I did some measuring and it seems that they will clear. Let me know about that.

[Z32 calipers on my 240z]

I'm sure he ran a custom bracket. There is currently a bracket that will work with z32 calipers on an s30z in the vendors section here.

[BBS RS wheel build]

@Comic. Thanks. I like the stretch. Will you be addIng negative camber? Those wheels do fill the zg flares nicely. Thank you for the pics and link. I've seen 205 on 9.5 and 225 on 11's. Search 240z rb25 fresh paint on YouTube, I really like how that came out too. I hear you in the 245 not having much of a stretch at all. Thats my only area of concern is tires. 16" doesn't have a big tire market.

[BBS RS wheel build]

Oops I meant to say 245 45 16 rear and 215 40 16 front or 225 40 16 front. I think the guys with watanabe 16x9 and 9.5 mostly run 245 45 16 on all corners. I'll look into your suggestion. What 17's do you have?

[BBS RS wheel build]

I really don't know. I was thinking of 245/40/16 rear and 215/40/16. I like a little stretch on tires, but I dislike the excessive stretch. Got any input on tire selection?

[BBS RS wheel build]

Hey guys! I recently sold my Rota rbr 17x9.5 and 17x8.5 to buy some suitable wheels for me. The 17" wheels were a bit to big for me as I wasn’t running zg flares, but I’ve seen the Rbr's with ZG flares and it wasn’t the look I was going for. I needed a more aggressive stance that was functional and had nice deep lips. In my opinion 17" rims are big and 15" is too small for me, but common snappers 18" work wheel car is an exception. I kept looking into the limited 16" market and was interested in Watanabe rs, SSR XR4 deep lip (15" I know), and CCW classics. I started with the watanabe and was quoted $3,000USD, that is way too much as I’ve seen the group buy here a set would have run $2,400 a few years back. I guess we can blame the USD value today. Then I looked into SSR XR4 and the ones I’ve seen only come in at 15" and required a lot of money and work to get them with a deep lip like I wanted. I then tried CCW, but it wasn’t there for me. I actually couldn’t find wheels that I wanted so I looked to resort on the new Varrstoen V3 wheels for temporary use, they had bad customer service and not the sizes I wanted so I quit. I then (Finally) had my eyes on the BBS RS wheels that are a 3 piece lightweight wheel. I haven’t seen a set of BBS rs on any s30z so I went to a used wheel store here in socal and worked with the owner for the size I was looking for and I pulled the trigger on an authentic used set of 16" BBS rs. The first picture is at its current state. I am waiting on 3" lips front and 4" lips rear or 3.5" front and 4" rear, but thinking of going 4.5" rear. I have a couple of weeks to decide. Once I have the lips, I will get the centers drilled for 4x114 then dip the face in chrome and have everything installed back with gold bolts or thinking of powder coating centers red. The final specs of the wheels will be 16x9 front -6 and 16x10-16 rear, that is with 3 and 4 inch lips. I think that would fill in my zg flares. I decided to go with these wheels because I haven’t seen them on an s30z and has a big aftermarket for spare parts, lips, and barrels. I hope to finish in September, but I doubt in time for JCCS. The next two pictures are to show you guys some examples of how they will look (except color) when I am finished. I will keep you guys updated.

[Adam Carolla races a datsun.]

Adam Carolla is a big datsun guy, he owns several. In remember him wanting to trade his vintage v12 Lambo for a Race champion 240z.

[Need help to identify rims/wheels]

Sold by drax and bought by Vader 280z. That is vader 280z car in the picture.

[KEN BLOCK'S GYMKHANA FIVE]

The 2006 Subaru boxster engine roared, I wish he still drove a Subaru and not a Ford.

@Six_Shooter. Well said.

[Scuff marks on P90 head]

Take it to a machine shop to check if it needs resurfacing.

[KEN BLOCK'S GYMKHANA FIVE]

This gymkhana was a big let down. It wasnt that good compared with his others.

[Staggered RBR wheel set-up]

Mostly all RBr 9.0 and 9.5 run 255 40 and 275 40 rear. That's going to fill fenders and have meat. I am sure that is what the blue car is running.

[Motul 240z in SoCal?]

Those are image wheels from UK and 1 of 3 according to one of the employees at Mogul. That's all I know from this car.