RayG1988 Posted March 2, 2008 Share Posted March 2, 2008 Anyone have more info on it? I remember seeing a video of it a long time ago, and I also remember someone posting a picture of the engine bay. I searched for it here on hybrid but I guess the host that was hosting the picture isn't up anymore or something. It's a really old picture with a light blue twin turbo triple carbed Fairlady Z. Can anyone help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrumpetRhapsody Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 Searches bring up lots of talk about it, but no picture. That's something I'd definitely like to see if it exists though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin240Z Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 In the Live action version of Wangan Midnight, it was the shop that did the work on the Devil Z, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNNeMfg4tDY, 3min and 50 seconds in is where you get a good shot of the sticker on the fender in front of the door. I do not know if the shop exists for real, but, that's all the information I have on it. *Edit* According to some information I dug up, there may have been a real shop for a some period of time(not sure when) but it no longer exists. *End Edit* On a side note I happen to have the shop sticker on my car, just for fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Globerunner513 Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 Search for the Devil Z or Wangan Midnight. SSS did indeed exist, however does not anymore. Tony D has a lot of information on this car, as i remember. And the car was not just tripple carbed, but twin turbo as well. Produced in the range of 600hp if i recall correctly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratsun Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 Damn! Globerunner beat me to the punch! ---rat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony D Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Ahhh, the tools on Youtube are calling it a 280 and then correcting themselves that it's a 240 "Yo".... Argh! I saw the SSS car in Mainland Japan while stationed there. SSS was a big deal in the late 80's and early 90's. They must have faded out. Sad really. They made several vehicles like that one, basically as film 'chase cars'. There was a 'Making of' style video out at the same time that showed how they filmed it. If you watch closely, you can see the big blue flame out the tailpipe as he lifts and shifts early on in the trailer. In the Making of Video you can actually see the blue flame work it's way up the pipe in the dark. It's reeeeallly cool. This is what was going on in Japan every night....20 years before "The Fast and the Furious" made it's debut here! Just keep that in mind when someone says they are the 'first' to do anything on an early Z.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Globerunner513 Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 wiki lives up to his name! hehe The whole world around the wangan line really amazes me. A friend of mine joined the 200mph club there in his R32, when he was stationed there. And I got to, albeit in transit, visit the express ways while i was in tokyo in november. Really must be a fun experience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony D Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 Oh, I see I have garnered an "official site moniker"! Better than what it could have been, I suppose...LOL Wonder when that changed. Man, I'm oblivious to stuff sometimes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hughdogz Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 Oh, I see I have garnered an "official site moniker"! Better than what it could have been, I suppose...LOL Wonder when that changed. Man, I'm oblivious to stuff sometimes. Wha? You didn't know you were the legendary "Wiki D"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratsun Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 I swear... between Tony D and HLS30-H we have everything we need to know about the S30 in many respects. I wonder if there's anything they don't know:biggrin: BTW, Tony what else did SSS make besides that Z? Also, there have to be some other really outstanding Zs from that era... Any info?? --rat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollum Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 Tony - If you go check the thread in the non-tech section called something similar to "The mods sure are clever", then you'll see on somewhere around the 3rd or 4th page they changed your title. As you can tell from my new avatar. I've embraced the mantle they've put upon me... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdizzy204 Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 btw veoh.com has the live action movie. just search wangan midnight:biggrin: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony D Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 non-tech? whaaaa... I'm SHOCKED! Yeah, if you can source any "Carboy" Magazine from 1985 through at least 1990 every October (If I recall correctly) there was the annual "L-Engine Shootout". I know my 1989 Issue didn't even list N/A cars that weren't running at least in the 12's. The Turbos were in Single Digits 0-400m... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratsun Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 Thanks, Tony:) Looks like I'll have some scrounging to do. --rat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suprastar77 Posted May 29, 2013 Share Posted May 29, 2013 Ahhh, the tools on Youtube are calling it a 280 and then correcting themselves that it's a 240 "Yo".... Argh! I saw the SSS car in Mainland Japan while stationed there. SSS was a big deal in the late 80's and early 90's. They must have faded out. Sad really. They made several vehicles like that one, basically as film 'chase cars'. There was a 'Making of' style video out at the same time that showed how they filmed it. If you watch closely, you can see the big blue flame out the tailpipe as he lifts and shifts early on in the trailer. In the Making of Video you can actually see the blue flame work it's way up the pipe in the dark. It's reeeeallly cool. This is what was going on in Japan every night....20 years before "The Fast and the Furious" made it's debut here! Just keep that in mind when someone says they are the 'first' to do anything on an early Z.... you reckon the high speed runners of the 80's and 90's will rise again? I mean we all know i few of them, like Smokey Nagata,Nakai-San ect. i mean who knows. maybe another club will arise with the rules as the infamous Mid Night Club. I wish i could have seen that 240Z. but what i heard was that it was actually not the original Z that was the Devil. the True Devil Z arose from a completely different shop and some even say it was a lone wolf, ahhh a one man army, it wasen't in a club, it was rivaling the clubs. I heard that the Mid Night Club was the club to beat back in those days and only one car did it. that 240Z. the SSS shop only created one to the specification but i think that the real Devil z is sitting somewhere resting. I mean i wanna know if it really did run an L28 twin turbo single cam pumping out more that 600hp at the wheels. NO ONE had done it yet. not with a single cam head and minkiu carbs.ive seen a L28 3.1 liter troker with the rare OS Giken twin cam head push 550hp but never seen a carburettored single cam 28 stroker push past 450hp. maybe the real devil Z had something else, maybe it had some wicked RB26dett. i dunno. But i DO know that the SSS shop did not make the ORIGINAL Devil Z which was rumored to be fastest on the wangan and tomei free way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony D Posted May 29, 2013 Share Posted May 29, 2013 (edited) Mid Night Club is still Extant, and Daikoku Futo is busy every Saturday Night. Wait till after midnight for the big boys to come out and play. Haneda Wangan Yokohama end up is the starting point. Always has been always will be! I doubt that anything was 'the fastest' as that changed with technology, and continues to do so. It's easier today to go 180mph in an S30 than it was then. And most definitely so in a Z32. We are talking about a Manga Vehicle, and the Movie that rose up around it. Was it a real S30? Conjecture as you will. As to this: I mean i wanna know if it really did run an L28 twin turbo single cam pumping out more that 600hp at the wheels. NO ONE had done it yet. not with a single cam head and minkiu carbs.ive seen a L28 3.1 liter troker with the rare OS Giken twin cam head push 550hp but never seen a carburettored single cam 28 stroker push past 450hp. I call bullshit. I watched a triple Mikuni, Twin Turbo L-Engine in a white S30 at RS Okinawa do it in 1988 on their Bosch Eddy Current Dyno. Sat there and watched them draw the nomograph and correct DOWN the HP based on ambient conditions. They got 'the yellow sticker'... Same as the one I have for my 75. My STOCK engine with 44's ran 350 HP EASILY and has been at that level since 1985 (I believe the KW was in the 250-275 range depending on boost run.) There was one 444Kw car on Okinawa 84-89 that had Mikunis on it and everybody said the number 'was from first run five years ago to trick people'... 500HP + was what you had if you worked the head with a cam. Price of entry was 450HP minimum to be considered someone with a 'modified' car. Otherwise you were merely bolting stuff on to a stocker, and that didn't really count. Edited May 29, 2013 by Tony D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chemicalblue Posted May 30, 2013 Share Posted May 30, 2013 There is another video somewhere that doesn't have the 80s techno music just the cars for a soundtrack, at the beginning it has a lot of close ups of the z. We somehow misplaced our copy for the past 10yrs, it would be cool to see it again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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