EZ-E Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 I like his quote near the end of his video where hes like, " Ive a couple of track days with it, its kind of fun blowing by Z06's in the straight and theyre never expecting that." Hah you gotta love it, and viocleff, I dont know what your talking about, with 400hp to the ground I think that car is doing quite well and would probably handle much better then a L powered Z of the same nature concidering the weight advantage of the SR motor not to mention it sits so far back, its like he said, almost an MR car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnc Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 that car is doing quite well and would probably handle much better then a L powered Z of the same nature concidering the weight advantage of the SR motor not to mention it sits so far back, its like he said, almost an MR car. Nope. The Rusty Old Datsun with less horsepower from its NA L6 was multiple seconds per lap faster around WSIR then Amir's car. Also, overall weight and weight distribution was about the same given that the ROD had its L6 engine moved back and down. Now, with more development time and money Amir's 260Z can be much faster around a race track. I guess that it has the potential to run 1.25s around WSIR. Every car is unique and requires testing and develoment time to extract its full potential. Amir's car has not yet had that time spent on it. My old Datsun did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnc Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 john, what was the purpose of swapping a 13b into the rx8? what are the advantages over the renisis? Power. Amir said he got tired of passing cars in the corner and then having them pass him on the straights. Having spent some time under an RX8 I can tell you that they have the best OEM suspension I've seen. I will be up at WSIR this weekend hanging around a few T3 RX8s that are running the double regional to see how well they do. One of them was on the rack at EMI Racing last night and I got to look at how Erik did the Penske shock setup. Really cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
240Z_Master Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 Power. Amir said he got tired of passing cars in the corner and then having them pass him on the straights. Having spent some time under an RX8 I can tell you that they have the best OEM suspension I've seen. I will be up at WSIR this weekend hanging around a few T3 RX8s that are running the double regional to see how well they do. One of them was on the rack at EMI Racing last night and I got to look at how Erik did the Penske shock setup. Really cool. The D1GP JIC RX-8 is powered by a 13B also (making some 500 odd HP btw). So doing the 13B swap onto a RX8 isn't bad, people like the dynamics of the RX8, but love the heart of an FD. My $.02 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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